Shawnee123

Flint · 01-08-2009, 03:54 PM

Get back to work!

Could the Cellar keep a log file of a user's page views, that could be emailed to that person's boss? If so, threaten me with this.

Oh, wait, the guy who monitors internet traffic is my boss...and he sits right behind me and he can see what's on my monitors.

Shawnee123 · 01-08-2009, 03:59 PM

I have the attention span of a gnat today.

Plus I can multi-task like you wouldn't believe.

Yabbut, today I have been bad...mind is not on spreadsheet. Must. Focus.

Flint · 01-08-2009, 04:02 PM

I juggle tasks. I can't sit still for two seconds without doing something. Sometimes, it's look at The Cellar.

Shawnee123 · 01-08-2009, 04:09 PM

And this computer has periods of extreme slowness, verrrry frustrating, so i can't help but hop to the Cellar. If I could stay in a rhythm... but not on this POS Commodore 64 mudderplucker.

DanaC · 01-08-2009, 04:22 PM

*snorts with laughter*

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but not on this POS Commodore 64 mudderplucker.

Very good.

jinx · 01-08-2009, 08:15 PM

Commodore 128 was a my first computer. I got it for xmas, and cried about it but my parents wouldn't take it back and get something else. Jerks.

DanaC · 01-08-2009, 09:18 PM

My first was a Commodore Vic20. It was the 'Education' bundle set. They somehow managed to convince my mother that it would in some way help me with my school work. It didn't. It proved spectacularly unable to be of any practical use whatsoever.

More importantly, it did not, as I would have liked at the time, give me the ability to hack into major systems a la 'Wargames'.

What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that.

One final factet about this computer was that it was part of the big pre-Christmas sell off of about-to-be-obsolete stock. This was before consumers got savvy about the wily tech peddlars. Now, okay, granted, there were still computer games being written for Vic20 when I got it...but not many. No, games makers were by then focussing their attention on the shiny new kid on the block the Commodore64.

My best friend got a Commodore64.

dar512 · 01-09-2009, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that.

Apple II and Atari were prior. However Commodore did market better at the price point. They sold a boatload of computers before IBM brought out their PC.

glatt · 01-09-2009, 11:23 AM

We had a Heathkit terminal in our house starting in around 1980 or so and we could call into the mainframe at the college where my dad worked using a screaming fast 300 baud modem. It was linked to the Dartmouth college computer, where they had a chat room. So my first chat/forum experiences were in the early 80's.

It was all text then, each "post" would follow another as a big long text document. The posts were separated only by a couple carriage returns and then a header to tell who was making the post. You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times.

Flint · 01-09-2009, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times.

I'm sure you would never do anything like that, though.

Shawnee123 · 01-09-2009, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

We had a Heathkit ~snip~.

That's neat. Did the whole family like Wuthering Heights?

TheMercenary · 01-08-2009, 09:32 PM

I wanna play, send me her bosses Email addy.

kerosene · 01-08-2009, 10:30 PM

When I was 7 my dad got a C64. I loved it. I use to randomly type stuff on the screen and then print it out and use it as a word search. I also used one of his Commodore Syntax books to write simple little games on it. I still have the C64 somewhere.

DanaC · 01-09-2009, 05:56 AM

Oh I used to love doing stuff like that on the Vic20. It came with a Teach Yourself Commodore Basic book. Oh and a cutout plastic template for drawing flow charts.

I remember there was one programme in that book that made a simple question and answer game. I felt soooo cool when it worked lol. I dropped off it though, because none of it seemed to have much practical application. I think had it had a basic word processing programme I'd have used it much more. Stuck to games after that.

One of the games I got a couple of months later for my Birthday was too big for the standard Vic20. So we had to buy a memory upgrade: a memory cartridge which went into the back of the computer and stuck out with a little switch visible, it had 3 memory settings, the highest being - wait for it - 16k! Wow. 16k of additional memory!

The game was Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the edge of Time.

sweetwater · 01-09-2009, 06:04 AM

We went from Commodore Vic20 to the 64, and then to a TRS80, if memory serves. They were like computers with training wheels.

01-08-2009, 03:54 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Shawnee123 Get back to work! Could the Cellar keep a log file of a user's page views, that could be emailed to that person's boss? If so, threaten me with this. Oh, wait, the guy who monitors internet traffic is my boss...and he sits right behind me and he can see what's on my monitors. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

01-08-2009, 03:59 PM	#2
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I have the attention span of a gnat today. Plus I can multi-task like you wouldn't believe. Yabbut, today I have been bad...mind is not on spreadsheet. Must. Focus. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-08-2009, 04:02 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I juggle tasks. I can't sit still for two seconds without doing something. Sometimes, it's look at The Cellar. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

01-08-2009, 04:09 PM	#4
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	And this computer has periods of extreme slowness, verrrry frustrating, so i can't help but hop to the Cellar. If I could stay in a rhythm... but not on this POS Commodore 64 mudderplucker. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-08-2009, 08:15 PM	#6
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Commodore 128 was a my first computer. I got it for xmas, and cried about it but my parents wouldn't take it back and get something else. Jerks. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

01-08-2009, 09:18 PM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	My first was a Commodore Vic20. It was the 'Education' bundle set. They somehow managed to convince my mother that it would in some way help me with my school work. It didn't. It proved spectacularly unable to be of any practical use whatsoever. More importantly, it did not, as I would have liked at the time, give me the ability to hack into major systems a la 'Wargames'. What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that. One final factet about this computer was that it was part of the big pre-Christmas sell off of about-to-be-obsolete stock. This was before consumers got savvy about the wily tech peddlars. Now, okay, granted, there were still computer games being written for Vic20 when I got it...but not many. No, games makers were by then focussing their attention on the shiny new kid on the block the Commodore64. My best friend got a Commodore64.

01-09-2009, 11:23 AM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	We had a Heathkit terminal in our house starting in around 1980 or so and we could call into the mainframe at the college where my dad worked using a screaming fast 300 baud modem. It was linked to the Dartmouth college computer, where they had a chat room. So my first chat/forum experiences were in the early 80's. It was all text then, each "post" would follow another as a big long text document. The posts were separated only by a couple carriage returns and then a header to tell who was making the post. You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times.

01-08-2009, 09:32 PM	#12
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I wanna play, send me her bosses Email addy. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-08-2009, 10:30 PM	#13
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	When I was 7 my dad got a C64. I loved it. I use to randomly type stuff on the screen and then print it out and use it as a word search. I also used one of his Commodore Syntax books to write simple little games on it. I still have the C64 somewhere.

01-09-2009, 05:56 AM	#14
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Oh I used to love doing stuff like that on the Vic20. It came with a Teach Yourself Commodore Basic book. Oh and a cutout plastic template for drawing flow charts. I remember there was one programme in that book that made a simple question and answer game. I felt soooo cool when it worked lol. I dropped off it though, because none of it seemed to have much practical application. I think had it had a basic word processing programme I'd have used it much more. Stuck to games after that. One of the games I got a couple of months later for my Birthday was too big for the standard Vic20. So we had to buy a memory upgrade: a memory cartridge which went into the back of the computer and stuck out with a little switch visible, it had 3 memory settings, the highest being - wait for it - 16k! Wow. 16k of additional memory! The game was Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the edge of Time.

01-09-2009, 06:04 AM	#15
sweetwater lives inside a Mobius strip Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,120	We went from Commodore Vic20 to the 64, and then to a TRS80, if memory serves. They were like computers with training wheels. __________________ I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque! - Bugs Bunny

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