They always seem to scamble late Tuesday afternoons while I'm golfing. Have you ever tried to putt while several pairs of F-16's fly overhead!
Seriously, seeing the A-10's then the F-16's of 'The Boys from Syracuse' fly overhead all the time will be missed.
I totally forgot about the Coleco handheld football. We played that game all the time. There was another handheld game(don't remember the name) that was the rivel to Coleco that my buddy had. The buttons were in exactly the opposite place on his game. I would hold his game upside down and the buttons would be in the same position as the Coleco. If he played the Coleco, he would just hold it upside down!
Parents bought us the Coleco Telstar for Christmas in I think 1976(age 14).
Around 1978 and I found a copy of "Strategy & Tactics" (wargame within a magazine) at a book store and got into wargaming.
Around 1980 or 1981 I saw my first Trash-80 computer at college. Some people playing a text adventure game and decided right there I wanted to 'program' computers.
I've been doing that ever since but I've yet to write a computer game!
I have a friend that worked in IT at one of the American Indian Casino's. He said people would die there all the time on the gaming floor. Most of the time it was older people that would gamble so long that they wouldn't take their medication. He would say, "Christ, we'll give them a free glass of water for their pills if they'd just ask."
I know I'm showing my age here but DOS 5 was GREAT. Everyone knew that even numbered DOS releases were very poor. DOS 4 was a hugh piece of crap that IBM force upon Microsoft.(When was te last time you heard that!) After DOS 4 bombed and no one upgraded from their stable DOS 3.11, Microsoft fixed the problems and released v5.
It's all a front for his HUGH kung-fu training program where, yearly and in secret, he gathers the worlds best in various martial arts disciplines for no-holds-barred death matches. I also hear that this year they will hold ping-pong matches too! We can only hope that somewhere, a man is currently being recruited by British Intelligence to put a STOP to all this!
My CS Prof. at the time (Summer of 1982 or 1983, an old retired IBM'er who worked on the first computers for the Military) had a daughter that worked for Apple on the Lisa project. He had a pre-production model on his desk with a serial number under 300. She needed Steve Jobs personal okay to send him the computer for his testing. (So I was told) I remember it was the coolest thing I'd every seen back then. We took the cover off and his daughter's name was one of the names inscripted on the inside cover. Blew away the Apple II & Trash-80's we were using at the time.
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They always seem to scamble late Tuesday afternoons while I'm golfing. Have you ever tried to putt while several pairs of F-16's fly overhead! Seriously, seeing the A-10's then the F-16's of 'The Boys from Syracuse' fly overhead all the time will be missed.
Live Free or DIE HARD baby!!!
I totally forgot about the Coleco handheld football. We played that game all the time. There was another handheld game(don't remember the name) that was the rivel to Coleco that my buddy had. The buttons were in exactly the opposite place on his game. I would hold his game upside down and the buttons would be in the same position as the Coleco. If he played the Coleco, he would just hold it upside down!
Parents bought us the Coleco Telstar for Christmas in I think 1976(age 14). Around 1978 and I found a copy of "Strategy & Tactics" (wargame within a magazine) at a book store and got into wargaming. Around 1980 or 1981 I saw my first Trash-80 computer at college. Some people playing a text adventure game and decided right there I wanted to 'program' computers. I've been doing that ever since but I've yet to write a computer game!
Are you suggesting that radio-control, spy dragoon flies migrate?
I have a friend that worked in IT at one of the American Indian Casino's. He said people would die there all the time on the gaming floor. Most of the time it was older people that would gamble so long that they wouldn't take their medication. He would say, "Christ, we'll give them a free glass of water for their pills if they'd just ask."
I know I'm showing my age here but DOS 5 was GREAT. Everyone knew that even numbered DOS releases were very poor. DOS 4 was a hugh piece of crap that IBM force upon Microsoft.(When was te last time you heard that!) After DOS 4 bombed and no one upgraded from their stable DOS 3.11, Microsoft fixed the problems and released v5.
still has never kissed a girl!
It's all a front for his HUGH kung-fu training program where, yearly and in secret, he gathers the worlds best in various martial arts disciplines for no-holds-barred death matches. I also hear that this year they will hold ping-pong matches too! We can only hope that somewhere, a man is currently being recruited by British Intelligence to put a STOP to all this!
"Have you ever kissed a girl!" (Hangs head in shame.) Very cool though.
I used to work with a person from Iowa that did summer work at the plant. He would joke that "Pigs go in, Spam comes out, no remainder"
...and has still never kissed a girl.
My CS Prof. at the time (Summer of 1982 or 1983, an old retired IBM'er who worked on the first computers for the Military) had a daughter that worked for Apple on the Lisa project. He had a pre-production model on his desk with a serial number under 300. She needed Steve Jobs personal okay to send him the computer for his testing. (So I was told) I remember it was the coolest thing I'd every seen back then. We took the cover off and his daughter's name was one of the names inscripted on the inside cover. Blew away the Apple II & Trash-80's we were using at the time.