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  "title": "From Amiga to Macintosh",
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  "html": "<p>About switching to Mac, <a href=\"http://torrez.org/archives/000313.php\">Torrez says</a> (among other things):</p><blockquote><i>I haven't loved a brand in a while. The last computer brand I had the hots for was the Commodore Amiga, and that was over 12 years ago. It's nice...but weird.</i></blockquote>\n\n<p>My thoughts exactly.  My first home computer was a Commodore 64 (if you're curious, you can see a <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/gallery/lil-kid-me/aao\">picture of me</a> getting it for Christmas).  While I was learning to program on the Apple ][e and the Atari 800, my C=64 was home turf after school.  Man, I miss 6502 assembly and screwing with a kernal whose complexities I could mostly encompass in one brain.</p><p></p>\n<p>And then, when the day came that I could afford a new computer..  I saved my pennies and bought an Amiga 1200 (sorry, no picture).  That lasted me all through college as friends bought and upgraded (and upgraded) PCs.  It wasn't until I was a year or two past graduation, when my poor A1200 was really straining to keep up, that I finally broke down and built a PC.</p>\n<p>But now, I feel like I'm back full circle, and the PC's days are numbered in my home.  The Mac is my new Amiga, and Apple my neo-Commodore.  Now I just hope that they don't munge the whole company like Commodore did - I was there on [#amiga](/tag/amiga) on EFNet on the day when they announced the first of many buyouts.</p>\n<p>I'm not too worried though - Commodore didn't have anyone like Steve Jobs.</p>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>shortname=ooobga</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087444\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b41fec7e2890cc1dfc61d5c07bd73562&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">PK</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221087444\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-09-12T18:46:05\">2002-09-12T18:46:05</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">ldy #$20\nlda #$20\nhere:\ntax\ndex\ntxa\njsr $ffd2\ndey\ncpy #$00\nbne here\nend\n:-)</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087448\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://shawnyeager.com/monolog/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=546b2f1947278db93fa8f7c734876111&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://shawnyeager.com/monolog/\">Shawn</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221087448\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-09-16T21:22:52\">2002-09-16T21:22:52</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">poke 60540... or something like that.  I forget. ;)  My first computer was a TI-99/4A, but the first computer I really loved was the C64.  Ah, the memories!  And I'm right there with you on the Mac/PC thing.  My PowerBook has my PCs collecting dust.  It's made computing fun again for me.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "<p>About switching to Mac, <a href=\"http://torrez.org/archives/000313.php\">Torrez says</a> (among other things):<blockquote><i>I haven't loved a brand in a while. The last computer brand I had the hots for was the Commodore Amiga, and that was over 12 years ago. It's nice...but weird.</i></blockquote>My thoughts exactly.  My first home computer was a Commodore 64 (if you're curious, you can see a <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/gallery/lil-kid-me/aao\">picture of me</a> getting it for Christmas).  While I was learning to program on the Apple ][e and the Atari 800, my C=64 was home turf after school.  Man, I miss 6502 assembly and screwing with a kernal whose complexities I could mostly encompass in one brain.</p>\r\n<p>And then, when the day came that I could afford a new computer..  I saved my pennies and bought an Amiga 1200 (sorry, no picture).  That lasted me all through college as friends bought and upgraded (and upgraded) PCs.  It wasn't until I was a year or two past graduation, when my poor A1200 was really straining to keep up, that I finally broke down and built a PC.</p>\r\n<p>But now, I feel like I'm back full circle, and the PC's days are numbered in my home.  The Mac is my new Amiga, and Apple my neo-Commodore.  Now I just hope that they don't munge the whole company like Commodore did - I was there on #amiga on EFNet on the day when they announced the first of many buyouts.</p>\r\n<p>I'm not too worried though - Commodore didn't have anyone like Steve Jobs.</p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\nshortname=ooobga\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087444\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b41fec7e2890cc1dfc61d5c07bd73562&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\">PK</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221087444\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-09-12T18:46:05\">2002-09-12T18:46:05</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">ldy #$20\r\nlda #$20\r\n\r\nhere:\r\ntax\r\ndex\r\ntxa\r\njsr $ffd2\r\ndey\r\ncpy #$00\r\nbne here\r\nend\r\n\r\n:-)</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087448\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://shawnyeager.com/monolog/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=546b2f1947278db93fa8f7c734876111&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://shawnyeager.com/monolog/\">Shawn</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221087448\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-09-16T21:22:52\">2002-09-16T21:22:52</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">poke 60540... or something like that.  I forget. ;)  My first computer was a TI-99/4A, but the first computer I really loved was the C64.  Ah, the memories!  And I'm right there with you on the Mac/PC thing.  My PowerBook has my PCs collecting dust.  It's made computing fun again for me.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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