Another picture perfect Sunday, and what better opportunity to enjoy it than to do a little Motocross!
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The 9-year-old Programmer
In response to the ZDNet article that Chad Elstad posted (you can read “The Mac’s 30th: What’s Your Story?” here: http://www.zdnet.com/the-macs-30th-whats-your-story…/ ). When I was 5 years old, I remember printing out computer programs on our Apple ][+ (Remember PR#1, LIST ?), and then trying to type them in to my Commodore PET computer. My first lesson in incompatibility! When I was 9 years old, I created a Baseball game in BASIC using lo-res Apple graphics (pictured below). I’m still a huge fan of the Apple ][ platform and I still have a working Apple ][gs that gets use from time to time…
Bethany and I go up in a 1929 Curtiss Travelair Biplane at Faribault Airfest
Bethany and I take off in a 1929 Curtiss Travelair Biplane (from Nostalgic Wings) and fly around Cannon Lake near Faribault, Minnesota.
Copying Number Munchers from PC Compatible through null MODEM cable to Apple //gs
Having been an Apple ][ enthusiast for 30 years, I often wondered if there was an easy way to download Apple disk images off the Internet and somehow transfer them over to an Apple to use. It so happens a program called ADTPro is available to accomplish this task with an easy-to-build null MODEM cable.
YFZ450 Motocross with no jumps? Hurricane Hills, Mazeppa, MN
Joe and I do some totally goony motocross. The object? Must keep all 4 tires on the ground at all times. Motocross turned into a TT race. I must admit this was kind of fun.
YFZ450 vs. YZ250 battle at Hurricane Hills, Mazeppa, MN
The video starts out slow, but then I catch up to Dave on his YZ250 and the race is on!
YFZ450 Crash at Hurricane Hills, Mazeppa, MN
I take a lap around Hurricane Hills myself, and then I follow Joe around the track. He gets a little sideways on the Sky Jump, and when he touches the ground, the quad swings the other way bucking Joe off. The crash is at 5:25.