02-01-2021, 09:31 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Engineering day at my Dad's university.. probably 1964. They had a mainframe with spinny tape drives. AND a robot that looked like a big mouse ! It was awesome. Later I got to play 'Pong" on a mainframe at Amherst College thanks to an uncle who was a professor there.. I was perhaps 7.
Oh, and I took apart my mom's wind up alarm clock when I was about 3. Almost got it working again. Probably should not have used a hammer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6HojLBsnw&ab_channel=sgispider
Got to play with TRS-80 in 77. Bought an Apple II when it came out.
Took my dad's old Timex watch apart when I was 7. Didn't break anything in doing so. My mom still has all of the parts in a pill bottle as she was so impressed with my work. Probably could have put it back together in my teens. Now, I'd need a good pair of magnifying glasses to even attempt it.