RantinAn wrote:my 80's was all about the apple ][. So what if we had crappy graphics, and non existant sound compared to the 64... wh had games that actualy loaded in less than an hour! AND turtle robots.
Geez, imagine getting Battle Bots fever with those Logo-using turtles...
"Oh my gosh! /dev/turtle3 has just trapped /dev/turtle0 in the corner and lifted its drive motor off the ground. We may have a winner... Oh, wait a minute! /dev/turtle0 slipped down a bit and landed on /dev/turtle1's cable. PEN DOWN! PEN UP! PEN DOWN! PEN UP! PEN DOWN -- the serial cable has been cut! /dev/turtle0 wins the match!"
Oh, sorry, I got a little carried away there. Anyway, I remember That '80s Show too, and it was just too forced -- coming from me, that's saying something.
Oh man...I will reveal a level of geekiness heretofore only seen in guys who wore pocket protectors. I used to work as a "systems test" geek for an insurance company when I was in high school. What that meant was "here, break things." They used ancient IBM mainframes and disk drive packs that looked like washing machines. The programmers used to to have nightly wars writing programs that would slam the drive heads back and forth, rocking the washing machine drives and making them "walk" across the machine room floor. Eventually the thing would pull its plug out of the wall. If it was closest to "your" side of the machine room, you won that round. I believe this might be the forerunner to battlebots...(it was 1984 when I started working there, they'd been doing it since the mid-70s).
I'll admit to being the first skate rat at my high school to sport a...mullet. It was cool then. Especially if it was the kind where most of your head was buzzed except for a fuzzy tail at the back. Double coolness points if you braided it. >shudder< I'm even more afraid that someone may have photos of that. At least with the purple and green plaid bellbottom jeans, I can plead that my mother dressed me (I think, I hope I didn't pick those out myself).
Ah, the Commodore 64 -- Sixty minutes programming via tape recorder just to play 'Donkey Kong', only to receive "[input variant error; Line 63]" in the end. Huzzah!
Yes children, those were the days.
Eventually I quite literally threw the C64 out the window, knowing in some strange, precognizant way that eight hours sitting in front of a membrane skin keyboard trying to coax the opening refrains of the Eurythmics' "Here Comes the Rain Again" was not a career option (granted, had I really been precognizant I woulda' saved the C64 for Ebay).
In the end, I used the tape recorder to tape my favorite Falco, Dramarama and Animotion songs straight off the radio, drop-outs and station promos included.
((Really Grandpa?!?))
Yes, that's how it was back then, kids. You young whipper-snappers -- you just don't know life without MP5's and your Kazaa-Ultra's and your I-Pod Plutoniums and your fancy Holographic Abused Fuckslaves -- you kids don't know real deprivation...
Bah!
Anyway, just leave the garden door open. Grandpa might want to take a stroll after his nap.
Are you sure you're not thinking of the Atari 400? The C-64 didn't have a membrane keyboard. It also had a proprietary datasette recorder that couldn't be used to play or record audio in the conventional sense.
The Commodore Max had a membrane keyboard, but it was only available in Japan and parts of Europe.
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick Ghastly! You win the "Geek of The Week" prize there. I won't even attempt to prove you wrong, seeing as I was about ten at the time and, as I mentioned, the only software I had were Donkey Kong (which never seemed to load properly and was played via the arrow keys on said keyboard) and some music compososition program.
No, I spent most of those early, formative years playing the other gift I got from my techie uncle -- Vectrex! Until mom sold it in a garage sale -- for ten bucks.
((banging skull into keyboard)).
As for not being able to abuse and fuck holograms, do you really believe that the Japanese aren't working on that problem as we speak!? It's probably just in prototype form right now. Kind of like a Tamogatchi with buttons you press like "Food", "Dicipline", "Violate Passion of Innocence with Holographic Lust"...
Are you sure you're not thinking of the Atari 400? The C-64 didn't have a membrane keyboard. It also had a proprietary datasette recorder that couldn't be used to play or record audio in the conventional sense.
The Commodore Max had a membrane keyboard, but it was only available in Japan and parts of Europe.
I Agree on the Membrane Keyboards, but the Tape recorder was a different story. It's little known, but it was possible to connect a regular tape-drive onto the C64 (C128). They had two plugs; one for the patent Commodore Floppy drive and tape drive, and a second plug for regular adio. The difference between using the tape deck and the Patented unit was maximum reading speed (The commodore unit moved up to three times normal play speed).
Ghastly wrote:...Tattoos just scream "Trailer Trash Skank" to me or "pretentious suburban wannabee".
Um... You forgot "crazy young army dyke showing that she's tougher than the guys she's in basic with." Yup. That was me. Got a japanese dragon on my shoulder/upper arm that just looks stupid as a three peckered penguin.
The pubic hair debate starts an internal brush war for me... My tongue & mouth argue hairless is -way- better, but my nose counters that pubic hair spreads scent and pheremones... And pheremones -really- work on me.
This isn't too polite a forum for me to say 'God, I love the smell of fresh pussy!!' is it? I didn't think so.
But... All the same... Once the eyes and the fingertips get involved in the argument, the tongue/mouth consortium usually wins that debate.
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The easy solution. You partner should only shave only the area immediately around the pussy, and the pubes should be kept trim and proper!
I favour trying to shave my pubes in a shamrock shape....
That is: I tried to do that and gave up. Boy was it hard making sure it looked like a shamrock.
I'm thinking of going bald and just getting a tat!
First, on the subject of the C64. My dad bought me one when I was about 12, 13 and after a few days of playing with it and not figuring it out I took my screwdrives and pliers to it and made some very pretty jewlery
In 1978 my parents house had green and orange striped carpet, red walls, light blue upholstered couch, bright oragne upholstered rocking chairs and sad clown paintings on the walls
And lastly I find it strange this thread popped up today, the day after my bi annual pubic hair trimming, which also coincides with my bi annual facial hair trimming.....being a hippy is an excuse to not groom yourself properly
