Geeked OUT
I do these meetings with my "mentor" quadriweekly. It's like monthly only it's really every 4 weeks. Usually we talk about management issues. Sometimes we talk tech on the current state of what I or he is working on. Then there was yesterday. Yesterday we mostly talked 6502. Actually come to think of it we barely talked 6502 we mostly talked apple ][. Yes indeed. While I had one when I was a kid I was mostly not exposed to other people who did anything more than talk about the best way to get through a miner 2049er level or which bitch was doing the killing in the "hi rez" adventure game Mystery House. If you click through and look at the picture you'll see what was "high rez" in 1980.
I was the shit with my apple ][. I fucking had not one but two disk drives. I have to admit until my father actually worked at a computer store I was unaware of what intellectual property was and there was some locksmith run on my machine. Hey I had two! Two! TWO disk drives! It would have been a crime not to use them. Wait. um... yeah I was a kid. like 12. I had no idea. Maybe an inkling. I'm clean now. I mean really I actually own photoshop CS. K? I'm just saying. Shut it.
CMF Jon... wait let me explain that's our titles in the CMF society. It's like as close to a holy order as I'll ever get and yes it stand for crazy mutherfucker. I'm CMF JR or JR CMF either works. You can kiss my ring. See Crazy Trips for reference. Hollywood. If you see me in person and have a lot of time you can ask me about the Vegas trip. You might also want a strong stomach or to have not eaten recently when you ask. Just a tip. It was crazy. Tangent.
CMF Jon systematically went through the whole architecture of the apple series (from memory) starting with the plus and ended on the 128k 2e. Of which I did not have. It was great. We had a short tangent (ok not so short) where we glossed over the EE to see how a 555 chip can be made into a one bit analog to digital converter. It was just a lovely afternoon. I learner so much. It's good to learn about one's geek routes.
I was the shit with my apple ][. I fucking had not one but two disk drives. I have to admit until my father actually worked at a computer store I was unaware of what intellectual property was and there was some locksmith run on my machine. Hey I had two! Two! TWO disk drives! It would have been a crime not to use them. Wait. um... yeah I was a kid. like 12. I had no idea. Maybe an inkling. I'm clean now. I mean really I actually own photoshop CS. K? I'm just saying. Shut it.
CMF Jon... wait let me explain that's our titles in the CMF society. It's like as close to a holy order as I'll ever get and yes it stand for crazy mutherfucker. I'm CMF JR or JR CMF either works. You can kiss my ring. See Crazy Trips for reference. Hollywood. If you see me in person and have a lot of time you can ask me about the Vegas trip. You might also want a strong stomach or to have not eaten recently when you ask. Just a tip. It was crazy. Tangent.
CMF Jon systematically went through the whole architecture of the apple series (from memory) starting with the plus and ended on the 128k 2e. Of which I did not have. It was great. We had a short tangent (ok not so short) where we glossed over the EE to see how a 555 chip can be made into a one bit analog to digital converter. It was just a lovely afternoon. I learner so much. It's good to learn about one's geek routes.
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