Pong was my first, also. It was a yellowish molded plastic unit with the usual controllers. I think it was made by Atari or possibly Sears. This would have been in the mid-late 1970s.
Wikipedia has some good links to Pong sites.
Golf balls? Don't make me laugh. In *my* day, we used spiked softballs made of depleted uranium, covered in sewage, and if you flinched, all the other kids called you a sissy. *That* is how character is built.
About dozen years ago, a guy who was writing a book about a modern-day civil war in the USA posted some of his chapters to sci.military. He may have been soliciting people to receive the chapters by email and send him feedback; I forget exactly how I came to read it. It was pretty interesting stuff from what little I recall. Involved (some) states against the federal government. I don't remember the author, the premise, or much else, though:-(.
I believe the beam passed through a stained glass window to enter the house, and that's the reason they intended to convey for the laser heating the popcorn, rather than buring a hole right through it.
I'm finishing my degree in IT (or is it IS? I forget) which started out as C.S. (at the same University), but the Continuing Ed department doesn't have a CS degree program. So I'm having to take some boring junk which I need to get around to testing out of (Intro to PC? Blech, I've been working with the stupid things since 1988...)
Mostly this is so I can start work on a graduate degree, which should be a lot more interesing.
Slashdot Mirror
> Ballmer will squirt
3 words I *never* *again* want to read while eating dinner.
Check your TV in about 2 years :-).
Or "Pong 2: Death Rebound"
Pong was my first, also. It was a yellowish molded plastic unit with the usual controllers. I think it was made by Atari or possibly Sears. This would have been in the mid-late 1970s. Wikipedia has some good links to Pong sites.
You're working too hard. I just close my eyes, and Slashdot comes to *me*.
Golf balls? Don't make me laugh. In *my* day, we used spiked softballs made of depleted uranium, covered in sewage, and if you flinched, all the other kids called you a sissy. *That* is how character is built.
Kids these days...
You're not alone.
If I remember my (classic) Traveller tech levels properly, Earth is only about TL 7-8, isn't it?
If you're ever up in NH, be sure to visit Fun Spot. Here's their list of classic games:
http://www.funspotnh.com/gms-classic.htm
This is Slashdot. How is it possible that nobody has posted a link to this?!
I saw something very similar with files written to a Novell fileserver with bad RAM, circa 1989.
Software Automated Mouth.
:-(.
I wasn't much into piracy, but I did have a pirated copy of that for my Atari 800, until an idiot friend killed the disk
"Marsbase Beta", coming to SciFi Channel soon...
About dozen years ago, a guy who was writing a book about a modern-day civil war in the USA posted some of his chapters to sci.military. He may have been soliciting people to receive the chapters by email and send him feedback; I forget exactly how I came to read it. It was pretty interesting stuff from what little I recall. Involved (some) states against the federal government. I don't remember the author, the premise, or much else, though :-(.
I believe the beam passed through a stained glass window to enter the house, and that's the reason they intended to convey for the laser heating the popcorn, rather than buring a hole right through it.
I was running Coherent (Unix clone from Mark Williams Company) on a 286 around 1993. I don't remmeber the exact year anymore.
Me too!
(posted like some braindead AOL'er)
You obviously plagiarized the AC who posted 27 minutes before you :-).
The enemy's gate(way) is down.
I'm finishing my degree in IT (or is it IS? I forget) which started out as C.S. (at the same University), but the Continuing Ed department doesn't have a CS degree program. So I'm having to take some boring junk which I need to get around to testing out of (Intro to PC? Blech, I've been working with the stupid things since 1988...)
Mostly this is so I can start work on a graduate degree, which should be a lot more interesing.
No, that's the elite Roman numeral way of writing "Fourth League".
I started work on my B.S. 22 years ago. There's a pretty good chance I'll finish in 2007.
:-)
I got good at Gauntlet and Robotron.
> the big content companies are doping
It certainly seems that way...
That's one messed up emoticon.
I read "aged 18-35" to mean he won't be born for another 17 years.