I dunno if I'd call them the good old days. Monochrome monitors, 5.25 floppy disks, ASCII art and rocketing down the information superhighway at top dial up speeds of 300 baud. Remember how high tech we thought the computers were in the movie War Games with that robotic voice saying "Greetings Professor Falcon...How about a nice game of chess?" LOL
I felt pretty far ahead of the game back then when in 1988 I bought my Mac IIcx, full color monitor, 16mb of Ram and a massive 40mb hard drive and the best part...a mouse! Sadly, being that far ahead of the game cost me more money than most of the cars I've bought to this day. I'm happy to say that very same computer is in my son's office and still works perfectly running MacOS 7.6.1. He uses it to edit sound and a paint program that's still 2nd to none utilizing a pressure sensitive stylus. For that stuff it's awesome, anything else not really... unless of course you enjoy staring at progress bars all day.
Legends of dragons, no I didn't really mess with games much. I think the first computer game I got into was the original Sid Meyer's Civilization Version 1. I'd stay up days in a row playing that game. I was more on the geeky side of the computer stuff back in those days. I'd hack the OS and a lot of goofy stuff. I can't really even think of anything that was actually productive that I did on computers in those days. All I know is I spent a lot of time doing it.
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