HAHAHAHAHA! Fucking War Games! BWAHAHAHA!

There must be pictures of my progression through computers... which were:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum. 1983 Hey... same year, although I was 7 I learned to program on this thing... in Basic. And saved those programs to tape damn you... tape!

Atari ST Didn't have one, but my best friend at the time did... and I coveted it.

Amstrad of some description Again, didn't have it, my uncle did, and we'd use it weekly. Not really a huge leap in power over the Spectrum... but it did have a disc drive instead of tape.

Some form of 8088 based PC

Then a steady progression of PCs, from CGA to EGA to VGA to the now monster power of a dual core, directx 10 beast.

My exposure to Apples? We used Apple IIes in primary school and I think into early high school before they upgraded them all to PCs. And for some reason there was a Commodore 64 in the corner... weird.

I did not grow up on console gaming like most, but the Spectrum and then into the PC... in fact the Wii is the first console I've ever owned.

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Also had a friend with an Atari ST - I remember being blown away by some of the games- they were definitely ahead of their time- though kind of a rip-off of the Amiga and Macs. Awesome for the price though.

"You have died of dysentery"

I'm loving the glasses, Dag.

My dad brought home the incredible Macintosh 128k one day and I LOVED it. (apparently the list price was something like $2500 USD in 1984, thanks, Dad!) I spent hours and hours on it. It supported creativity like no other data appliance of the time. I have always appreciated what apple does. I must even recant some of my heretical talk about the iphone.

You said you're getting an iphone this month, Dag. When you go to the apple store, don't be afraid when they put those electrodes on your scalp and you go to that glowing white temple and meet The Mighty Jobs. It's pretty neat.

Yep, I remember using one of those back in the day. Yikes, lots has changed. I do not miss monochrome green monitors =P

My parents wouldn't get me a computer growing up. Their refrain was "you don't want to be a computer dork!" So I didn't really start using computers until part-way through high school when I got into Autodesk Animator on the Amiga in the communications lab. In that course I got so wrapped up in animation (which was not being taught, the program was just available on the Amiga if you wanted to play with it) that they excepted me from the curriculum and let me animate whatever I wanted for the entire semester. When I took senior level I never even joined the class on the first day, just plunked down at the Amiga and started a new set of animations, never even saw the syllabus.

Around the same time my dad started bringing home a ThinkPad from work which he literally NEVER used and so I installed the PC version of Autodesk Animator on it and started doing my thing. I basically animated a trailer for what in my mind would be the greatest video game cutscene of all time. At 18 I saved money and bought a 486DXII-66 with 8MB (big for the time) and a 28.8 (fast for the time). Never looked back since then, to the point I now literally spend all day, every day in front of my computers.

it's nice but its no Commodore 64

Nor is it a "Trash 80".

I was, at most, 1 when this picture was taken

^ I was about 7 or 8. Oddly, although it is ostensibly a photo of him, the person in this photo looks older to me than Dag does now.

Now we know who Jobs got the liver from.

Great post, Dag!

But who's that geeky looking kid in the picture?

Has anybody ever noticed how big Dag's lower lip is in his profile pic? It looks like a damn rotten plum or some kind of engorged bloodworm!

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^I am known for luscious lips - and not just swollen from sucking off Steve Jobs.

It's funny how technology keeps outpacing us.

Some friends had an old Mac back in the early 90's, and when I'd stay over they'd let me play around with it. Black and white monitor, low resolution, but it had games and a word processor and I thought I would be in heaven if I could afford one of those.

Now that thing would be a museum piece, and "only" twenty years old.

For better or worse, computers didn't start to spread until I was out of high school and just starting college. They've changed our lives a lot. Curse and blessing all in one. All of that information at our finger tips, and all we want to see are boobs, butts, and LOL cats.

I often think that the Matrix wasn't fictional at all.

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^I am known for luscious lips - and not just swollen from sucking off Steve Jobs.


Like Angelina Jolie's?

http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html has my cool stuff.

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Nice. I do fire-up the Apple II emulator every once in a while. Mainly to hear the sound of the disk drives. A sweet, sweet sound.>> ^ant:

>> ^dag:
^I am known for luscious lips - and not just swollen from sucking off Steve Jobs.

Like Angelina Jolie's?
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html has my cool stuff.

>> ^dag:

Nice. I do fire-up the Apple II emulator every once in a while. Mainly to hear the sound of the disk drives. A sweet, sweet sound.>> ^ant:
>> ^dag:
^I am known for luscious lips - and not just swollen from sucking off Steve Jobs.

Like Angelina Jolie's?
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html has my cool stuff.



Emulator makes disk noises?!??!

Excellent Dag. Love me some good old noisy floppy disk noises!
I had a 128 mac my parents bought me for Xmas in 84. I ended up trading it to my brother for his Apple 2 (bought for him when it first came out in the 70's) because he had tons of games for it, and I had little on the mac.
I also learned programming on Apple 2's in 7th grade...an elective summer school class. Does that earn me double nerd points?

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Yes you're in the club. Coincidentally, I was just reading this great article on retro computing - worth a read: https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100