[geeks] Let's not get the age thing going again (was:Re[2]: [

[jmadjeski]

I'm not the oldest here by a longshot, I would imagine (25).

By a strange coincidence (regarding the TI-99 thread), my first computer was
the TI-99/4a. Had the cartidge bay for programs, and you could even save
programs *gasp* on a music cassette!!! BOOYA! Thing was hooked into a black
and white television.

I remember sitting in front of that thing and copying, from a book on
programming in basic, a little graphics program that woulg make this little
guy appear on screen and wave his arms and legs, like he was dancing... or
convulsing. I named him "IGGY". Okay, shut up, I was six!

>From then on, anything that resembled the shape of IGGY was called IGGY.

*sniffle* misty watercolored meeem'rieeeees... of the waaaay we weeere...

-joe


>On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:53:46 -0700 "Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com>
wrote.
>~ -----Original Message-----
>~ I don't want to hear it - I'm still vying for being one of 
>~ the older members
>~ on the list.  Born in '69, had one of these:
>~ http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ibm5100.html
>~ in front of me by the time I was four.  (My father's from work.)
>~ I was the only kid I knew who came back from a day of work with his
>~ father holding a stack of the small (half sized) punchcards.
>~ Of course we moved to the suburbs in the middle of my third grade and
>~ I promptly forgot most of everything I learned.
>
>I don't think I'm the greybeard here, but I was born in '62. My first
>computer access was with a TI acoustically coupled printing terminal
calling
>a DG Nova. I think I was 10.
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