Geekbits Podcast - Growing up as a nerd in the 80s
Here's the latest episode of Geekbits with me, my brother, and a childhood friend. This was actually recorded the same day we did the last podcast, but has just now been edited for release. The next one should have some significant improvements in audio/video.
Growing Up as a Nerd in the 80s - GeekBits Podcast Episode 2 (The Geek Pub)
Comments (7)
Haha! Really funny when you talked about operating a gas pump 50 years ago. It reminded me that cars often had hidden gas caps way back when, and also required a separate gas cap key. https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-image-classic-chevy-automobile-concord-nc-april-closeup-showing-hidden-gas-cap-chevrolet-bel-air-display-charlotte-image39932351
Good point. I've seen that before at car shows. But yeah, if you didn't know exactly where it was hidden, it might take a while to find it!
Enjoyed the podcast! I can relate to many of the experiences mentioned. I knew more about computers than my computer teacher. I would program the computers at school and sometimes get into some shenanigans. Thanks for sharing the stories.
I love the irony of being a nerd and getting bullied by another nerd with what they thought was the superior computer. Good episode reminded me of a time in high school where I replaced the file doom.exe on all the floppies to a custom software that ran the startup init of doom but turned into a fake virus that asked simple math questions and no matter what you answered it would be wrong and it gave you 3 chances but ended with making crazy flashes on the screen with a whirring police siren using the PC speaker freaking out the whole class. I also wrote a simple pascal program to emulate the sound of the tone of our school bell and would run it simultaneously on 3-4 PCs to ensure it would loud enough and the teacher and classmates would be so confused why the bell rang early Of course I would be laughing inside as everyone would go out into the empty hallway while I acted like I was packing up LOL
I developed a software for my school. It ran on an Amiga 1000 and was quite a big piece of software to manage grades, timetables and a lot more for classes 11 to 13 (German school system). It was used from 1986 to 1998 on 3.5 inch discs. My teacher made a lot of copies to be sure the software will still run. They were so happy with it the principal gave me 200 DM. Quite a lot of money for about 100 hours of work ;) but I loved every minute of it.
Thanks for the Podcast. This episode brings back so many memories of middle school computer lab and being the school geek. i was never picked, bullied or discouraged by the teachers. Actually i probably was called to the office frequently not because i was in trouble but they couldn't figure out the computer.
Yes, I seen it. You and Mike should one day talk about Dimebag Darrel and Vinnie Paul since they are your second cousins after all.