Talk:ICON (microcomputer)

Who remembers
Who out there in WikiLand remembers using one of these badboys in school? --PudgyMoogle 12:47, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)


 * I cut my teeth on the ICON, from grade 7'sh (1988 or so), all the way through to my last days of highschool in the mid-late 90's (yeah, I was a slacker). One trick I remember was that if you mashed control z enough between entering your login information and before the command prompt came up, you'd drop into privileged shell, although thanks to the pseudo-graphical login, the text would come out extremely small (about four pixels per character high).  I was such a nerd, I had memorized the sequence of entries to the adduser command, and could make myself a root account with ease.  I got into a lot of trouble, playing on these things.  A root account and simple shell script got me sent to the principal's office.  It changed the text attributes of every machine in the room (about 20'sh) to green on purple, confusing the following class enough that they had to reboot every machine in the room..  Fun times.  As for software, I do remember there being a rather shoddy MS-DOS alike one could run, although how it functioned I don't recall.  I wish I could have got my hands on a couple workstations and the server when the Peel Board phased them out in favour of DOS/Windows 3 machines right after I left highschool.  -- X3J11 16:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

ICONS were cool!
My buddies and I were always hacking/cracking/snooping the root passwords.

The coolest thing ever was launching a background task of an animated image (a man hanging in a tree, swaying in the wind) and then logging out.

The next person to come along would see "Login:" but then be very puzzled at the background animatation...it was the coolest of the cool!

farming game?
I recall using a program that would give you multiple choice options. How much space to clear for a farm, how to clear trees, etc. It would tally your food output and you could continue on or the game would end if you screwed up. I didn't see that game in the list on the main page, not sure what it was called. 99.240.128.108 (talk) 20:26, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I remember that one too but I forget what it was called. Also, wasn't "Northwest Fur Trader" actually called "Voyageur"? Or is that a different game? Adam Bishop (talk) 04:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

cpu
is it right to say this was based on the i286? i remember using icons that had i186 and i386 processors as well. SmellsBurntToast (talk) 18:10, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

It Set Me on My Career Path
Having a *NIX like O/S to play (hack) with in public school was absolutely visionary. I remember it Logo, C, and hypertext games before we had even conceived of the WWW (we still had 5 or 6 years to go before we had the internet). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianjester (talk • contribs) 14:37, 7 April 2014 (UTC)