Dumb dumb dummy!

[Jeff G 78]

1 hour ago, siteunseen said:

My first one...

 

I had a Merlin!  I loved that game.  My first computer was an Atari 800 back in about 1980.  I had a modem for accessing bulletin boards at a whopping 300 baud.  More often than not, I'd get some sort of phone static and lose the connection before actually finishing any downloads.

[Captain Obvious]

39 minutes ago, Jeff G 78 said:

More often than not, I'd lose the connection before actually finishing any downloads.

Doing movie reviews?  

"Interested.... Interested.... Very interested.... VERY interested.

Then suddenly lost interest."

[psdenno]

1 hour ago, Jeff G 78 said:

......I had a modem for accessing bulletin boards at a whopping 300 baud.  More often than not, I'd get some sort of phone static and lose the connection before actually finishing any downloads.

My TRS-80 had no way to access the internet.  But, that was OK because in 1983 I didn't know what internet or email accounts were.  I could save programs on floppy disks that were floppy or on a cassette tape recorder.  It was a simpler time.  No cable TV, cell phone, satellite radio, or internet monthly bills.

[Jeff G 78]

3 minutes ago, psdenno said:

My TRS-80 had no way to access the internet.  But, that was OK because in 1983 I didn't know what internet or email accounts were.  I could save programs on floppy disks that were floppy or on a cassette tape recorder.  It was a simpler time.  No cable TV, cell phone, satellite radio, or internet monthly bills.

Before I had a floppy drive, I would spend hours and hours typing programs in for games from magazines. With no dri e, I would play the games for a few hours and then shut the computer off and lose it all. Fun times!

[Av8ferg]

I loaded the I think what was called the Oregon Trail game on my Commodore 64 via cassette tape. Tape data transfer worked maybe 50% of the time.


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[26th-Z]

I started out with an Apple II+ with dual floppy drives.  It had an extra memory chip which took it to ?64k? ram?  Maybe 128k.

[Jeff G 78]

5 hours ago, Av8ferg said:

I loaded the I think what was called the Oregon Trail game on my Commodore 64 via cassette tape. Tape data transfer worked maybe 50% of the time.


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[Patcon]

7 hours ago, Jeff G 78 said:

I think I have done that a couple of times over my extended years! 😉

[siteunseen]

They have a pretty dumb television show about that game. One girl is kinda cute, that's the only reason I watched it for 5 minutes.

Edited January 4, 2022 by siteunseen

[ensys]

My Stone Ax is Bigger Than Yours Dept.

In the late 60s, our class was assigned to designing and executing a simple project of our choosing. As this entailed 9 to 12 in. stacks of DIY punch cards (one misplaced hole and it was back to the punch keyboard) run by a room-full of early IBM, it first defined Big Fun for many of us.

On the plus side, the experience earned me the chance to do Piping and Instrumentation diagrams for nuclear subs for a time in the mid-seventies. The system was based on an early Eclipse computer, complete with 14in platter stacks for hard drives and a nifty, if crude, flat bed plotter that used special ball-point pens.

After that, it took a while to acquire my first; an 8088 IBM clone, 5 1/2in floppies and a dot-matrix printer. I liked it better than the Apple II I used in another job.

You'd think I'd do better with the crude analog electronics they used in the Z....

 

[dutchzcarguy]

6 hours ago, ensys said:

flat bed plotter that used special ball-point pens.

Hihihi.. in the early '80's i designed and build a A3 Flatbedplotter, and it used normal ballpoint pen's !  I build it from the ground up.. Even the programming in 6502 and basic. I controlled it with a commodore 64!  (Has a 6510 processor) ..  38811 Basic Bytes free! HAHAHA!!  

I remember it had 2 steppermotors and it could make 13 steps in a mm on the paper..

[Racer X]

You guys make me feel like a neophyte.

My first computer was a Pentium II hand me down. My stepdaughter bought it used from Boeing surplus (back then Dell didn’t have the contract). She fiddled with it, then gave it to her brother to use for recording music for his garage band. It didn’t meet his needs, so he bought a new one, and asked if I wanted it.

I said sure, he brought it over and I stuck it in the corner.

Mrs. Racer 2.0 pestered me to do something with it or get rid of it. So one day I set it up, and turned it on. Then there were a bazillion calls, first to the boy, then his sister. Eventually I got it running, then got online with one of the free internet access services, with a 28.8k telephone modem.

That was 1998.

It didn’t take long and I upgraded to a 56k modem, then cable through my TV cable company.

At first it was I the one calling the kids for help.

But it didn’t take long before I was upgrading the processor and memory, then building a new computer from scratch. I bought a seat of AutoCAD, and Photoshop.

Then it was the kids calling me for help with their computers.

Since then I have built five machines, two with dual head video cards, one for CAD  work, one for photography work. One of the single display machines I use for digitizing my vinyl record collection.

A friend said my computer room looks like a display at Best Buy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by Racer X