Loved the story on your entry into computers. My first computer was a TRS-80 (with 16K of RAM) and stored data on cassette tape. That was before the upgrade to Apple II+. Also reminds me of the Atari videogame with football (3 player per side that would "flash" because of the graphics demand) or Pitfall. The level of technology change over the past 45 years is amazing and your story reminded me of those days.
On the 386 I had to edit and change the config.sys and autoexec.bat files before every game to free up some memory, disable unecessary drivers, etc.
I didn't even understand English back then, so all the DOS commands were basically magic incantations to me. I don't even know how I learned them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My first computer also was a RadioShack TRS-80 and I programmed a lunar lander game in Basic. The cassette tape loading was slow and touchy but a step up from the PDP8 punch cards I used to learn Fortran in high school. It’s amazing how Steve Wozniak hardware hacking to allow the Apple ][ to output color NTSC cheaply was enough to outcompete all the other early home PCs. I really wanted one of those, but never got one, but I did get my dream of working at Apple a decade later.
I had an Atari console early on, which was very cool. Games were so much harder back then, and no saving!
A friend had an Amiga, and another one an Apple II C... So many memories.
My fave are when we did all-nighter LAN parties playing Doom and Quake and Hexen and Starcraft and such games, eating pizza pockets.. I made my own Doom maps and we played my maps. Such fun!
The feedback on the images has been almost evenly split -- very interesting when you find something where there's no clear consensus, and nobody seems to dislike both 🤔
Your experience interpreting the layoff news was a really great nugget. So many of the places I usually go for reading were closely watching whether or not we were going to teeter into a deep global recession (at the same time that profitability became cool again in stock price narratives). As a result, high profile layoffs got a ton of coverage and analysis.
It's a good reminder to balance my perspective with people who exist in different information spheres than I do...
Loved the story on your entry into computers. My first computer was a TRS-80 (with 16K of RAM) and stored data on cassette tape. That was before the upgrade to Apple II+. Also reminds me of the Atari videogame with football (3 player per side that would "flash" because of the graphics demand) or Pitfall. The level of technology change over the past 45 years is amazing and your story reminded me of those days.
16k of RAM! Kids today have no idea, haha
On the 386 I had to edit and change the config.sys and autoexec.bat files before every game to free up some memory, disable unecessary drivers, etc.
I didn't even understand English back then, so all the DOS commands were basically magic incantations to me. I don't even know how I learned them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My first computer also was a RadioShack TRS-80 and I programmed a lunar lander game in Basic. The cassette tape loading was slow and touchy but a step up from the PDP8 punch cards I used to learn Fortran in high school. It’s amazing how Steve Wozniak hardware hacking to allow the Apple ][ to output color NTSC cheaply was enough to outcompete all the other early home PCs. I really wanted one of those, but never got one, but I did get my dream of working at Apple a decade later.
I had an Atari console early on, which was very cool. Games were so much harder back then, and no saving!
A friend had an Amiga, and another one an Apple II C... So many memories.
My fave are when we did all-nighter LAN parties playing Doom and Quake and Hexen and Starcraft and such games, eating pizza pockets.. I made my own Doom maps and we played my maps. Such fun!
Both those images are cool! I REALLY like the first one.
I'll send you the full size one!
I think the bottom one is better.
The top one makes me think of Plato's cave and it's just a silhouette.
The feedback on the images has been almost evenly split -- very interesting when you find something where there's no clear consensus, and nobody seems to dislike both 🤔
Your experience interpreting the layoff news was a really great nugget. So many of the places I usually go for reading were closely watching whether or not we were going to teeter into a deep global recession (at the same time that profitability became cool again in stock price narratives). As a result, high profile layoffs got a ton of coverage and analysis.
It's a good reminder to balance my perspective with people who exist in different information spheres than I do...
Yeah. Gotta zoom out once in a while. Easy to be in a bubble without noticing!