dalawang 5.25″ na floppy drive na may malaking 178K na storage. kasya na rito ang buong TRS-DOS operating system. ito ang PC namin sa school nung 1983. medyo mahirap pa si bill gates nung time na ito at kasulukuyan pa lang niyang pinasisikat ang MS-DOS. dito ako natuto ng BASIC, COBOL at FORTRAN. i remember the very first machine problem given to me by my instructor… it was a simulation of a falling ball. gumawa raw ako ng program that will compute the rate of acceleration ng isang bumabagsak na bola. the height of the drop is to be entered by the user. your program must be able to give the rate of acceleration at any point of the ball’s drop that is also given by the user. in your computation, please use this “so and so i forgot oh it was so long time ago” branch of integral calculus that makes use of “so and so i forgot oh it was so long time ago” fibonacci series. man, i was hooked.
isa sa highlights ng pag-uwi namin ni jet ay ang makasama ang mga iba’t ibang tao na nakilala namin over the year through the internet. karamihan sa mga nakatagpo namin ay mga kaibigan ni jet. siya na siguro ang bahalang magkwento sa mga encounters namin with them. ako, dakilang driver lang at tagahatid sundo sa kanya. pero mayron kaming mga mutual friends tulad ni ayeza at in a way si neil na i was glad to meet. si belle, ang idol kong makata ng UP ay nakita ko na rin sa wakas. binigyan pa nga niya ako ng “university of the philippines” t-shirt which i proudly wore yesterday. si tanya (ang producer-director) rin with nick, (coming all the way from ilocos) met us on the 29th and we had a great time exchanging stories.