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I'm sure a few of you have heard of the computer game genre known as "Tank Wars" or "Scorched Earth"... Basically a 2D game where you had any number of tank or artillery positions and you had to attack them via a variety of weapons and selecting your angle and power...

When I was a senior in high school, I took a computer science class where we were programming in... I think Pascal, on the Apple IIgs.

Within the first couple of days, I realized this class was a joke. We had three weeks to learn and practice a "for" loop, followed by three weeks to learn and practice "if-then" statements, etc...

I knew immediately that it was going to bore the crap out of me. So I wrote a version of Scorched Earth for the Apple IIgs as my final project, starting early in the semester. It even required writing an entire section of subroutines to create text characters because there was no inherent ability to overlay text over graphics, so I had to have routines to draw every single letter and number. It randomized the terrain and the location of every tank, and obviously I had to write routines that would determine hit vs miss to know when a tank was destroyed. It even included multiple weapons, wind force, etc.

All the final project was required to demonstrate was use of each of the main programming tasks we had learned. Mine clearly exceeded that goal. I got an A.

There was a time when we'd play this game into the wee hours, lol.  

was your company selling HDs in 1985

Seagate was just about it

I Havent owned a seagate for the last 20 years assuming Dell doesnt use them

We  buy your stuff.  Lots and lots of it.  Of course, we buy lots from your competitors, too.  Sorry.

Did I tell you that my first job at my company was as a Supply Chain Manager for PowerVault storage products?  JBODs, RBODs and... yup... TAPE.

Tape? Tape's been dead for 30 years...

Granted, don't tell that to the tape guys who are still selling boatloads of it lol... (Some of whom are my customers...)

Actually I'm leading a product training for some of your guys next week.

If I had to buy a hard drive today Id probably check out Western Digital or Toshiba

FTFY...

Actually if I was truly FTFY, I'd say that if you're buying a hard drive today for an actual PC, you should buy an SSD instead. Also available from the same company ;-) 

Tape? Tape's been dead for 30 years...

Granted, don't tell that to the tape guys who are still selling boatloads of it lol... (Some of whom are my customers...)

Actually I'm leading a product training for some of your guys next week.
FTFY...

Actually if I was truly FTFY, I'd say that if you're buying a hard drive today for an actual PC, you should buy an SSD instead. Also available from the same company ;-)

Yeah when I started we were still selling half a billion per year in tape.  Now it's probably only a quarter billion.  Obviously, you know the use cases-- archiving for large financial and accounting firms, defense contractors, that type of thing.

The wife had a significant arsenal of VHS tapes she wanted to move.  I managed to talk her into throwing them out by asking when she last watched one.  She probably had 200, some were French programs she had taped off the air back when.

I recall recording cassette tapes of FM broadcasts back in the day, they were pretty crappy.

Honestly this is a major societal change. For those who grew up pre-internet, seeing an adult magazine was a rare occurance. How many 12 year old boys today haven't seen the equivalent (and much more explicit images) on their phones?

Not just porn but dating too. Thank God I wasn't limited to just whomever I met at work or a bar.