[gameprogrammer] Re: Gift Tech!
- From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Gameprogrammer Mailing List <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:20:05 -0600
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 04:03, Ken Johnson wrote:
> The most recent thing I have gotten was a Lego Minstorms set from one
> of my bosses.
Can I have your boss? Please? Pretty Please? Ok, I know I am being
silly, but seriously, a boss that gives out toys like that has got to
have a lot on the ball.
Bob Pendleton
> Programmable lego block that has 3 power and 3 sensor
> ports on it. It came with 2 motors, 2 touch sensors, and 1 light
> sensor(range from 1-100 values)... so you program it on your pc using
> their software in a visual sort of build your program way, or just
> program it directly with their language, it uses an IR sensor to beam
> the program to the control lego block... its very cool. Very easy to
> program, and very versatile. I think the site is
> www.legomindstorms.com.
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:34:50 -0600, David Olsen <jolynsbass@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > When I was about 12 or so, my dad gave me his old TRS-80 computer. Before
> > disk drives, it had one of those great tape drives that you had to play
> > screeching loud to load programs, monochrome graphics... It was so much fun,
> > I'm working on a modern version of one of the adventure games that I played
> > on it. Wonder where it's gotten to now?
> > Dave Olsen
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Pendleton" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Gameprogrammer Mailing List" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 7:52 PM
> > Subject: [gameprogrammer] Gift Tech!
> >
> > >
> > > So.... what is the coolest tech gift or game you ever got?
> > >
> > > Mine had to be my first computer with a hard drive. Technically it was a
> > > birthday present. It was a Novell (yeah they used to make computers)
> > > 2010 executive workstation with a 4mhz z80 64k of RAM and a *HUGE* 4
> > > megabyte hard drive. What a computer that was....
> > >
> > > Second best had to be the Van DeGraff generator kit I got for Christmas
> > > when I was in seventh grade (that was 39 years ago folks). I had a lot
> > > of fun with that thing. The things you can do with a 150,000 volts, some
> > > glass plates, and aluminum foil :-)
> > >
> > > Bob Pendleton
> > >
> > >
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