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Jennycam? I think this was the name. It started as a genuinely voyeuristic webcam of a youngish woman which then went down the inevitable commercial route if I recall correctly...
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I had an Amstrad 1640DD with a mono monitor in the early 90's. Everything was loaded up on 51/4 " floppies, MSDOS 3.0, Wordstar and Lotus123 was all you ever needed. Didn't have the luxury of a hard disk until I got a "proper" PC, a custom 386sx-16mhz with 1MB RAM and a Western Digital Paradise VGA card and a 40mb hard drive that was "double spaced" to 80mb with MS Windows 3.0 and Dos 5.0. Used to tie up the phone line for hours on Compuserve bulletin boards.
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I got a written warning at work for running up a HUGE phone bill surfing back in the '90s
The irony is: I now run the firewalls and web security systems for one of our major clients!
The irony is: I now run the firewalls and web security systems for one of our major clients!
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I had an Amstrad 1640DD with a mono monitor in the early 90's. Everything was loaded up on 51/4 " floppies, MSDOS 3.0, Wordstar and Lotus123 was all you ever needed. Didn't have the luxury of a hard disk until I got a "proper" PC, a custom 386sx-16mhz with 1MB RAM and a Western Digital Paradise VGA card and a 40mb hard drive that was "double spaced" to 80mb with MS Windows 3.0 and Dos 5.0. Used to tie up the phone line for hours on Compuserve bulletin boards.
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I was given an Amstrad 1640HD which had an EGA video adapter, along with a 1.2MB floppy disk (later replaced with a 720KB 3.5" diskette drive) and a 20MB RLL fixed disk! MS DOS 3.2 and DR GEM originally, but I upgraded it to MS Windows V3, which I was given on a site somewhere, and it ran it well). It came as commission on a deal at work (which was bloody impressive in 1990) and was massively superior to a PC-XT that I acquired in the same way a couple of months later. That had a 360KB 5.25" floppy and a f*cking huge full height 10MB fixed disk. Both paled alongside the IBM PC-ATX that I acquired at the beginning of 1991 though. Superfast 6MHz 80286 CPU (up from the standard 4MHz) with both 1.2MB & 1.44MB diskette drive and a monster (certainly in size, it was full height!) 30MB fixed disk. It was improved at great cost, with a Hercules video adapter and a full size 16-bit memory expansion feature, adding a virtually unusable 2048KBs to the base config of 540KBs...
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Ive been looking for a simple psychedelic fractal program since first seeing Fractint in 1992.
All I want to do is turn it on a see endless super-trippy fractals...
All I want to do is turn it on a see endless super-trippy fractals...
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Gods i remember having a barny at the Compaq technical sales guy for screwing up the memory mapping above 640Kb. Compaq introduced CEMM (Compaq Expanded Memory Manager) that took up such a huge amount of main memory that it rendered half the software we purchased unusable... that was when I was trying to convince the managment to upgrade the standard spec to 2Mb from 1Mb.
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Or here: Java Fractal Generator and Introduction to Fractal Mathematics but not too trippy.
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Used it as a backdrop to the main stage as 1 if the ***** at uni.
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Bet if we started talking about Cuban heels, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik(sp?) or how many poits there are in a stick of celery you'd be well happy
Intel Above boards, QEMM386, Win/R, adding 16550 UART comm ports for better download speeds, C-DOS, OS/2.
Intel Above boards, QEMM386, Win/R, adding 16550 UART comm ports for better download speeds, C-DOS, OS/2.