CelestialBody
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OH BOY IS THIS GREAT!
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CelestialBody
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Madame Pandora
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The only thing I remember from King's Quest was that at some point we had to spell Rumplestilskin backwards and my computer teacher was tired of trying to get us to write programs in basic so he sat down and helped us figure it out.
Dix...I think I have you beat...
My first computer was a Laser. This was an Apple IIe clone (not even a REAL Apple) put out by Sears.
I had the REAL floppy disks (5 1/4") and had to run ALL my programs off those disks and save all my Apple Works files onto separate ones.
I remember HOURS spent with my friends trading opium on Taipan. Oh…the simplicity…
I still have that computer, and MANY of those 5 1/4" disks with files on them from the good old days which no one, to date, has been able to tell me how to convert to a readable format. They are, in all likelihood, gone for good, but whenever one of my Mac/PC guru pals start their bickering about which knows more and which is better, I lead them into the back bedroom and let them gaze upon the ancient technology and they gape like modern engineers beholding the great Pyramids.
How did they DO that?
It's a hoot.
MP
I have Fool's Errand I may be unbearably giddy for the rest of the week...
Dix...I think I have you beat...
My first computer was a Laser. This was an Apple IIe clone (not even a REAL Apple) put out by Sears.
I had the REAL floppy disks (5 1/4") and had to run ALL my programs off those disks and save all my Apple Works files onto separate ones.
I remember HOURS spent with my friends trading opium on Taipan. Oh…the simplicity…
I still have that computer, and MANY of those 5 1/4" disks with files on them from the good old days which no one, to date, has been able to tell me how to convert to a readable format. They are, in all likelihood, gone for good, but whenever one of my Mac/PC guru pals start their bickering about which knows more and which is better, I lead them into the back bedroom and let them gaze upon the ancient technology and they gape like modern engineers beholding the great Pyramids.
How did they DO that?
It's a hoot.
MP
I have Fool's Errand I may be unbearably giddy for the rest of the week...
Dixon Carter Lee
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Yup. It seems tht Todd's site is better than mine right now. Try his for all your gaming needs.
I didn't wrtie that flick, CB -- I can't even recall the title.
I have you beat MP - the very first computer I ever worked on was in high school, 1978. It was, essentially, a teletype machine. No monitor. No disks. You typed info in basic language into the teletype keyboard (and you had to to type it perfectly -- no mistakes, or you'd have to start over). As you typed holes were punched into a tape that coiled out of the machine and onto the floor.
Then, once you finished writing your program, you ripped off the tape, turned it around, and fed it back into the machine. You would type RUN and the machine would suck in the tape and "run" your program -- usually something like printing out "HELLO MY NAME IS HAL. I ENJOY WORKING WIHT HUMANS" on one of those enormous dot matrix printers that used the ledger-style computer paper.
I think I actually managed to create a "Mastermind" game program that played the game by printing out Xs and Os in repsonse to your typed in guesses.
And then I went to the Frampton concert.
I didn't wrtie that flick, CB -- I can't even recall the title.
I have you beat MP - the very first computer I ever worked on was in high school, 1978. It was, essentially, a teletype machine. No monitor. No disks. You typed info in basic language into the teletype keyboard (and you had to to type it perfectly -- no mistakes, or you'd have to start over). As you typed holes were punched into a tape that coiled out of the machine and onto the floor.
Then, once you finished writing your program, you ripped off the tape, turned it around, and fed it back into the machine. You would type RUN and the machine would suck in the tape and "run" your program -- usually something like printing out "HELLO MY NAME IS HAL. I ENJOY WORKING WIHT HUMANS" on one of those enormous dot matrix printers that used the ledger-style computer paper.
I think I actually managed to create a "Mastermind" game program that played the game by printing out Xs and Os in repsonse to your typed in guesses.
And then I went to the Frampton concert.
bluntforcemama
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I'm rubber and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you! That's the only immature saying I really remember from when I was just a young imp.
Madame Pandora
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The devil bowed her head because she knew that she'd been beat, and she laid that golden floppy on the ground at DCL's feet...
Man...I wish I had THAT machine in the back room when they start their stupid Mac vs. PC bickering
MP
Man...I wish I had THAT machine in the back room when they start their stupid Mac vs. PC bickering
MP
Whispersecret
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I should have known that you'd know about Fool's Errand, MP. I LOVED that friggin game. Ever play that carnival wannabe sequel that guy wrote? Didn't compare.
Madame Pandora
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Dixon Carter Lee said:
Damn. I guess that rules you out as being Shecky Greene.
MP
Beebeeblue
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First computers? Sheesh..we had a Texas Instruments. You loaded the games up off a cassete player wired into the system. And there was a place on the side to put the game cartridges in too.
God was that ever LOOOOOOOOOOONG ago........
DCL, thanks for the site....*MWAH!*
God was that ever LOOOOOOOOOOONG ago........
DCL, thanks for the site....*MWAH!*
