I knew you worked for Atari and hoped you would chime in to let me know if I was correct or not.
Were you a coder or hardware or both?
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I knew you worked for Atari and hoped you would chime in to let me know if I was correct or not.
Were you a coder or hardware or both?
There was a guy that landed a space shuttle simulator at the Houston Space museum, and for an encore did it again. Lots of backslapping. Some English guy.
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i actually worked in manufacturing. taught myself digital and then worked on repairing the PCBs. that led me to designing test equipment, some of which Atari sold to customers. by the time engineering got interested in me i was making way too much money for what they'd pay for an undegreed engineer. when i quit, i had 400 people reporting to me and took a job as a sole engineer designing test equipment for one of the first grocery laser scanners. all my test equipment employed MPUs-- assembly language in bygone 4 and 8 bit days. finally got tired of burning myself with soldering irons, piercings with wire-wrap posts and started teaching myself high level languages.
once the use of pointers in C finally "clicked", i never looked back and retired as a software VP. (if Sam reads this, i know at least he'll "get" the pointer reference
but the early days were the best. pharmaceuticals mixed with NAND gates can lead to nirvana...
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OH! I totally forgot!
Yes, MamaT. It's just about time to send me some wood. You got a few weeks, tho, so don't stress.
cool. my lazy azz left cheek muscle has begun stirring a bit...
if the right cheek begins to twitch, i'll probly have to PM you for your mailing addy.
it has been far too long since Mama sent dibby some wood...
i can't find your mailing addy
Life Expectancy: 82.32 years
Lower Quartile: 73.27 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 84.75 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 92.71 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
I think your chart is broken... because I listed yes for 7 of 10 max stress factors and all it cared about was if I was smoking...
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Okay, I took it. Considering my family on both sides routinely lived in their hundreds even smoking lots this is not surprising. 
Life Expectancy: 89.12 years
Lower Quartile: 82.47 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 91.18 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 98.03 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
Life Expectancy: 89.12 years
Lower Quartile: 82.47 years (75% chance you will live longer than this)
Median Lifetime: 91.18 years (50% chance you will live longer than this)
Upper Quartile: 98.03 years (25% chance you will live longer than this)
Maybe appropriate to get on the list for a 3rd? (that's alot of time for just 2 mods, Kogi, Glass)
. . . . . . rest o' y'all may as well just lay down . . . . .
. . . . . . rest o' y'all may as well just lay down . . . . .
I'm glad I'm perfecting my cold storage strategies now than....
May be the only way I hit the hundred mark
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i took the life expectancy test.
unless dibby steps up his game, i may have to cancel #4. #3 is iffy, at best...
at least this test didn't say i shoulda kicked it a couple years ago...
unless dibby steps up his game, i may have to cancel #4. #3 is iffy, at best...
at least this test didn't say i shoulda kicked it a couple years ago...
I'm at 73 TTL, no surprise but still a bummer. Most of my family haven't gone past 60 so I'll take it. Makes me wonder why I dump so much into my 401k lol who knows, maybe they will get that RoboCop deal worked out soon.
Nevermind. MamaT says you can have his #3&4 spots.
I did a Ouija thing when I was ~20. It said 54. So, I'm just gonna coast from here on . . ..
Nevermind. MamaT says you can have his #3&4 spots.
I did a Ouija thing when I was ~20. It said 54. So, I'm just gonna coast from here on . . ..
hold the f'in phone...
methinks i said maybe. (with a smiley face...)
still trying to cram 10 pounds of wood into a 5 pound priority mail box.
blivet, indeed...
i actually worked in manufacturing. taught myself digital and then worked on repairing the PCBs. that led me to designing test equipment, some of which Atari sold to customers. by the time engineering got interested in me i was making way too much money for what they'd pay for an undegreed engineer. when i quit, i had 400 people reporting to me and took a job as a sole engineer designing test equipment for one of the first grocery laser scanners. all my test equipment employed MPUs-- assembly language in bygone 4 and 8 bit days. finally got tired of burning myself with soldering irons, piercings with wire-wrap posts and started teaching myself high level languages.
once the use of pointers in C finally "clicked", i never looked back and retired as a software VP. (if Sam reads this, i know at least he'll "get" the pointer reference
but the early days were the best. pharmaceuticals mixed with NAND gates can lead to nirvana...
MamaT if you ever find yourself in Southwest Missouri you have an open invitation. Much time spent with 4 & 8 bit micros, TTL's, machine language input, assembler, building my own Z80 machine with proto boards, deep iron burns, drawing blood from kynar wire, burning eproms. Those were good times. I worked for a local vending company repairing boards, monitors, pinballs and outsourced myself to others including Bally for a short while. Went a different direction though and got myself into some trouble and even though no charges were filed was fired from Bally. Learned a lesson in life the hard way from that point lingering in dead end jobs bench shooting TV's and radios and various jobs at a bowling center for 9 years till I got straight found my wife and rebuilt my life.
Oh good! I'm sure I'll be waiting on tenterhooks, with bated breath til then
Good luck shoving that ancient wood in that box, dear Dennis!
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Good luck shoving that ancient wood in that box, dear Dennis!
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Same here in NYC actually, Dennis- your an interesting bloke and I'd love a chat over a pint( well a glass of wine and whatever your drinking
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i actually worked in manufacturing. taught myself digital and then worked on repairing the PCBs. that led me to designing test equipment, some of which Atari sold to customers. by the time engineering got interested in me i was making way too much money for what they'd pay for an undegreed engineer. when i quit, i had 400 people reporting to me and took a job as a sole engineer designing test equipment for one of the first grocery laser scanners. all my test equipment employed MPUs-- assembly language in bygone 4 and 8 bit days. finally got tired of burning myself with soldering irons, piercings with wire-wrap posts and started teaching myself high level languages.
once the use of pointers in C finally "clicked", i never looked back and retired as a software VP. (if Sam reads this, i know at least he'll "get" the pointer reference
but the early days were the best. pharmaceuticals mixed with NAND gates can lead to nirvana...
I loved coding in "C". My favorite language, with Turbo Pascal a close second. Was doing windows stuff with Borlands Delphi when I finally got laid off. I loved writing code.
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