Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Harlan Ellison has a rather acidic, acerbic, and vitriol-filled essay (shocking, I know) about "Starlost" and how it was the first act of "Why I'll Never Work In Television Again (And This Time I Really Mean It)." (The second act features an awesome episode of the second incarnation of "The Twilight Zone" that was killed by executive meddling literally on the first day of filming and never made it into the can.) It's an interesting read, and something of an education in how Hollywood is a festering pit of idiocy.Quote:Do you remember an old Canadian SF series called Starlost?You mean, one of the worst shows ever to be broadcast? I was such a fan when I was ten, I wrote NBC (who broadcast it in the States) a couple of times, and they sent me a few pages xeroxed from the show's bible (which was written by Ben Bova).
My first computer was a TI-99/4a, which my then-stepfather owned as an employee of Texas Instruments. I found it a bit limiting, compared to my friends' C-64s and Macintoshes. My father had a Mac, but since I didn't live with him, I only used it when I was over there, and not really. When I graduated from high school in '89, he bought me a PC with an 8086 and a 30 Mb hard drive. (He told me that it was "all the memory I would ever need." If only he had known.) I had a friend who had an Amiga; I thought it was a decent machine for games, but the text display (instrumental for research papers and such) was a bit muddy in my opinion.
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