From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 21:08:17 MDT
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:52:12AM -0400, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> > That was a problem for another day so I decided to save and
> shut down
> > for the evening. I punched the wrong button while saving and lost
> the entire
> > program. To this day, 23 years later, I have never had the heart
> to redo that
> > job. That is why this is a painful subject. <G> Thanks, Anders.
>
> Beautiful sad story. It brings tears to my eyes. I recall the many
> wonderful programs hidden in the swirly grey lines of the load
> function
> of my Sinclair ZX-81 as I tried to recall them again from the messy
> tapes - lost forever due to accidental overwrites, bad encoding or
> the recorder stuttering. I hope there is a heaven for loved
> software.
>
> Now *that* is a good idea for starting an Omega Point! :-)
Ah, I miss so much my NFL Football program I wrote in 1981 in BASIC on
a TI-99. All 13,000+ lines of code, entered by hand each time I wanted
to play (the Junior High School didn't believe in keeping computers
running or buying floppy disks to keep data on....). I once had a
printout of it from when I wrote it into the Kiewit system at Dartmouth
from a teletype terminal. Mom threw all that stuff away when I went
into the Air Force (she kept my oil paintings though). I could have
been a video game mogul, I tell ya.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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