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Any one else remember going to the ATM machine with their Atari Portfolio to get some "Easy money" in the early 90s? ;D
by ptek 2y ago
Any one else remember going to the ATM machine with their Atari Portfolio to get some "Easy money" in the early 90s? ;D
- DidYaWipe 2y agoAutomated teller machine machine?
- creativenolo 2y agoAt least with his Atari, he didn’t need a PIN number
- DidYaWipe 2y agoAllowing him to withdraw funds at a high rate of speed!
- JodieBenitez 2y agoJohn, is it you ?
- tomxor 2y agoAffirmative
- aa-jv 2y agoNo, but I did use mine back in the day to write a ton of C code that made me lots and lots of money, recovering databases and such .. Still got it, it still works, and Turbo C still boots up just as quick.
- ptek 2y agoLots and lots of money sounds better than easy money
- ndiddy 2y agoHow was editing the source code on such a small screen? I think it was 40x8 or something.
- aa-jv 2y agoIt was .. bearable .. back in those days I wrote a lot of database recovery software, and mostly worked on an undelete tool for the Progress 4GL Database which I customized for the customer needs - so all I really ever needed to edit on the Portfolio, while on a cross-country tiger-team flight, were the constraints/extents/geometry of the deleted databases, so it was never a full strain .. back at HQ, I of course just used my dumb terminal and MIPS machine for 'real development', but it was always fun to arrive at the catastrophe, wire up the Portfolio, and either run the DOS binary or do a recompile on the target recovery machine .. I did write a few games for it, entirely on the machine, in-between flights .. that was fun. Still out there somewhere (swar.c, a space-war game..)
- wkjagt 2y agoI recently bought an Atari Portfolio that was in working order. But it stopped working pretty quickly and now only shows random characters on the screen. Too bad, because I was really looking forward to that easy money.
- rbanffy 2y agoNever! It ran MS-DOS!