This one really got me. I’m from Seattle, and he was way too rich and young. 65 is only 22 years away for me. What am I doing with my life? I’ve been depressed lately and letting life pass me by....
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This one really got me. I’m from Seattle, and he was way too rich and young. 65 is only 22 years away for me.
What am I doing with my life? I’ve been depressed lately and letting life pass me by. I need to kick my butt back into gear.
Yeah, I'm also a lifelong Seattleite and this really hit me hard. If you've never been, I can't recommend the Living Computer Museum in Sodo highly enough. I went a few months back and was...
Yeah, I'm also a lifelong Seattleite and this really hit me hard.
If you've never been, I can't recommend the Living Computer Museum in Sodo highly enough. I went a few months back and was initially underwhelmed - the main floor seems like its tailored to middle school field trips, not a whole lot that interested me.
But then I went upstairs, and it's like a completely different museum. The first thing you see on that floor is an original Enigma machine, preserved from WWII. It's behind glass and you can't touch it. But then, there's a PDP-8...and it's actually running, and you can play with it. When I went it was running a chess program that you could play against, with an actual teletype printing out the chess board.
From the PDP-8 onwards, they have machines from every era of computer history, actually working and usable. There's a separate room, air-conditioned and with a raised floor, with working mainframes. There's an Apple II you can play Oregon Trail on.
This one really got me. I’m from Seattle, and he was way too rich and young. 65 is only 22 years away for me.
What am I doing with my life? I’ve been depressed lately and letting life pass me by. I need to kick my butt back into gear.
RIP Mr Allen, you did a lot of good.
Yeah, I'm also a lifelong Seattleite and this really hit me hard.
If you've never been, I can't recommend the Living Computer Museum in Sodo highly enough. I went a few months back and was initially underwhelmed - the main floor seems like its tailored to middle school field trips, not a whole lot that interested me.
But then I went upstairs, and it's like a completely different museum. The first thing you see on that floor is an original Enigma machine, preserved from WWII. It's behind glass and you can't touch it. But then, there's a PDP-8...and it's actually running, and you can play with it. When I went it was running a chess program that you could play against, with an actual teletype printing out the chess board.
From the PDP-8 onwards, they have machines from every era of computer history, actually working and usable. There's a separate room, air-conditioned and with a raised floor, with working mainframes. There's an Apple II you can play Oregon Trail on.
RIP. I didn't even know he was sick! 65 is too young.
Damn. Just two weeks ago he announced his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had returned but that his doctors were optimistic.