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I'm So Old.....
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Samael_Khan
Qigong / Yang Style Taijiquan / 7 Star Mantis
The zillas got me into monster movies. Now I am hooked.
Jedster
Flying through space
I remember learning RPG(Report Program Generator), writing in binary. Worstar 1.1.
I also remember IBM's horrific manuals which no one ever could understand or use.
ETA: I also remember this
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Not usually, if you are lucky you may get a few nice days.
But i guess it depends where you are, the North and West side gets much more rain and wind than the south and east
Samael_Khan
Qigong / Yang Style Taijiquan / 7 Star Mantis
I am so young that to me RPG just means Role Playing Games.
Jedster
Flying through space
Yes when I first heard people talking about RPGs,I wondered why the language suddenly became so popular.(I was never into gaming).
Compiling a program consisted of sending a stack of those cards to that central computer and getting a LONG green and white sheet of paper (folded) that had the compiler complaining about cascading errors. And you had better fix more than one error at a time (which meant figuring out which initial error lead to later error messages) or else you wouldn't get the assignment done in time (several hour turn around time).
And pity the poor guy who had a box of cards that fell and spilled.
My first programs were in BASIC and stored on paper tape (yellow). It would take a while to get a program entered again...clickety-clickety.
And the terminal was ink. Passwords were hidden by the typewriter repeatedly typing over the area where you would type the password.
I'm still using the British word processor (BOS Writer) that I bought in 1986.
There have been no updates to it. But they did later on add BOS Speller.
I preferred the round confetti from the paper tape to the rectangular confetti from the IBM punch cards......
I am so old i remember my dads amazement when the first generally available PCs hit the shops. His previous encounter with a computer was not many years before when the visible part took up an entire (clean) floor of UMIST and was coaxed by an army of technicians in crisp white coats.
Aye, they were smaller & better for practical jokes.
Gawd, that stuff would accumulate!
And you could make swords by telescoping the paper tape roles.
I remember pulling an all niter once, & had trouble focusing upon me slipstick.
Yes, I was a procrastinator.
Yes, I was a procrastinator.
Has anyone mentioned rotary dial, hard wired telephones?
I remember pulling an all niter once, & had trouble focusing upon me slipstick.
Yes, I was a procrastinator.
I don't think that anyone who used one of those ever had difficulty with powers of ten or logarithms again.
Well, I'm old enough that those were all that was available--those new fangled ones with the buttons came much later.
But at least we hand a handle you could hold to your ear and talk at the same time.
One developed a facility with numbers.
Richard Feynman was famous for his skill.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Yeah, my husband and I bought a Pong game! Wish I still had it. Wonder what it would be worth these days.You think that's bad?
In graduate school, I remember Pong coming out.
It was briefly fun.
I've considered mentioning that.
I remember moving into our new house in 1968. My mom wanted a phone in the basement near the laundry so she didn't have to run up the stairs if the phone rang. It was the first touch tone phone I'd ever seen. Calling from it felt like being in a Jetsons or Star Trek episode!
Tom