Comments on: A Geek’s Memories

By: Gary Morris

Gary Morris — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:43:31 +0000

Never mind. I discovered Ctrl-h!

By: Gary Morris

Gary Morris — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:06:27 +0000

I've been playing BRE on an old BBS using a telnet connection. If I accidentally type the wrong thing, I cannot get the backspace, delete, arrow keys or anything to work. I'm stuck timing out or buying 100,000 soldiers or whatever. Anybody know if there is a resolution to this?

By: George John A. See

George John A. See — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:32:13 +0000

haha i remember mandy too! does anyone have a copy of it?

By: George John A. See

George John A. See — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:32:13 +0000

haha i remember mandy too! does anyone have a copy of it?

By: lonypny

lonypny — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:20:43 +0000

Sorry I typed it wrong! my nick is lonypny and the email is lonypny@yahoo.com
Please send mandy to me!

By: hebe

hebe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:19:27 +0000

Hebe, I remember Mandy porn B/W video also!
Do you still have it? I was searching for it soo long. email me at lonpny@yahoo.com

By: kng863

kng863 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:13:28 +0000

I remember…

-Forced to play Carmen Sandiego on the Apple Mac at elementary school. I liked Oregon Trail better.
-Printer cartridges that used tape and printer paper with those perforated track holes on the margins.
-Winter Olympics, Spy VS Spy, Mario Bros on the Commodore/IBM
-386 was the hottest thing
-Windows 3.1\MS-Dos
-14.4k and 56k Modems and the sounds they made
-Prodigy,CompuServe
-Doom, Duke Nukem, Lemmings, Quake, Jane’s USAF using joystick, ChessMaster 8000 (forgot how high it got)
-Bringing my desktop over to my cousins to network first generation PC games. Dune, C&C, X-Wing VS Tie Fighter (how so many hours was spent on this), Need for Speed, Warcraft 1, Star Wars Dark Forces.
-Figuring out what all those networking things IPX, COM Ports, Baud Rates, Not really understanding what we did, but we eventually got it to work.
-Original gaming companies – Microprose (X-Com is #1 all time), Bull-Frog, Info-games, Sierra, Original EA, Lucas Arts. There are probably older ones, but I don’t recall or not in my generation.
-Small software shops where u had to go to the store and get software/peripherals – Egghead software, Electronics Boutique (store dedicated to PC games only and shelf real-estate was abundant. Now u go to EB, and u see is 1 rack of PC games all compacted)
-High end VGA games on 8 floppy disks! Expensive power strips.
-When pc subwoofers came out.
-Taking forever to figure out Leisure Larry Lounge Lizards with all those typing commands. Scumm games.
-CorelDraw
-10/100 Network Cards, Co-Axial Cables with those metal terminators

By: z00z0

z00z0 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:04:13 +0000

I remember going to the school library searching for the meaning of the word “emulator”.
I remember sys 64738 and LOAD”*”,8,1.
I remember using a screwdriver to change the position of the tape’s head in a C64 tape player and using 64KLOADER.
I remember the first time i saw a small Mac icon with “x” at his eye on a Mac Plus.
I remember trying to make a wheel of fortune game in Excel (maybe in 4.0).
I remember trying the same in HyperCard, but created only a shooter where my teacher’s face could melt to bits.
I remember using ducttape to fix my QuickShot 2.
I remember buying a 20 GB hard drive and everyone was laughing: what will you use that big place for?
I also remember my first 20 MB external hard drive which was bigger than a scanner, and I tried to fill it up from SyQuest discs.
I remember watching Operation Wolf, and saying: whoa, this is sooo lifelike.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:53:03 +0000

I remember:

Intellivision
the FIRST TRS80 Model 1 with keyboard, monochrome screen and cassette deck.
The TRS80 Model II and III
Zork and Star Trek
Writing stupid repeater text in BASIC
the TRS80 PORTABLE!
Kings Quest
D-Base
EcoNet BBS
Printers with Daisy Wheels and Ribbons!
Thermal paper fax machines
“Heavy Duty” copy machines that took up entire rooms (and all they did was staple and duplex)
Rotary Dial Phones
When MTV played music
When I first got CABLE TV
The first time I saw “Netscape” when it was brand new!
Transitioning from DOS to Windows!
When WordPerfect could do TABLES!!
When making a word bold in a word processor required a CODE like HTML.
Using waxing machines, tape lines and an Xacto knife to layout a newspaper
Using Ventura
When VOICEMAIL started at work!

Gee…imagine how many things I’ve forgotten!

By: Old 'Un

Old 'Un — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:06:53 +0000

PEEK and POKE commands
SET and RESET commends
Typing programs from magazines
Hunt the Wumpus and ASCII Star Trek
Black plastic cassette recorders to save/load data
The Turbo button
How cool daisywheel printers were (and the ‘soundproof’ boxes you had to keep them in)
Really floppy 8″ disks
the DEC Rainbow
the TRS/80
BASIC
COBOL
PASCAL
GANDALF boxes
Green Bar fanfold paper
Turning the keyclick sound on/off
Punch cards
Open reel tape storage
Hard wired circuitry in the mainframe