Well, I may be the only one here who thinks that's pretty interesting. Been playing with some LCG's the last year or two. Edit: Maybe you should develop a collectible card game based upon S2. Just make sure Denny and Sly aren't too powerful. Oh sweet I got a PapaG in foil!
Well, I didn't include it because I didn't consider it a "real" computer, but my first was a Sinclair ZX-81 with 1K or RAM that I bumped up to 16K. I used a 12" portable black and white TV as a monitor and a cassette tape player to store programs. Moving up to the IBM was quite a leap. BNM
At one time I played on 4 different rec league teams where I was >2x the age of all my teammates. BNM
Holy crap, I actually have a game engine I'm working on now that would totally work for S2. I might have to make that happen.
Likewise. But I saw it, and I used it - to call 911. So I didn't actually stick any change into it. barfo
I also learned how to program an analog computer (patch cords, op amps and an oscilloscope for a "monitor") in college. It was actually pretty cool. It was for my numerical analysis class and even then the technology was on the way out. We spent the first half of the semester modeling things like an automotive suspension or an airplane wing on the analog computer and then the same things using digital approximations on a DEC Vax 11/780 the second half of the semester. The analog computer produced these beautiful smooth, multicolored dampened sin waves plots using a pen plotter and the Vax spit out these ugly dot matix graphs that were a bunch of gray asterisks in the general shape of a sin wave. I think that instilled in me an early bias for all things analog - at least things involving beauty/art. I've always been an early adopter of technology for the sake of trying new things (I bought my first CD player back in 1984 - the same summer I started at IBM), but never sold my turntable and vinyl albums. To this day, although I have CDs and a music server running on a Mac Mini, my vinyl collection is still the largest part of my music library andw hat I turn to when I want to "hear" music (the digital formats are for convenience and streaming through the house on multiple stereos). Same with photography. I use the digital camera (and even my phone) for convenience, but when I want to "make" a photograph, I pull out the large format camera and some sheet film. BNM
I'm not in the ghetto. Portland and it's suburbs literally still have them around. Mostly at grocery stores, I'll still see one or two.
