[DUG] You say potatoe I say....

[Dave Jollie]

You guys aren't very old. I started with a Sinclair ZX80 with 1k RAM and
4K rom. I think the clock speed was pretty low too. However, someone
managed to code space invaders into 1K and that was my favourite game.
It had chunky graphics in black and white and was pretty much the first
personal computer that was affordable for a teenager like me. It saved
code to cassettes and had a jelly keypad. Awesome days!

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Guy.Brown at sungard.com
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:26 a.m.
To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....

I don't think we win by being older.  Quite the opposite in fact.

Anyhow, since I am old I am going to ramble on about the good old days
for a bit (it's what old fellas do after all)

When I was getting my computing qualification we had to do a module
called introduction to computers or something along those lines.  In the
first week we where taught dos commands.  Dir /w, del *.* /s, Format c:
and the like.  There was a pretty, but fairly vacant girl sitting next
to me in the first week.  Half way through the lesson she exclaimed
loudly "I just don't get it, what's the point of DOS!".  This was in the
start of the Win 95 days where windows was still just a shell on top of
good old DOS.  I guess it's a fair question, but it was kind of like
asking a chicken what the point of eggs was.

Guy 

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of tracey
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:57 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....

Ok james and guy.. you win.. experienced it is then (I'm older than both
of you but only came into the game in the PII years :)


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