With all the hello's in here it feels like an AA meeting that I went to once in support of a buddy of mine dealing with the disease....
Anyways-
I've been here since January.
I've played games since Basic. In fact, I remember when you had to put the game in a tape drive and run it through the compiler before you gave it an initiation command in BASIC.
I've played games so long, that I remember those HUGE floppies that first came out where when you put them in the drive, which was about 100lbs, you had to be careful because the clamp could take your finger off.
I'm in my mid 30's, and I remember when Pong, the Commodore 64, the Atari 2600 , Coleco Vision, Intellivision, and the TRS- 80 I, II, and III came out.
I remember that they were in GROCERY stores on the same aisle you found greeting cards. I grew up in Silicon Valley, and I remember when people would come to our house to get certain things done because the lines at the library and the community computer were so long. We not only had the first PC in the neighborhood, but maybe the entire city- Plus two more in the garage on the workbench workstations.
I can remember generation 1 macintosh clear as yesterday- mouse and Black and White screen and all. Little happy face when you loaded it. What about the Apple Newton? Wasn't that a scream? Use it for about 20 minutes and go plug it in.
Anyways, for as much as I know, I know nothing about what is under the hood in all this technology. You will see me asking for help as much as you see me offering up what I know.
Hope to see you all in a game very soon, and dont be a stranger. Too many people drop in for a hello and vanish these days.....
Anyways-
I've been here since January.
I've played games since Basic. In fact, I remember when you had to put the game in a tape drive and run it through the compiler before you gave it an initiation command in BASIC.
I've played games so long, that I remember those HUGE floppies that first came out where when you put them in the drive, which was about 100lbs, you had to be careful because the clamp could take your finger off.
I'm in my mid 30's, and I remember when Pong, the Commodore 64, the Atari 2600 , Coleco Vision, Intellivision, and the TRS- 80 I, II, and III came out.
I remember that they were in GROCERY stores on the same aisle you found greeting cards. I grew up in Silicon Valley, and I remember when people would come to our house to get certain things done because the lines at the library and the community computer were so long. We not only had the first PC in the neighborhood, but maybe the entire city- Plus two more in the garage on the workbench workstations.
I can remember generation 1 macintosh clear as yesterday- mouse and Black and White screen and all. Little happy face when you loaded it. What about the Apple Newton? Wasn't that a scream? Use it for about 20 minutes and go plug it in.
Anyways, for as much as I know, I know nothing about what is under the hood in all this technology. You will see me asking for help as much as you see me offering up what I know.
Hope to see you all in a game very soon, and dont be a stranger. Too many people drop in for a hello and vanish these days.....
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