silveryscrape ([info]silveryscrape) wrote,
@ 2009-04-16 20:53:00
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Hi, Person Who is Writing a Remix of One of My Stories! Hi!

I'm updating my website tonight just for you, because I realize I haven't done that in like a year. Two years. I haven't written a ton in that time, but there are about 5 or so stories to go up, so I'll do that tonight. Sorry it took me so long; had to fix the partitions on my external hard drive to access my site template, etc., (*nailbite*) but turns out it's all good and I'll upload them all and you'll have more to choose from, and yay. Yay, right?

If you are someone who doesn't read here - and who does, since do I ever update? No, I do not - but anyway, could someone pass the word on? Thanks, thank you, someone -

Anyway, I'm ridiculously thrilled to be writing remix again, and thrilled you are remixing my story. I hope you have fun with it or at least get something out of the writing. You know, go wild, do what you want: there's no way you ever offend me by thinking a lot about one of my stories and then writing your own version - are you kidding? I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Now, on to the uploading. Be tough not to get distracted by all the wips I just found on this old hard drive. Chris and Joey, betting on who would win in a fight between JC and Justin! I gotta finish that! JC and Chris, fucking in a hammock! Ha ha, ouch. And music! All my old files from when I ripped the 3000 cds to move away from New Mexico! And pictures - criminey, if the repartition hadn't worked... D:

Today I went here, to see Babbage's Difference Engine Number 2 in action. It's the most beautiful machine I've ever seen. Watch the little vid on that page to see what I mean... while I was wandering around the museum, which is filled with awesome old computers with like vacuum tubes and punch cards and things, some dude wandered up to me and said, "Um, are you terribly technical at all?" I told him no, not at all. So then he looked at me, and at the freaking huge Eniac or something that I was looking at, and pointed to a picture of a room full of components and said in a slow, careful voice, "All of this is one single computer."

To my credit, I did not answer the way I wanted to. Soon he wandered away, and I got lost again in fond memories of my first computer, an IBM PC with an Intel 8088, running DOS, and how I used to spend my evenings calling up random BBS's and half the time sending modem tones into some poor schmuck's ear. Ha ha, loved that. I'm no hacker, god knows, but man, I worship me some computers.

Do you remember your first?


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[info]spasticat
2009-04-17 04:38 am UTC (link)
A prematurely balding German. Good thing that was the only "premature" thing about him.

Oh...you mean computers.

A Commodore 64. As in 64 bits. It was for our entire family. Used Compuserve to go online. My first fannish foray was to join a postcard collector's group. Nice people...very similar to rock collectors. :P

I miss the loud sound of ye olde modems. KRRRRish k k k WAAAAAAAAAAAAH. KRSH.

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[info]copracat
2009-04-17 04:47 am UTC (link)
The first one I ever played with? A Z80 was the first one with a screen and a keyboard. We amused ourselves by typing "Fuck" so it would reply "Fuck?" Good times!

The first one in my house was oh, a 286 I think, 512K of RAM. Yes, with no internal hard drive! It was awesome! (She says, typing this on her fairly sluggish by modern standards MacBook.)

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[info]call_me_loca
2009-04-17 05:06 am UTC (link)
My father brought home a Apple IIe. It had a black screen with the green light/cursor, the BIG floppy discs and NO printer. I believe it was all one piece, as well. A month later my Grandma gets us the IIc and a b/w printer that took three years to print a sentence.

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[info]frausorge
2009-04-17 05:45 am UTC (link)
I want to know what happens in the hammock!

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[info]turps33
2009-04-17 01:02 pm UTC (link)
I second this!

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[info]pensnest
2009-04-17 09:02 am UTC (link)
I remember being lured into the university's computer lab late in the evenings to (watch my boyfriend) play Adventure. Dwarves! Axes! Little twisty passages, all alike!

There was a word processor at my first job, with the worst paper feed *ever*. But My First Computer was a Sinclair QL, and I loved it so! I wrote two books on that thing. It couldn't really keep up with my typing, but it had a *real* word processor. And ridiculous 'microdrives' like mini cassette tapes for storage. It cost £500...

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[info]turps33
2009-04-17 01:02 pm UTC (link)
The first computer I remember seeing belonged to my cousin. I sat and watched as she typed hundreds of lines of code, then gasped as it made a pixalated hand wave on the screen.

It was like magic.

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[info]topaz119
2009-04-17 02:25 pm UTC (link)
My first computer was the terminal in the "computer lab" at my high school. It was connected to a mainframe (in Silver Spring, MD--we were in Pittsburgh.) And then there was the mainframe my freshman year in college, with punch cards and all, and we had to share time with the university admins. It was such a huge deal when the engineering school got their own mini computer...FORTRAN77 all the way...

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[info]puszysty
2009-04-17 11:38 pm UTC (link)
I couldn't tell you exactly what type my first computer was since I was like 7 at the time, but it has very large green pixels and floppy floppy-discs. And printed on the paper with perforated edges. Ah how nicely things have improved.

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[info]rikes
2009-04-19 08:46 pm UTC (link)
Our first computer had windows 3.1 and I learned all kinds of neat tricks like how to change desktop icons, but not how to switch between two programs. :D

Gotta love your WIPs.

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[info]jcalanthe
2009-04-22 08:03 am UTC (link)
I should go to the Computer Museum one of these days. A guy I used to work with was involved in starting it, and I've heard good things from more than just you.

First computer - there was some membrane keyboard thingy we plugged into the TV that dad brought home from work. I forget what it was called - ah! the Sinclair ZX80 - wikipedia continues to know all trivia. & the guy down the street had a TRS-80 that I was desperately jealous of. & then we got an Adam by Colecovision, which ran on cassette tapes of all things, & could not only play Coleco video games like Donkey Kong (which wow, so cool, cuz we had an Atari & so could not previously play those) but also had a Buck Rogers game that was awesome.

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