It's Done!!!!
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The XBOX 360 is done! Or at least, the hardware is being manufactured and put into boxes for shipping to stores. The launch date is Nov 22, so it's getting close. And I know logically that it has to be finalized, ready to go, built, packaged, and actually sent to retailers in advance of that. And because they're going to launch and sell more than a few, more like millions, the manufacturing has to be going now.
How do I know? Because there are videos of the process here. The manufacturing is not super interesting, but it is kind of funny to see white gloved individuals playing with the hardware, presumably to test it out.
Not that I'm looking to buy one right away. I've got one kid fascinated, but since he doesn't have a job, he doesnt' get to choose. And he plays enough now, at least enough to have my wife complaining. And there are only a few games that enjoy, mostly older ones like Missle Command and Galaga, which require far less power than the current XBOX, much less the new one.
But it's still exciting. Have had a Pong console, an Atari console, a Commodore Vic 20, Commodore 64, Apple II, and Nintendo throughout my youth, the idea of a new, more powerful console, is exciting.
I just want to know why I couldn't have one to give away at PASS 🙂
Steve Jones
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The big thing with XBOX 360 seems to be the advancements with online play. Being stuck with old-timey dial-up I am not that excited about the new XBOX. The Nintendo Revolution, however, has me very intrigued. The new controller design really is revolutionary from a console gaming perspective. See this article at Wired: Hands On With the Revolution.
BTW, I started with a Coleco Adam (learned Applesoft BASIC with it) went to C=64 and C=128 from there and then on to IBM compatibles. At least I never had to deal with punch cards or magnetic tape.
[font="Tahoma"]Bryant E. Byrd, BSSE MCDBA MCAD[/font]
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I'm too old (and too uncoordinated anyway) to have grown up with video games - I remember working in Manhattan in the early 80's - my early 30's, and suddenly seeing everyone carrying a Nintendo box home around Christmas....
But your mention of the Commodore VIC, C-64, etc brought back some memories! I started in 1982 with a TI-99A, which I used to hone my skills in the Gutter Basic I had picked up during a numerical analysis course I took in the '70s. I was a mechanical engineer at that time, and a lazy one at that, so I was always looking for a way to get out of doing tedious calculations for piping pressure drop or whatever.
Two years later I graduated to an Atari 800 (a most underrated computer that suffered in the shadows of Apple II) and an 88K, single-sided disk drive. I was in heaven.
By 1985, I matriculated in an evening graduate school progam in computer science - and along with that came a Kaypro II CP/M luggable and Turbo Pascal, courses in structured programming, algorithms, data structures, etc.
All that was part of a years-long progression that took me through PCs, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, and utlimately SQL Server.
I hadn't thought about the "home computer" days for a long time - thanks for the memory!
-- SteveR
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Never had an 800, but my buddy did and we played some submarine graphic game many afternoons after school.
Fond memories imdeed!
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>>and suddenly seeing everyone carrying a Nintendo box home around Christmas....<<
Sorry - it was the Atari VCS - my brain somehow skipped about a decade and a half! The Atari VCS hit the streets in time for Christmas 1977
http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=28&t=3
best regards,
SteveR
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Jeepers, Grandpa, how many Atari's could you haul with a horse and buggy?
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