Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Take a Time Out

One of the funniest video shorts I have seen in a long time is called "Time Out" by Robbie Chafitz. It was premiered at Sundance.



Did-You-Know the Best-Selling Personal Computer of All Time?




As many computer geeks of my generation probably assume, it was the Commodore 64. This was the first introduction to computers that most GenXers had in their childhood. While it was a great vehicle for playing video games, the "Sony Playstation" of its time, it was also a good vehicle to program BASIC on or to run word processing software.

The C64, as it is called by the inner circle, is not the best computer for hacking into government defense systems. Instead, that would be the IMSAI 8080 microcomputer, as featured in the geek hero movie, War Games, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.