3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
11:51 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
...
When you're 16 and broke (I had to go to a
friend's house to use a 1200
baud modem when his Dad was out of the house -- "5 miles, uphill, both
ways!"), you pirate.
Jim,
You misspelled a few of words there:
"you're" --> "I was"
"you pirate" --> "I pirated"
It is an easy mistake to make because spell checkers won't catch it. Something
that was undoubtedly true got needlessly turned into a provably false statement.
What did I do when I was 16, broken, and smitten with computers? I had a spiral
bound notebook where I wrote out BASIC programs, then rewrote them, and rewrote
them. Probably 1/3 of what I wrote ever got typed into a computer, partly
because the "computer lab" was available to me for about 45 minutes of
"face
time" with the computer per week. I wish I still had those notebooks to see
what I was up to back then (1978-1980).