The Folded Frog Pub and Eats!!!!

[BWM]

Howdy steve. Glad ya survived the first day back. Dan has the right idea, ya know?

[Afterburner]

Yeah, I made it. Barely...

Dan's got a great idea there, but 2 problems. I'm broke and I'm still pissed with the female gender right now. I suppose it would be a good opportunity for one huge grudge f***....

[BWM]

Well shyt! Make it one of those fancy mongolian cluster **** things

[Afterburner]

That's just wrong.....

[BWM]

Morn'n froggys.... time to WTFU

[Dancin_Bear]

Good Afternoon BWM,

Have a great day.

Slug down some ice coffee.

[BWM]

Thanks DB. Here's a nice iced java for ya

[Tigsman]

thanx VH1 for giving me a big flashback.

Okay kiddies, we all talk about our big bad puters. However, back in the day, kids were amused by such little things.... flashback time..... Merlin.. circa 1978, basically handheld electronic tic-tac-toe machine, now hasbro sells it for kids '6 and up' Yikes!!


here's a place to download a virtual Merlin and toy with its 6 games for those of us old enough to remember the original incarnation... What a world we live in where our watches have 100 times the power of this game LOL

http://www.monroeworld.com/vmerlin/

T

[Dancin_Bear]

Come on now.

Do you remember the very first game on your TV Ping Pong where you moved two paddles on each side up and down to keep the ping pong going?

Geezzzz.

My associates at the first company I joined actually walked inside of Univac 1.

I remember when a lot of memory was 4kb. A huge disk drive was 10 megabytes.

We only programmed in assembler since we had to squeeze as much code into a little memory as much as possible. And we used to chain programs together off of the disk drive to run complete programs.

Wow flashback.

[Tigsman]

Come on now.

Do you remember the very first game on your TV Ping Pong where you moved two paddles on each side up and down to keep the ping pong going?

Geezzzz.

My associates at the first company I joined actually walked inside of Univac 1.

I remember when a lot of memory was 4kb. A huge disk drive was 10 megabytes.

We only programmed in assembler since we had to squeeze as much code into a little memory as much as possible. And we used to chain programs together off of the disk drive to run complete programs.

Wow flashback.

Yup, i remember Pong. I remember the 25lb. floppy drives with built in power supply that only held 360kB on each floppy disk and playing startrek off a cassette deck!.

Yup, Wow flashback.


T

[frosty22]

I remember going to Shakey's Pizza and playing Asteroids. Look at the games now.

[greendragon]

I was talking to my dad the other day and he was telling me about putting hundereds of cards in a computer during colledge... I don't remember the name of the computer, but he said it was one of those that had a building all for itself.

The first computer we ever had when I was growing up was a PC jr. Games aren't as good as I imagined they would be, but they are getting closer every day... (I had a big imagination) lol

[Dancin_Bear]

Asteroids!

Yes!!

Great game.

[BWM]

I was never into games but I sure do remember those ungainly bubble-pack hard drive stacks in my DARPA days.

[Tigsman]

I was talking to my dad the other day and he was telling me about putting hundereds of cards in a computer during colledge...

RPG computer language, right along with COBOL74. Wow.. part of any CS major of the 70's and 80's.

I still remember sitting on dad's lap in front of a keyboard on a Datapoint 8080 while he made banners on greenbar paper. Now that's a flashback.



Snoopy was the most common addon to any banner LOL