I wish I could've been there...
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Er, I sorta was there... Pong. A guy I knew from hanging around coffee shops late at night was an engineer at Digital Games Inc, and was developing Pong. We used to sit late at night discussing ways to make the brand new TTL logic go fast enough to keep up with the refresh rate of normal TV monitors. I wasn't yet an engineering student, but I knew from past hobby activities enough to be useful to him. We used to sneak into the DGI building late at night to try out some of the things we came up with over coffee. At that time, pinball machines were all the rage, and they were trying to find ways to elevate them from their relay-logic circuits to solid-state. The building was full of pinball machines in varying states of disassembly, a few electronic instruments, and parts for various things lying everywhere. The challenge for pinball was the nature of the loads - all reactive - and the limitations of TTL. Fun days, indeed, and not being a fan of games I never believed it would go anywhere. Silly me....
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus LongRoger Wright wrote: Er, I sorta was there... Pong. ...Must...resist...urge...to...DROOOOOOOOL... Roger, if you were a woman, and a bit younger, I'd marry you :rolleyes:
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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Wouah! Nice piece of History! Was it before or after the extinction of Dinosaurs? ;) No kidding, congratulation! Let me thank you to have participated in such a great invention, and given another occasion to me to waste my nights :-D
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KaЯl wrote: Was it before or after the extinction of Dinosaurs? Shortly after. About midnight, prior to doing the Pong stuff, we used to sneak out and lay delectable bits of veggies on top of the La Brea tar pits to lure dinosaurs out onto the asphalt flats, then laugh at them as they sank. Cruel, I know, but we were poor and had few sources of entertainment. Pong wasn't much of a substitute for the good, clean fun of abusing lower life forms.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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Roger Wright wrote: Er, I sorta was there... Pong. ...Must...resist...urge...to...DROOOOOOOOL... Roger, if you were a woman, and a bit younger, I'd marry you :rolleyes:
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: I'd marry you If you can walk on your hands and grow a beard, let's talk....;P
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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When the first transistor was demonstrated working. Yeah, I'm an engineer :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
I'll second that... The device which changed the face of the future.
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KaЯl wrote: Was it before or after the extinction of Dinosaurs? Shortly after. About midnight, prior to doing the Pong stuff, we used to sneak out and lay delectable bits of veggies on top of the La Brea tar pits to lure dinosaurs out onto the asphalt flats, then laugh at them as they sank. Cruel, I know, but we were poor and had few sources of entertainment. Pong wasn't much of a substitute for the good, clean fun of abusing lower life forms.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
Michael Dunn wrote: Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? A chat with Lady Ada Lovelace, maybe? ;)
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peterchen wrote: I'd marry you If you can walk on your hands and grow a beard, let's talk....;P
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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When the first transistor was demonstrated working. Yeah, I'm an engineer :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
On a purely selfish note, I would have liked to have been around when automated boat loaders were commonplace in wafer fab facilities. They introduced them at my old workplace just as I was defecting to software development. Loading manually, and timing the load was a PIA. More than once I saw people taking a sneaky look around and whamming the boats in at a speed that was *not* recommended. Of course, I would never have done that. Debbie
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
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weird requirements! The walking-on-hands-thing... um, I wonder if I shoudl even try...
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: um, I wonder if I shoudl even try... Definitly don't think about it. Wipe all memory of this from your mind. Regardz Colin J Davies
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To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. ;)
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
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To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. ;)
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Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. I would gladly provide you a nuke :) ORACLE One Real A$#h%le Called Lary Ellison
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*
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Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher
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Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. I would gladly provide you a nuke :) ORACLE One Real A$#h%le Called Lary Ellison
Daniel Turini wrote: I would gladly provide you a nuke So what if we are a little late, lets just do it now. :-D
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The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher
Paul Watson wrote: and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. Why not kill the source? :evil-grin: -- Now we live in a world of uncertainty Fear is the key - to what you want to be You don't get a say, the majority gets it's way You're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die...
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The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher
But then, we'd have missed Dustin Hoffman's fabulous performance in "Death of a Salesman". did you get my e-mail, regarning the CPP update? We need a name for that thing, you know?
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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Daniel Turini wrote: I would gladly provide you a nuke So what if we are a little late, lets just do it now. :-D
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Amen to that - bring on the hatchets and flame throwers and let's kick some Lotes ass! Down with Lotes!!!! Lotes == Lotus Notes ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
When Jobs decided to make apple a closed system. Then I would laugh at him.:laugh:
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On a purely selfish note, I would have liked to have been around when automated boat loaders were commonplace in wafer fab facilities. They introduced them at my old workplace just as I was defecting to software development. Loading manually, and timing the load was a PIA. More than once I saw people taking a sneaky look around and whamming the boats in at a speed that was *not* recommended. Of course, I would never have done that. Debbie
Debs wrote: Of course, I would never have done that. :rolleyes: Of course... ;P
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"