Friday, April 3, 2020

Guy Finds Treasure Of An Ancient Computer In Parents' Attic


John Pfaff unearthed a true, dazzling gem in his parents' attic. Yes, we're talking about the throwback of all throwbacks, computer. This ancient piece of technology actually looks like it'd be fun to play around with. 

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Text - LOCKED John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff · 10h IN Oh. My. God. An Apple lle. Sat in my parents' attic for years. Decades. And it works. Put in an old game disk. Asks if I want to restore a saved game. And finds one! It must be 30 years old. I'm 10 years old again.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff This is tricky, because three decades later I can't quite remember where I left off this round of Adventureland.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Hm. I rocked this version of One on One. Could hit a three from anywhere. But the boxes my mom sent have no joystick!! Will GameStop have one that fits these ports?

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff My kids thought things were insanely retro when my wife and I played NES Super Mario on the oldest's Switch. Tomorrow morning their definition of retro is going to shift significantly.

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Text - LOCKED John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff : 10h IN s My dad typed up labels for all my floppies, which is really sweet to remember. Replying to @JohnFPfaff He was so thorough that he even included... who hacked the games. (I'm the only person in my immediately family who went to law school.) <>

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Text - APPLE GAN 017 alife Hard Hat Lemmings 18158 single sided/double density soft sectored, cert. 40 tracks Nashua

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Hacker screens! And ASCII art! On a 35 year old 5.25" magnetic disk from the first Reagan Administration.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Wow. So this was an old trivia game I loved (Millionware). This screen gets to the point where it says "Say 'Hello' to our contestants Donna." And then the disk drive whirs w its little red light. Then you get "Thank you, Donna." 1984 computer humor.

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Screen - AS ALHAYS, I'LL BE ASSISTED BY THE LOVELY AND TALENTED DONNA DISKDRIVE. SAY HELLO TO OUR CONTESTANTS DONNA. THANK YOu, DONNA. torוחסוח CONTE TYPE ANY LETTER TO CONTINUE.

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Text - LOCKED John Pfaff IN @JohnFPfaff Of course, there is the downside. Here's everything I wrote my senior year in high school, unreadable thanks to the absence of the necessary program disk (AppleWorks). That, though...may be for the best.

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Material property - APPLEWORKS APPLEWORKS International зм APPLEWORKS Baccalaureate APPLEWORKS Program APPLEWORKS Oct 1989 SS,DD,RH single side double density MEMOREX Flexible Disk

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff It's like riding a bicycle. But need to get that 100m dash time down a bit. That was respectable in the 1980s, but not anymore.

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Text - LOCKED John Pfaff IN @JohnFPfaff This game... never got past the first level despite HOURS of (pre-internet cheating) trying. Now w the web, I have a shot. The music, tho. That classic Apple lle music.

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Text - "No, look, kids. This computer has. no. hard-drive. The reason those giant disks say 'Disk Side' 1-4 is you had to keep flipping them over as you played." Hi-def Mario Kart 8 for the Switch there for comparison.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff I FOUND THE APPLEWORKS PROGRAM DISK. Insanely, it had been sitting in the disk drive for 30 years. I took it out without looking at the title. Going w 1995 to avoid any Y2K issues. And look: "folders."

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Product - GETTING STARTED Oick Orive 2 MAIN MEMU 2. Work with one of the Files on the Desktop 3. Save Desitos files to disk 4 Fenove Piles from the Desktop The date must be 1983 or later, and in this form 3/28/84 S. Other Activities 6. Quit today's data or prass Return /26/95 347K ail

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Maybe l'll stop complaining about Word's clunkiness. That's a lie-'m Scrivener thru and thru -but still.... <>

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Text - Also, in the days before the Cloud, kids, you had to make sure you backed up your backups, bc those floppies could betray you. My dad wrote a computer financial modeling textbook. He... wasn't joking abt backups. Not sure why he went w the fancy Roman numerals tho (w "6" too!).

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Text - 361 Nashua ADDEEWORKS Fin Model Book Backup VI TM Single Sided, Double Density. Solt sectered Nashua. Professional Magnetic Media

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Text - Just found this letter my dad typed to me in 1986, when I was 11 and at summer camp. I REALLY WONDER what my theory abt the daily newspaper comics Spider- Man was. My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. It's amazing to come across something so "ordinary" from him.

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