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I liked last week's group activity class we had in the university, probably because of the Xmas atmosphere around (yes, it was 25th and yes, in Japan we study on Christmas). We didn't do any work, as always, but this time sensei accommodated us in his office since in was way too cold in the hall we usually have meetings. I liked the office. I liked it a lot. The newest MacbookAir and MacbookPro on the desk, some 22" screen (Apple again) on the same desk and a little 50" TV screen on the opposite wall. Plus small meeting table with 5-6 chairs which out group occupied. Nothing additional, no papers, documents, stationary whatsoever. When we brought up the question about the newly acquired items and how he can now "enjoy" doing his research, he countered us: "Look at yourself! Five guys with five laptops, there is no thing like this in any other faculty. People are happy to get even one computer for their group work." Users. But true, each one of us had a laptop pretending we came to do work. "When I was your age we didn't have such fancy machines. The Famicon (Japanese call the console games Famicon, abr. from family computer, with Nintendo 8-bit being the most typical example) just came out and everybody wanted it." Well, they had some really nice games for that time. "Yes, but all my friends got a Famicon and my parents bought me a MSX." MSX? What's a MSX, I asked Google. A computer from Sony, it suggested. So, weren't the computer games better than Nintendo's? "Far form it. It took ages for the environment to load from the cassette device then the fun began. I received weekly issues from one video games magazine and in each one they had a small game."
Cool. Was it that huge 5" floppy?
"It was printed as a source code in the magazine itself. We had to retype it line by line in Basic and compile the game in order to play."
Printed game? I bet your typing speed improved significantly. But once you have it just save the -.exe to a floppy and play it again next time.
"I wished. My parents bought me a computer but no floppy device, 'cause it was expensive."
Way to go. So you have to retype the game every single time you wanted to play?
"Yup."
I bet you had a major typing speed improvement.
"But this is why I decided to study Computer Science later. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the games I played."
True.
If playing Pong got him to professor's chair, where can Zelda get me? Off to find out. Alex
Added on 2009-01-03 12:00:00
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