wow, what excellent photos! looks like you guys are playing "Diplomacy" in the next-to-last pic. It's weird to see the original Pepsi logo. Ah, memories, even though I was 10 years old in 1984....
I don't know what the game was, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Dippy. The open box says Spies, but I don't recall what that game was like as I'm pretty sure I've never played it. I'm not a big fan of "big" games, I definitely prefer beer & pretzel gaming, though I'm occasionally good for big games. I guess I'm a gaming lightweight. :-)
'84? I was 21 or 22. It was my second job out of highschool, I was originally hired to type in several boxfulls of people wanting to be on Buffalo's commercial mailing list. It was a pretty cool environment to work in, aside from frequent plumbing problems and the occasional electrical fire.
The frightening thing was the computers that we had. We had a Raytheon mini-computer that had 32K (as in KILOBYTES) memory that was magnetic core, if the computer crashed you'd turn it off and stick a 3' long 2x2 in a certain piece of the frame, then whack said board with a hammer a few times to re-randomize the memory. Then reload the operating system, load the game that you were going to run, and off you went! We had a couple of Northstar CP/M computers, and later a TRS-80 Model III.
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Date: 2006-05-02 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 09:01 pm (UTC)'84? I was 21 or 22. It was my second job out of highschool, I was originally hired to type in several boxfulls of people wanting to be on Buffalo's commercial mailing list. It was a pretty cool environment to work in, aside from frequent plumbing problems and the occasional electrical fire.
The frightening thing was the computers that we had. We had a Raytheon mini-computer that had 32K (as in KILOBYTES) memory that was magnetic core, if the computer crashed you'd turn it off and stick a 3' long 2x2 in a certain piece of the frame, then whack said board with a hammer a few times to re-randomize the memory. Then reload the operating system, load the game that you were going to run, and off you went! We had a couple of Northstar CP/M computers, and later a TRS-80 Model III.