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Message #07003
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Scott Burns s-burns@staff.uiuc.edu
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 13:06:33 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: James Watt's sculpture, jewelry, and bots.
I started with punch paper tape too, using an acousic coupler attached to a
teletype. Still using a slide rule back then, which was in high school. In
college, graduated to the TI-59, then the C64.
But the 64 was more than just for games. I wrote my PhD thesis on it in
'84. Had to define and download a custom character set to the printer to
get math symbols, after creating them in pixel-by-pixel on graph paper
first!
>sometime, somewhere wilf wrote:
>
>>Ah, you youngsters with your fancy colored computers! The ZX81 was and
>>always will be MY first "computer" though before that I wrestled with a
>
>>PDP8L c/w paper punch in college .
>
>
> > Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
> > tel: (604)590-7493
> > fax: (604)590-3411
>
> I can remember the punch cards. I also remember the Sinclair
>1000. Still have it (not sure if i want to admit that though). I can
>remember programming a football ball game with it. What a pain in the
>rear. I for one, like some of the new games, but I also grew up with
>the good ol` 64. Anyone remember "Leather goddesses of Phobos". Just
>checking.
> First "console" game was pong.....and that was all it did.
>Later all.
>--
>Robert Stein
>Applications Scientist
>Spectral Instruments, Inc.
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