[ale] (OT) Scared my teen today...

[Sid Lane]

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...

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>wrote:

>  A chuckle for those so inclined...
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> 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)
>
> Now I'm wondering (tongue in cheek)...is there a linux distro for the 64?
>
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