Mouse Day
The Computer Museum does exist in Mountain View, Ca. I haven’t been there.
BUT you KNOW Mouse is wishing Randie was there. I think she’d probably would be bored still at the computer museum. I dunno… she might like Vietnamese food though.
The Computer Museum does exist in Mountain View, Ca. I haven’t been there.
BUT you KNOW Mouse is wishing Randie was there. I think she’d probably would be bored still at the computer museum. I dunno… she might like Vietnamese food though.
Randie can learn same as husbands do. If I can mentally brace myself for a 4 hour stroll through JoAnn’s Fabrics while she looks for materials or … God help me … an afternoon at the mall, she can suck it up for the afternoon, just to make a friend happy. Heh.
Which I think she would, if she actually thought about it. I think the bigger issue is Mouse has never shown up on her radar as a contact of any kind, friend or otherwise – just an “acquaintance”. So it probably never even crossed her mind that her presence would be all that important to Mouse to begin with. So I don’t think she’s mean or anything like that … just a bit blind about what’s going on nearby.
And a computer history museum, you say? All the more reason to think about a trip out that way! 😀
Best for Randie to not have attended, she’d likely have been a killjoy.
To Randie: Mouse… a guy at work; Ryan… a good guy buddy; Tim… a GAH GAH GAH {faint, crash, plop}
Then again… http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=477 …ain’t love grand?
The computer history museum is fantastic. They have several serial number 1 models, e.g. Cray CDC 6600 #1 and Cray CDC 7600 #1, both freon-cooled machines.
If you can, visit the Computer History Museum when there’s a guided tour.
That painting of Tim with a coffee cup reminded me of another…hmmm.
http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=2611
My buddy had that computer growing up. Oh the good ‘ol days of playing games on a floppy disk.
note to squidman’s brother…we’ll have to take a drive to mountain view some time…
JoAnne Fabrics! Ha… Grey, when I was a little girl, my mom would drag me to fabric store and I would be bored out of my skull… I did, however, love looking in the pattern books, esp. the craft and Halloween sections. NOW, I love fabric stores! I so dig patterns and designs… not that I can sew… but they are full of possibilities.
JC… yah… how did I know that you’dda been there!
stick… ah… twue wuv… or rather… unwequited wuv…
Jack… floppy discs, jazz drives, zip drives, cds… well, thems next.
firedome… I want a full report.
Computers I have known in the past.
Personal:
Radio Shack TRS80.
Commodore 64/128
Amiga 500
ATT/Packard-Bell PC(Pentium 75MHz. Upgraded to Pentium 130MHz), Windows 3.1
Custom PCs with Pentium IIs, IIIs, IVs, Core 2. Windows 95, 98, 98SE.
Dell Netbook(Atom/XP).
Dell XPS8300(Core i7 2nd gen).
Main Frames:
General Precision GB-4/GP-4B
DEC PDP-11
Honeywell 516/716
SEL32-55, SEL 32-75
Perkin-Elmer 8/32
Concurent Micro Five
I’ve worked with punch card, mag tape, paper tape, iron core memory, 8-inch/5-1/4 inch/ 3-1/2 inch floppies, Magnetic Drum memory, 80MB-2TB Hard drives, Optical Drives, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, printers of every kind, modem speeds as slow as 300baud, etc…
Joe… Didn’t your Radio-Snack TRS80 use cassette tapes for memory storage?
Ah, the poor man’s tape drive…a budget cassette recorder plugged into your PC.
stick
Yes. It was a TRS80 Model I with Level I Basic, 4k RAM and a cassette player to store programs.
Enough with the computer talk!, Vietnamese food is where its at !
Squid… Late in yesterday’s comments I put a link to a Vietnamese place in your backyard of Monterey called Chopstix. The menu of the site has some full-on tastey pics of many dishes. Check them out and let the drooling begin.
Ah… On the topic of Randie’s painting the guys in her life…
There’s this one I really had to search for… nice ghost of Picasso too…
http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=1956
There’s also that unofficial fan drawing I did up…
Sadly, Mouse is not likely to be a painting subject.
I had a TI something or the other that had a tape cassette thingie… we played Tunnels of Doom on it and The Oregon Trail. I preferred the former and would spend HOURS playing. Ah…the free time of youth.
You’ll be seeing more artists in Randie’s life soon, stick.
Brig, was the “twue wuv” line from Princess Bride? Because that’s how I heard it in my mind …
“wuv … TWUE wuv … is what bwings us togevvua …”