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Offline udet

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poll: Are you a computer geek?
« on: January 02, 2003, 03:07:16 PM »
Do you play games other than flight sims(Especially RPGs)? Do you collect old hardware? Do you have a server in your house? Have ever built a computer at home? Have you grown up with a C64/Amiga and look back with nostalgia at the 8bit days? Do you own a Pocket Computer from the 80s? Do you even know what I'm talking about?
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Offline Wlfgng

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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2003, 03:30:58 PM »
no no no no no no yes
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Re: poll: Are you a computer geek?
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2003, 03:36:58 PM »
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Originally posted by udet
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  • Do you play games other than flight sims(Especially RPGs)?
  • Do you collect old hardware?
  • Do you have a server in your house?
  • Have ever built a computer at home?
  • Have you grown up with a C64/Amiga and look back with nostalgia at the 8bit days?
  • Do you own a Pocket Computer from the 80s?
  • Do you even know what I'm talking about?

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  • Yes (no RPGs)
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes, but we just called them calculators.. and they had LED
  • Unfortunately, yes.
I'm a computer geek even here at work... with perhaps the highest concentration of geeks in the world.  At least I'm not a chemistry geek... who are by far and away the geekiest people on the face of the earth.

AKDejaVu
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Offline jonnyb

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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2003, 03:43:32 PM »
Built many computers in my time...have enough parts lying around the office to put together at least a couple more...first computer was a C64...got an apple clone by Franklin after that.  Been playing games on computers since my fist C64.  Favorite game of all time was Zork.  Now, I am a software developer.

Yep, I qualify.
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Offline Russian

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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2003, 04:05:32 PM »
1 Yes
2 Yes
3 No
4 Yes
5 No
6 ….Eh?
7 Yes
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Offline MrLars

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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2003, 04:32:52 PM »
I still have a working C64, 128 AND a Amiga 500 with an optional 40meg HD and a whopping 4 megs of extra ram.

I still set-up games like Stunt Car Racer, Arkanoid, Chuck Rock, Lemmings, and my favorite, Speedball among others for partys at my house.

F/A18 for the Amiga was my first Flight sim game.

I don't know enough about computers to be called a computer nerd, hell, I don't even have the pear shaped body that goes with that name  ;)
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Offline MrLars

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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2003, 04:33:58 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2003, 04:44:54 PM »
why oh why would one want a working C64..
my palm pilot has more power !  lol
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poll: Are you a computer geek?
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2003, 05:06:03 PM »
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why oh why would one want a working C64..
my palm pilot has more power !  lol


Cause...back in those days computer games were damned fun!!!!
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Offline udet

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« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2003, 05:09:05 PM »
here's how a pocket computer looked like. personally I like them better than today's organizers or graphing calculators...
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Offline MrLars

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« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2003, 06:12:43 PM »
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why oh why would one want a working C64..
my palm pilot has more power !  lol


Nostalga?

I collect weird stuff, I can't seem to be able to throw away things that still work. Pisses the wife off a lot though.
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Offline rickod

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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2003, 06:27:44 PM »
yes to all questions

My server is running duel pentium pro 200mhz processors

i have a 486 laptop

i still remember commodore basic

have a wang server in the closet
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Offline Blank

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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2003, 08:12:03 PM »
yes to most,

I still have a working Commodore Vic-20 (the white one before that fancy powerful C64) I think it had 1.5k of memory but I got an upgrade cartridge to boost it upto a mighty 32k of memory.

I was a skinny glasses wearing "computer geek" for years then took up surfing and got contacts and was cool, but now the computer geeks have stolen the term "surfing" and turned it into a stupid computer geek name

So now if I say I like to surf I have to explain myself so they dont think I'm a computer geek.  So confusing, even my damn cable modems called a surfboard :mad: :mad:

Oh well, theres no escape may as well except it, at least I'm a tanned geek :)
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Offline Swoop

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« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2003, 04:29:49 AM »
Well yes to all of it.....and what's more suprising is that I totally agree with DjV about chemists.

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Offline Animal

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« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2003, 05:25:42 AM »
Of course I am you idiot.

Want proof? I carried this watch all through my high school years:



And that is only a small part of my proud geek persona
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