{"id":3262,"date":"2003-07-18T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2003-07-18T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T10:52:00","slug":"a_long_long_tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"A long long time ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kasia<\/a> asks “So what was your beginning in computers?<\/a>” I can actually remember it well. Back in fourth grade I went to this place called Talcott Mountain Science Center<\/a> (Holy heck, it still exists!) It was at the top of this mountain and they had a few different programs. I think the first I did was a week long one in astronomy. We learned all about astronomy stuff, and as a bonus the week I was there was when the first space shuttle landing test happened. Remember the one where it was strapped to the back of a 747 and they let it go and land? I remember the big concern being that it might hit the tail of the plane as it was released. But all went well. It was a cool time. The second program I went there for was on Saturdays and you could choose the area you wanted to learn about. Computers were a big draw, but I ended up doing a few things beforehand. I did an electronics class where I made an intercom set, and then I did a class in chronobiology<\/a> which was very cool. And then I found the computer department and I was hooked. They had a PDP 11 there hooked up to paper terminals (what were those things called? Decwriters or something like that?), two Apple IIs, a TRS-80, and the Sinclair ZX81 (I think that was the model, I remember every time you pressed a button it would blank the screen and redraw it :)).<\/p>\n

That was my first real experience with computers. I learned a bit of Basic to start. We’d make silly little multiple choice quiz programs. It was a blast. I loved going there. After that I didn’t have much exposure till I went away to high school at NMH<\/a>. There they had a PDP 11 running rsts\/e and I learned a bunch more about computers, even being a computer room monitor for my workjob. And my roommate had one of the first Macs. It was pretty damn cool. I kinda miss things from back then. It was a cool time to be a geeky kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kasia asks “So what was your beginning in computers?” I can actually remember it well. Back in fourth grade I went to this place called Talcott Mountain Science Center (Holy heck, it still exists!) It was at the top of this mountain and they had a few different programs. I think the first I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}