OT: Majorly Annoyed

[DaveStebbins]

*snort* Children these days.

I remember buying Pong new from the Sears catalog & playing Zork on a TSR-80.

Macs in College? What's a Mac? MicroVax, OpenVMs & Telnet via dumb terminals was the name of the game.

Wasn't it a TRS-80? TSR was something completely different. I remember saving up something like 120 bucks to buy a video pinball game from Sears that hooked up to the TV. The controller was almost as big as my full-size keyboard today, and about twice as thick.

As for me, my first college programming course was PASCAL and the lab used punch cards. Probably why I went into Engineering instead. (Though by the time I graduated, nine years later, computers were making programming much more fun. Maybe I should have stayed with it.)

-Dave

 

[Harlock]

Know what I find majorly annoying? OT posts that aren't tagged as such or that should be in META. Such is life. We've all got annoyances with which we have to deal.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Know what I find majorly annoying? OT posts that aren't tagged as such or that should be in META. Such is life. We've all got annoyances with which we have to deal.

*smack*

 

[Monster Manuel]

I had a TRS-80 rather than TSR-80 (were there two?) I loved mine; I used to write programs on my black and white TV, and hope that the power stayed on so I didn't lose several hours of work until I was ready (I didn't have atape deck, and so had no method of saving). I used to play Zaxxon and Dungeons of Daggorath, when I wasn't writing versions of Hunt the Wumpus and Eliza in BASIC. That was a great summer; I had a broken ankle, and I ran my first in-depth D&D campaign.

 

[Monster Manuel]

I didn't actually think any of these posts went through; the site wasn't responding when I posted this.

 

[Monster Manuel]

sorry

 

[Monster Manuel]

delete me

 

[Monster Manuel]

quadruple post... whoa

 

[Tewligan]

You can tell that was a really fond memory for Monster Manuel. If he had only posted it two or three times, then I would have doubted how precious that TRS-80 really was. But FIVE? Hello, Memory Lane!

 

[Tewligan]

And if you're asking me how crazy i am, yes. I'll pay for a wireless modem just so i could chat on irc.

Do you live on campus, and thus never have access to irc? Or can you just not bear being deprived of online chat until you get home from school?