Testing another Web Browser from one of the earliest GUI-based OS's (1985)

SwampDonkey · September 25, 2005, 02:47:57 PM

Pleased to announce that the web browser AWEB V 3.5.05 beta running on the
Amiga OS (V3.5) works with the Forestry Forum. However, I've noticed that text
wrapping does not work and the carriage return must be used. Also a couple images
in the sponsors list did not load as well as the grin smilie. ;D

I'm sure there will be less than 1 % of users on an Amiga :D

cheers

SwampDonkey · September 25, 2005, 03:43:43 PM

Just testing under Ibrowse 2.2. Same OS as above. Images and smilies
load OK, and smilies are animated fine. A couple off site images
didn't load.

Javascript isn't totally implemented on this platform, so the members
maps shows all the pins and trees in rows like soldiers. ;D

Mozilla/FireFox is being ported by Graduates in Kings College in
the UK for OS 4.0 PPC.

cheers

slowzuki · September 26, 2005, 01:19:08 PM

Good lord swampy what hardware are you running that on? If I recall the amiga was the music man's tool of choice at the time.

We got a couple of old machines kicking around the house, an old PS2 8086 that was the first machine I ever used the internet on, back when gopher was the big thing and to use the WWW you had to telnet to a british university to try out their prototype intranet browser (I think it was Mozilla!)

SwampDonkey · September 26, 2005, 02:11:29 PM

Mosaic maybe? ;) Ibrowse for AMiga was actually incarnated from a version of Mosaic (Amosaic).

Ibrowse Developers

Aweb Developers

Amizilla (Mozilla) Development

Amiga Community Portal

My first internet connection was though a Modem COMM program on an Amiga to a shell account. It was all text based, back in 1995, and expensive. You had to type every command out on their archaic programs.

slowzuki · September 27, 2005, 10:00:59 AM

We had been using bulletin board systems since 1982 or so via modem and command line programs to communicate with my deaf grandmother. Long distance was expensive then so we had a variety of computers the first I remember being a Tandy 1000 laptop. 60 hours on 4 AA batteries! 8)

We would log into the remote server and upload all the msg files we had written. Even with the interal 150 or 300 baud modem it was much faster than regular mail :D

My grandparents would then log in and download them. Trying to remember the name of the service... Our first dialup internet connection was in 1991 I believe. I remember trying to load the darned tcpip stack from floppy after dialing and logging in on a terminal connection.

Gopher at the time was amazing! Had like 500 sites on it ;D all universities. Seems not that long ago. I remember looking at a gopher site that had some type of image files stored and was thinking to myself, what the heck are those good for? There is nothing to look at them with, and our screen is monochrome!

Things rapidly progressed from there...

rebocardo · November 21, 2005, 06:36:22 PM

I thought the A-1000 came out in 1986.

I have not tried the FF out yet on my Commodore 128. :D

SwampDonkey · November 21, 2005, 06:51:10 PM

Rebo, have you seen the new book?

http://www.commodorebook.com/ ;)

Actually Rebo, with the SUperCPU installed and the GEOS (Wheels) upgrade you could surf the FF even on C64/C128, using the Wave ;)

http://cmdrkey.com/cbm/wave/wave.html

SwampDonkey · December 17, 2005, 02:07:26 PM

Amiga 4000 setup

Amiga 4000 booting into Mac OS 7.6.1 for M68k based Macintosh machines

Running Adobe Photoshop 4 under Mac OS (M68k version) on the Amiga 4000

;D

SwampDonkey · December 17, 2005, 07:41:36 PM

Quote from: slowzuki on September 27, 2005, 10:00:59 AM
My grandparents would then log in and download them. Trying to remember the name of the service... Our first dialup internet connection was in 1991 I believe. I remember trying to load the darned tcpip stack from floppy after dialing and logging in on a terminal connection.

Was it Genie or Compuserve? Some towns also had hubs for bulletin board access so there was no long distance charge. Only thing for me back then it was long distance to Woodstock and today it's local. :

We now have twice the local calling area we had 10 years ago.

slowzuki · December 18, 2005, 06:03:42 PM

Wasn't Genie or Compuserve although we did have a subscrition with compuserve as well. Hmm, I'll have to ask dad sometime...

slowzuki · December 18, 2005, 06:05:20 PM

We also had a packet radio system setup on dad's ham radio rig. The little TNC unit was like a modem for the radio and their was a network of repeaters setup all over the world. With some luck you could leave messages on bulletin boards almost anywhere 8)

SwampDonkey · December 18, 2005, 06:14:26 PM

We used BC-Tel repeaters to make phone calls with radios when in the bush on the Charlottes and other Islands along the coast. You only had semi-private calls and you had a subscription. The guy making the call could ask for privacy, but the guy on the receiving end could be heard by all.

slowzuki · December 19, 2005, 09:42:02 PM

Swampy the bulletin service was "Envoy 100" can't remember much else.

BTW we did use it with our Timex Sinclair a few times. We have a few of those complete with thermal printer, modem, extra memory, and a few other toys. They where all packed for a guy in New York but he stopped responding to email after he was sent the shipping cost...

Jeff · December 19, 2005, 10:38:59 PM

You guys have got me feeling so nostalgic that I have been inspired to make toast in the morning by sticking my bread on a stick and holding it over the front burner.

Furby · December 19, 2005, 10:52:58 PM

:D :D :D :D :D :D
Sounds like fun!

etat · December 20, 2005, 01:06:15 AM

The first computer I ever saw I was working at the school in the summer time. There was something setting there in the hall that was, as I remember, just about as big as a volkswagon and really weird looking. I didn't know what it was so I asked. Somebody said it was something called a computer and that it was supposed to be able to add and subtract and do calculations. I asked around some more and was told that it was donated to the school, but there wasn't anybody there that knew how to use the dang thing. Even though I 'wanted to', they wouldn't let me play with the dang thing. It was years and years and years after that before I ever saw a computer again. (by that time they were MUCH smaller).

It sat around there a long time and I guess finally got hauled off to the dump. I don't 'think' anybody ever learned how to use it and not long after that the first calculators that I ever saw came out.

Minnesota_boy · December 20, 2005, 07:42:16 AM

Quote from: Jeff B on December 19, 2005, 10:38:59 PM
You guys have got me feeling so nostalgic that I have been inspired to make toast in the morning by sticking my bread on a stick and holding it over the front burner.

That kind of toast doesn't taste proper unless it has a little wood smoke in it. Drop a few slivers of cottonwood on that burner first. ;D

SwampDonkey · December 20, 2005, 08:05:52 AM

Why not just sit the slice of bread right on the burner ??? ;D

SwampDonkey · April 01, 2007, 11:27:06 AM

Daisy Bell sung by IBM 704

In 1962 when physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr created one of the most famous moments in the history of Bell Labs by using an IBM 704 computer to synthesize speech. Kelly's voice recorder synthesizer vocoder recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with Max Mathews providing the musical accompaniment.

;D

Bill · April 06, 2007, 12:07:06 AM

Quote from: SwampDonkey on September 25, 2005, 02:47:57 PM

I'm sure there will be less than 1 % of users on an Amiga :D

cheers

SwampDonkey - I'm thinking you might be closer iffen you just said one user .

Of course I let go of my C-64 ( to my nephew ) when I finally got an IBM portable - you know the first "suitcased sized " one with an 8088 and two floppies. WordStar ran OK off a ramdisk till one of the floppies died and I replaced it with a desktops 20MB drive running with a rll controller for 32 MB. Since I worked for one of blues competitors I had to take the three letters off so I could take it to work. ;D And I used to think it was pretty fancy in spite of all the "AT" boxes popping up. Guess there's no need for my improvised desktop that'll read 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 disks as A and B drives ?