{"id":2060,"date":"2010-07-23T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:20:16","slug":"old-tron-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/07\/23\/old-tron-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Tron Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The media hype about the upcoming Tron movie brings back memories of those days.  I was using a Tandy Model 100 as my writing machine at that time.  It had 32K of memory which could be used to store text or programs.  I could get a short story or parts of a larger work in there.  I remember taking the Model 100 under my arm and writing under a tree in the park.<\/p>\n

Of course, it also had BASIC and I wrote programs as well.  With the ability to set and test pixels on the little screen, I wrote a Tron Lightcycle program.  It was single or dual player, using the arrow keys for one player and the F1-F4 buttons for the other.  The single player played against the machine.<\/p>\n

I posted it somewhere online and got some nice comments on its playability, but I’ve long since lost track of it.  Even Google can’t find it.  It might have been on a BBS, rather than a web site, and many of those never made the transition to the web. I don’t even know if I have a local copy.  So much of my early work, especially software, was stored off on cassette or floppy and I no longer have the ability to read what media I have left.  Old story scraps are in a little better shape since I can still read the scribbles on rumpled paper.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame.  I’d like to fire up the program an dodge around the screen again, just for old times sake, but I’ll never find it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media hype about the upcoming Tron movie brings back memories of those days.  I was using a Tandy Model 100 as my writing machine at that time.  It had 32K of memory which could be used to store text or programs.  I could get a short story or parts of a larger work in… Continue reading Old Tron Memories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[204,205,206,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1002.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-xe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}