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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 01:47 AM
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In my house we have an old TI-99 computer (circa late 1970s early 1980s)
We also have a copies of both "Hunt the Wumpus" and "Lunar Lander" for it.

good times.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 02:47 AM
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1. Good times indeed. Though in my case, Atari computers. n/t
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 02:52 AM
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2. Did you ever play Lunar Lander?
How deep were the craters you made?
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 02:56 AM
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5. Impressively deep. I've never been particularly adept at computer
games :)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 02:56 AM
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6. Me too!
I do not know anyone who successfully landed that thing!

:silly:
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 02:54 AM
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3. The old TI-99
when I started school in 1983, our elementary school had one for each classroom, and three or four in the library. The library had a catalog of cartridges you could check out.

That was a lot of computer access for 1983.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 02:55 AM
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4. No doubt - I would say that was cutting edge back then.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 05:08 AM
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11. "Blazing fast" -- as I remember!
Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 05:09 AM by Radio_Lady
Hubby started in 1981, fiddling with a built-out model featuring two floppy disk drives.

It was from the Heathkit store in Boston.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 03:10 AM
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7. Oh, cool. I think I used to have one of those
I spend a lot of time with BASIC on that one...
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 03:19 AM
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8. Yup!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 04:10 AM
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9. JAGD DEN WUMPUS!
nothing like it!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 04:11 AM
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10. I feel a draft...
:)
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 08:37 AM
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12. Does your pocket calculator give it a lot of shit?
:shrug:
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