Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: crosscourt

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:07:11 +0000

Favorite food has to be either apple pie or chocolate chip cookies baked by the family. Liking the bowl after they mix up a chocolate cake comes to mind.

Favorite game its a toss up between Doom and Wolfenstein 3d

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: technotreegrass

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:19:08 +0000

Thanksgiving is usually a family reunion so most of us cousins play Mario Kart Wii in the basement, since its so easy to play.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: CPBelt

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:52:35 +0000

Wow. I forgot about this magazine. I used to subscribe to it. That cover brought back great memories! It's the monitor that weighed a ton–I remember those bad boys!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: JackSoar

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:35:04 +0000

I'm a vegetarian, so Thanksgiving tends to be less-than-thrilling for me. I rarely get a true main course, and stick to a variety of sides. Usually there will be some kind of soup or salad that will appeal, but it varies from year to year.

As for games, the only game I really have any memory of associating with Thanksgiving is "Heroes of Might and Magic II," which my brother and I played all throughout one Thanksgiving weekend, subsisting on leftovers. Good times.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: Donn

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:42:56 +0000

Jim, that might be the most awesome computer anecdote I've heard in a long time! (And I just read through folklore.org)

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: Geoff V.

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:17:37 +0000

Cool memories Jim. You may want to talk to a doctor about writing in assembly to calm down, they have drugs for that.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: Braybett

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:31:49 +0000

I'm spending this Thanksgiving at a retirement home and eating retirement home food. Should be pretty interesting.

My favorite video games at the moment are the Mario and Zelda games that came out this month, the former of which will probably get a lot of mileage via my 3DS while on this Thanksgiving trip.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: Jim Leonard

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:23:25 +0000

In 1983 I really wanted a computer, but our family didn't have a lot of money at the time. My father felt sorry for me and bought me a subscription to Family Computing instead. It turned out that the magazine subscription, which I read cover to cover the day it arrived, was just as valuable a gift. I absorbed everything in that magazine, and because I didn't have a computer, I would spend hours tracing through the BASIC listings IN MY HEAD (or sometimes with a pad next to me, as I couldn't remember more than about 5-6 variables at a time). I would also plot low-res graphics out on graph paper so I could see what the graphical programs were drawing. It was like a logical puzzle.

My dad was secretly saving up for a computer, and in December 1984 surprised the family with an AT&T PC 6300, which he was able to get at a discount because he worked at AT&T at the time. I used that computer just as long as I read Family Computing, both until roughly 1989.

Today, I program in x86 assembler for fun. It calms me down.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: Donn

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:34:39 +0000

Mmmmm, turkey skin.

I hope to break out some old-school Space Invaders this Thanksgiving, if I can get my hands on some joysticks, stat!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Family Computing by: Batfan

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:34:02 +0000

Too funny. The month/year of my birth