I miss my old Klingon keyboard.
Posted on 04/07/2011 6:57:43 PM PDT by OL Hickory
As far as I know, it still works because it worked when I received it as a free gift. It is currently in a box. My 64 still works and I use my Atari 2600 joystick.
Where did those old text games go? Kids today have no idea the fun they are missing!
Yea but one has to be able to A: Read, and B: have an imagination to enjoy those games. Both abilities have been “educated” out of the majority of today’s kids by the PubEd system. But they can put a condom on a cucumber like they were wearing Boots of speed +3 ;)
Alas, we old geezers still have our fond memories ;)
LOL! Yeah I use to play that game all the time. It was a good economics game.
Yes, it was. Best thing since the slide rule. And it came with a nifty pouch with a belt-loop that, sadly, many nerds utilized.
The most fun us non-nerds had with it was spelling certain words with the blocky numerals upside down - "hEllO" and "ShEll OIl."
The C64 was my second computer. I mainly used it for games but at the time it was a decent computer. Heck I remember calling BBS Boards (my first Internet experience) with a 300 baud modem. It was pretty cool back then.
The drive (the 1541) was slow... even at the time. Took like 3 minutes to load a program from a 5 1/4 floppy disk.
LOL! I loved that game too.
Raid Over Moscow, MULE, Spy Hunter and the Blue Max were the games I enjoyed playing.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has an Easter egg of sorts that allows you to play Zork.
I miss my old Klingon keyboard.
I remember toggling in programs on a Digital PDP-8.
My high school’s first-ever computer class, circa 1968. Then there were the stacks of punch cards... You did NOT want to accidentally drop them on the floor.
Why all the Amigas? After a model had been on the market for a few years, a friend and I would buy them used just to get tons of software that the sellers tossed in with the hardware. Eventually, people just started giving them to me because they knew I was (still am) an Amigaite.
I envy all you programmers, I just never had the patience, however I saw a demo of “Python” & all I can say is WOW.
Now, if only an old dog can teach himself some new tricks.
LOL... that rocks.
Please add me to your Xer ping list, I date back to 1952. Thanks!.
I don’t have a TI-30 anymore, but I do still have my old HP-41 somewhere. Loved that thing.
Ah, I miss the click!
“I saw a demo of “Python” & all I can say is WOW.”
Take a look at Ruby on Rails! Old dogs like us *can* learn new tricks.
My first computer was a VIC-20 and I started with BASIC. I was a little coder by the time I got a C-64, but I let programming go in college and focused on life. I am getting back into coding with Ruby on Rails, and it is something else.
Want to try something fun? Go to http://www.tryruby.org and you’ll be writing Ruby in minutes.
Next take a look at the fun online book “Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby” at http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
Finally, have a look at http://rubyonrails.org/ and begin your “first steps to a larger world.”
May the Force be with you.
Any Video Toasters in those 2000/2500s?
I always lusted after Lightwave but the 1200s were a bit short on expansion slots. Pure Babylon 5 greatness ;)
Wow, what a blast from the past - got to get me one of those!
I was six when Dad came home with the old rubber key 48k Spectrum (came with Horace Goes Skiing). Back then the BBC were running TV shows explaining how to do BASIC programming and Dad let me stay up late to make my geeky bones.
By age 7 I was taking their listings for BBC Micro (Acorn Electron) and migrating them to the Spectrum, and writing my own software. I stripped the 48k unit out of its casing and kit-pimped it into the hard key Plus version.
One of my house mates (like a frat house, but we don’t have fraternities in the UK) at university was part of the demo scene for the Amiga, and a former Fairlight guy was in the house next door. When those guys jammed... wow.
The entire games industry, visual effects in movies, smartphones and other things we now take for granted, owe a massive debt to hobbyists and enthusiasts growing up with home computers where the available software was mostly recreational and the hardware was extremely limited compared to modern kit.
Will it ever be as “cool” to be a nerd as it was in the late 80s/early 90s?
Slightly off topic but was it ever confirmed that the San Diego Republican chairman Tony Krvaric is no other than Strider, co-founder of the Fairlight hacking/demoscene group?
He did apparently use tkrvaric@fairlight.com as his reelection contact email with the registrar of voters and his association with Fairlight is well documented, but as far as I know it was never actually confirmed that he is Strider.
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