Total Nostalgia
Great article Brien. I had a total moment of nostalgia reading it. My first computer was a TI994a, then the Tandy Coco 2. Couldn't count the hours I spent typing in code from magazines, then modifying it to make it to my liking.
BBSes were awesome. I had the chance to CoSysOp on a few, oh the power. Haha.
Speaking of portability... We used to use the original 8 bit SoundBlaster hooked up to a stereo to record music into .VOC format and store on disks to take to friends places. We didn't have MP3, or even WAV yet.
Immersive gaming is a thing of the past. Although I didn't have the huge TV, I had a 19" CRT and a 400 watt stereo. X-Com used to scare the crap out of me when the aliens would pop out of the darkness and take shots at my team. And those Quest games by Sierra where you had to learn to spell everything properly or your actions would fail. Thanks to Ken and Roberta Williams for teaching me to spell.
