Ahhh punch tape, how I fondly I remember your faint yellow color... Back when I was a freshman at a prestigious Ivy League prep school those of us in the nerd group were allowed access to the computer terminals on weekends to have a bit of fun while learning this newfangled contraption. Winter Saturday afternoons when not off skiing were spend in front a giant dot matrix printer that had a keyboard on it. We played Flight Simulator for hours on end. Each move was plotted on punch tape, fed into the reader that zipped our moves by the magic of telecommunications to a mainframe located at Penn State University. Minutes later, well often more than minutes, since we had time to go out side and smoke more inspiration to try interesting things with our flight plans, the dot matrix printer would come alive pounding out 2-3 lines of text telling us what our aircraft had just accomplished. And that kids is where I started getting my geek on.
Funny you posted this Nathan. Last night I watched a re-run of the old movie "War Games". I had really been impressed the first time I saw it, but when I realized the kid was using a "dial up" connection, DOS and a dot matrix printer I was laughing so hard I liked it as much the second time. Jim
Jim, I watched that last night as well. The hottest game in the game room was Asteroids....you're on the edge of being older than dirt if you ever played Asteroids, Frogger, Pacman and Ms. Pacman in an arcade.:cornut:
Defender was my game, could play for hours on a single quarter. That is till they banned a few of us from playing that game.
And you always had at least one Commadores album keyed up just in case you came home with a hot one from the bar:biggrin5:
:cornut:The Mattell Green Beret Combat Set with Green Beret, Camouflage Poncho, and Thompson Submachinegun. Jason
I had an old buddy who dated a girl named Betsy. We joked around and used to call her "Betsy Wetsy." You guessed it, he married her..... :biggrin5: