[13:35] ishbadiddle: check out the gift catalog (scroll down)
[13:35] ishbadiddle: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery7.html
[13:36] molanphy: Oh. my. god.
[13:36] molanphy: Is that a rug?
[13:40] ishbadiddle: wall hanging?
[13:51] molanphy: Am still marveling at the Apple catalog. Wow. Provides further evidence for my contention that the early '80s were an uglier time than the '70s.
[13:52] molanphy: Back then, I actually wasn't an Apple user; Apple was The Enemy, as was Commodore. My PC of choice was an Atari 400.
[13:53] ishbadiddle: i had an Atari 800!
[13:53] molanphy: POWER, BROTHER!!
[13:53] molanphy: ...and Atari had a similar catalog where you could buy rainbow-hued T-shirts with the logo.
[13:53] ishbadiddle: tape drive and all
[13:53] molanphy: YUP!
[13:54] molanphy: Remember the buzz the computer gave when you wanted to load from a tape? You'd type CLOAD, I think, and then this loud BUZZZZZT! would emanate from the machine, telling you to hit "Play."
[13:54] ishbadiddle: right
[13:54] ishbadiddle: i actually went to ATARI COMPUTER CAMP
[13:54] molanphy: Oh. my. god. I'm so jealous!
[13:54] molanphy: In '82-'83, I dreamed about that camp.
[13:55] molanphy: I also used to dream about having an 800 with a full-stroke keyboard rather than my pitiful membrane-keyboarded 400.
[13:56] ishbadiddle: i got it with my bar mitzvah money
[13:56] molanphy: Nice.
[13:57] ishbadiddle: you didn't miss much with the camp, btw
[13:57] molanphy: You benefited from being older than me. By the time I had my score with the Catholic equivalent (confirmation), it was the fall of '84 and we'd already upgraded to the 800XL
[13:57] ishbadiddle: http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/star-raiders/
[13:57] molanphy: Glad for me/sorry for you that the camp was lame
[13:58] molanphy: WOW
[13:58] molanphy: First computer game I ever played.
[13:58] molanphy: (not counting Atari 2600 games at friends' houses)
[13:58] molanphy: Hyperspace was the shit
[13:59] ishbadiddle: grab an emulator here you can play it again sam http://ch.twi.tudelft.nl/~sidney/atari/
[13:59] molanphy: Thank you
[14:01] molanphy: Just played all the sound sample. [sniff...wipes away tear]
[14:01] ishbadiddle: you never forget your first game
[14:01] molanphy: [lights cigarette]
[14:02] molanphy: Changing subject: Do you guys watch the Colbert Report?
[14:02] ishbadiddle: yes
[14:02] molanphy: http://www.eskimo.com/~vecna/truthiness.html
[14:03] ishbadiddle: omg
[14:05] molanphy: Skip to part about "balls."
[14:06] ishbadiddle: flat out hilarious
[14:33] ishbadiddle: hey can i blim this?
[14:34] molanphy: Sure!
[14:34] ishbadiddle: too much good stuff :)
[14:34] molanphy: The Atari convo especially
[14:34] ishbadiddle: yup
[14:35] molanphy: Rereading the whole thing, I expect you will make fun of my "full-stroke keyboard" comment. ;-)
[14:37] ishbadiddle: isn't that a piano-only strokes cover band?
[14:38] molanphy: It's actually a new side project of Howard Jones and Tony Banks of Genesis, playing covers of Strokes songs on giant Yamahas.

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