Good Heavens... a Game?
The title this week comes courtesy of my wife Dee... the words just popped out when she happened to see the name of the program I was looking at.
There's a story to this reaction, one that hopefully explains why computer games hardly ever grace my articles. It goes back a long time but still gives me the odd nightmare now and again.
Many, many years ago in a previous lifetime in another country I was a very new computer manager in a company with a new computer doing pretty new things. To show off our new fangled gadgets called Video Display Terminals and to start to break the ice we decided to have an open day for the staff. On this one day a computer game would be available for people to start getting used to this new equipment.
The intention was to put all twelve terminals into use to cut down on the lineups... after all we had the most powerful mainframe computer of it's day raring to go! Before we had half of this of this number in action things started to go seriously wrong... as in one very expensive, very fast processor grinding to a complete halt. Very publicly and for the rest of that day... very permanently.
It's not as if it was much of a game... something along the lines of Tic - Tac - Toe, and I'm still ashamed to have to admit that. We never could get our hands on the programmer involved, the computer company would not give him up... just as well. I've always believed the computer virus was invented that day.
The scars from that day have always made it easy to identify my computer from others... mine's the one with no games on board... I still don't trust them. Having said that I'm also a believer in finally facing these phobias so I've started a sort of twelve step approach of my own.
I started by allowing a visiting friend from England to download some board games and actually install them onto my system for their own use. I also
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