The Geek Out
1/18/13, 09:07 PM
#741
I remember wanting a Commodore 64 but my dad wouldn't buy it. Our first was a Tandy TRS-80
Neighbor kid had an Apple IIe I think
I would say it amazing that we didn't have color monitors. Only monochrome. These kids have no idea what that means. And yet Patrick didn't even have a monitor lol. That's crazy. How do you work at a computer with no screen.
Neighbor kid had an Apple IIe I think
I would say it amazing that we didn't have color monitors. Only monochrome. These kids have no idea what that means. And yet Patrick didn't even have a monitor lol. That's crazy. How do you work at a computer with no screen.
Last edited by 2k7gtcs; 1/18/13 at 09:11 PM.
1/18/13, 09:20 PM
#742
I remember wanting a Commodore 64 but my dad wouldn't buy it. Our first was a Tandy TRS-80
Neighbor kid had an Apple IIe I think
I would say it amazing that we didn't have color monitors. Only monochrome. These kids have no idea what that means. And yet Patrick didn't even have a monitor lol. That's crazy. How do you work at a computer with no screen.
Neighbor kid had an Apple IIe I think
I would say it amazing that we didn't have color monitors. Only monochrome. These kids have no idea what that means. And yet Patrick didn't even have a monitor lol. That's crazy. How do you work at a computer with no screen.
1/18/13, 09:22 PM
#743
Originally Posted by phiggs54
You submitted your card deck, came back later for the printout, then corrected the programming errors and resubmitted the card deck. Repeat until it runs.
When I was like 6 I remember going with my brother to use the computer in the college library basement during his lab time.
The computer filled a 15x15 room and he had a giant stack of cards. And lord don't mess with his cards or get them out of order or he'd go ape****! Lol
1/18/13, 09:22 PM
#744
1/18/13, 09:24 PM
#745
My first pc was a Packard bell 8088 bases system. Dual 5.25" floppy, 128KB ram. No hard drive. Boot to a dos disk run commands to do whatever you wanted next.
Went from there to a 486sx with 4mb of ram and a 130mb hard drive that had win 3.1.1 on it. I think I was prob 13?
Went from there to a 486sx with 4mb of ram and a 130mb hard drive that had win 3.1.1 on it. I think I was prob 13?
1/18/13, 10:42 PM
#748
I know
When I was like 6 I remember going with my brother to use the computer in the college library basement during his lab time.
The computer filled a 15x15 room and he had a giant stack of cards. And lord don't mess with his cards or get them out of order or he'd go ape****! Lol
When I was like 6 I remember going with my brother to use the computer in the college library basement during his lab time.
The computer filled a 15x15 room and he had a giant stack of cards. And lord don't mess with his cards or get them out of order or he'd go ape****! Lol
I could fix a well pump, find my way through the woods anywhere I wanted to go and get back to our trailer, and read anything that you put in front of me though.
Last edited by Rather B.Blown; 1/18/13 at 10:43 PM.
1/19/13, 07:17 AM
#749
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I learned basic my senior year in high school on one of these...
Only we didn't have the CRT and had to write our programs on cards and a keypunch.
My first "computer" after high school was was a TRS-80 pocket computer. Only 1.5K of ram!
From there I went to the Commodore VIC-20, C-64, C-128. I ran a bulletin board on the C-64 and then converted it to the C-128 even though the software author said it wouldn't work.
From there i've had everything from the XT to 286, 386, 386-SX....
I think I had a problem back than!
Only we didn't have the CRT and had to write our programs on cards and a keypunch.
My first "computer" after high school was was a TRS-80 pocket computer. Only 1.5K of ram!
From there I went to the Commodore VIC-20, C-64, C-128. I ran a bulletin board on the C-64 and then converted it to the C-128 even though the software author said it wouldn't work.
From there i've had everything from the XT to 286, 386, 386-SX....
I think I had a problem back than!
1/19/13, 08:18 AM
#750
I learned basic in high school. We typed the program on a paper tape punch on a teletype machine. Then you plugged a telephone handset into an acoustic coupler and dialed up a login to a timeshare computer in Chicago. Read the paper tape to send the program and the results came back printing out on the teletypewriter. Not sure if I could still write a do loop or an if-then statement
1/19/13, 08:29 AM
#751
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You guys make me feel young! I learned GW Basic in high school, wrote a poker game and saved it to a 5.25" floppy. In middle school we messed with an Apple for a little while, don't remember which model.
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1/19/13, 08:35 AM
#752
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I learned basic in high school. We typed the program on a paper tape punch on a teletype machine. Then you plugged a telephone handset into an acoustic coupler and dialed up a login to a timeshare computer in Chicago. Read the paper tape to send the program and the results came back printing out on the teletypewriter. Not sure if I could still write a do loop or an if-then statement
When I got my full time job out of high school I was in electronic manufacturing. I ran machines that built printed circuit boards.
Back in the early 80's they were run on PDP11-05's and we used the teletype machines and paper tape. The executive program as they called it back then was on a plastic tape. Took 45 minutes to load!
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1/19/13, 09:42 AM
#755
1/20/13, 10:49 AM
#757
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Well, i'm in the process of just jumping in and giving Windows 8 a try. Microsoft has an upgrade for $40 until the end of the month, and I found a link to get the media center for free so I said why not. I'm always looking to make media center run better so i'll give it a whirl. If that goes okay i'll do the upgrade on the regular PC as well.
And now the Asus web site is down. Hopefully I don't need any specific drivers right away!
And now the Asus web site is down. Hopefully I don't need any specific drivers right away!
1/20/13, 11:03 AM
#759
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I've already quickly checked it out on my laptop before it was <cough> released and wasn't too thrilled. My media center PC is just mostly for TV, movies, and music so that will be a good start to see what it's really like.
1/20/13, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by denlem
Well, i'm in the process of just jumping in and giving Windows 8 a try. Microsoft has an upgrade for $40 until the end of the month, and I found a link to get the media center for free so I said why not. I'm always looking to make media center run better so i'll give it a whirl. If that goes okay i'll do the upgrade on the regular PC as well.
And now the Asus web site is down. Hopefully I don't need any specific drivers right away!
And now the Asus web site is down. Hopefully I don't need any specific drivers right away!