{"id":407,"date":"2007-12-24T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2016-08-29T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:46:21","slug":"erics-vintage-christmas-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/407\/erics-vintage-christmas-celebration","title":{"rendered":"Eric’s VC&G<\/em> Christmas Medley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vintage[ Editor’s Note: I asked Eric Lambert, a VC&G contributor, to write something entertaining for Christmas in the vein of his Halloween Spam poem<\/a>. Just yesterday he delivered, sending me an MP3 of modified holiday jingles with a computer twist. It’s a tad cheesy, yes, but it’s full of fun and spirit. Thanks, Eric! ]<\/em><\/p>\n


\nListen to Eric’s Christmas Medley by clicking
\nthe gigantic shiny button below [Requires Flash].<\/strong>
\n<\/param><\/embed><\/param><\/object>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

Download the MP3 file here<\/a> or read a full transcript after the break.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Transcript<\/h3>\n

\nYou’re listening to KVCG Radio, the best of the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.
\nAnd now, back to our nonstop holiday music.<\/p>\n

You know DASL and dBase
\nAnd Pascal and Cobol,
\nClipper and Prolog
\nAnd Fortran and Snowball
\nBut have you compiled
\nThe most famous language of all?<\/p>\n

BASIC, the\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n

Jingle ^G, jingle ^G, jingle all the way,
\nOh what fun it is to write in ASCII all the day,
\nJingle ^G, jingle ^G, jingle all the way,
\nBut in C the same command is written backslash-a.<\/p>\n

(If you don’t get it, see the notes below)<\/p>\n

I’m dreaming of a TRS-80
\nSitting underneath my tree,
\nWith a full-stroke keyboard,
\nAnd 4K RAM onboard,
\nAnd a P4 black-and-white display\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Come, they told me, parum-pum-pum-pum,
\nOur new Atari to play, parum-pum-pum-pum,
\nWe bought Pac-Man today, parum-pum-pum-pum,
\nBut it was not the same, parum-pum-pum-pum,
\nRum-pum-pum-pum,
\nRum-pum-pum-pum,
\nSo, we traded it parum-pum-pum-pum
\nFor Home Run.<\/p>\n

I saw mommy playing my Vectrex,
\nUnderneath the Christmas tree last night,
\nShe didn’t like to see
\nThe vector graphics on the screen
\nSo she tried each overlay until we both fell fast asleep\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
\nWe wish you a Merry Christmas,
\nWe wish you a Merry Christmas,
\nFrom VC&G.<\/p>\n

Good tidings to you
\nAnd may Vintage Compu-
\nTing bring you entertainment
\nThe entire year through.<\/p>\n

From all of us at Vintage Computing and Gaming, may your holidays be happy, may the new year bring you plenty of that Vintage Computing joy, and may you never have to sit through another podcast as cheesy as this.<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays, Everyone!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ Editor’s Note: I asked Eric Lambert, a VC&G contributor, to write something entertaining for Christmas in the vein of his Halloween Spam poem. Just yesterday he delivered, sending me an MP3 of modified holiday jingles with a computer twist. It’s a tad cheesy, yes, but it’s full of fun and spirit. Thanks, Eric! ] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}