Reply to: Commodore 64 turns 30

[Old Greg]

Is third rate your insult "du jour"?
A classic instance of projection, I suspect.

You're taking this all the wrong way, my friend. You've been an able assistant at times when dealing with some of the more pernicious cretins on this board, and I commend you for that. And your doggedness and enthusiasm is certainly a fine character feature.

[sasguru]

You're still a bit too third rate, though.

Is third rate your insult "du jour"?
A classic instance of projection, I suspect.

[Old Greg]

FTFY.
Most members of the medical profession seem to me to be crammers with little logical skill.
Medicine is almost seen as one of the Humanities.
They should make Maths compulsory for doctors, training in stats is essential to be a good doctor with an evidence-based mindset.

You're still a bit too third rate, though.

[sasguru]

Btw what was the B in?

The B was in Physics. The As were in Maths and Biology.

[sasguru]

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 superior GP.

FTFY.
Most members of the medical profession seem to me to be crammers with little logical skill.
Medicine is almost seen as one of the Humanities.
They should make Maths compulsory for doctors, training in stats is essential to be a good doctor with an evidence-based mindset.

[Scrag Meister]

<nostalgia/>

I have very fond memories of games and coding on the Commodore 64. My parents were really annoyed at the gaming as it was bought on the premise that I would be learning computing. How gullible.

I did do plenty of peeking, poking, Dr Watson's Assembler and putting colour chars in strings and have been programming Basic for most of my working life.

Way of the exploding fist, Bruce Lee, Hovver Bovver, Jeff Minter, Tony Crowther, Impossible Mission, Pitstop 2, and any number of joystick killing athletics games ala Daley Thomson's Decathlon and my faithful Kempston Pro joystick.

£199 quid well invested IMHO. Even bought the 1541 floppy drive for £140, what a beast.

</nostalgia>

Sigh!

[Alf W]

Fort Apocalypse on the 64 was one of only two computer games I ever got to the end of. The other was one of the Quakes on a PS2.

I remember the 64 had a triangular joystick that had been ergonomically designed to inflict maximum skin loss and bruising on the joystick thumb and holding hand.

[Cliphead]

I wrote my first sequencer for the C64 cos it was the only machine with a decent sound chip. Bought it one week gigged it the next, Thomas Dolby was a wannabe.

[BigTime]

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.

Btw what was the B in?

[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.

[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

[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.

[sbakoola]

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

[northernladuk]

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

Rebirth of the Commodore 64 PC | ForeverGeek

[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.