[olug] "I remember when..."

[Christopher Cashell]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> My first computer was a TI-99/4A, which was a hand-me-down from my
> uncle in 1984.  I wrote an Adventure-like game for it and saved it
> onto audio tapes that I still had (years after the computer died)
> until I uncovered them a couple years ago & pitched them.  Unlike
> Sam, I was actually able to read my tapes occasionally.  The computer
> met an untimely demise when my little brother spilled hot chocolate
> down the keyboard one Saturday morning.  That's the last time I
> ever had a computer that required using a TV as the monitor.

A TI-99/4A was the first computer I ever used.  Amusingly, there's
still a working TI-99 in storage at my parent's place, along with a
few dozen cartridges and at least one game on cassette tape (Tunnels
of Doom).

> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com

-- 
Christopher