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Djgirl

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hermi - it's on Gameboy Advance... love it so far!

Midlifer

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hermie....you may be my co-Geek Queen.

SNORT!

Crossfire

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 1:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh boy, this is a toughie. I'd hate to name one of my babies as first. I (read my dad) got us bunch of computers in quick succession.

My first computers in no particular order are:

Atari 400 - first of many in the Atari line. Still have three of them, two that work, an 800, and a 1040ST plus various peripherals.

Apple IIe - excellent computer, but unfortunately the last Apple I had. I now find myself wanting another, but they are screamingly expensive in Canada. I wish I had this still, but we traded it and some other stuff to get an interface for our first Harddisk. (10MB if I remember correctly.)

Tandy Model 2 - cool looking but not used much, sold shortly after, all I have from this is one of its very floppy eight inch floppies. which is kind of cool as that was pretty much the last of that format I ever seen.

Commodore PET - because I used them at school. I still have a later version of this, a CBM in storage.

TI 99/4a - just because. Never used it much. Still have this one.

Timex Sinclair 1000 - Amazing little box for its size, about as big a footprint as the 8 inch floppies used in the tandy. Still have this somewhere, but I'm having a hard time finding it. Heh, too small.

About the only computer I did not own in the early days, was the very popular Crummydore 64, as they were the enemy (we had opened an Atari store by then...to help pay for a hobby we really could not afford.) but I did have a vic 20 to sneer at for a short while.

Hermione69

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember Oliver in Bloom County had a Commodore, didn't he?

Crossfire

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oOOoo, you get major geek points just for mentioning Bloom country I think. :)

Hermione69

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROFL! I LOVED that comic strip!

Crossfire

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, I'm looking through my Bloom county book right now. :)

From what I can see, he gets the computer for christmas, on the side of the box it says:

"BANANA PC Junior 6000 series computer", which seems to be a play on both the IBM PC Jr, and the Apple.

Physically, the computer looks like one of those original macs. The little ugly things with the tiny built in screens...except it has legs. :)

Crossfire

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hehehe, I see a screen a few strips later which has "IBM sucks silicon" on it. Definitely an Apple. :)

Hermione69

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm going to have to get out mine when I get home! I think I have all of the Bloom County books. Berkley Breathed used to put crazy stuff in his strip, like he would have background pictures change from one panel to the next. I used to love looking for those little things he would do. The "IBM sucks silicon" sounds just like him. Now this is embarrassing, but I can still remember some lines from songs by Bill the Cat and his band. "Wham, bam, thank you Nell. I'm on the Amtrak from hell." And "Middle of the road, man it stank, let's run over Lionel Richie with a tank." Or something like that. Geez. Talk about one's mind being a repository for useless trivia! I haven't read Bloom County in YEARS! Why would I remember that?

Yankee_In_Ca

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, we're not geeks after all!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/14/geek.study.reut/index.html

Reiki

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You do know that Opus has made a return to the Sunday comics don't you? Don't look for it online though, I believe it is a print exclusive.

Colossus

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I do not collect light bulbs. But GAL says I do.! They were on Sale.!

Colossus

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reading back; Ouch
Bloom County is the best strip ever.
and Tumbleweeds before that.

I have copies of prints on my wall, right along with Calvin & Hobbes

Goddessatlaw

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 8:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'kay, ummm - he DOES collect lightbulbs. And my hundreds of books are arranged in Dewey Decimal.

Kaili

Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 6:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Calvin & Hobbes. That was the very best comic ever. :)

Are the lightbulbs different shapes, colors and sizes? Any strobe lights?

See yeah, and for me...I was never a big Dewey fan. I like the Library of Congress classification system. But can any one here explain to me why they use the Dewey system while you're growing up (elem., middle, and high school), then you have to switch and learn the Library of Congress when you get to college. It totally threw me off when I went. Now I go to the public library and it's back to Dewey!

Hermione69

Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't 'dis Dewey! He's the Man! Remember, I'm a librarian (and, BOY, do I get so many geek points for that!) and I know what I am talking about!!

Actually Kaili, I really couldn't tell you why they change the system. I think Dewey is easier because I am so familiar with it! Mythology and Religions- 290s.... Fables.... 398.2.... Astronomy- 520s.... Sports- 790s.... American Literary Criticism- 812s.... Ancient Cultures 930s... and that is off the top of my head!!

I would get lost in the stacks at my university library, LOL.

The three comics I have most of the book collections on are Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes, and Dilbert.

Um, GaL, how many lightbulbs does he have? Welcome aboard Colossus. I think you belong here!

Tess

Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
920 biographies, 599 mammals, 575 evolution and genetics <sigh> I love, love, love working in the library.

Goddessatlaw

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Herm, I wouldn't say he has hundreds of lightbulbs, but he has more than most ordinary mortals would require to fill their personal illumination needs in the space of say 10 years or so. We did a U-ey in the middle of an Orlando thoroughfare once because he spied a lightbulb shop on the side of the freeway. Who knew there was such a thing? I'm going to shop around and see if I can find for him an old Edison lightbulb - that'd be cool to have.

PS he comes by it honestly - I asked his Dad when I first met him whether he collected lightbulbs (not your ordinary intro question), and he laughed and said "of 'course, can't ever have too many lightbulbs." Fathers and sons - there ya go.

Fanny

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm the same way with toilet paper. Can never have too much. When my shelves are all full of neatly stacked rolls, all is right with the world. LOL

Grannyg

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, and let's don't forget about paper towels. I have to have the shelf neatly stacked with paper towels to feel completely at ease.