Sinister: the computers we owned as children.

[adam apparatus]

>  Anyway, I've got a new favourite pub nostalgia conversation "The
> Computers We Owned As Children", which i don't think needs any
> elaboration....(please)

actually... i think it does.

i had an atari 800XL that my grandfather found in a dumpster and gave 
to me. i played the regular cartridge games on it, of course, like 
pacman, donkey kong... (and even better ones like... well, i won't 
get into it.) but my -real- playground was the basic command line... 
you could just type in programs and run them as soon as you started 
up the computer... i spent hours on that thing when i was less than 
10 years old... wow, that was a great computer.

your turn, dears.

- adam

aconover at optonline.net
Tempus Fugit is at:
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