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July 11, 2001 Pitfall and Old Tech

Interview with David Crane, creator of Pitfall.
For those of you under age 20, back in the early 1980s, before Nintendo and the Sony Playstation, there were gaming consoles like the Atari 2600. I actually had an Intellivision. Pitfall was a game that caused much of my free time to be sucked down a black hole. I like reminiscing about old tech. I grew up in the age of the Atari 2600, the Commodore 64 and the Apple IIe. My former boss (she's
about 50 years old) told me about hacking the school's computer while in college to play the text based "Adventure" game. My mom used to write Fortran programs stored on punch cards (at home we used blank punch cards as note paper). I was talking with a friend of mine a few years ago about how fast computer tech has advanced. We agreed that in a few decades, kids would not believe that there were computers that ran on 64K of RAM. That's 64K, not 64MB.

Posted by Christy on July 11, 2001 10:41 PM

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