the accidental geek rewinds
I cut my programming teeth on a Radio Shack TRS-80, with a cassette player attached to it to save the running bunny program we were supposed to write to pass the first exam.
The very first computer I owned did not have a hard drive, but ran on two 5,25inch floppy disks, which when discarded made very good solar eclipse viewers. I played Prince of Persia from a floppy disk till the wee hours of the morning and ran Wordstar 2 on a second floppy drive with the DOS bootdisk in the first. The brands Verbatim and Maxell were preferred, even when the disks shrank to 3.5 inches.
When I finally got my first hard disk it was a whopping 120MB. Yey! Now I could run Windows 3.1 and save my files in folders. I learned how to use a mouse. The floppy had shrunk to 3.5 inches by this time, black with color coded labels. In a few more months Windows 95 came out with the floppy installers. I was in heaven.
But it wasn’t until I got my first taste of the Internet that I realized this was what I wanted to be involved in for the rest of my life.
I know the internet is such a big world, you can do anything on there.
By way i love your little lego men, they are really cool
Thanks for stopping by my place and leaving a comment. I appreciate it. Hey and i hope you get past that level 1 soon… fingers crossed!
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Tina
23 Jun 08 at 9:45 pm
congrats on the spanking new site, bambit! i like your theme and masthead, too!
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tin
24 Jun 08 at 6:42 am
Hello Tina – thanks for the visit. I’m still on level one on the Indiana Jones Lego game, but i’m past the guillotines so i must be close to completing.
Hi Tin! – they’re my new alter egos, although the one in the red cap is the real me. Uhm, yeah.
the accidental geek
25 Jun 08 at 10:45 pm