[Coco] Old techies

[Carlos Bragatto]

You guys are being so inspirational to me, at the height of my nimble 32
years, I surely want to be an old nerd geek hacker at the age of 70, 80 like
some of you guys.
KUDOS for that, you guys rock ! You guys inspire me !

Thank you, thank you very much for that !

Carlos

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2009, at 3:10 PM, brjeremy at juno.com wrote:
>
>> "I've got Batman on me underpants."
>>
>
> A quote that's hard to forget! I wonder if he realizes it will lives on in
> stories well beyond the original encounter?
>
>  I can't help but wonder how different some of our lifes would have been if
>> we had been able to have usage of computers at that age, which for
>>
>
> Indeed... But I wonder -- what would you have done with them? If we had
> computers like today, would any of us have learned to program them? Or would
> we have all just been users, treating them like an appliance (no doubt, how
> much kids today would -- or video game machines).
>
> We have younguns today that know their way around Windows quite well, but
> may never know how to do anything more than just customize a MySpace page
> when it comes to doing something other than just running a program.
>
>  Text based adventure games : "Pick up the book...." "Enter the
>> room"...when way do you turn? England has gotten very interested in RETRO
>> styles and other things. Some on my older really got interested in games
>> such a Rescue on Fractalus. At first they thought that 8-bit graphics
>>
>
> I noticed they had -- a few years ago -- the text Infocom "Hitchhiker's
> Guide to the Galaxy" game (one of a handful that were ported to the CoCo) as
> an online version with pictures for each room, in the style of the 1980s BBC
> TV series.
>
>                -- Allen
>
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