happy B-day internet! where would we be with out cha... @7@
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112465171 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112465171)
WA#
I learned on dos 6. Then windows 3.1! Color screen!
First computer a "Timex" if you guys remember that one, I still have it.
First time on line Commodor 64 and something called Q link, very weird and primitive compared to today.
Hey I thought Al Gore invented the internet ?? what gives he didn't??
I just found some timex parts, 256k of memory I think.
HAppy Birthday internet .....
I remember when floppy disks were actually floppy (5 1/4)
I remember when you had to type every command in DOS
I remember when 256K was a boat load of memory and 1 mb was over $200 and had to be pre-ordered and it took a month to get it
I remember the Oregon Trail and never having enough food
I remember being hypnotized by flickering orange/green screens
I remember the soothing sounds of a DOT Matrix
ahhhhhhhhhh
Punch cards. Need I say more? LAUGH@
still using a 386 in my office, sends faxes and does my billing but thats it! can't kill that old box!!
Happy Birthday Internet @72
First computer --- Apple 2E Then an XT with a 1200 baud modem, man that was FAST P#3
My youngest son needed a computer for high school, so we built him a 286 with a 100 meg HD.
Who remembers the term ' Nine edge face down ' !6!
Yuma
nine edge face down , dang, - That was my first gig, somebody showing me how to load punch cards in a reader...Glad that junk went away, it's so much easier today.
Now, let me go relax, oh, wait a minute, my refridgerator is offline, where is the TV remote?, stupid cell phone needs a charge, and................. S@Sm
We did the punch card thing in grammar school. At home we had a Radio Shack TRS80, which at the time was pretty slick (pre-VIC20, COM64 or Ti99). Before we got a single sided 5.25" FROPPY, we had to load programs via cassette. There was no hard disk. Everything had to get loaded into RAM, including the DOS operating system...
I can't imagine what the new generation thinks...I am old enough to remember when TV went OFF (national anthem, and SNOW! - Turn off the TV you bum - You've got work in the morning!), there was no such thing as a VCR and when there was it was $1000 for a home unit, rotary phones - getting ticked if someone had too many 0's in their number, when phones would just ring & ring in an empty room when nobody was home - 'guess I'll call them back', when cell phones were only found in D.ick Tracey comic strips...and there was certainly no internet.
Quote from: rich67vw on September 03, 2009, 07:43:32 PM
oh, wait a minute, my refridgerator is offline...
Is it running? Well ya better go catch it Bwahahah! LAUGH@
Hey guys @@@
We are only slightly older than dirt LoL LoL LoL
Keep up the good work BO**
Yuma ( Sonny )
For those who can't Remember When @7@
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-6PbqAPM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-6PbqAPM#)
Enjoy
Yuma