Fascinating.

Up until this moment, I had no idea there was a Penske vs. U-HAUL religious war, complete with fanboys! I learned something today!

Did I miss it somewhere? It would be interesting to know the retail cost at time of purchase for each computer.

I knew/knew of the submitter (Hi Bill!) in college. He had a real hard-on for Atari's. Still does, apparently. :)

Adman

You're lucky! There were a hundred and twenty six of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road...

I lol'd

Put a keylogger on it.

Advertise this fact to people who borrow the computer.

Or not.

I still remember my first Diamond Monster 3dfx video card. I bought it moments after seeing a demo, because it was just that awesome.

I then remember downloading the 3dfx patches for games like Tomb Raider and Interstate '76 (what a great game that was)...

Good times. We take so much for granted these days.

I cracked my first game using "debug" a long time ago... It was "Speedball II, Brutal Deluxe", which remains in the running for Best Video Game Title Ever.

FWIW, I didn't do anything with the crack. It was my own legal copy of the game. I just wanted to see if I could do it. One little NOP, and the whole call to the copy protection subroutine was canceled. Ha!

Did anyone actually read the search warrant? There's a LOT more in there than "using Linux".

Changing grades, hacking into unauthorized systems, non-trivial harassment...

This is one of the most misleading headlines I've seen in a long time.

"And when we wrote it, we checked for overflows, underflows, error status and illegal input."

And you also wrote bugs that you didn't immediately realize you were creating.

Not all bugs are due to laziness. Sometimes people make mistakes, or misunderstand requirements, or the operating parameters change, or, or, or...

Unless you only need 14'... In which case you've wasted lots of money.

You're exactly right, and it's been done.

http://www.gadgetspage.com/toys-games/the-guitar-zeros-play-real-music-with-guitar-hero-controllers.html

I think I have a good guess at what happened after you left...

And it doesn't involve a Kingon-English dictionary. It involves a whiteboard eraser. :)

It's common for people to mistake "ironically" with "coincidentally".

Which makes sense, I suppose. Coincidence and irony often walk hand in hand.

Lawn.

Off.

Now.

*whoooosh*