[gameprogrammer] Re: Gift Tech!
- From: Ken Johnson <johnsk16@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:07:00 -0700
Yea, Its a pretty good place to work, we ended up all getting ipod
mini's as well for a bonus(in addition to a monetary one). Very
unexpected, but very appreciated.
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:36:14 -0800, Alan Wolfe <atrix2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> yeah that's freakin awesome :P
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Pendleton" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Gameprogrammer Mailing List" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:20 PM
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Gift Tech!
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> > 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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