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In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <0093D8FA...@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> ca...@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu (Drifter...) writes:
>>In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>>[A bit of ranting deleted]
>That was primo ranting me bucko
 
  Hey I know! I rant all the time myself. Probably why I don't have that
many friends...
 
>>>Compared to that, all
>>>you dewy eyed youngsters with your $3,000 personal workstations and your
>>>California tans and your soccer leagues are pampered bunnies. :-)
>>  Hey, I've been using a Tandy Color Computer (in one form or another) since
>>1980! I've just now upgraded... to a Laser 128.
> ^^^^
> howls of derisive laughter
>1980?  1980!!  So now we're convincing ourselves that 1980 means
>anything historical, are we.  Everyone alive and breathing and remotely
 
  No, just that for 10 years, I've hacked with a shitty computer. I don't
touch IBM machines. Amiga's and ST's are fun to play games on.
  My computer is just a terminal to access the *real* machines. Seeing as I
have a hard time getting direct, hands on access to a VAX. (My prefrence)
 
>disposed towards micro hacking already had a 6502 or 8080 or 6809 based
>personal computer by then.  Pong had come and gone as the cool
>phenomenon by then; Breakout was old news, and Galaxian was being
>written.  Apple was readying the cumbersome /// for its ill fated
>release.  IBM was reading the 8088 based PC-1.  We're talking about only
>yesterday!
 
  I was playing Space Wars when I was 5 years old. That's when I wanted a
computer to play with. No one knew what to do with me cause i kept pushing
buttons on anything I saw, hoping it was a computer.
 
>Real programmers hung it up in the Ford Administration.
 
  Shit man, I *am* only 22... jeez
  :) :) :) :)
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