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| Old farts post here.
Bucket lists,
Laxative recommendations,
old war stories (OK to repeat over and over)
Morning specials at MacDonalds 
"e" ( the missing e in the title )
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Originally Posted by Rocketman
...Quasi was right...Once
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02-21-2012, 08:56 AM
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| So I can remember when computers had green screens and frogger was the game of champions.. | |
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02-21-2012, 08:57 AM
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#3 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| I remember when "Space War" was the only game . . . and screens were found on oscilloscopes.
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02-21-2012, 08:58 AM
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| We just can't have any privacy can we?
Try to take a crap, and some one just has to knock on the door.
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A good e-juice, fresh carto, and 3.7 volts from a REALLY REALLY BIG battery works for me. YMMV
Originally Posted by Rocketman
...Quasi was right...Once
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02-21-2012, 08:59 AM
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#5 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| I remember when high-level languages like basic and fortran came out, rejoicing I no longer had to program in machine code while lamenting that they made coding so easy everyone would do their own . . . turns out I was wrong on that second one.
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02-21-2012, 08:59 AM
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#6 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| Am I too young for the old farts forum at 45?
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02-21-2012, 09:01 AM
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| BK,
when a few more show up in here, lock the door
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A good e-juice, fresh carto, and 3.7 volts from a REALLY REALLY BIG battery works for me. YMMV
Originally Posted by Rocketman
...Quasi was right...Once
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02-21-2012, 09:19 AM
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#8 | | Modder Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: rhode island usa
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| Hey is this some sort of trick? where is my coffee? | |
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02-21-2012, 09:28 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: West Texas/New Mexico
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| I remember when Darpa net was the only internet and my first PC had a 5meg hard drive(external) and the modem interface was a telelphone handset and cradle. There were no mouses for I/O.
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02-21-2012, 09:40 AM
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#10 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocketman  BK,
when a few more show up in here, lock the door | OK..
My first PC was dos 3.0 and no hard drive but had CGA... sure hope you remembered to stock up on toilet paper there
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02-21-2012, 09:49 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Moscow, Russia
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| Ehhh... I only wanted to write my own laxative memoirs, but the Pasture already closed... Yet translated and going... Khe-khe... Rocket acts as rocket...
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02-24-2012, 08:58 AM
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#12 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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Originally Posted by berger OK..
My first PC was dos 3.0 and no hard drive but had CGA...
sure hope you remembered to stock up on toilet paper there | I built my first PC from scratch, with a soldering iron and breadboards, in 1972, when you couldn't buy one. It had 1K of RAM and no Hard Drive. I did add a tape (cassette) storage unit after I figured out that I could write a fast cool program in 1K using machine code, but it disappeared as soon as I lost power . . . creating my own OS was actually harder than creating my own PC.
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02-24-2012, 09:05 AM
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| I used computers in 1972 that the government denied existed
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A good e-juice, fresh carto, and 3.7 volts from a REALLY REALLY BIG battery works for me. YMMV
Originally Posted by Rocketman
...Quasi was right...Once
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02-24-2012, 09:14 AM
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#14 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| I bet they were a lot better than my home-made one. But, since I designed, built and programmed a custom one of a kind PC at age 7, during a time when most people had no idea what a PC was, makes me pretty proud.
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02-24-2012, 09:18 AM
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#15 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| was it the Z80 chip?
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02-24-2012, 09:20 AM
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#16 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| Intel 4004, My Dad was in a college electronics course, and had to buy one for a project. They wasted it building a calculator, but when he was done with it, he let me have it and I built a real computer around it.
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02-24-2012, 09:29 AM
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| The Z80 was later.
Intel brought brought the first Full CPU on a chip.
It grew into a 4040 that was still used in industrial equipment into the early 90's.
The Fluke Data Logger used the 4040.
Then things shifted to the Mot 6800 and 6501/6502
The Atari 800 used the 6502, as well as another popular home computer
Then the dam broke with the 8080.
Almost as much computing power as Govmt 20 bit pipeline processors built in 1965. Almost
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A good e-juice, fresh carto, and 3.7 volts from a REALLY REALLY BIG battery works for me. YMMV
Originally Posted by Rocketman
...Quasi was right...Once
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02-24-2012, 09:36 AM
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#18 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| yea I remember something about the 8088 being a 8bit bus interface for the 8086 but then the 286 showed up after I guess because of speed reasons..not real sure...
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| Today I consulted my colleague by phone. He got software (hardware?) problems on an old Xerox printer. As far as I remember, it was designed (including software) in far 70s. Has optical mouse and windows interface. Operating system is closed for everyone, but seems that this is a some hypostasis of *nix. Still works
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02-24-2012, 09:53 AM
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| Do you realize there are people still using Unix?
Oh BK, here's some of your Z80 stuff
and 8080 and 6502 (before chips where made in China )
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A good e-juice, fresh carto, and 3.7 volts from a REALLY REALLY BIG battery works for me. YMMV
Originally Posted by Rocketman
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02-24-2012, 11:57 AM
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#21 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| Still people using UNIX? I am a(n) UNIX Administrator, I use UNIX every day, and there are still current versions of UNIX being produced, daily, Solaris is UNIX, AIX is UNIX, Linux is open-source UNIX, as is BSD . . . there's way more UNIX out there than there is Windows. Every Android phone and tablet is *nix based, as are all Apple i-things . . . .
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02-24-2012, 12:31 PM
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| Hahaha! I use Android and also Solaris on my printers controllers. I'm not expert in Unix, as HiRezl, just an advanced user
When I told you about the ancient system, I did not mean Unix, I meant: it already had optical mouse and real windows interface, everything as in contemporary systems Designed in middle 70s!
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#23 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| Oh, sure, they had windows and mice in the *nix OS in the 70's, in both Xenix and SPARC if I remember correctly.
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02-24-2012, 01:19 PM
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| Before windows 3.1 there was a dos based GUI called gem desktop by digital research...they absolutely could have sued Microsoft and won IMO...lots of the exact same interface that windows used well before 3 came out.
Didnt Xerox give the GUI windows to MS back in the 70's as I recall?
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#25 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| No, first use was SPARC, and Apple stole it from them, and then M$ stole it from Apple, then everyone started using it. At one point Apple sued M$ for stealing their "look and feel" by using windows and mice, but it was shown during the court case that Apple had stolen it from SPARC in the first place, and as it's use was ubiquitous by then, it couldn't really be copyrighted.
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