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dancing_mage

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May 25, 2004 01:34

I don't know how many of you ever played The Oregon Trail for the good ol' Apple IIe, but thanks to my dear friend Charlie (meeting her is one of the things I am most thankful for about working on the nightmare that was Caucasian Chalk Circle), I have recently rediscovered it using the magic of emulation. She IMed me just last night to say that ( Read more... )

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chasing May 25 2004, 12:20:25 UTC

you know what? you should marry me =)

just sayin'

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chasing May 27 2004, 09:18:14 UTC

Oh, Boston? Hmnn. Well, I graduate in December **fingers crossed**... can the nuptials hold off 'til then?

dancing_mage May 26 2004, 20:12:06 UTC

I mean, that's only been a dream of mine for how many years now? When shall we relocate to Boston?

boo ccalce May 25 2004, 22:26:19 UTC

Maybe if (insert italics here) I (end italics...) was one of your crewbies, you would have made it to oregon with a full party of people.
*sniff*

Re: boo dancing_mage May 26 2004, 20:10:52 UTC

It's entirely possible that I would have the most amazingly well-lit journey to Oregon ever. Or it is equally possible that you would get drunk on all the rum I bought at Fort Kearney and puke on Charlie. :-P

How can you think I don't love you, silly?

Re: boo ccalce May 26 2004, 23:28:06 UTC

Hey! I can hold my liquor!
Hmmm. Lights in a covered wagon, there's an idea. At least when it got muddy we could progress forward.

historyavenger May 25 2004, 22:55:38 UTC

i played that in hmmmmmmmm 4th grade

wow...you're old!

forcemajeure May 28 2004, 03:14:12 UTC

I remember hearing other kids talk about Oregon Trail, but I don't think I'd actually seen it until reading this entry. I don't know if it says something about my specific cohort (I was born in 1984) or about the schools I attended, but I mostly missed the Apple II thing; they were going away as I started my way through school, being replaced with PCs and Macs. My parents both did a lot of work for Apple Computer, so we had the newer Mac hardware in the house by the time I got old enough to reach the keyboard. Most of the schools I attended in Vancouver had those old all-in-one Macs with the tiny monochrome screens.

But hardware migration is always an uneven thing, and I've known people younger than I who remember using Apple IIs (and even the unloved Apple IIIs) in school. For a time, Apple just owned the education market, and schools, for funding reasons, tend to keep hardware around until it fossilizes.

anonymous June 1 2004, 12:34:46 UTC

So now it's a video game. Where have I been for the past 32 years ( ... )