I remember reading "Just for Fun" (the Linus bio) back in late '01 while my wife was having surgery (yes, I'm a geek/yes, I'm a married geek...). anyway, one of the things that struck me was him talking about how you could copy the kernel and/or basic interpreter into "shadow" ram in the same address space that you could then modify/customize. I remember thinking "HEY! _I_ used to do that!" then feeling depressed at the thought that he went on to write linux & I... well, I can't complain - I've done o.k. at this as a career but to think we were doing the same things at the same time at basically the same age (think he's a yr or 2 younger) 1/2 way around the world was simultaneously cool & humbling...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Richard Faulkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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A chuckle for those so inclined...<br>
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Some years ago I left an old computer at an employer's office during a move out-of-state. We're back in our family home again and I've been wondering if that old machine was still there. A little digging revealed it was! So yesterday I went to get it and off I go with my long lost computer.<br>
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Today my 2 and 4-year old and I were playing outside and I asked them if they'd like to play a computer game. That suggestion was met with an enthusiastic "YEAH!"...thus I went to the car and broke-out my trusty Commodore 64 w/color monitor and 5¼" floppy drive! They looked at it with a weird look and asked what it was. "A computer" I exclaimed! So we set-out to get it set-up in the drive way and what do ya know...it still ran!<br>
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So, I hacked a BASIC program that asks a number from 1-10 for the boys to play. That's when it got really funny...my 16-year old got home from school, walked-up and asked what I was doing. The look on his face was priceless when I told him! I explained to him..."back in my day when you wanted to play games you had to write them first!" (hehehe)<br>
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Now I'm wondering (tongue in cheek)...is there a linux distro for the 64?
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