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all work and no play makes clive a dull boy.
all work and no play makes clive a dull boy.
all work and no play makes clive a dull boy.
all work and no play makes clvie a dull boy.
etc etc etc.
Posted by: Gord at August 18, 2004 4:51 PM
10 PRINT "all work and no play makes clive a dull boy"
20 GOTO 10
Harkens back to the glory days of the Commodore 64. It seems that Eaton's , Zellers and the like always had a display model ready for teenage pranksters to tag the machine as ther very own. If only until the sales lady unplugged it.
Posted by: chris at August 18, 2004 6:34 PM
Was it at the end of line 10 that you'd put a semi-colon to have the repeated text scroll all diagonal-like?
My bro and I had the Vic20, complete with cassette tape drive. I even took a "programming" course in high school that wasn't too far from line 10, line 20 etc. You even had to have one of those schematic template ruler thingies. Ah, if we only knew then what we know now.
Posted by: gord at August 18, 2004 8:48 PM
Chris, every time I see an unattended vintage computer (which is surprisingly often), I can't help but type in a good old BASIC loop and let the thing rip. It's like an addiction.
Good luck with the workload Clive :)
Posted by: Tony Walsh at August 18, 2004 9:16 PM
Yeah, the semicolon option did change the formatting of the text. Sweet, sweet...very sad memories. God is this how I spent my youth!? Trolling department stores for C64 access and then heading to the mall arcade to plug quarters into Frogger and Crazy Climber.
Posted by: chris at August 18, 2004 9:19 PM
Don't forget the best arcade videogame ever - Defender!
Posted by: gord at August 18, 2004 9:28 PM
Thanks, Tony!
The rest of you, ahahahah: This thread is better than anything I would have posted in my state of delirious exhaustion!
Posted by: Clive at August 18, 2004 10:13 PM
i hate to admit this but i still have a kaypro in the back room, first one, no hard drive, wrote on it with the first wordstar program
i was just a tiny tyke when i got it
:)
Posted by: rb at August 19, 2004 5:14 PM
On old computers using dos, i'd add this line to their autoexec.bat. deltree /y all. hehehhehe
Posted by: Joe at August 20, 2004 12:24 PM
wait, isn't this, like, a big weekend for you?
Posted by: sdn at August 20, 2004 7:49 PM
Yeah we had Tandy CoCo II - Color Computer II - was supposed to be a revelation. You could change the color of the 1" border around the screen. I first learned of the word "cyan".
We had the tape drive, with the ever-kickass game Zaxxon screeching away upon loading.
I also would get this computer magazine and in each issue there would be a couple of programs fully printed. It was all in BASIC. I remember spending hours typing all those hundreds of lines, and occassionally getting something to work.
Posted by: Alfred O. Cloutier at August 23, 2004 12:57 AM
all work and no play makes clive a dull boy.
all work and no play makes clive a dull boy.
all work and no play makes clive a dull boy.
all work and no play makes clvie a dull boy.
etc etc etc.
Posted by: Gord at August 18, 2004 4:51 PM
10 PRINT "all work and no play makes clive a dull boy"
20 GOTO 10
Harkens back to the glory days of the Commodore 64. It seems that Eaton's , Zellers and the like always had a display model ready for teenage pranksters to tag the machine as ther very own. If only until the sales lady unplugged it.
Posted by: chris at August 18, 2004 6:34 PM
Was it at the end of line 10 that you'd put a semi-colon to have the repeated text scroll all diagonal-like?
My bro and I had the Vic20, complete with cassette tape drive. I even took a "programming" course in high school that wasn't too far from line 10, line 20 etc. You even had to have one of those schematic template ruler thingies. Ah, if we only knew then what we know now.
Posted by: gord at August 18, 2004 8:48 PM
Chris, every time I see an unattended vintage computer (which is surprisingly often), I can't help but type in a good old BASIC loop and let the thing rip. It's like an addiction.
Good luck with the workload Clive :)
Posted by: Tony Walsh at August 18, 2004 9:16 PM
Yeah, the semicolon option did change the formatting of the text. Sweet, sweet...very sad memories. God is this how I spent my youth!? Trolling department stores for C64 access and then heading to the mall arcade to plug quarters into Frogger and Crazy Climber.
Posted by: chris at August 18, 2004 9:19 PM
Don't forget the best arcade videogame ever - Defender!
Posted by: gord at August 18, 2004 9:28 PM
Thanks, Tony!
The rest of you, ahahahah: This thread is better than anything I would have posted in my state of delirious exhaustion!
Posted by: Clive at August 18, 2004 10:13 PM
i hate to admit this but i still have a kaypro in the back room, first one, no hard drive, wrote on it with the first wordstar program
i was just a tiny tyke when i got it
:)
Posted by: rb at August 19, 2004 5:14 PM
On old computers using dos, i'd add this line to their autoexec.bat. deltree /y all. hehehhehe
Posted by: Joe at August 20, 2004 12:24 PM
wait, isn't this, like, a big weekend for you?
Posted by: sdn at August 20, 2004 7:49 PM
Yeah we had Tandy CoCo II - Color Computer II - was supposed to be a revelation. You could change the color of the 1" border around the screen. I first learned of the word "cyan".
We had the tape drive, with the ever-kickass game Zaxxon screeching away upon loading.
I also would get this computer magazine and in each issue there would be a couple of programs fully printed. It was all in BASIC. I remember spending hours typing all those hundreds of lines, and occassionally getting something to work.
Posted by: Alfred O. Cloutier at August 23, 2004 12:57 AM