LOL, I used to take the "pink bus" from Garden Grove down to Huntington at least 3-4 times a week in the summers from '75-'80! -RickG
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> wrote: > Yeesh back in '79 the coolest things I had access to were my baseball glove > and my trombone cuz I was in JUNIOR HIGH!!! > > Then there was taking my boogie board to Huntington beach almost every > single day on the bus in the summer. Didn't need devices in those days. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike" <m...@aweiowa.com> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:25 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > > > Now there are some memories! We played Star Trek on the University of Iowa > Engineering mainframe back in 1976. Between sessions, you saved your game > on punch tape and took the loop home with you. > > Friendly Regards, > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:20 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > > Pacman, Excitebike, Galaga, MechWarrior, taking me back! Go back a bit > further to Zork - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork. > > Here is an interesting story: I was an IBM Field Engineer in my > previous life. When I first started there, I maintained System/360 > mainframes for the large banks in LA. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_360 > We loaded and ran two games on the system back in 1979, Zork and > Startrek. LOL, the banks "timeshared" the system and tracked usage in > order to bill each department. One day they asked why engineering was > running so many diagnostics :) > -RickG > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> > wrote: >> Used to go down to Laguna Beach CA with a group. They had a LAN system > with >> full-surround pods & intercom to your teammates. Had mech battles >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David E. Smith" <d...@mvn.net> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:41 AM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man >> >> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:33, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> >> wrote: >>> They have a version of the arcade joy stick and button board to plug into >>> the computer if you are using MAME or other arcade emulators. I purchased >>> one for the wife a couple of years back so she could play some god awful >>> game called Elevator Action on her laptop. Game sucks but the X-Arcade >>> deal >>> is pretty sweet. >> >> I know. 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