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

Re: Memories...

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

i never did get to have a computer, but we did have a superpong...then an atari...then intellivision...i did work on the macs in the computer lab at university though in the early '80s...i have a couple of years on you...ha ha...

Pong!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Oh, man! You just reminded me of this game console we had in the mid-70's. "Telstar" it was called. It played pong, handball, and "hockey" - and eventually burned in on our gargantuan wood-veneer cabinet TV that used to take half an hour to warm up. LOL. There is a technology memory... turning on the TV half an hour before you planned to watch something and waiting for the tube to warm up. Right up there with battery-eating LED digital watches and battery devouring LED calculators that took a whole second to figure out a square root.

Re: Pong!

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

oh i remember all of those...the old zenith in the huge cabinet...remember telstar too...i had a scientific texas instruments t1 calc, it was a monster, but great for writing such funnies as hell, shell oil, and hello...