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NobleNick · 11-04-2003, 02:53 PM

Great idea, kartetse!

Well... If old = mature, then me thinks I'm leading the pack, so far: M, 43, Electrical/Systems Engineer, married, one girl (10) and a boy (8).

I have been fascinated with computer games ever since I got access to a mainframe via a 300 baud remote link to my school district headquarter's teletype terminal, back in 1976. (I got all the time I wanted; because no one else knew how to run it!) I got my first PC in '84 (an Apple 2e, 1Mz [IIRC], green screen, 256K RAM, one 5-1/4" floppy, no hard drive, and 300/1200 baud modem, for a bit over $3,300). This was in the days before the web, when only BBSs existed, and the better BBS admins boasted servers with 5MB hard drives and 1.2Kb/s connections, all over the phone lines, of course. First commercial game I remember playing on my screaming new machine: The original "Wizardry."

11-04-2003, 02:53 PM	#8
NobleNick Quintesson Join Date: February 5, 2002 Location: Huntsville, AL, USA Age: 65 Posts: 1,045	Great idea, kartetse! Well... If old = mature, then me thinks I'm leading the pack, so far: M, 43, Electrical/Systems Engineer, married, one girl (10) and a boy (8). I have been fascinated with computer games ever since I got access to a mainframe via a 300 baud remote link to my school district headquarter's teletype terminal, back in 1976. (I got all the time I wanted; because no one else knew how to run it!) I got my first PC in '84 (an Apple 2e, 1Mz [IIRC], green screen, 256K RAM, one 5-1/4" floppy, no hard drive, and 300/1200 baud modem, for a bit over $3,300). This was in the days before the web, when only BBSs existed, and the better BBS admins boasted servers with 5MB hard drives and 1.2Kb/s connections, all over the phone lines, of course. First commercial game I remember playing on my screaming new machine: The original "Wizardry."