My dad had one of those! I dusted it off (quite) a few years ago and taught myself a bit of basic... before I realised how pointless the whole idea was.SandChigger wrote:Actually, my dear, I myself had a Radio Shack TRS-80.Eyes High wrote:Did they even have computers when you were in highschool.
No permanent data storage expect a cassette tape recorder, minimal RAM (I forget how many KB), no mouse, black-n-white screen, programmed in BASIC.
Ah, those were the days!
Of the Stone Age.
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I had a Commodore VIC-20...Omphalos wrote:I had a Commodore 64 before my dad bought an Apple II C. Teh one with the little green monitor. That monitor still works. My school had a computer lab for everyone with Apple II's.
Ah, the video games you could make with those things : A large rectangle ( meaning a ship) firing tiny circles to a big square ( meaning a plane or something).
...And welcome bgscholar !
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I used to write games in BASIC for my TI-994A. One was a BMX bike race where the riders would do tricks as they went over jumps.
I put a lot of time into a Star Trek game inspired by the vector graphics arcade game but I never finished it. Pretty much Asteroids with Klingons instead.
I put a lot of time into a Star Trek game inspired by the vector graphics arcade game but I never finished it. Pretty much Asteroids with Klingons instead.
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My friend and I wrote a text based spy game about getting laid, kind of like Liesure Suit Larry, on his Apple II. We tried to make it graphical like Lord Akalabeth, but failed miserably.
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Eeew. Geek ... sleaze.
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Dude, I think I was like 12 or 13.
It was the closest I could get to a willing woman at that time, so give a brother a break, huh?
It was the closest I could get to a willing woman at that time, so give a brother a break, huh?
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A friend with an Apple was the closest thing you could get to a willing woman?
Okee-dokee.
[hops away, whistling...]
Okee-dokee.
[hops away, whistling...]
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No, I think what Omph is trying to say is he was still in the closet back in those days.
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Oh you guys are such teases!
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Wanna see me in a thong bikini?
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Where's that closet again?
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You can call me Sheeeeut LeBoob.
"Let the dead give water to the dead. As for me, it's NO MORE FUCKING TEARS!"
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Will it be a confederate flag bikini?SandChigger wrote:Wanna see me in a thong bikini?
What fear is there in the night?
Nothing, but that which is in our own imaginations.
Nothing, but that which is in our own imaginations.
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Is that a reference to that annoying little man-child from the Transformers movies?SandChigger wrote:You can call me Sheeeeut LeBoob.
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In a confederate bikini!Omphalos wrote:Is that a reference to that annoying little man-child from the Transformers movies?
"Let the dead give water to the dead. As for me, it's NO MORE FUCKING TEARS!"
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Getting back to the topic of the old computers ¿Do you know the AMSTRAD CPC 464? It´s the one I had, cassette drive, 64k, green phosphore display.....a beautiful machine
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I don't even know where they came from but I ended up with a cupboard of early Amstrad PCs. God, I almost had to pay the dump to take them off my hands.
There Computers were poor but Christ on a bike did anyone have the misfortune to hear one of there 5th rate MIDI-HIFIs?
There Computers were poor but Christ on a bike did anyone have the misfortune to hear one of there 5th rate MIDI-HIFIs?