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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Commodore 64 with the datassette cassette tape drive.

    Went through the 64 instruction manual, got to basic, typed in

    10 PRINT “HELLO”

    RUN

    Totally thought the damn thing was alive and taking to me.

    That ended up kicking off a lifetime of coding and a career is development that in the last few years transitioned into DevOps.

    But back then, even before I got my 64, I knew a dude who had one with a 1541 disc drive and with tons of games, so that got me hooked on the system. I spent so much time there before I got mine, playing GI Joe, Jumpman, Transformers, Agent USA, HERO, Montezuma Revenge, IKARI Warriors, etc.

    Random memories of back then are fun…

    RUN magazine, Byte magazine, Computer Shopper, Video game and computer entertainment… waiting for games to load lol

    I think computers were a lot more interesting when they weren’t all just windows pcs. Different architectures, different operating systems, interesting emerging technology that was actually exciting and not just higher capacity of this you already have. Local user groups. BBSes.

    When I need to binge that nostalgia my goto is https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCVKDG2vK2FHmg4xYrsqnW2Q