Nerds R Us

[JSWolf]

I had an original Atari Pong video game system. It also had Breakout as well.

[JoHunt]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

The IBM Selectric II -- the absolute pinnacle in electric typewriters - with that little font ball ....
[and probably the heaviest of electric typewriters]

I loved that device ...

I agree. I so loved the clack clack clack of the font ball while you typed. And a correction tape! Absolute heaven

[PoP]

Originally Posted by PeterT

The time has come for the old Nerds to gather and share memories!

In respect to the brand, since I'm obsessed by Unicode, I thought

Geeks “ᴙ” us

is a good fit too

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I had an original Atari Pong video game system. It also had Breakout as well.

We had Pong too.

[HomeInMyShoes]

My friend had the Pong game, we didn't. I had another friend that got the Atari 2600 system when I was still in elementary school.

Super Breakout, Pac Man, Haunted House, Pitfall, Combat, Asteroids. Oh those games.

[badgoodDeb]

I remember typing in an Adventure game, on a TRS80 which could only save my work to a cassette tape.

Then a friend and I deconstructed the Adventure game's data format, and wrote our own scenarios. Mine was so lame that I never showed it to anyone, but it was still fun doing it!

[HomeInMyShoes]

Haha. Used to do that on the Vic-20. I loved that machine. Typing in games from Byte magazine and spending hours trying to find the one misplaced character in the hex code. Good times.

[wodin]

The very first app (we called them "programmes" in those days) I ever wrote was a slot machine game on an Atari 400. It took forever to save to cassette tape, and I saved it often so a few hundred lines of BASIC code literally took weeks to write.

That's when I learned about being in the zone. I'd start coding after supper, and then it was the wee hours of the morning with seemingly no time at all in between. That's one of the reasons I'm not a "developer" today, my body can't handle so much zoning.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I remember typing in an Adventure game, on a TRS80 which could only save my work to a cassette tape.

Then a friend and I deconstructed the Adventure game's data format, and wrote our own scenarios. Mine was so lame that I never showed it to anyone, but it was still fun doing it!

I remember typing in the FORTRAN-11 source to Adventure on LSI-11's in university running RT-11 )helped by a few friends). The real challenge came in compiling it when we only had 2 8" floppy drives on the LSI-11; massive customization / stripping down of the system disk was required.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I remember typing in an Adventure game, on a TRS80 which could only save my work to a cassette tape.

Then a friend and I deconstructed the Adventure game's data format, and wrote our own scenarios. Mine was so lame that I never showed it to anyone, but it was still fun doing it!

I had Telengard on cassette for my Commodore 64. Then, when I finally could afford it I went through the lines of Basic and modified it to use my new disk drive.

I had written a calendar for my VIC-20, but the wait for it to find and load data was ... way too lo-ooo-ong. But I did have fun constructing small monthly calendars using keyboard graphics.