Are you are sure I'm not a NERD??

Or......a rare hybrid like a Gerd or Neek.

I'm very much likeable, I'm highly regarded around here by people in the park and I do have social skills, so I can't be either, I don't quite fit.
The definition of Geek...

Uh Vic... we all use computers to look for space aliens.

That sounds pretty geeky to me.

I used my first computer in the mid-80's in a college class on programming in BASIC.

In 1988 I wrote my Master's thesis on a department computer using WordStar, and boy was I glad I did. My thesis chair flew to Chile that year to adopt a baby. Per her request, I had given her several chapters of my thesis to read on the plane. When she got home she called me up and said, "I can't find ANY of your chapters, sweetie!" How incredibly awesome it was to hit a button and print them all out for her again.

Interesting things they call art in London ...

Roller Derby Kisses at Finnish Institute King's Cross.
https://www.facebook.com/FinInstLondon?fref=nf

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the memory manager I used was Qemm..

Oh, the good old days. Qemm and Desqview ('windows' for DOS) by Quarterdeck. With it we ran a dialup BBS that could have FOUR users online at a time!

Edit:
Remember Stacker? Compress/decompress all files on the fly to fit 40meg on your 20meg drive.

If we are going for geeky history...

I built my first computer myself in 1966.



Took my first Fortan class in 1970, on an IBM 360. IIRC, it had 640k of RAM, in a case the size of a small fridge. (That's not me in the picture, I looked WAY cooler in 1970.)



I wrote my Masters Thesis on a Wang, in 1984/1985. Figures from Fortan programs run on a Varian, (that the school had just purchased to replace a cabinet sized HP that ran on paper tape) and on a CDC first generation CAD system.

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First version was 3.4, then they brought out V4 where you could "walk the menus" wow rocket science at the time. It still had those damn dot codes at the beginning and end to control headers and footers and page lengths etc

HTML "code" still uses a few of those Word Star dot commands for page headers, etc... and even some of those control codes for bold, italics, underscore, etc.

Chris, I remember using all of the other programs you mentioned at one point or another through the years. I spent many hours mastering them for for my computer programming/computer science degree from the mid to late 80's.

I can remember when the college I was going to got MS Word and Word Perfect with WYSISUG (what You See Is What You Get) print preview. Made formatting and typing term papers (with variable width fonts) a whole lot easier and a lot less wasted paper.

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Ah yes Corel Wordperfect and WYSIWYG (wizzy-wig). It was the DOS leader, but showed the way for MS Word to take over in Windows which it did. I went straight from Wordstar 6 to Word.

I never understood the need for those fancy word processors.... we all had EDLIN! :)

Ah yes Corel Wordperfect and WYSIWYG (wizzy-wig). It was the DOS leader, but showed the way for MS Word to take over in Windows which it did. I went straight from Wordstar 6 to Word.

I never understood the need for those fancy word processors.... we all had EDLIN! :)

I had "vi" on my SUN Sparc workstation:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

I had "vi" on my SUN Sparc workstation:)

Ran Unix?

Of course. The operating system is called SUN Solaris. Unix (System V Release 4)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)
Now it's Oracle that own the OS:(
Telnet, FTP... :)

Brings back memories of the in-house made banners and posters hanging around our mostly SCO Unix and Linux shop.....

WINDOWS - Waste IN DOs WorkSpace

In an open source house there is no place for Windows and Gates.

Microsoft has beaten Volkswagen's record... Volkswagen only produced 22 million bugs.

etc, etc, etc

British man’s bacon complaint goes viral

After picking up a package of bacon at his local Tesco supermarket, Ben Roberts was floored to find just six pieces in a package that advertised seven. While many would simply be sad and move past the outrage, shock and disappointment were just too much for Roberts to bear. He took to Facebook, and in a 500 plus word rant poured his heart out to Tesco’s community page.

"SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! There was only six rashers of bacon. Six. I could not believe it! Mortified! I called my other half into the kitchen but quickly dismissed her as she did not seem to understand the problem," we wrote.

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British man’s bacon complaint goes viral

After picking up a package of bacon at his local Tesco supermarket, Ben Roberts was floored to find just six pieces in a package that advertised seven. While many would simply be sad and move past the outrage, shock and disappointment were just too much for Roberts to bear. He took to Facebook, and in a 500 plus word rant poured his heart out to Tesco’s community page.

"SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! There was only six rashers of bacon. Six. I could not believe it! Mortified! I called my other half into the kitchen but quickly dismissed her as she did not seem to understand the problem," we wrote.

Wonder what he will do when he finds out that the Imperial Gallon has less fuel than the American Gallon.

Woman gives bizarre answer as to how house fires started

“It was cause of my cousin and I don’t want to mention no names,” Heather Tenney said. “He is mad because he can’t get with me. I am married to my husband.”

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Don't think we can top this one...
Rattlesnake selfie lands man $150K doctor bill

SAN DIEGO -- A local man who was nearly killed while trying to take a selfie with a rattlesnake racked up a whopping $150,000 hospital bill.

Doctors depleted the anti-venom stash at two different hospitals to treat Todd Fassler, who as it turns out once had a pet rattlesnake of his own. He sent us video he says shows him setting his snake free.

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At least 60 people died when a ship sank with 60 people on board.

At least 60 people died when a ship sank with 60 people on board.

And your point is exactly........what?
I was not aboard. Seems you were not either.

Your point in saying so is lost on me.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

British man’s bacon complaint goes viral

After picking up a package of bacon at his local Tesco supermarket, Ben Roberts was floored to find just six pieces in a package that advertised seven. While many would simply be sad and move past the outrage, shock and disappointment were just too much for Roberts to bear. He took to Facebook, and in a 500 plus word rant poured his heart out to Tesco’s community page.

"SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! There was only six rashers of bacon. Six. I could not believe it! Mortified! I called my other half into the kitchen but quickly dismissed her as she did not seem to understand the problem," we wrote.

Wonder what he will do when he finds out that the Imperial Gallon has less fuel than the American Gallon.

http://www.thepauperedchef.com/2010/04/a-guide-to-bacon-styles-and-how-to-make-proper-british-rashers.html

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It just sounds a bit off. Maybe I'm bad at math but can more than 60 people die if there are 60 on board. Maybe I'm missing some facts here.

It just sounds a bit off. Maybe I'm bad at math but can more than 60 people die if there are 60 on board. Maybe I'm missing some facts here.

60 passengers + crew?

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I myself would include the crew in the 60 on board. But if someone is eight months pregnant, does that count once or twice?