What Do We Do For a Living?

[TECN1K]

^Apogee shareware was the shit. Don't forget - Bio Menace, ROTT, Blake Stone, Alien Carnage... The of course Sierra games like Kings Quest, Space Quest, LEISURE SUIT LARRY... Willy Beamish? Dude. Logged many hours in front of that .28 dot pitch SUPER VGA screen. Christmas brought a Creative labs Multimedia kit with a Sound Blaster Pro, and I was snagging bootleg games from a pirate BBS with my 14.4 USR over ZModem protocol. ROFL... I was like 14.

MOM GET OFF THE PHONE IM ON THE COMPUTER

I still maintain an old 486 DOS box and fire it up from time to time.

[wpoll]

One word....

MYST

[TECN1K]

YESSS

[Ryoken]

driver for the royal mail, here in sunny northern UK

[puddinboo]

I work for a health company that sells everything from wheel chairs to ,power chairs ( some with head a-ray client can only move head for driving his power chair for quads)sell elevators ,stair lifts porch lifts. I am the top technician that installs and repairs these types of lifts and make around 21.60/hr. but we have only 1 income (mine). so living pay check to pay check and right now its realy tough as I am off work for a couple off months, just had surgery last week on my neck at c6,c7 vertebrae fused them together with a piece of my hip bone.

[crystalworks]

Originally Posted by wpoll

One word....

MYST

Broderbund... yes sir. And the Sierra King's Quest games... oh man. US Robotics modems, lol loving the memories. I rocked a Sound Blaster as well. Paired with a Logitech Thrustmaster joystick.

I used soooooooo many hours of AOL free trial offers! While my Dad was rocking Prodigy. I still remember the screen rendering the graphics ridiculously slow... and having to print reports on HP laserjets that weighed more than I did.

[rhusbands]

Originally Posted by wpoll

One word....

MYST

Best game ever!

My first PC was an Apple IIe with a 14" amber monochrome monitor. My first game was one of those 4" X 5" code books you bought at Radio Shack and typed the code from the book and saved it to a floppy drive. F-15 Strike Eagle! That was in 1984-1985. My first "PC" was a 286... can't remember for sure, but think it was running at 12 Mhz. Then a 386 with 4MB of RAM, and then a 486 DX2 66 (soon replaced with a DX4 100) with an optical (CD) drive and a 100MB hard drive. I was the cat's ass! ...SMOOTH...

[AV8R4AA]

I am a "High speed aluminum tube relocation specialist"
In case that sounds too uppity, I fly for American Airlines.
Great job, but for major relaxation, I go for a drive in my BMW.

[edogg]

Originally Posted by crystalworks

Fully agree with the above. My first computer was a hand-me-down 386, and then had a 486. Took both apart to install faster modems and game/sound cards of course. Can you say Comanche, Captain Keen, Battle Chess, and Dos? First computer I got to call my own was a Packard Bell Pentium 60!!! LOL dat speed... and Windows for Workgroups 3.11! Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Mechwarrior, Earthsiege, Doom, Duke Nukem, Diablo, etc.

Ahhhh dems were the days.

You mentioned Mechwarrior, which was a fantastic game back in the day! Have you seen the Battletech kickstarter campaign? It's funded now but you can still back it (more of a "preorder").

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ref=nav_search

[weiln12]

Originally Posted by Plattus1000

Or, who has the most fun with what they bring home and the least amount of stress related to getting it there and keeping it. Much more important a factor.

Late to this, but certainly not enterprise IT like me. Stupid on-call hours and calls at 2AM multiple days a week in addition to normal "salaried" hours. There is a bad side to IT that nobody talks about.

While my laptop at work is a Mac running Parallels (Windows and SQL Server!), my box at home is a custom build running Windows 10. I love my Mac, but there's something nice about know exactly what's in something you build. Now I just need to bridge from SQL Server to Sys Admin to play with all the really cool toys!