Category: Computers
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TOPO talk to me
The summer I turned ten, I went to a week long computer camp at the high school. The computers were Apple IIe and the language was LOGOS. It was super fun. There was something special at the end of camp. It was a robot. A REAL robot!! When I was a kid, robots in my…
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Leisure Suit Larry
Our beige computer sat in the corner of the TV room on the desk that ran the width of the room, butteressed on the left end with a refinished lovely wood file cabinet. It sat in the corner just shy of the front windows. The beige computer replaced the TI-99. I thought it was an…
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Prodigal Sears
In a prominent location facing out from an end cap sat a TI-99 display at Sears. My brother and I always got sucked into its gravitational pull. We’d play games then badger whichever parental unit was with us to purchase said game. The mall was a decent distance from our house and we didn’t go…
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TI 99/4A
Our first home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. It looked like silver typewriter with white letters on black keys. The keys were cube like and could migrate painlessly to an adding machine. It was set up in the family room in the front corner right by a window. Games and accessories would magically appear.…
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LOGO
My first programming language was LOGO. My parents signed me up for a week long computer camp at the high school when I was elementary school. I don’t remember who else attended it but I vividly remember the computer lab with all the Apple IIe’s. We didn’t have a computer at home. It was amazing…
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Old Dotty
Back when we have an old HP clone PC, my dad got the family a dot matrix printer. There was always a box of continuous paper with perforated edges sitting on the floor tucked under the computer desk. My brother and I would raid the box for sketch paper or writing paper or paper to…
code & carrot 