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Confessions of a Software Geek: May 2005
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Confessions of a Software Geek. Ramblings and rumblings about my many worlds of geekdom. Friday, May 20, 2005. My first real experience with a "commercially" available computer was when my Dad bought a VIC-20, I don't recall the exact year but must have been around 1983 or so. It was definitely kind of limited - only 5K of RAM, no floppy drive, programs loaded from cassettes. But it was a "real" computer. You could write your own programs on it - in Basic. Posted by Brian Lingard @ 12:28 PM.
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Confessions of a Software Geek: June 2005
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Confessions of a Software Geek. Ramblings and rumblings about my many worlds of geekdom. Tuesday, June 21, 2005. Arcade games. Those two words conjure up very distinct images in people all based on what was hot when they were in their early teen years. For me it was the arcade game "Tempest" and the pinball game "Black Knight". I spent alot of quarters on those two games. Posted by Brian Lingard @ 12:47 PM. View my complete profile. Confessions of a Software Geek. HP Lovecraft in the Comics.
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Confessions of a Software Geek: September 2005
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Confessions of a Software Geek. Ramblings and rumblings about my many worlds of geekdom. Friday, September 30, 2005. I attended college (engineering school) during the early 80's and got to experience first hand the transformation of computing from mainframes to early personal computers. I took my first programming class during my Freshman year. It was Fortran. At this time (1981-82) you had to type in your program onto punch cards. Posted by Brian Lingard @ 8:36 PM. View my complete profile.
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Confessions of a Software Geek: October 2005
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Confessions of a Software Geek. Ramblings and rumblings about my many worlds of geekdom. Monday, October 17, 2005. For all practical purposes there were no required classes. Sure, individual classes had prerequisites, but you were pretty free to pick whatever classes appealed to you. You also had to take classes that would prepare you for working on your degree requirements. And you had to accumulate a certain number of credit hours. Posted by Brian Lingard @ 9:19 PM. View my complete profile.
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Confessions of a Software Geek: March 2005
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Confessions of a Software Geek. Ramblings and rumblings about my many worlds of geekdom. Wednesday, March 09, 2005. When I Was Ten. When I was about ten years old (circa 1974), my father bought his first computer, an RCA Cosmac Elf. It was a kit that you had to build yourself. It came with printed circuit boards, all the chips, wires, and so on. It used an 8-bit processor that amazingly didn't come from Intel. The system actually predated IBM type PCs by several years. Posted by Brian Lingard @ 6:39 PM.
