dmccarty
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Used CD a whole bunch of times already today and I am supposed to be on vacation.
:laughing::laughing::laughing:Later,
Dan
Time Flies -- Windows Turns 30
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Used CD a whole bunch of times already today and I am supposed to be on vacation.
:laughing::laughing::laughing:Later,
Dan
dmccarty
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300 baud, now that was SCREAMING. We had 110 in an acoustic coupler. The Pet, Commodore PET that is, was not hooked up to the phone, we had to use a teletype printer. If we wanted a personal copy of the program we had to use paper tape. I know I have that tape in a box some where. The tape had a game to play Star Trek. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Not sure if I can find the teletype printer much less the version of BASIC it needed or the Honeywell mainfraime but I still have the program. :shocked:
The PET came with a cassette tape to save and load programs. One of our systems was the chicklet keyboard version with 4K of RAM. Yes, 4K. The new system had a full keyboard and 16K of memory!
Somewhere around 1979/1980 we the school board loaned us a dual floppy drive. Single sided and maybe could store 120KB or 160KB. Too long ago to remember. :laughing::laughing::laughing: The problem was you had to type in commands that were 20-40 character long to access the floppy. Real PITA. Make cd really nice.
Later,
Dan
jaotguy
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30 years old and they still can't get it right ... still have memory leakage problems.
as said earlier , lots of bloatware that needs fast processors and tons of memory / equipment to run half decently ...
just boot up any version of Linux on a old PC and watch it run circles around almost any new machine.
still , 30 years is an accomplishment of some sorts ....
good bye to tubes , T03 transistors , paper tapes, TTY , 9 tracks , punch cards 026 and 029, SSDD floppies, 8" Wang floppies, cassette tape backup units . and all the other stuff we put up with .
as said earlier , lots of bloatware that needs fast processors and tons of memory / equipment to run half decently ...
just boot up any version of Linux on a old PC and watch it run circles around almost any new machine.
still , 30 years is an accomplishment of some sorts ....
good bye to tubes , T03 transistors , paper tapes, TTY , 9 tracks , punch cards 026 and 029, SSDD floppies, 8" Wang floppies, cassette tape backup units . and all the other stuff we put up with .
gwstang
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Oh yeah! Now you are talking! My first computer was a Vic 20 and it used a tape drive. Of course everyone had the old Commodore computer. :confused2:
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I've still got my Vic20 in the original box. Got a cassette tape drive and some game cartridges. Omega Race!!!
mark02tj
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My first personal computer (bought used in '82 or so - I was 20) was a Texas Instruments TI-99-4A. The "4" was an indicator of the massive amount of RAM in the computer - 4K!! WOW! Hooked it up to a TV screen for a monitor and a cassette deck for storage. They made a chassis for floppy disk drives, but it was somewhere around $1500 so it was out of the question. It had BASIC built into it. I look back on some of the stuff that I "programmed" on that and just laugh.
In '85 or so, I bought a Wang PC with a 30MB hard drive (divided into a 10MB Wang MS-DOS and a 20MB IBM (regular) MS-DOS partitions). You got into the IBM partition by booting off a floppy. Wang Word Processing was the Cadillac back then. I also had a daisy wheel printer that churned out a lot of term papers when I was in college.
I kind of moved to Windows in '88 when I was working for one of the national CPA firms. I'd gone to a PC user group meeting at the Univ. of Cincinnati so see some guy that owned a software company demonstrate a new spreadsheet program that they had introduced. I was a big Lotus 123 user then so I was curious as to what was available. The next day I came back to the office and begged our managing partner to spend $495 on a copy of Excel that used a run-time version of Windows 2.0 in the background. Yup, Bill Gates' demo of Excel at that meeting made a convert out of me!! (I think he was only worth several million back then! LOL!)
Fast forward to now... I've been doing automated accounting / ERP systems since 1986. I've gone from DOS systems (that were super efficient and fast!) through painful transitions into Windows systems in the mid-late 90's. That meant going from Novell networks to NT to Windows Server servers on the backend. And, moving from proprietary databases (also fast and efficient) to MS-SQL. The early 2000's saw a great improvement in Windows based systems though. Graphic system management interfaces were a huge step forward. And now we're back to using "cmdlets" to manage various aspects of our systems. Isn't a cmdlet basically a batch file run from a DOS shell? Yup - I've gone full circle! I can't wait to retire! LOL!
In '85 or so, I bought a Wang PC with a 30MB hard drive (divided into a 10MB Wang MS-DOS and a 20MB IBM (regular) MS-DOS partitions). You got into the IBM partition by booting off a floppy. Wang Word Processing was the Cadillac back then. I also had a daisy wheel printer that churned out a lot of term papers when I was in college.
I kind of moved to Windows in '88 when I was working for one of the national CPA firms. I'd gone to a PC user group meeting at the Univ. of Cincinnati so see some guy that owned a software company demonstrate a new spreadsheet program that they had introduced. I was a big Lotus 123 user then so I was curious as to what was available. The next day I came back to the office and begged our managing partner to spend $495 on a copy of Excel that used a run-time version of Windows 2.0 in the background. Yup, Bill Gates' demo of Excel at that meeting made a convert out of me!! (I think he was only worth several million back then! LOL!)
Fast forward to now... I've been doing automated accounting / ERP systems since 1986. I've gone from DOS systems (that were super efficient and fast!) through painful transitions into Windows systems in the mid-late 90's. That meant going from Novell networks to NT to Windows Server servers on the backend. And, moving from proprietary databases (also fast and efficient) to MS-SQL. The early 2000's saw a great improvement in Windows based systems though. Graphic system management interfaces were a huge step forward. And now we're back to using "cmdlets" to manage various aspects of our systems. Isn't a cmdlet basically a batch file run from a DOS shell? Yup - I've gone full circle! I can't wait to retire! LOL!
chad22
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I know were talking about windows in this thread.
But
I can remember playing the Oregon Trail game in school in the years 94 and 95 when I was in Kindergarten and First Grade.
We played it on an apple computer like the one in the pic and it was on a diskette like in the pic.
I feel so old. lol
I'm still using a crt monitor on my desktop from 1993 that works great. Got All in the Family Playing on it right now.
But
I can remember playing the Oregon Trail game in school in the years 94 and 95 when I was in Kindergarten and First Grade.
We played it on an apple computer like the one in the pic and it was on a diskette like in the pic.
I feel so old. lol
I'm still using a crt monitor on my desktop from 1993 that works great. Got All in the Family Playing on it right now.
