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It seems to be a Tandy 1000 RSX which supports Windows 3.1 Original photo is from here, which has Windows 3.1 running: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/RLRLX.html
Question is, would you be able to put a Soundblaster 16 inside it?
There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds
I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds
I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook.
What creative bounties will the coming decades bring?
I had an Iomega Zip drive, too! So cool, but the higher capacities were too expensive and the parallel adapter didn't work everywhere. I forget if there were compatible discs, not made by Iomega, that were cheaper?
Yes, Iomega eventually licensed disk production to a few other companies. I know for sure that Maxell and Verbatim made them, and Wikipedia says that Toshiba, Fuji, Epson and NEC also produced some. When they were originally released, I believe the first model was SCSI-only and cost $199. Disks were $20 each and held 100MB. Eventually the price of disks dropped a bit, until they were around $11 or so in multipacks th…
Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
In the 2020s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers are MacOS and Windows.
(However, to be fair, all the rage is now in phones, where Windows is surprisingly non-existent. Apple's OS is still the other one, though.)
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I also did one a while back if anyone is interested. https://youtu.be/s_XYWwCu8vM
Now you're just showing off playing all the instruments. :-D :horns: