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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: J-Golden on December 01, 2009, 12:07:53 PM

Title: Lookit the calandar in the background...
Post by: J-Golden on December 01, 2009, 12:07:53 PM

I always loved this comic for its geek roots.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091201

Title: Re: Lookit the calandar in the background...
Post by: Amigadude on December 01, 2009, 12:17:05 PM

damn just beat me to it

Title: Re: Lookit the calandar in the background...
Post by: cecilia on December 01, 2009, 01:53:56 PM

HA! funny

Title: Re: Lookit the calandar in the background...
Post by: JimS on December 01, 2009, 02:19:06 PM

Heh! Having been in a few of those conversations, the cartoonist should have bumped up the calendar a couple of months each time. ;-)

Title: Re: Lookit the calandar in the background...
Post by: Zac67 on December 01, 2009, 09:42:22 PM

:biglaugh: Makes me remember those days when we had to reenter our test station's bootstrap with digital switches.... Half a day for some 400 bytes back in 1988.

Title: Re: Lookit the calandar in the background...
Post by: JimS on December 01, 2009, 11:27:53 PM

I can remember using the memory test panel to write a jump to the system dump routine on the mainframe back in the 70's... didn't have to carve the bits out of wood though. ;-)