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SandChigger wrote:

Eyes High wrote:Did they even have computers when you were in highschool.

Actually, my dear, I myself had a Radio Shack TRS-80.

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.

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.

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.

I had a Commodore VIC-20...

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 !

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.

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.

Eeew. Geek ... sleaze.

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?

A friend with an Apple was the closest thing you could get to a willing woman?

Okee-dokee.

[hops away, whistling...]

No, I think what Omph is trying to say is he was still in the closet back in those days.

Oh you guys are such teases!

Wanna see me in a thong bikini?

Where's that closet again?

You can call me Sheeeeut LeBoob.

SandChigger wrote:Wanna see me in a thong bikini?

Will it be a confederate flag bikini?

SandChigger wrote:You can call me Sheeeeut LeBoob.

Is that a reference to that annoying little man-child from the Transformers movies?

Omphalos wrote:Is that a reference to that annoying little man-child from the Transformers movies?

In a confederate bikini!

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

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?