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I'm moving out, so also my 'mans cave' is moving.
And I found a lot of stuff I never remember that I still have this ...

Do this mean I'm an old guy ?
My first apple II game from 1978 ...



Marc,

Me too! I remember playing Breakout on the Atari CX2600 when it was only a couple of years old, Space Invaders and Asteroids too!
That may have some value if you aren't nostalgically attached to it, the Apple II seems to be experiencing a retro revival at present...

spikey wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:24 pm Me too! I remember playing Breakout on the Atari CX2600 when it was only a couple of years old, Space Invaders and Asteroids too!

I still fondly remember my very first software development platform.

ps: actually it was not very "fondly" at all. It was a very frustrating (and very short) beginning
pps: Atari VCS 2600 Basic (includes pictures of the original keypad overlays)

marc_256 wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:45 pm Do this mean I'm an old guy ?
My first apple II game from 1978 ...

That my friend, is retro gamer street cred!

marc_256 wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:45 pm Do this mean I'm an old guy ?

If so, then there's a lot of old guys around here (including me)

I don't feel so old when my 1st computer is only 45 years old

Yeah, you're old. Me too! Here's my earliest computer book (I was 12):

Always a fascinating topic this and thanks to Marc for posting it — I think many of us appear to have come of age during the early 1980s, perhaps the heyday of microcomputers and arguably one of the most engaging times in technology, when many machines differed considerably from each other. I learned to programme at school in 1981 and owned an EACA Genie I micro with twin floppy discs, 48 Kb expansion unit and the LDOS operating system. I wrote in Z80 assembler occasionally and learnt it as an extra course at college, but I've totally forgotten it

you may be an old guy, but at least you had the fortune to generally hear decent music.