Feeling old?
Tetris is celebrating it's 25 year Anniversary today.
Now I feel old!!
I recall playing Tetris on PC's which required a diskette for the Operating System to load and then a second diskette to load the games. Why? Because the PC's in the UNISA computer lab did not have hard drives in the 1980's.
Not that I would ever violate University computer lab Policy and play computer games on these PCs, of course :)
Diskettes in the 1980's held 360 KB of data. You could count the data bits with the naked eye. I am in the process of purchasing a new computer as I write this. It comes with a 1 Terabyte hard drive. Let's see. 1 Terabyte is equivalent to .... Uhmm, many, many, many 360 Kilobyte diskettes stacked on top of each other.
My new PC is quad-core. This means I will soon be playing Tetris faster than a 1980's PC could drop monochrome objects down a 14-inch monitor in a month of overclocking.
Here is a toast to another 25 years of Tetris fun. WooHoo!!
P.S. Can you believe that when I ran the spell checker on this blog posting, that it did not recognize the word "Tetris"? Where have the "Blogger" developers been living for the past quarter century? Or are "Blogger" developers too young to remember IT before the Internet? Come on Blogger developers - Add Tetris to the spell check dictionary, with honor.
Now I feel old!!
I recall playing Tetris on PC's which required a diskette for the Operating System to load and then a second diskette to load the games. Why? Because the PC's in the UNISA computer lab did not have hard drives in the 1980's.
Not that I would ever violate University computer lab Policy and play computer games on these PCs, of course :)
Diskettes in the 1980's held 360 KB of data. You could count the data bits with the naked eye. I am in the process of purchasing a new computer as I write this. It comes with a 1 Terabyte hard drive. Let's see. 1 Terabyte is equivalent to .... Uhmm, many, many, many 360 Kilobyte diskettes stacked on top of each other.
My new PC is quad-core. This means I will soon be playing Tetris faster than a 1980's PC could drop monochrome objects down a 14-inch monitor in a month of overclocking.
Here is a toast to another 25 years of Tetris fun. WooHoo!!
P.S. Can you believe that when I ran the spell checker on this blog posting, that it did not recognize the word "Tetris"? Where have the "Blogger" developers been living for the past quarter century? Or are "Blogger" developers too young to remember IT before the Internet? Come on Blogger developers - Add Tetris to the spell check dictionary, with honor.
posted by Wayne Botha @ 2:26 PM
2 Comments:
At June 7, 2009 2:10 PM ,
Susan said...
I couldn't agree more with you. I remember writing my first resume on an Amstrad which had no hard drive, just a floppy drive and remembered thinking how high tec it all was!
I remember owing a mobile phone in 1996 which was the size and weight of a brick and wondering who on earth would want one.
Still at least you know now if you talk Tetris, or spending a childhood without mobiles or the internet that anyone under the age of 30 will think you are a dinosaur.
I still think we had alot more fun though and wouldn't swap my childhood for the one available to the kids of today.
Cheers
Susan
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At June 8, 2009 5:26 AM ,
Wayne Botha said...
Susan,
Won't it be fun when today's youngsters look back and say "I remember my first iPhone"?
Wayne
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