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OriginalGriff wrote: I grew out of that when I realised atheism is a form of extremism... It would be nice if more people made that connection. Sometimes I think they hate for hating's sake. Just as some religious people do (ie, their views of Muslims).
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No heavy lifting? I thought you were old enough to have had to rely on paper manuals...
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Wondered how the 'thing' worked...
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ahh a fellow taker aparter. Gotta know how it ticks!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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taker aparter++
There might be many of those here.
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yeah i had that feeling. i've met a lot of fellow tinkerers in the field.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Doesn't work with living things though.
Had to tell my daughter, you can't mend a frog with superglue.
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oh come now. a few stitches, some tesla coils, a stormy night. What could go wrong?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well define mend, to close up and rejoin skin yes, to get a fully functional Kermit, no...
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Well, she had chased away a magpie and wanted a fully functional kermit.
Yesterday she found a dried out rain worm on our driveway, and promptly fetched a bucket of water.
Then again, last week she asked for a pair of scissors. When I asked what she needed them for, she was going to cut slugs. I wonder where she learned that.
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As 2 year old my Dad showed me a screw driver and how it work. Since then no 'warranty void if damaged' sticker remained for a long time, I'm a hardware guy today...
modified 9-Sep-19 8:24am.
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I really like this idea of taker-aparter. As a kid in the early 60's, we would rummage neighbors trash cans for stuff to disassemble and "rebuild" into some other useless thing, until activated with imagination. I always wanted to know how something worked.
So, I fell in with the wrong crowd in high school (1968) - the science and math department. They had a ASR-33 teletype connected to a timeshare system and had no idea what to do with it. I got some info on Dartmouth Basic, and was writing simple things in a week. By my senior year, I assisted in teaching a class on programming and had created a library of various apps for the department.
I went to college to get a degree in Electical Engineering so I could design computers. Well, that never happened, never finished my degree, but just retired from programming/manager/architect after 45+ years. Seen it all, done it all. Had a great time. Still coding for fun. Might look to do some pro bono work for a local cause/charity.
The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker
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honey the codewitch wrote: What made you start coding? The awesome gaming capabilities of the Commodore VIC-20[^]!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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yeah, i remember my machine was supposed to be the Amiga killer.
John Scully was ... not so smart.
At least it played Leisure Suit Larry.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I was lucky that my father had a good position in communist Hungary and was able to buy a 2nd hand C64...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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ooooh, i bet that getting that was like 3 christmas' worth of joy.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Even better - within a year I collected money (recycling glass, metal and paper in all the neighborhood) to get a disk driver... build a joystick and installed a hard-reset button...
As today I'm writing a game for C64 - using emulator...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: As today I'm writing a game for C64 - using emulator...
Cool. I did much the same thing, only with Apples, because i learned on them, and they share CPUs with the nintendo and super nintendo so i learned how to write games for those machines by learning on an apple.
So I wrote a nintendo emulator in c# at one point. started writing some games for it but never finished. LOL
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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We all know that pet-projects are not to finish, but to learn and enjoy...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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That's a very healthy way to look at them I suppose. =) +1
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I have many, many pet projects that I started with great enthusiasm and curiosity, "can I make this work?". Many of them petered out once I got the "yes, I can make this work" stage as I lost any determination just to polish it to the end point.
I wrote many games for my friends to play but if there was no interest from one or more of my friends then the project would fade away.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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honey the codewitch wrote: ooooh, i bet that getting that was like 3 christmas' worth of joy.
Mine was, quite literally, spread over 3 Christmases. I got my C64 (and tape drive) on Xmas 83 (84?)...I put up with the tape drive for a year. Then the next Xmas I got the floppy drive, and the one after that a printer. I never did get a "proper" monitor so everything was hooked up to a TV on channel 3. I'm sure that did nothing good for my eyesight.
As for the thread's main question...I started coding because there wasn't much I could do with the computer other than play what few games I had the first year on cartridge. Since most games came on floppy, that wasn't an option for me so I started reading the programming manual, and saving stuff to cassette. The floppy drive was a godsend.
After that I was old enough to get a job and spend my own money on my own toys, so I got a 64C (really the same thing, but in a gray/white package), and my folks sold the original 64 to a couple of friends of theirs who had a kid a few years younger than I was...then I got a 128...I honestly have no clue what happened to those computers and sometimes wished I still had them. Then I moved on to the PC world.
Nostalgia got the better of me, and got a 64 Mini last year (thanks to Nintendo for starting that trend). Then the nostalgia only got worse and a few months ago I purchased a 64C + floppy drive (the "real thing") off of Kijiji, a Canadian equivalent to eBay. I temporarily hooked it up to a TV via the antenna connector, just to confirm it works, but I don't have the room to leave it there permanently. I have the room (and monitor) to set up elsewhere, but need some sort of adapter to hook it up via VGA.
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you need something that takes composite i believe?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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If only.
I have no spare TV, and all my spare monitors are VGA only.
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