redrider
Chieftain
Originally posted by Ren
I'm 16, been playing Civ since the glory days of Civilization 1![]()
Ahhyes. 16. I vaguely remember then. I worked for the post office, or P&T as it was then. Post and Telegraph Department.
Went to a training course in Auckland and saw my first ever computer. It took up a whole floor of the exchange building, had lots of relays and valves in a sealed air conditioned room. To enter data you went into this small room with a window that looked into the works and sat in front of a row of switches. You used binary code by setting the 8 switches up or down, on or off. Ie: a 1 or a 0. Then you pressed the button to enter your byte of code. Wow! Technology. Highly efficient -- as central heating. And that cost several million pounds ($2 per pound) The cheapest calculator now could do far more than that garbage heap ever managed. But it got me hooked on computers though. Just it took another 15 odd years for personal computers to arrive. Ahh the memories. A Sinclair ZX81. Then a Vic20, a C64, a BBC, an AT with a fantastic 10 meg hard drive. Woooo boy! Then an XT with 20 meg, WOW, double the drive space. Actually some of that gear is still in my basement somewhere. Must start a museum.
Well, still can't get my Civ1 and 2 to work. Gone back to my old DOS version of Civilisation and guess what? I prefer it to all the others. Cheers. Red.