80Datsun210
12-22-2007, 09:55 PM
This amuses me to no end, which is why I wanted to share it. I've been digging through my vintage Transformers collection (http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=160413) and found this story that I “wrote” about the Transformers. It’s essentially a transcript of the pilot episode, “More Than Meets the Eye.” I must have done this when I was in 5th or 6th grade, ca. 1985. I recorded the audio off the TV and played it back in front of the computer while I transcribed the dialogue, then added my own descriptions and narration.
The “story” is an historic artifact in and of itself. I wrote it on an Osborne computer (http://www.cedmagic.com/history/osborne-1.html), which my family got in 1982, and printed it on a dot-matrix printer. We were one of the first families to get a home computer. Man, it’s wild to think of that computer and compare it to today’s. I don’t even remember how we operated it. There was no mouse, no Graphic User Interface. The commands had to have been all text-based. (???) It had enormous 5” floppy disks. It used a dot-matrix printer, the kind with rolling sprockets on the sides to feed the paper through, and the paper had tear-off strips with holes in it along the edges. That's why the following story is a series of scanned images.
It also provides a snapshot of my writing ability in 5th grade. It really made me laugh, especially the commentary and how I described things, like "Starscream often gets overexcited about the Autobots" and “The workers are unsuspecting a Decepticon attack that hasn’t happened yet.” :lol It occurs to me now that I left out a lot of visual and audio description, because, well, *I* knew what they looked and sounded like (but so do most of you, so it's all good).
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Sorry to say that’s all there is, but it’s not like you don’t know what happens. ;)
The “story” is an historic artifact in and of itself. I wrote it on an Osborne computer (http://www.cedmagic.com/history/osborne-1.html), which my family got in 1982, and printed it on a dot-matrix printer. We were one of the first families to get a home computer. Man, it’s wild to think of that computer and compare it to today’s. I don’t even remember how we operated it. There was no mouse, no Graphic User Interface. The commands had to have been all text-based. (???) It had enormous 5” floppy disks. It used a dot-matrix printer, the kind with rolling sprockets on the sides to feed the paper through, and the paper had tear-off strips with holes in it along the edges. That's why the following story is a series of scanned images.
It also provides a snapshot of my writing ability in 5th grade. It really made me laugh, especially the commentary and how I described things, like "Starscream often gets overexcited about the Autobots" and “The workers are unsuspecting a Decepticon attack that hasn’t happened yet.” :lol It occurs to me now that I left out a lot of visual and audio description, because, well, *I* knew what they looked and sounded like (but so do most of you, so it's all good).
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa149/80Datsun210/Miscellaneous/page01.gif
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa149/80Datsun210/Miscellaneous/page02.gif
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Sorry to say that’s all there is, but it’s not like you don’t know what happens. ;)