Back then I was in my early teen years and my Dad asked why I needed a home computer. There really was no good answer at the time but my folks gave in and got one for me after much begging. Even though I played a lot of games on it, I also taught myself several programming languages which wound up being a solid base for my engineering degree and career.
What’s the point of us staying up all night debating the existence of God when this thing goes and gives you his phone number the next morning?- Hitchhiker’s Guide
Didn’t he ever see any 1950’s sci-fi moves? They always say “There are things which Man was not meant to know,” usually after the city has been wrecked by the giant monster.
PoodleGroomer over 4 years ago
Ask Google.
biglar over 4 years ago
Back then I was in my early teen years and my Dad asked why I needed a home computer. There really was no good answer at the time but my folks gave in and got one for me after much begging. Even though I played a lot of games on it, I also taught myself several programming languages which wound up being a solid base for my engineering degree and career.
jrankin1959 over 4 years ago
Hello? Banana Jr. help line?
dsatvoinde Premium Member over 4 years ago
Poor Teddy! Lost his head in the explosion… :-(
Wizard of Ahz-no relation over 4 years ago
What’s the point of us staying up all night debating the existence of God when this thing goes and gives you his phone number the next morning?- Hitchhiker’s Guide
TexTech over 4 years ago
First time I’ve seen a computer commit suicide.
katzenbooks45 over 4 years ago
+++Out Of Cheese Error ???+
Packratjohn Premium Member over 4 years ago
When we first started selling 10 MB (That’s MEGA-byte!) hard drives, I remember wondering why anyone would ever need that much storage.
The Moose Group over 4 years ago
“Click, click, whirr”
Sounds like my old Commodore 64
Nick Danger over 4 years ago
Didn’t he ever see any 1950’s sci-fi moves? They always say “There are things which Man was not meant to know,” usually after the city has been wrecked by the giant monster.
David Rickard Premium Member over 4 years ago
Oliver could have learned that cheaper/less painfully by reading Nivens’ “Unfinished Story#2”…
biz.gocomics over 4 years ago
Well, we can use them to read old “Bloom County” comic strips…
oscssw over 4 years ago
“There are realms of the mysterious that man should never poke into”? I guess he doesn’t know “B.A.S.I.C.’ you should always”PEEK" before you “POKE”.
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
Oliver has gone where no man should go! Let him mourn for his computer. I mourn his beheaded Teddy bear!
craigwestlake over 4 years ago
If God didn’t want us to have computers he would have given us brains – Look around…
GreggW Premium Member over 4 years ago
What proportion of the population was using home computers before the Internet came along?
claudia.sawyer over 4 years ago
My first was IBM PC, shortly after I was hired by USAF and trained to program on the big iron using cards and tape reels.