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I had the Crown pictured in that article. Used it to rock Crazy Train on the bus. Then I got tired of carrying it around and it just sat in my room for the rest
by suzzer99 7y ago
I had the Crown pictured in that article. Used it to rock Crazy Train on the bus. Then I got tired of carrying it around and it just sat in my room for the rest of high school.
I like how they all had some kind of "turbo bass" switch - like a kid carrying around a boombox would ever not want turbo bass. The worst is when you accidentally turned it off and didn't realize for hours or sometimes days.
- Stratoscope 7y agoLike the Turbo switch on a PC! Of course those did have a purpose. You would run in Turbo mode all the time, except when you were running bad old software like I wrote, that used timing loops assuming a 4.77 MHz clock rate.
- qubex 7y agoMy father used to hit Block Scor (“Blocca Scorrimento” in Italian, meaning “Scroll Lock”), disable TURBO, and then pipe DIR * . * | MORE on our shambolic 386SX-16MHz to see all the files he had in the pigsty directory he kept all his documents in, all of which horrified me.