Am I Too Much Of A Geek Because I ...

I still have my old TI99/4A - circa 1981 - with about 15 games. A couple of months ago I hooked it up to an old tv, fired it up and it still worked! Now if I can find my old Atari 2600, I'd be all set.

I have had a friend for many years that was born without an arm. My friends and I used to play online Counter Strike and Team Fortress all the time and he could use the mouse with his arm he did have and use his nub on the keyboard. For the life of me I have no idea how he did it. The only thing I can think of is because of him being born without his arm he has had plenty of time to adjust and he doesn't have the nerve damage that comes with amputation.

I actually do have that sound on one of my droid 2 phones whenever a new email comes in. I never thought of myself being a geek though. A little nostalgic at times yes but definitely not a geek. Heck I may be a geek to some as I am always unlocking just about every piece of hardware I own so that I can control just about every aspect of it instead of only being able to control what the manufacturer wants you to control. And I am also the one all my friends brings their problem computers and other hardware to for me to fix for them so they may actually think of me as a geek also. I actually do have my atari 2600 with the fake wood grain hooked up in my daughters bedroom right now along with the 30 or so games I have for it. my buddies and I will go in there and play it about once every year or so when we start to get that nostalgic feeling

This thread is making me remember the hours I wasted playing Pong.

And now I am remembering my first computer -- a Sinclair built from a kit -- no video card, no graphics, no color, no sound, and no mouse. Also, we had to pay by the hour to go online.

Lol I remember my first computer too. It was decent at the time an under powered mac with a floppy drive. Trying to look at a picture of anything on the internet was always interesting watching it load line by line for several minutes wondering if it will freeze the computer

Oh man I completely forgot about the multi floppy disk installs

I remember saying to someone we just changed the bandwidth equally before everything went internet there was like 3 or 4 disks and a 2400 baud modem then it went to 3 or 4 CDs and kilabit internet now its 3 or 4 DVDs (for like games and stuff) and mbit internet. Question is how long till we get out of the whole 'disk' thing all together and everything is a USB or whatever access key that downloads the software from the server for you or worse uses it straight from the server like doing more and more stuff on google drive etc.

I'm doing my coin database for my collection on a wiki on my website. Lets me cross reference everything, create listings in categories by every aspect, auto update every listing just by changing the template. Plus when I want to I can make it internet searchable and let others find information usefull for themselves from my collection.