Genghis Khan
The worst version of myself
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I believe the commodore 64 ran Basic? That's what I started on.

I believe the commodore 64 ran Basic? That's what I started on.

So…your parents thought the same people who made the calculator would be great at computers.I had a TI 99.![]()
So…your parents thought the same people who made the calculator would be great at computers.
I can beat that when I was in high school I took a one week college course at Lafayette college with punch cards.Same, for my own computer. In school when I touched a PC for the first time it was DOS 1.x.
Yeah, I'm geezing
You win.I can beat that when I was in high school I took a one week college course at Lafayette college with punch cards.
I laughed even though I don't know what you're saying.![]()
So you made that decision versus the Commodore?I bought it with me allowance, mate.
So you made that decision versus the Commodore?
Yeah they retired the punch card machine my freshman year at Maryland. The strangest interface I experienced was a line printer used as a dumb terminal in front of an IBM 370 mainframe. It would print your current screen, and you could edit one line at a time using commands to select the line first before the text substitution commands you'd apply to the actual line you were editingI can beat that when I was in high school I took a one week college course at Lafayette college with punch cards.
Yes, it's trueThe guy from the video you posted looks like the guy in Ghostbusters who Bill Murray called dickless because he forced them to shut down the power grid, which led to all the ghosts escaping.
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