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(...) I bet these young whippersnappers never had to write a program with &^%$#@! punchcards. In the snow! Uphill! Both ways! :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Bruce & All, (...) I never had the "priviledge", but I had enough programming teachers in my high school and college days to tell us the stories, either funny, sad, and horrific, from the usual spilt the cards on the way to the final, to the too (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, the C64. I hear C64, and I still think "Stay a while. Stay forever!" :) James "C64's did something other than play cracked games?" Brown (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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James & All, (...) Heh. I still have my C64, somewhere. I wonder if it still works? I wonder if the 5-1/4 floppies still work. I am pretty sure the cartridges do. My Atari 2600 still does. Now I just a PC emulator so I can download all my C-64 and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) We have a bunch of old Namco classics on our N64. I *still* love DigDug... but I'm not any good at it any more. but I can top that. There is an active hobby around ROM emulators... you can download an emulator that will turn your high end PC (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! To, to funny Bruce! Matt (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hee-hee! I used c64s in high school typing class...I've got a C128 in mothballs somewhere, and my prize computer collectable: A Tandy 1000, the original laptop computer, complete with Lucid spreadsheet cartridge and thermal printer! (My family (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Given how recently you were in school and had English lessons, it's baffling(1) that you would get this wrong... it is "Too, too funny, Bruce!" unless you were giving someone directions and were using a "funny Bruce" as a landmark, that is. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dagnabbit! You're right...I try to keep those two (to, too) straight by remembering that the primary usage of too is to mean "in addition, also", so it looked funny when I typed it "too, too funny" (also, also funny?), so I went and changed (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What, no Pong? <GD&R> James (who doesn't have pong, but did, once upon a time) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No need to...darned if I didn't have a Pong clone (forget who made it, but it was a yellow boomerang, with sliders on either arm to move the paddles)...I destroyed it to make a prop for an early video production... For some reason, when I was (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) :) Ha! You were lucky! All I had was a Vic-20 with FIVE WHOLE KB of RAM. Actaully I upgraded it later to 32KB. Wow! Kevin (who also wrestled with punched cards and paper tape in earlier days) ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmmmph. Beaten by a VIC-20. My Apple ][+ had 16K, 10K of which was ROM. But then I had my TI-59 calculator with magnetic card reader and a whopping 960 (floating point) bytes!! Nyak, nyak!! Like to see *you* write a micro-chess (5x5) game on (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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