[gameprogrammer] Re: Gift Tech!
- From: Ken Johnson <johnsk16@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:03:57 -0700
The most recent thing I have gotten was a Lego Minstorms set from one
of my bosses. 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
>
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> From: "Bob Pendleton" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Gameprogrammer Mailing List" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 7:52 PM
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Gift Tech!
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> >
> > 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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