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I suppose you young whippersnappers never saw a LOGO turtle robot before? Kids of today I dunno...
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I remember LOGO.
Seemed like the most awesome thing ever at the time...
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59,
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Seemed like the most awesome thing ever at the time...

you obviously went to the posh school with the very expensive computers
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59,
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and keyboards that contained all the letters of the alphabet.
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:00,
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my childhood computers were all powered by imagination
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:05,
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But I'm only 19, and I've messed with the logo turtle many a time (it was originally just a triangle).
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:07,
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... it's the onscreen version, jazzed up a little, from (faulty) memory.
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:11,
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he was never very keen to let me play with it,
it turned out that it was because it was crap
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:01,
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it turned out that it was because it was crap

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
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:02,
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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
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 22:06,
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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

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
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Thu 1 Nov 2007, 21:59,
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i use to get it to make 12foot wide circles with screen wrap, and trip out as glowing green lines scribbled over the screen