Age

Okay, Microsoft Outlook has some really interesting quirks. One of them is that it displays a little pop-up message on the screen when a new piece of mail arrives. It's a small preview box, containing who the mail is from, when it was sent, the subject line, and a snippet of the message itself. The snippet I got for this particular message was a good one: "I'm 30. It's a simple story. Parents bought my brother" Now, I don't know why, but I was expecting something other than the follow-up of "and I an Intellivision" when I opened the e-mail. I mean no offense, but for some reason I was thinking the full message would be more along the lines of a Weekly World News story about how your parents had bought your brother and you from space aliens or something. The actual story about the game consoles was a little bit of a letdown. Again, I intend no disrespect -- for my own part, my mother always told me that I looked like the milkman when I asked her which side of the family I resembled... -- Tony -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Computer Collector Newsletter Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:21 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Age I'm 30. It's a simple story. Parents bought my brother and I an Intellivision, with just Pong, I don't remember if it was the late 1970s or early 1980s. Then we graduated to an Atari VCS (it wasn't a real '2600'). At school, I learned Logo -- pretty sure the hardware was Commodore but I don't remember 100%. That must've been in fourth or fifth grade; they school had just a couple of computers on these big wheeled carts, and once a week they'd bring them into each classroom for a couple of hours. LOL, for other kids the happiest time in school was lunch or gym or recess or just Friday: for me it computer day. In sixth grade we got Apple II+ computers in school; my brother (three years older) got a IIe for his bar mitzvah present. I pretty much took over that one. Used it all the way through high school and jumped directly to a 386 in college. It was completely by accident that I started collecting handhelds a few years ago. ===== Evan's personal homepage: www.snarc.net *** Tell your friends about the Computer Collector Newsletter! - It's free and we'll never send spam or share your email address - Publishing every Monday(-ish), ask about writing for us - Mainframes to videogames, hardware and software, we cover it all - W: http://news.computercollector.com E: news at computercollector.com - We're approaching 700 readers: win a prize!