Never before have I seen so many errors in so small a space. Read the text in the blue box on this page about the C64. I’m compelled to correct this, so here we go: The Commodore 64 and Vic-20 were the first affordable personal computers to hit the market. This statement is arguably true […]
Yesterday I was being a good-deed-doer, helping a non-profit organization with some computer stuff, and helping a friend move out of his place. In between deeds, I made a (lately rare) visit to the Memorial Ave. thrift shops. At the Salvation Army store, I passed on a Turbo Graphix-16 console because it had no controllers […]
Back to wrapping up my geek trip stories… One of my goals for the trip was to buy a couple Hummer Off-Road Racing Challenge plug and play games since I was involved in the development of it. I wanted one to play around with, and the other to keep in the box – a useful […]
As I mentioned in my first post of 2006, over the Christmas holidays MEF brought me a bunch of computers that had belonged to her dad. I’ve had time to pay attention to my older computers again lately, and having finished going through all my C-64s, today I started checking out the Tandy (Radio Shack) […]
On Saturday, Jason, Kati and I climbed in the Dragon Wagon (the nickname for their 3rd car, an older Subaru station wagon purchased for $800 so Jason could learn to drive stick-shift – it’s been remarkably reliable) and drove about an hour to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where the MGC was being held at the Olympia Resort. […]
I got back last night from my first geek trip of the year. My dad allowed me to borrow his car which was great, because I did the whole trip for only about $100 in gas, compared to the (estimated) $250 my truck would have eaten. I can no longer take our fairly fuel-efficient minivan […]