http://conoroneill.com/2008/04/20/motorbike-racing-today/ Local stuff and other stuff from a blow-in Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:36:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://conoroneill.com/2008/04/20/motorbike-racing-today/comment-page-1/#comment-115239 JD Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:45:19 +0000 http://conoroneill.com/?p=655#comment-115239 Alas thanks for making me feel very old, Conor. I am 40 years young! I can remember getting into Eason's each Sat, buying whatever home computer mag was popular, rushing home, spending 2 hours entering the C64 program lists spanning 180 lines of BASIC, typing RUN and getting multiple errors on many lines! I would then spend hours 'de-bugging' this program and then...hay presto! I could watch a pixelated ball bounce from side to side on the blue screen! Now that's what I call commitment! Alas thanks for making me feel very old, Conor. I am 40 years young! I can remember getting into Eason’s each Sat, buying whatever home computer mag was popular, rushing home, spending 2 hours entering the C64 program lists spanning 180 lines of BASIC, typing RUN and getting multiple errors on many lines! I would then spend hours ‘de-bugging’ this program and then…hay presto! I could watch a pixelated ball bounce from side to side on the blue screen!
Now that’s what I call commitment!

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