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slipstreamsurfr

Thoughts on geek

Feb 03, 2005 10:15

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jabber February 3 2005, 16:25:53 UTC

I still have the first program I ever wrote. On a cassette. Someplace.

Ah, the good old days.

slipstreamsurfr February 3 2005, 16:35:13 UTC

the first program I ever wrote and stored on cassette I lost a few weeks after I saved it. I used to stack the tapes on the top edge of the 12inch b&w tv I used as a monitor on my zx81. Little did I realize at the time, that the fly-back transformer was weakening the signal on the cassettes so that it couldn't be read by the tape import on the little computer.

that was a big DUH on me then. (grin) I still remember the lesson though. Beware of hidden mag fields. :)

kcfox February 3 2005, 21:00:18 UTC

wow... you're old :P (J/K!!!)

My first system was an Amiga A500, and I didn't get into the vintage stuff till after the Pentium arrived. I moved 2 Mac in 97 and never looked back.

Ceek (the Chic Geek, aka a Mac geek), is someone who remembers having the VTECH blueberry cordless phone before apple introduced the "flavored" iMacs ;)

slipstreamsurfr February 3 2005, 23:32:04 UTC

(chuckle) some days I do start to feel it ( ... )

kcfox February 4 2005, 02:05:20 UTC

and you never will. just avoid the quicksilvers... they are packed with problems, kinda like the performas. apple's AIO disaster was the Cube, so I know Mini is done right. They learn fast and when they rehash an idea they do it well. I miss the Amiga sometimes, I saw a A2000 some through goodwill, it was running Workbench 4 I think. It was amazing, I had totally forgotten how to use it.. It was familar, yet different. Kinda like Mac OS 9 is becoming. I go home to grandma's and it's like flash back to the 90s.

slipstreamsurfr February 4 2005, 04:18:35 UTC

I picked up an old mac 128 and an apple lisa back in the very early 90's. The mac128 I set up for a friends grandmother. She had never used a computer before. She took to it like a fish to water. She used to love playing the pool game that I had on it for her ( ... )

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