xyzzy took you to the east-west crawlway with the iron rod.
plugh took you to Y2.
plugh took you to Y2.
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Pserendipity Daniels
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12-04-2009 08:31
"Xyzzy" was also the magic word for amazing your friends at Minesweeper. Pep (It annoyed my brother for ages that I was so "lucky"!) _____________________
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12-04-2009 08:33
You've been keeping notes. Nobody old enough to have played that could possibly remember those details  _____________________
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Pete Olihenge
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12-04-2009 08:35
Just as well I don't have any land, or I'd be starting work on recreating the "Adventure" game here in SL right now.
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Pserendipity Daniels
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12-04-2009 08:35
PLAYED? I was one of the people behind the 400 point version. Pep (Bulls and cows anyone?) _____________________
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12-04-2009 08:39
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12-04-2009 09:28
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Kira Cuddihy
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12-04-2009 10:29
Dang, some of you are oooooold.  We are not old, you are just a noobie. |
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12-04-2009 10:44
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12-04-2009 10:47
My first memory (home use) from the early 1980s was the BBC Model B Computer:  Hooray for the Beeb! I've still got mine. It was my second-ish computer, after the ZX81 I mentioned earlier. My second computer actually was the Dragon 32 (a computer from Wales!) which broke down repeatedly for the 3 months I owned it. My parents shelled out the extra for a Beeb. It was an expensive home computer for its day, but compared to the competition it was engineered like a Rolls Royce. _____________________
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Chris Norse
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12-04-2009 11:22
And how could I have forgotten the time I destroyed the work assignments of the entire high school's computer classes by putting a magnet from a car stereo speaker in the box where every one kept their floppy disks. Never did get caught for that one.
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12-04-2009 11:43
And how could I have forgotten the time I destroyed the work assignments of the entire high school's computer classes by putting a magnet from a car stereo speaker in the box where every one kept their floppy disks. Never did get caught for that one. that's how we learn... |
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12-04-2009 12:08
Dang, some of you are oooooold. We are not old, you are just a noobie. Can I be a noobie forever? |
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Bree Giffen
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12-04-2009 12:09
Watching Tron.
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Kira Cuddihy
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12-04-2009 13:19
Can I be a noobie forever? of course you can, just clone yourself every now and then. |
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Tarina Sewell
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12-04-2009 17:52
 LOLOO I was thinking hte same thing My first OS was MSDOS for an office I worked in... then windows for networks... then the steady progression onto vista.... I know 7 is calling for me... The only MAC i ever owned was an old apple... "sigh" that was interesting. When I was in school in the 80's I was so far from the geek crowd ...... had NO interest whatsoever in them....(to busy going to concerts) now, I cant live without one. lol Oh I did buy an atari to when they first came out. |
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Shiva Draconia
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A baby in comparison to many of you, I imagine.
12-04-2009 20:58
I'm only 22, so I don't quite have memories going back as far as many of you. I'm also from Ireland, so computers weren't the most common thing, anyways.
However, my answer is sort of in two parts. 1) My earliest memory of a computer, is either [a] sitting, and eating a chocolate bar, whilst looking at a Mac, surrounded by servers. (I was young, maybe between 4 and 6, and with my father whilst he was at work) or playing a game called 'The Shoe People' or one with a frog in it, that went shopping. (Again, very young, so my memory is patchy.) 2) Whilst those are my earliest memories, I know I've been using computers since I was about 2 or 3. All thanks to the fact that my father works with them as a computer engineer. |
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Jig Chippewa
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12-04-2009 21:01
I'm only 22, so I don't quite have memories going back as far as many of you. I'm also from Ireland, so computers weren't the most common thing, anyways. However, my answer is sort of in two parts. 1) My earliest memory of a computer, is either [a] sitting, and eating a chocolate bar, whilst looking at a Mac, surrounded by servers. (I was young, maybe between 4 and 6, and with my father whilst he was at work) or playing a game called 'The Shoe People' or one with a frog in it, that went shopping. (Again, very young, so my memory is patchy.) 2) Whilst those are my earliest memories, I know I've been using computers since I was about 2 or 3. All thanks to the fact that my father works with them as a computer engineer. Yeah kinda like me -I dont have those ancient Egypt type memories that people have here. I think some of them are making it all up. Especially teh Whang Computer. _____________________
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Mitzy Shino
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12-04-2009 23:04
Wow you lot are OLD, and you don't look it!
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Pserendipity Daniels
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12-04-2009 23:50
And how could I have forgotten the time I destroyed the work assignments of the entire high school's computer classes by putting a magnet from a car stereo speaker in the box where every one kept their floppy disks. Never did get caught for that one. Pep (Why didn't you set fire to the school as well?) _____________________
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Chris Norse
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12-05-2009 06:31
Malice or stupidity, Chris? Pep (Why didn't you set fire to the school as well?) Malice of course. Brick and cinderblock don't burn very well. Anyway as old as the building was it was falling down by itself. My senior year I was nearly hit by a 3' piece of plaster ceiling. _____________________
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-05-2009 07:40
Brick and cinderblock don't burn very well. Anyway as old as the building was it was falling down by itself. My senior year I was nearly hit by a 3' piece of plaster ceiling.  |
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12-05-2009 08:03
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12-05-2009 08:07
Does deciding not to take computer studies at school count? The "presentation" was just ascii art and the old maze game "hack" or something like that.. The programming side was never mentioned so it wasn't until I saw a demo model of the ZX Spectrum in WH Smiths that someone got to print there name all over the screen that computers clicked for me..
Asked how they did it and soon my name was scrolling too.. Then got into for next loops to add spaces to bounce my name back and forth across the screen.. Soon was taking a cassette tape with me and coded a frogger game during school lunchtimes. Graphics done by colouring squares on graph paper and converting to hex. Christmas that year got my own ZX Spectrum 48k and still happily coding computers to this day _____________________
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