[geeks] Let's not get the age thing going again

[dave at cca.org]

jmadjeski at comcast.net writes:

>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.

When I was in sixth grade, every computer I got my hands on was called
"HAL". I was obsessed with 2001, and I considered HAL to be the victim
of that story.

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