OT: How old are you ?

Pablo · #1 January 9th, 2003, 10:17 AM

I'm 25, used to work for a while as a network admin, now interpreter/translator. I live in Lithuania (that's in Europe at the Baltic sea

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Used to play fps games but now heavily addicted to SE4 (got it for almost a year now). First space game was Elite. So far no experience in Stars! or MOO. Looking forward to MOO3.
Maybe I'm fond of statistics or something... http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/who.htm

tbontob · #2 January 9th, 2003, 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
The first computer I ever used was a Commodore pet. It had a small green monochrome screen and a tape drive. It took forever to load programs from the tape, but it was so cool! It came with some simple programs for word processing and math and so on, and it had a few cool games: Space Invaders, a racing game, a labyrinth monster game, and a mining game. You could write your own BASIC programs in it, too, but back then I didn't know how to program. (Much later, I first learned how to program in BASIC on the Apple IIE.)

My first computer was the Apple II+, purchased in the spring of 1981...yes 1981!

No drives at all, you saved your "stuff" to a common tape on tape recorder and loaded it from the tape recoder.

The keyboard only typed in capitals.

IIRC, it came in 16K, 32K and 48K memory. I splurged big time for the 48K. And later, I did an upgrade to 64K.

I made so many modifications to it, that it took years before I bought my first Macintosh.

And the original cost was more than the price of most personal computers today!

But it was a marvel! I too learned to program in "Applesoft basic" which is a modified form of Basic.

I also did some machine language programming. It was all done directly and by hand without any of the aids which are available today.

dogscoff · #3 January 9th, 2003, 01:54 PM

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Maybe I'm fond of statistics or something... http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/who.htm

Pablo, have you seen The Encyclopedia Malfadorica demographics page? Perhaps you'd consider adding your data to that page in some reader-friendly format..?

Pablo · #4 January 10th, 2003, 02:30 AM

hm... possible if you think it's worth it. I was just trying to keep up with the seiv.pbw.cc style

I'm a complete newbie with php so help would be great on what to do and how to do it.

dogscoff · #5 January 10th, 2003, 02:39 AM

Just go to the page, click "edit" and off you go. If it asks you for a username and password, just type in your name (making sure to include 2 capital letters, for some reason) and ignore the password bit.

Dobian · #6 January 9th, 2003, 06:55 PM

My first computer was an Atari 800 in 1981. My neighbor got an Apple II+ around 1980. I spent a lot of time over there playing Lunar Lander and the Adventure text games. I still remember my neighbor's dad getting the first Lisa and then the first Mac as soon as they hit the stores.

RaggedyMan · #7 January 9th, 2003, 07:19 PM

14 here. There sure are a lot of old people that are playing this game.