While you guys are feeling nostalgic what with the Beatles posts and the stoner games, you should check this out, it's sure to bring back a few memories!
Cool, they have the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, which was my first computer. I still have the cassette player that I had to purchase for it. I remember making a random character generator for the Chill role-playing game. The thing then crashed on me when I was in the middle of programing a random character generator for AD&D role-playing game. I remembered playing pre-recorded cassettes on the little black and white tv set that I hooked it up to. I tossed out the computer but kept the cassette player. I bought it at the local Radio Shack with money made from mowing yards one summer.
To bad my back hurts too much now when I mow grass or shovel snow. That was some good money and some good opportunities to meet some widows
Check out the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48K - my first ever computer, my mom bought it when I was 8 and she was learning BASIC...so I learned to program too...ah, the good old days. I think the first game I had for it was Saboteur, that game ruled...of course, I played it again recently and it sucked ass, but it ruled then! hehe.
Way before my time, but an ex-girlfriend's mom used to program those things using those punch card things...beats me how she figure out those things...at least "modern" programming languages are somewhat user friendly
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