I am a plumber, I love playing with computers to much to earn a living with them. I am also a big gamer and I dont mind getting fragged by 10yr olds, lol. Dam them and their fast reflexes!
PVP for you and me.
Diablo3 comes out May 15. I feel like Cartman waiting for the Wii release.

I feel like Cartman waiting for the Wii release.

That was a cool episode. He got into all kinds of trouble for that one....

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

I worked for the Canadian Met’ service
back in the 70’s, we had two IBM 360s in
Toronto, and every weather office had
a work station hooked up to the central
office. One night we had a guest in
my Lodge who worked for IBM from way
back then. It was fun talking to him.

They can't figure out what Post means, only tweet.

IBM 1130 Rulez!

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I wrote my first code for an IBM 360, in Fortran, back in 1970.

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I started back in 1979 by using a TRS-80 Mk3 in a computer education class, then also in 1979 an Apple II in a Basic Programing course, needless to say My 1st computer was an Atari 400 w/16k of ram(the 1st home computer to have a chipset and to be able to display 256 colors on screen all at once(8bit color thanks to the Antic chip)), which I upgraded to 48k and a better keyboard, so in effect the computer was modded before the term existed, I've also owned the following: Atari 600XL, 800XL, 1200XL, ST(It had 512K in it), 520ST, 1040ST, Mega2 ST, Amiga 1000, 3000 and 4000, after 1992 I built My 1st PC with MS DOS 3.3 w/a 386DX cpu and a vga card(among other parts), I read almost all the Computer Mags of the day, Byte, Computer Shopper, Antic, STart, STinformer, Compute and numerous other Mags that I can't remember at the moment... Oh and I got a B+ in the programming course and I still can't program anything more complex than an autoexec.bat or a config.sys file from DOS, not bad for a guy who never took algebra and got a GED after dropping out of High School(I got a C+ on the GED).


The OS was in ROM(Read Only Memory), this computer used the GEM OS and the 2 button mouse was standard...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I know we have had some here as young as 10 (ten, not a typo).

I learned to do computations on a slip stick (slide rule for those that have not seen the slang before). The first computer I wrote programs for was a PDP-11/40 by Digital Equipment and our High School was very fortunate to have one. The second computer I programmed for was a TRS-80 Model I. The first one I owned was a HeathKit H-100 sporting 2 5.25" floppies and a 10MB full height HD running MS-DOS 2.13.

I too learned on a PDP-11. There was just a teletype, and paper tape reader. After two weeks of instruction in BASIC, I became a computer aide. I was in 9'th grade, and have been hooked ever since. Now I am a software engineer/database developer, and I fix computers on the side.

Steve

OK, we had a paper tape reader, a punch card reader, two hard disks, and a few terminals.

The operator knew the correct set of codes to enter into the binary switches on the front panel to get the paper tape reader to work. We had the OS supplied on paper tape. That know how to load everything else.

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I started with a commodore64 in the late 80's (Tape drive before I even had an outdated floppy), wasted a few years with that, then got a used PC with DOS around 1993-4. Then my first "real" (hahaha) computer, was a build with a Pentium75 and 16mb of ram, and a 500MB harddrive, around '94-5. The rest was the obvious onwards and upwards.
In my lifetime I've used as primary OS: Commodore BASIC, DOS, (many) Windows, and have been falling more and more into Linux in these past couple years (Command line and Desktop varieties)

So as far as my roots in computers, I'm right there with many of you, except those of you hardcore early programmers using punchcards for your BASIC programs. :-)

I am a plumber, I love playing with computers to much to earn a living with them. I am also a big gamer and I dont mind getting fragged by 10yr olds, lol. Dam them and their fast reflexes!
PVP for you and me.
Diablo3 comes out May 15. I feel like Cartman waiting for the Wii release.

I wish I could spend my job time working on computers, or anything tech related really...

And I too am a gamer (PS3, PC), and I too get my @$$ kicked by the young gamers. As a young child we had Atari and Nintendo. These kids started out with complex controllers and complex gameplay. We will never be able to compete. :-)

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#resist

I started with a commodore64 in the late 80's (Tape drive before I even had an outdated floppy), wasted a few years with that, then got a used PC with DOS around 1993-4. Then my first "real" (hahaha) computer, was a build with a Pentium75 and 16mb of ram, and a 500MB harddrive, around '94-5. The rest was the obvious onwards and upwards.
In my lifetime I've used as primary OS: Commodore BASIC, DOS, (many) Windows, and have been falling more and more into Linux in these past couple years (Command line and Desktop varieties)

So as far as my roots in computers, I'm right there with many of you, except those of you hardcore early programmers using punchcards for your BASIC programs. :-)

I am a plumber, I love playing with computers to much to earn a living with them. I am also a big gamer and I dont mind getting fragged by 10yr olds, lol. Dam them and their fast reflexes!
PVP for you and me.
Diablo3 comes out May 15. I feel like Cartman waiting for the Wii release.

I wish I could spend my job time working on computers, or anything tech related really...

And I too am a gamer (PS3, PC), and I too get my @$$ kicked by the young gamers. As a young child we had Atari and Nintendo. These kids started out with complex controllers and complex gameplay. We will never be able to compete. :-)

I used one punch card reader that had an amusing (now) fault. It was fairly high speed and had a weighted wheeled slide that rolled slowly back down the output bin after the previous deck was removed. So, if the previous deck was large, you had to pay attention to where the slide was before you hit the go button. If you did not, it was likely that the first card would end up with both ends down in the output tray forming a nice arch. All cards after this would hit the arch and bounce out onto the floor...

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BOINC WIKI

Good riddance to PDP's and punch-cards. Never cared for wondering if
I had a "gold star" program, the next day, or not.

Good old days -- don't forget teletype machines; we had them on NASA STADAN, and, one Christmas, we all gathered 'round, as a most gorgeous young lady, sitting on a barstool, was slowly printed out. Amazing what .'s, ;'s, etc. could produce.

;o)

jm

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Oh boy! It's BINGO night!!!

Oh boy! It's BINGO night!!!

The problem is, you never know what she means by that.

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@SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon)

Oh boy! It's BINGO night!!!

Don't make me spew on my work screen like that...geez (looks around for paper towel)

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ROFL.

and hey hey, I like Bingo, and I'm the "young" dude that started this thread of walkers and poly-dent.

:-P

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#resist

ROFL.

and hey hey, I like Bingo, and I'm the "young" dude that started this thread of walkers and poly-dent.

:-P

I would rather take a walkabout than have a walker.

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BOINC WIKI

I would rather take a walkabout than have a walker.

Not me!

I'm the "young" dude
that started this thread

Have no fear my young friend,
we won’t forget who started
this thread, or the Poly-dent thingy.
Under the "O" now what was that number?

ROFL.

and hey hey, I like Bingo, and I'm the "young" dude that started this thread of walkers and poly-dent.

:-P

Dont forget the Depends.....

I would rather take a walkabout than have a walker.

Not me!

Those lumbering behemoths? They look uncomfortable to drive as well as being vulnerable to all sorts of things.

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BOINC WIKI

I heard the toilets were too small.