> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:46, Danny WIlliams wrote:
>> On 2/16/06, michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> wrote:
>> I feel very old now after looking through that list and noting the
>> half dozen or so museum pieces on which I once had a paying job.
>
> Ditto, I still have some of their "museum" pieces in the garage. --JB
I've seen that site before and I'm a little sad that it's going away. I remember
getting my first Commodore Vic20 and C=64, my TI99/4A and my friend's TRS-80, the
Ataris and Apple IIe's and IIcs. It doesn't all that long ago that we were running
BBSs on 300baud modems. I know that everytime there's "way back when" talk someone
will recall some old hardware with fondness (or misery).
These machines represent my youth in the same way that decoder rings and 8-tracks
represent it for others. I remember typing in a character animation demo on that
Ti-99/4A. It did nothing but redefine a couple characters to be a very blocky
jumping man. I remember figuring out how to do the same thing with Atari 8-bit
player-missile graphics, then moving that to sprites on a C128.
That's what's really cool and interesting about Linux. There's still that same sense
of experimentation that defined the early commodity microcomputer days (daze?)...
(Returning now to regularly scheduled programming...)
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