[gameprogrammer] Re: Gift Tech!
- From: "Alan Wolfe" <atrix2@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:36:14 -0800
yeah that's freakin awesome :P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Pendleton" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Gift Tech!
> 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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