OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Go, G-man, Go!

Step-By-Step Instructions on how to invoke the greatest ever feature of the old Wyse terminals, plus a bonus extra: a re-enactment on your very own modern display!

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Dag För Dag

On Sunday, while looking for something else, I stumbled across a journal that I kept for six weeks in 1991.

So, what did I discover about my twenty-year-old self?

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TV Tuning

I was called back angrily to fix the TV – when Position 8 was selected, Channel 2 was shown, rather than the VCR!

Huh? I fixed that yesterday? I re-tuned it, and scratched my head, and watched it for a while. It worked fine.

This repeated several times with my family getting more and more annoyed at me.

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Air-Traffic Control – In Space

On two classic computer games from times gone by: Kennedy Approach and Overlord.

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