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1. 7 year old kid (me) talking about Apple IIs back in '82
1 year ago
From a local community access show I was on when I was a kid. I already knew what I wanted to be, even back then!
You can see a 10 minute version of this with more from the other kids at: cruxy.com/info/9720
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    awesome.
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  • dalas verdugo staff 1 year ago
    Totally amazing.
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  • marj 1 year ago
    you are so matter-of-fact!
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    i can't decide if it was just focus, foresight, or brainwashing. hmm...
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  • LCF 1 year ago
    Wow - you are pretty knowledgeable at that age!
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  • apakian 1 year ago
    :)
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  • Highfi 1 year ago
    You SUck!
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    You blow!
  • Jakob Lodwick 1 year ago
    ?"shut up, "a$
  • esteban 6 months ago
    uh oh the YouTube kids are migrating over here...
  • Steve 6 months ago
    Augh. I came to Vimeo to get away from comments like this
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  • Rupert Parry 1 year ago
    Next time I want to know my name, I'm calling you up.
    Nice video.
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    Your name is Mookle! I'm here for you anytime.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Dude, your parents had you working on a Timex Sinclair? Mine too. Every time I bumped the thing, I'd lose my baseball card database I was writing. :)
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  • Pam Newman 1 year ago
    That's so cool. I was in classes like that as a kid. Love that stuff!
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  • Larry Hastings 1 year ago
    The theme music for "New Generation" is "Magic Lady" by The Jeff Lorber Fusion, off their 1981 album "Galaxian". Thrilling news, no?
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    Hey Larry - thanks for letting me know. I've been humming that damn song for the last week. Did you even have to look that up or did you just know?
  • Larry Hastings 1 year ago
    I knew it was Jeff Lorber, and I was sure I'd heard the song. So it was simply a matter of finding it in my collection. :)

    If you wanna buy some Jeff Lorber, I recommend "The Definitive Collection". His 70s stuff is the best, and that's a collection from that period.
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  • Caroline Martin 1 year ago
    Totally adorable. the girl next to you looks absolutely bewildered.
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    Actually if you watch the full clip you will see that she was actually kind of crazy. Her part of the show was how to create a "syntax error" and she really liked writing "stupid programs".
  • dalas verdugo staff 1 year ago
    Wow, what a rad daughter to have.
  • Erick C. 6 months ago
    can we please find her?
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  • lou 1 year ago
    So did you become a computer engineer?
  • victoria 1 year ago
    that's what I want to know, too :)
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    yup i did: nathan.freitas.net
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  • Jrome 1 year ago
    This is totally awesome. Nice skillz.
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  • CygnusX1 1 year ago
    thanks for sharing this, very professional for the age! :)
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  • steve 1 year ago
    ha, I forgot about that computer, all I could make it do is print things to the screen over and over and blink.. It had a really cool game with a space ship vertically navigating a space tunnel. I need to find that game again...
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  • victoria 1 year ago
    do you have this unedited? it would be interesting to see the whole thing
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    there is the link to the 10 min version above. then there is a 30 minute version i haven't uploaded yet that has our teachers and my mom, as well. i will see if i can get that up this week.
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  • Khamis Hammoudeh 1 year ago
    Hahha Amazing.
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  • Schill 1 year ago
    I got a C64, my first computer, at six, and was playing with BASIC around that time (1986.) Thanks for the memory!
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    I still have my C64 and lots of the programs and games for it...even my Koala pad (remember that??). I set it up every now and then just for fun.
  • Schill 1 year ago
    Excellent! I had the 1541 disk drive, dedicated monitor (the name I forget, my bad), an Epyx FastLoad cartridge which made the drive amazingly useable, and as I realised some years later, a modem. ;) My parents purchased this second-hand in 86 after I had apparently been pestering them for some time to get us a computer.
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  • Gilgamesh 1 year ago
    hah at one point, you sounded like Dana Carvey doing his impersonation of George HW Bush
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    I had a really funny accent when I was kid - sort of an old school California drawl that I got from my mom's side.
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  • chuckumentary 1 year ago
    man, i'm still not that smart!

    although i did write out a math program in BASIC in 6th grade... in my notebook.
  • natdefreitas 1 year ago
    Depends on how you define smart, Chuck - minn stories and blogumentary are both fracking awesome, so whatevs!
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  • maksym 1 year ago
    Very cool. You were pretty talented!
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  • ojo 1 year ago
    LOL, talking about string variables.
    I like the keyboard sound as it makes me remember my early days on computers, specially this on apple][´s.
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  • peter 1 year ago
    haha, that's funny Nathan... talented then as now dude
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  • David Marcus 1 year ago
    The whole 80's feel of the video down to the background music was just amazing
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  • james 1 year ago
    why would anyone want to watch a 10 minute version of this?

    Although the chick sitting to your left was hot!
  • Andrew Ryno 6 months ago
    1. Because for some people, it is interesting to see how smart some people were at a young age and how they grew up to do exactly what they wanted to do.

    2. Hi, pedo.
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  • bluedog 1 year ago
    LOVE IT! Wish I had stuff like that from my childhood. Good job explaining variables. I'll have to watch the full version to learn a thing or two.
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  • Starbuck05 1 year ago
    Nathan you go with your bad self! Loved this video! Reminds me of me back in the late 80's stumbling through BASIC and the thrill I got when the computer actually WORK with the program I wrote. Simple minds are simply amused I guess.. LOL!
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  • olliegrind 8 months ago
    I remember basic. I used it to program my last blog.
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  • Katie Parks 6 months ago
    the kids are the future. here is proof. haha
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  • Wow.

    hahaa
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  • Jason Edwards 6 months ago
    Very funny. I think the girl sitting next to you at the beginning of the video thinks your weird. You didn't marry her did you ?? LOL.

    I wish I still had my C64. That was a fun computer.
  • cowstace 6 months ago
    hahaha! "you didn't marry her did you??" hahahaha! That question killed me!
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  • xesiria myers 6 months ago
    wow and that was way back in those days when the computers were just coming out. I would love to know what the little peeps are doing now? Like if they are still into PCs or what? I would not be stunned if they build my computer?... wait Dell's are crap! my bad. most likely Mac grabbed them before Dell or maybe Apple got them.
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  • xesiria myers 6 months ago
    oh the little dude is Netdefreitas! cool! too cool! WoW!

    sorry for asking but, trying to find out the link so i can put the URL i think that is what it is called? On the credits on the re-edit of the master videos for Internet format before Upload. lol not a computer person (not at all). sorry for asking...
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  • Carsten Brueggmann 6 months ago
    Very cool!
    Reminds me of my first steps on a Z80 using its Basic to write a simulator (red baron that was hehe) and color demos using machine language (hex code assembler). I still have it here and could wire it up every day - maybe I should actually ;)
    Thank you very much for sharing!!
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  • Bushbaby 6 months ago
    haha sick how'd you find that? SKATEBOARDERS in the beggening
  • natdefreitas 6 months ago
    uhm... i had the VHS tape in an old box!
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  • ►Alex L◄ 6 months ago
    this is really cool...where did you learn all of this?
  • natdefreitas 6 months ago
    i was lucky enough to have a great primary school with a computer lab, and parents who cared enough to give me a TRS-80, then a C64 at home.
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  • walt 6 months ago

    Right now the thumbnail is just a screen monitor.
    This video deserves a cooler one!
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  • David Pritchett 6 months ago
    I knew guys like that in 1980 who demonstrated how their Commodore 64 could ask me my name.
    I never saw the point then.
    5 years later I made electronic spreadsheets with the original Lotus 1-2-3 and then computers actually computed.
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  • ahmad ababneh 6 months ago
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  • Steve 6 months ago
    Man, when I was seven I only knew how to make windows come up with a prompt:
    Dim count
    wscript.echo "hello world"
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  • cowstace 6 months ago
    You're living your childhood dream! awesome!
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  • Bartosz Barlowski 6 months ago
    Holy crap man - you are a genius now, right?
  • natdefreitas 6 months ago
    yes, I am a genius...an Apple Genius! Need help with your MacBook?!


    j/k!
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  • Olivier Bon 6 months ago
    what a sweet sweet video :)
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  • Amr Toukhy 6 months ago
    amazing !!!
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  • Miguel Marino 6 months ago
    Man! I had a sinclair 2068 (wich I still have) back when I was 7 and I spend hours doing "animation" using ASCII code and taking advantage of the low speed screen refresh! And all sunday writing of code of Microhobby just to see as you said a small sprite doing fireworks.

    I even won a junior price on Computer School Olimpics when i had 9 using Logo and a Talent.

    Seeing you just reminds me that I too become the very same thing I wanted when I was a Kid. A visual artist.

    Tnx for reminding me of this.
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  • silence 6 months ago
    hahaha WOW. very impressive.
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  • Phil 5 months ago
    Wow, I wasn't even that smart when I was seven.
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  • lennaland 5 months ago
    That's wicked!
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  • MARULA 5 months ago
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
    what what what
    incredible. I want to know your parents
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  • Bill T. 4 months ago
    Cool! Did you every make that self-driving car? Saw how you put yourself between the two babes, you dog!
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