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[challenge entry] old skool


I suppose you young whippersnappers never saw a LOGO turtle robot before? Kids of today I dunno...

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(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:56, archived)
# Ah memories...
I remember LOGO.

Seemed like the most awesome thing ever at the time...
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59, archived)
# thems some high res and lots of colours for a logo turtle
you obviously went to the posh school with the very expensive computers
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59, archived)
# with those fancy 'mice'
and keyboards that contained all the letters of the alphabet.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:00, archived)
# we had one key between us
and yer took yer turn
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:01, archived)
# You show your age.
There were no mice.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:01, archived)
# *shrugs*
my childhood computers were all powered by imagination
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:05, archived)
# Erm, hate to ruin your nostalgia
But I'm only 19, and I've messed with the logo turtle many a time (it was originally just a triangle).
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:07, archived)
# OK, OK...
... it's the onscreen version, jazzed up a little, from (faulty) memory.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:11, archived)
# logo turtles and bigtrack ftw
:)
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59, archived)
# a mate of mine had a bigtrak
he was never very keen to let me play with it,

it turned out that it was because it was crap
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:01, archived)
# me and a mate of mine were discussing this the other day
while the idea of the thing was genius and i did infact want one SOOOOOOO bad, there were only so many options you had with the thing really
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:02, archived)
# because you wanted it to be able to go to the kitchen
and fetch you a can of fanta from the fridge

but even if you could program the journey successfully, you still needed your mum to be in the kitchen to put the fanta in the trailer and program in the return journey

which would never happen
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:06, archived)
# hahaha
i had a sort of version of that on my amstrad 256k word processor
i use to get it to make 12foot wide circles with screen wrap, and trip out as glowing green lines scribbled over the screen
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59, archived)
# I'm afraid it's all geek to me!



(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:00, archived)
# I remember this!
woo!
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:01, archived)
# hahaha :)
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:01, archived)
# I like that
but I never liked LOGO. though I did like BASIC back then, so that shows I just had no taste.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:44, archived)
# Gaaah
I get enough of this at work (testing primary software - Crystal Rainforest anyone?)

Woo though
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:49, archived)