Hillbilly Prince
Silver Member
- Aug 9, 2018
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- All Treasure Hunting
Computers always fascinated me. The first time I saw one was ar Crowder college. They had Zenith 8088 clones. I was like a Neanderthal seeing an airplane. I loved that grinding clunking noise when you booted one up off a floppy.
So later I took a class and learned a little Basic programming. I wrote this very simple program which made it seem the computer was carrying on a conversation. Showed it to this guy and he was freaked out because the computer remembered his name as it talked to him. The next summer I go to this flea market and this old hippie dude I knew from classes was working there and somehow he had acquired a 286. He showed me this mining game which had actual color.
We were in awe of this 8 bit color pixelated game.
Got one new computer in my life and after that just upgraded or built my own.
So later I took a class and learned a little Basic programming. I wrote this very simple program which made it seem the computer was carrying on a conversation. Showed it to this guy and he was freaked out because the computer remembered his name as it talked to him. The next summer I go to this flea market and this old hippie dude I knew from classes was working there and somehow he had acquired a 286. He showed me this mining game which had actual color.
We were in awe of this 8 bit color pixelated game.
Got one new computer in my life and after that just upgraded or built my own.