**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:22

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:22

Craig Maloney ☕ ✅ @craigmaloney@octodon.social

Unrelated: I still get an unreasonable bit of joy whenever I see a picture of the manuals for Turbo Pascal and Turbo C.

(Which you can read online if you're so inclined: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturReferenceGuide1988_19310204)

**zigg** @zigg · Jun 20, 2018, 11:25

**zigg** @zigg · Jun 20, 2018, 11:25

@craigmaloney I still have the tattered TI Extended BASIC manual on my shelf that I learned to program with when I was 5-6

I don’t think I’ll ever let it go, even though the computer itself has been lost

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:27

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:27

@zigg Would you believe I have a shelf of old computer manuals, including the Atari Basic manual and tutorial from my first computer?

Something powerful about those old manuals.

**zigg** @zigg · Jun 20, 2018, 11:29

**zigg** @zigg · Jun 20, 2018, 11:29

@craigmaloney Oh, I would totally believe that. These are formative things, they left an outsized impression on us.

I’ve flipped the pages on occasion and am transported back to learning hex so I could create sprites…

**zigg** @zigg · 2018-06-20T11:29:57Z

zigg @zigg

@craigmaloney 35 years. Wow.

Jun 20, 2018, 11:29 · Toot! · 0 · 2

**zigg** @zigg · Jun 20, 2018, 11:30

**zigg** @zigg · Jun 20, 2018, 11:30

@craigmaloney My parents were in their twenties yet. _I_ barely remember my twenties. 😁

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:32

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:32

@zigg Yeah, my mind boggles at that.

I think the only things I remember about my twenties were working at WSU (which was awesome), moving to Ford, and finding Linux). Oh, and finding JoDee too. :)