[NBLUG/talk] Commodore nostalgia
Scott Doty
scott at sonic.net
Wed May 13 16:00:04 PDT 2009
gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
> I was always getting eaten by grues. I guess some of my first computer training were on Unix computers, the Cyber 40 and PDP-11 at Sonoma State. But I first played with an Apple ][ in the 3rd grade. It took quite some time to load Integer Basic from the Cassette Drive and then we were programming "Hello" like crazy. Wizardry, Ulitima, ASCII Star Trek, wheee! Basic then Assembly then Pascal. Now I'm mostly Perl and PHP.
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When I was in junior high, the librarian would let me hang out in the
projector storage closet, where there was an Apple ][+ on a cart...
I had an odd childhood. :P
-Scott
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