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RE: Old School
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:23 pm
by Capt Hornblower
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
How about a Prime mini-mainframe, on an accountic coupler and a dumb Teledyne monitor, with a phone WITH A ROTARY DIAL stuck in the rubber cups, playing a Star Trek game with ASCII symbols for ships on a 10 x 10 x,y grid? In 1977?
Do I win anything? [:)]
Alas, no. Playing on a minicomputer at school or work doesn't count. [;)]
RE: Old School
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:40 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Capt Hornblower
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
How about a Prime mini-mainframe, on an accountic coupler and a dumb Teledyne monitor, with a phone WITH A ROTARY DIAL stuck in the rubber cups, playing a Star Trek game with ASCII symbols for ships on a 10 x 10 x,y grid? In 1977?
Do I win anything? [:)]
Alas, no. Playing on a minicomputer at school or work doesn't count. [;)]
Who makes up these rules?! [;)]
First PC game was on an AppleII, not an AppleIIe. Summer of 1979.
RE: Old School
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:42 pm
by Capt Hornblower
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
Who makes up these rules?! [;)]
First PC game was on an AppleII, not an AppleIIe. Summer of 1979.
Ah, there's the rub. I think we're talking about personal/home computers. (My first experiences with home-computer gaming were on my friend's Apple II+.)
RE: Old School
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:30 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Capt Hornblower
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
Who makes up these rules?! [;)]
First PC game was on an AppleII, not an AppleIIe. Summer of 1979.
Ah, there's the rub. I think we're talking about personal/home computers. (My first experiences with home-computer gaming were on my friend's Apple II+.)
I was a summer camp counselor in my last summer of college. It was a science and technology camp at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. I was teaching BASIC programming, which I had exactly one college course in; this tells you how desperate the camp organizers were for staff. A 14-YO kid showed up with an AppleII his folks had bought him. I had never seen a personal computer. The thought of having a computer at one's home seemed bizarre.
I ended up playing side-scroll games against him every day during the camp. I really wanted one, but they were about $3000, and that would almost buy you a new car then.