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[rockdog2877]

happy B-day internet! where would we be with out cha... @7@

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112465171
 WA#

[rockdog2877]

I learned on dos 6. Then windows 3.1! Color screen!

[njgt-1]

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??

[rockdog2877]

I just found some timex parts, 256k of memory I think.

[Celly]

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

[rich67vw]

Punch cards. Need I say more?  LAUGH@

[njgt-1]

still using a 386 in my office, sends faxes and does my billing but thats it! can't kill that old box!!

[Yuma]

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 

[rich67vw]

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

[braidmeister]

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.

oh, wait a minute,  my refridgerator is offline...

Is it running? Well ya better go catch it Bwahahah!  LAUGH@

[Yuma]

Hey guys  @@@

We are only slightly older than dirt   LoL LoL LoL 

Keep up the good work   BO** 

Yuma  ( Sonny )

[Yuma]

For those who can't Remember When   @7@ 

 

Enjoy 

Yuma