• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
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    The absolute insanity of Commodore disk commands (especially without a fast loader cart) just boggles my mind. These were accepted by a whole-ass company. A very successful one, no less.

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      I absolutely adore the old wild west landscape that was the old 8 bit micros. There were some really wacky things that were tried out, both from a technical aspect and a UX aspect

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        Same! It was the last time that a single person could really control all aspects of the machine.

        I guess one could claim it was protected memory on the 386 that really killed the fun.