There Comes A Time.....

0v3rki11 · 25-April-06, 11:21 PM

in light of my upcoming b'day and coming a year away from hitting that "30" mark in my life (which i never thought i'd live to see mind you) I tought it would be fun to start a thread for the rest of us "middle-aged" and "old-aged" farts to chime in on some things that the younger generations have now days that wouldn't be here if it weren't for us old farts, and "old farts in training".

mine, I remeber coding unix when i was 9 and tape driven server systems that took up the space of a modern day two bedroom apartment.

drougnor · 25-April-06, 11:51 PM

Remembering backing up data on a cassette tape on the C64 always brings a smile. Hmmm . . . Coding on a Vic 20 . . . Oh, I remember using one of the first puck mice. And that first 1 meg hard drive. Mmm mmmm goodness! I'm pretty sure I know someone who's still got a stockpile of punch cards, while I'm at it . . .

Bubby · 25-April-06, 11:55 PM

I remember cutting my own notches out on the opposite side of the 5 1/4" floppy disks, creating my own double-sided disks.

HigHTecHReDNecK · 26-April-06, 12:05 AM

I remember when you tuped something ......................... It was on a typewriter!!!!

And mail didnt have an E attached to it and came in envelopes ONLY!!!!!!!!!

I also remember when disks were the size of record albums , back when my dad worked for Xerox & Memorex & IBM ( tech writing engineer ). The computers would be streched along a long wall like school lockers, and i still think they were IMPRESSIVE ( and massive )

MLiV · 26-April-06, 12:10 AM

I remember begging my parents for $150 to buy 4megs of ram for my 486 machine so I can play doom2.

HoJo · 26-April-06, 12:16 AM

I remember when Texas Instuments was marketing a 4 function desk top calculator for $150.

godfoot · 26-April-06, 12:19 AM

I remember Apple 2(x), Commodore VIC 20, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, 8086, IBM System/36, 286, 386, start of IBM AS/400 line (to replace System/36), seeing replica of HAL from 2001 at it's birthplace at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, PLATO (mainframe at UofI in the 70s that took up about 3500 square feet), Pong, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellevision, Atari 5200.
Tempest and Defender in the arcade were the sheeeeeyooooottt!!!

HoJo · 26-April-06, 12:28 AM

Punch cards.

BigMacZach · 26-April-06, 12:59 AM

yea i pretty dont remember any of that stuff because im just a baaaaby

lol. but i think if was up in years like you cool cats i probably wouldnt be posting on this forums. I think if it wasnt even for video games i wouldnt even be on a computer lol. I'd prolly be quite a bit more athletic though which doesnt sound too bad haha.

Im_gumby · 26-April-06, 08:34 AM

My first (OK... my parent's first) was a TRS-80 Mod 3.

I remeber doing a stress test on a 5.25"... see how badly I could fold or crush the diskette before it stopped working. FYI - It really took a bit.

And I still crack up at the line in 16 Candles when Anthony Mike Hall says they are so expensive.

Reverend KWR · 26-April-06, 09:00 AM

I remember a program before windows called "QuickDOS", bragging to your friends about your new 9600bps modem (then later my SWEET 28.8), getting BBS phone numbers out of the back of trade and tech mags and getting yelled at by the parents tos top operating a BBS off their phone line. Text based games that werent a novelty on flash websites, ASCII graphics games, playing original Kings Quest & Police Quest and doing my best to find someone to sell me a copy of LSS.

godfoot · 26-April-06, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Reverend KWR


	Text based games that werent a novelty on flash websites, ASCII graphics games, playing original Kings Quest & Police Quest and doing my best to find someone to sell me a copy of LSS.

Oh yeah! The start of Sierra games was a wonderful thing back in the day.
I think I may still have a copy of the original LSS somewhere amongst all my "old" stuff.

Im_gumby · 26-April-06, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by godfoot


	Oh yeah! The start of Sierra games was a wonderful thing back in the day. I think I may still have a copy of the original LSS somewhere amongst all my "old" stuff.

Man... 688 ATTACK SUB was the first hit of crack for me... the HOURS I killed with that game.

AntiM · 26-April-06, 09:46 AM

The first computer game I ever played was text based, having been coded in Basic using punch cards on a IBM 360. It was called StarTrek and you were the Captain. Only one person was known to have beaten the game.

A typical question in the game was.

Klingon's are circling Uranus. You...

A. Raise shields and arm Photon Torpedoes.
B. Open a hailing channel.
C. Get a BJ from nurse Chapel.

Answer C was pretty much always the same.

Jager · 26-April-06, 11:01 AM

my mother still has a punchcard she used to make using a special typwriter for the first business computers for honeywell corporation.

i had a macIIe and my father had the first ti calculator that was for engineers in the 70s, had a horribly little screen that i think is VFD rather than lcd, and cost wayyyy to much.

anyone here remeber APL or a programming language?

and for the record im 21 but after writing all that and remembering what i learned on as a kid in the 80s (70s tech) i feel old LOL

lokies_mom · 26-April-06, 11:12 AM

Your all KIDS. Guess thats why I'm mom !
My first 8 track player !!

HemiCuda1970 · 26-April-06, 11:24 AM

I love Kings Quest! played that on a Tandy puter LONG AGO....................

drougnor · 26-April-06, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lokies_mom


	Your all KIDS. Guess thats why I'm mom ! My first 8 track player !!

Awww, Mom! Why'd you have to bring that up? Mom still has my first 8-track player at home. HUGE collection of some excellent music, too.

One of my ex's grandfathers gave me an 8-track recorder once upon a time. That was pretty sweet .. .

Oh, here's another for the older audiophile croud - Reel to reel! You just can't come close to that level of quality anymore!

And someone mentioned that old TI 4 function calculator for $150? I think mom still has hers. (Yah, I have a family of packrats.)

ranger1033 · 26-April-06, 02:37 PM

Speaking of 8 tracks anyone remember these, my mother still has her first Gramophone and a Phonograph to this day and they still work. Man they are old she had told me her mother bought them new in 1904, and to this day they still look like they are still new.

Zaltan · 26-April-06, 02:41 PM

Ah, lucky I'm only 18.

25-April-06, 11:21 PM		#1 (permalink)
0v3rki11 Cubic - Hoe	There Comes A Time..... in light of my upcoming b'day and coming a year away from hitting that "30" mark in my life (which i never thought i'd live to see mind you) I tought it would be fun to start a thread for the rest of us "middle-aged" and "old-aged" farts to chime in on some things that the younger generations have now days that wouldn't be here if it weren't for us old farts, and "old farts in training". mine, I remeber coding unix when i was 9 and tape driven server systems that took up the space of a modern day two bedroom apartment.

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25-April-06, 11:51 PM		#2 (permalink)
drougnor PCApex Review Editor	Remembering backing up data on a cassette tape on the C64 always brings a smile. Hmmm . . . Coding on a Vic 20 . . . Oh, I remember using one of the first puck mice. And that first 1 meg hard drive. Mmm mmmm goodness! I'm pretty sure I know someone who's still got a stockpile of punch cards, while I'm at it . . .

25-April-06, 11:55 PM		#3 (permalink)
Bubby Apex Advanced Techie	I remember cutting my own notches out on the opposite side of the 5 1/4" floppy disks, creating my own double-sided disks.

26-April-06, 12:05 AM		#4 (permalink)
HigHTecHReDNecK Sophist'Hoe"cated ReDNecK Reviewer	I remember when you tuped something ......................... It was on a typewriter!!!! And mail didnt have an E attached to it and came in envelopes ONLY!!!!!!!!! I also remember when disks were the size of record albums , back when my dad worked for Xerox & Memorex & IBM ( tech writing engineer ). The computers would be streched along a long wall like school lockers, and i still think they were IMPRESSIVE ( and massive )

26-April-06, 12:10 AM		#5 (permalink)
MLiV You want news, you got news!	I remember begging my parents for $150 to buy 4megs of ram for my 486 machine so I can play doom2.

26-April-06, 12:16 AM		#6 (permalink)
HoJo Review Pimp, but still Jo's Ho	I remember when Texas Instuments was marketing a 4 function desk top calculator for $150.

26-April-06, 12:19 AM		#7 (permalink)
godfoot A George Orwell fan...sorta	I remember Apple 2(x), Commodore VIC 20, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, 8086, IBM System/36, 286, 386, start of IBM AS/400 line (to replace System/36), seeing replica of HAL from 2001 at it's birthplace at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, PLATO (mainframe at UofI in the 70s that took up about 3500 square feet), Pong, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellevision, Atari 5200. Tempest and Defender in the arcade were the sheeeeeyooooottt!!!

26-April-06, 12:28 AM		#8 (permalink)
HoJo Review Pimp, but still Jo's Ho	Punch cards.

26-April-06, 12:59 AM		#9 (permalink)
BigMacZach Apex Techie I	yea i pretty dont remember any of that stuff because im just a baaaaby lol. but i think if was up in years like you cool cats i probably wouldnt be posting on this forums. I think if it wasnt even for video games i wouldnt even be on a computer lol. I'd prolly be quite a bit more athletic though which doesnt sound too bad haha.

26-April-06, 08:34 AM		#10 (permalink)
Im_gumby Slightly Silly Moderator	My first (OK... my parent's first) was a TRS-80 Mod 3. I remeber doing a stress test on a 5.25"... see how badly I could fold or crush the diskette before it stopped working. FYI - It really took a bit. And I still crack up at the line in 16 Candles when Anthony Mike Hall says they are so expensive.

26-April-06, 09:00 AM		#11 (permalink)
Reverend KWR Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	I remember a program before windows called "QuickDOS", bragging to your friends about your new 9600bps modem (then later my SWEET 28.8), getting BBS phone numbers out of the back of trade and tech mags and getting yelled at by the parents tos top operating a BBS off their phone line. Text based games that werent a novelty on flash websites, ASCII graphics games, playing original Kings Quest & Police Quest and doing my best to find someone to sell me a copy of LSS.

26-April-06, 09:46 AM		#14 (permalink)
AntiM Aqua Pimp	The first computer game I ever played was text based, having been coded in Basic using punch cards on a IBM 360. It was called StarTrek and you were the Captain. Only one person was known to have beaten the game. A typical question in the game was. Klingon's are circling Uranus. You... A. Raise shields and arm Photon Torpedoes. B. Open a hailing channel. C. Get a BJ from nurse Chapel. Answer C was pretty much always the same.

26-April-06, 11:01 AM		#15 (permalink)
Jager Apex Tech Fanatic	my mother still has a punchcard she used to make using a special typwriter for the first business computers for honeywell corporation. i had a macIIe and my father had the first ti calculator that was for engineers in the 70s, had a horribly little screen that i think is VFD rather than lcd, and cost wayyyy to much. anyone here remeber APL or a programming language? and for the record im 21 but after writing all that and remembering what i learned on as a kid in the 80s (70s tech) i feel old LOL

26-April-06, 11:12 AM		#16 (permalink)
lokies_mom PCApex's Mom	Your all KIDS. Guess thats why I'm mom ! My first 8 track player !!

26-April-06, 11:24 AM		#17 (permalink)
HemiCuda1970 Apex Tech Maniac	I love Kings Quest! played that on a Tandy puter LONG AGO....................

26-April-06, 02:37 PM		#19 (permalink)
ranger1033 Imperial News Bounty Hunter	Speaking of 8 tracks anyone remember these, my mother still has her first Gramophone and a Phonograph to this day and they still work. Man they are old she had told me her mother bought them new in 1904, and to this day they still look like they are still new.

26-April-06, 02:41 PM		#20 (permalink)
Zaltan Apex Tech God	Ah, lucky I'm only 18.