25 Years Later

[mbarrick]

1977 Commodore PET

Twenty-five years ago when I was hacking away on one of these beasties I never imagined that I would be sitting here watching a movie on my computer, talking to friends thousands of miles away, manipulating photographs, and writing in my journal all at the same time on a computer, not to mention making my living off of the absurd things. But here I am. An interesting toy, a glorified calculator (actually my calculator has more RAM than a PET), has now become the cornerstone of my life. It's marvellous and absurd.

Comments

I have never seen one of those

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

And I'm certainly not old enough to have played with them 25 years ago...

But I do remember puttering on my friends Tandy, till we broke it...

I also remember my friends dad he would tie up the phone line for this thing that he used to do with the computer where he would talk to other people on their computers through the telephone line.... we were all like "cha... like how lame is that?" Besides, it stopped us from talking on the phone (this was about 11 years ago now).

m3 l33t 80's h@x0r!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

In the early 80's I was a Commodore h@x0r - I could circumvent the copy protection on any program the came out for the PET, VIC20 or C-64. Even the ones with dongles (LOL - betcha don't know what a dongle is!). I went by the alias "Emperor Commodus".

Ich bin ein ÜberGeek!

Re: m3 l33t 80's h@x0r!

[goth-posh.livejournal.com]

I know what a dongle is...hehe...

Re: m3 l33t 80's h@x0r!

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

You and your prince's sex life has nothing to do with computers!

You Cheeky Monkey!!!

[goth-posh.livejournal.com]

Dongle- A hardware device that is used to prevent illegal installations of software. The software is designed so that it will only operate when the hardware device is attached. Therefore only users who have the proper hardware device attached can operate the software. If the software is installed on another machine it will not work because the hardware device is not attached. Hardware keys are distributed to end users correspo0nding to the number of seat licenses purchased.

Re: You Cheeky Monkey!!!

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

all this talk about hard and soft... don't tell me this has nothing to do with sex!

:p

From "Will and Grace"

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

"I didn't invest in Microsoft because I figured what man is ever going to buy anything from a company with 'micro' and 'soft' in the name."

Re: From "Will and Grace"

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

LOL... that's a good one

Re: I have never seen one of those

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

god i can remember playing civilization on my friend's computer that long ago...and something about "orion", some space game...ha ha...

d-dial!

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

good lord- i spent most of my middle school years futzing around chatting in d-dial... this whole thread is just a super-scary flashback... lol!

Here's a couple...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Remember when "Fido" was a network of BBS systems, not a brand of cell phone?
Remember when "PDA" meant "Public Display of Affection"?