https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/13/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong/ Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/13/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong/#comment-494662 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:36:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13424#comment-494662 In middle school, I was mastering the C and D scales of a hand-me-down sliderule.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/13/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong/#comment-494661 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:32:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13424#comment-494661 Star Trek. Lots and lots of versions of Star Trek.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/13/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong/#comment-494660 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:17:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13424#comment-494660 If this is a computer question, I reached my peak in programming. This was a one liner program in C64 basic that was a sort of a screensaver printing randomly colored spacebar characters in an infinite loop.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/13/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong/#comment-494659 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:06:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13424#comment-494659 Middle School was pet black widow spiders, re-articulated jackrabbit skeletons, and a totally awesome rock collection. (It really was. Growing up next to a borax mine has some advantages.) I did not really have access to any computer before I got to High School. At that point, I did get a chance to write actual programs; on punch cards, no less. Never saw a teletype until I was in college.

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