Commodore 64 turns 30

[sasguru]

BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

I have decidely mixed feelings about the 64. My youthful enthusiasm with "peeking" and "poking" led me to do a computer engineering degree rather than something more generic and long-term useful.
Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.

[BS1397]

BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

I have decidely mixed feelings about the 64. My youthful enthusiasm with "peeking" and "poking" led me to do a computer engineering degree rather than something more generic and long-term useful.
Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.

Commodore USA

[insur]

I think your index finger is put to much better use when used for typing on a keyboard.

Certainly far better than being used to perform an examination of a patients rear passage.

[Old Greg]

BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

I have decidely mixed feelings about the 64. My youthful enthusiasm with "peeking" and "poking" led me to do a computer engineering degree rather than something more generic and long-term useful.
Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.

So what would you have done when you failed medical school entry?

[sasguru]

So what would you have done when you failed medical school entry?

At the time, 3 As required and not even in hard subjects like Maths and Physics.
In the event got two As and a B including Maths and Physics.
If they didn't like the B, would have retaken next year

HTH, thicko.

[northernladuk]

Get yourself a Commodore 64 PC and relive the good times...

Rebirth of the Commodore 64 PC | ForeverGeek

[sbakoola]

playing that video made me realise what an old fecker I am.

[escapeUK]

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707]Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.

I think your manner is more suited to the back room coding than the bedside.

[BigTime]

I think your manner is more suited to the back room coding than the bedside.

++++++1

Imagine all the cretinous twunts you'd encounter as a civil servant

[Old Greg]

At the time, 3 As required and not even in hard subjects like Maths and Physics.
In the event got two As and a B including Maths and Physics.
If they didn't like the B, would have retaken next year

HTH, thicko.

I work with medical doctors. Some of them are bright enough but I can charitably see that you might have re-taken and ended up as a sub-standard GP.