now that's a nice story, thank you for sharing! 😅
I remember visiting my cousin in mid-1988 and he had just bought a Zenith PC. I think it had CGA graphics and he showed me how to use DOS and, of course, "Police Quest" and "Ford Simulator" on it. That was my first introduction to the PC.
Wintermute_BBS
npub1x8…g6zpm
2026-03-28 15:55:31 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ssmk
Author Public Key
npub1x88c38nz080munh937lcfqg952gn2z52zrwa9yllcnulnv8g7stseg6zpmSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2026-03-28 15:55:31 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "a127d68371fdaaba6c508fc38908ba5c439d4e19310a0509203e44a96a50a401",
"pubkey": "31cf889e6279dfbe4ee58fbf848105a291350a8a10ddd293ffc4f9f9b0e8f417",
"created_at": 1774713331,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"0c3b254235276112648cb277e4388b3ea2c929ec05e5179b9e2680d085929355"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://oldbytes.space/@Wintermute_BBS/116307612895670386",
"web"
],
[
"e",
"9dfa4501e99bd18654503e5fdcb92958f9c6277bb17bdee85b49379b7bc0de10",
"",
"reply",
"0c3b254235276112648cb277e4388b3ea2c929ec05e5179b9e2680d085929355"
],
[
"e",
"b2208d7e14755de1b7f1b87dad8a5f8a29fddfb29a358714cd7df23f6c8e2b78",
"",
"root",
"0c3b254235276112648cb277e4388b3ea2c929ec05e5179b9e2680d085929355"
],
[
"p",
"31cf889e6279dfbe4ee58fbf848105a291350a8a10ddd293ffc4f9f9b0e8f417"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://oldbytes.space/users/Wintermute_BBS/statuses/116307612895670386",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://oldbytes.space/users/Wintermute_BBS/statuses/116307612895670386",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "now that's a nice story, thank you for sharing! 😅 \n\nI remember visiting my cousin in mid-1988 and he had just bought a Zenith PC. I think it had CGA graphics and he showed me how to use DOS and, of course, \"Police Quest\" and \"Ford Simulator\" on it. That was my first introduction to the PC.",
"sig": "c9bd5dcbbe195e298828fbeac929efb5b27305df590869553688a104d146cc0aa4c417fc36a86bbb702fddc57a5fa4296e6337d3576d78aa862883510fb6de80"
}