Battle of the Planets! I loved that show. My first anime fandom. ;) I couldn't decide if I thought Mark or Jason was cooler. =)
I think the first computer I worked on was an Atari 400. It may have been the TI-99, though. Bit vague on that as I was all of 7 at the time. I used both, I'm just not sure which was first. The first one my family owned was an Apple ][c.
Ahh, the Atari 400/800! I remember going to Sears just to play with them and write simple BASIC programs (10 print "Ritsuo "; 20 goto 10) :) Some of the games were pretty good too (Space Radier or something like that). Ahh, how I miss the days of tape drives (well, not really, but they give me that warm nostalgic feeling).
Yeah, the "good ol' days" when you plugged a cassette player into the computer to store your data. I remember one time I played the cassette tape just to listen to it. I found it fascinating that those beeps and squeals and hisses were somehow interpreted by the computer to be the program I'd just written.
On an entirely unrelated question-- why, in Japanese, are there names where the 'u' is silent or dropped? Like in Evangelion, Asuka and Ritsuko are usually pronounced 'As-ka' and 'Rit-sko', but Fuyutski doesn't have a silent 'u' in it. I was watching another anime recently (Fushigi Yugi) and one of the character's names is pronounced that way so I was reminded again. Thought you might know. =)
Regarding the silent 'u' (and 'i'), it primarily depends on dialect. It only affects 'u' and 'i's between two voiceless consonant. With Fuyutsuki, the 'y' is voiced thus causes the first two 'u's to be voiced. The last 'u' is between two unvoiced consonants, thus unvoiced itself. The last 'i' may or may not be voiced depending on the first consonant of the following word (assuming Fuyutsuki isn't at the end of a sentence, in which case, the 'i' is voiced).
Clear as mud? My linguistic talents don't normally lie with phonetics, but this case is an exception :)
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I waited for the Apple IIE. Actually I married into it. ;)
(There's clowns and then there's clowns. *shudders*)
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I miss my Commodore Amiga. Now that was a computer!
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Mmmmm.... I think I'll go make me some brussell sprouts! Thanks for the idea dude! ;)
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:-D
*Rit goes off to the bathroom to lose his breakfast...*
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I think the first computer I worked on was an Atari 400. It may have been the TI-99, though. Bit vague on that as I was all of 7 at the time. I used both, I'm just not sure which was first. The first one my family owned was an Apple ][c.
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On an entirely unrelated question-- why, in Japanese, are there names where the 'u' is silent or dropped? Like in Evangelion, Asuka and Ritsuko are usually pronounced 'As-ka' and 'Rit-sko', but Fuyutski doesn't have a silent 'u' in it. I was watching another anime recently (Fushigi Yugi) and one of the character's names is pronounced that way so I was reminded again. Thought you might know. =)
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Regarding the silent 'u' (and 'i'), it primarily depends on dialect. It only affects 'u' and 'i's between two voiceless consonant. With Fuyutsuki, the 'y' is voiced thus causes the first two 'u's to be voiced. The last 'u' is between two unvoiced consonants, thus unvoiced itself. The last 'i' may or may not be voiced depending on the first consonant of the following word (assuming Fuyutsuki isn't at the end of a sentence, in which case, the 'i' is voiced).
Clear as mud? My linguistic talents don't normally lie with phonetics, but this case is an exception :)
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