| | | my activity | trruk1 started a new discussion called My first computer in computer user.
1 day ago
 I got my first computer about 1985. It was made by Radio Shack. It had no permanent memory. It had to be programmed in BASIC for anything you wanted to do. The only way to save anything was to hook up a cassette recorder to it and save the program on tape. It was capable of displaying in 64 colors, which I thought was awesome. Not 64,000 colors--just 64. I created a game on that machine. It was... |
 | trruk1 responded to a discussion called Do you eat your meals at the table? in questions & answers.
4 days ago
 I sit down at the dining room table to eat. My wife and daughter rarely do. They take their plates into the living room, in front of the television. It is an odd way to do things, but we all accept it and everybody does what he or she wants. |
| trruk1 responded to a discussion called Tolstoy, Dostoevsky etc in reading.
6 hours ago
 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky? Good for you. War and Peace is excellent but it is huge. If you want something that is not quite so long, try Anna Karenina. For Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment is a good place to start. I have read nearly all of the "classic" authors and there is a good reason they are famous. The only one I have no use for is Proust. I tried reading his stuff and found it tedious. Go ... |
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