quote:Original post by Rixter Do you think it would be possible to ever have a normal life again after something like that? I mean, getting in a car wreck and waking up twice as old, that must have some serious psychological effects don''t you think? I''d probably go insane, kill a bunch of people, and blame it all on space invaders. But seriously, that would be really hard to get over.
Well the thing is, most of you seem unaware that he is infact a quadraplegic with probably a great deal of brain damage too, so he is very unlikely to go on a killing spree. It isn''t as if he''s woken up completely normal.
Did he become a quadraplegic because of the coma? That''s even tougher then, not only did he loose 19 years he also became mentally handicaped as well. Auch. Poor fellow...
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They had dumb terminals, and you had to dial a phone and stick the receiver into a foam-equipped modem to access a mainframe. At least, that's the way it was in programming class. I think, actually, that was 1985.
No, wait, I started my senior year in 1984. So yeah, 1984. Hmm.
[edited by - Waverider on July 10, 2003 2:54:29 PM]
I have a pic of a 1989 tandy machine that was 20MHz 386 with 2MB ram for 8.5$k, so computers were a lot different then =-) I''d be surprised if desktop machines now are less powerfull than mainframes then.
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