My Dad built a Heathkit MS DOS computer back in the late 70"s
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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I didn't know they had computers back in the Jurassic period?
What do you think controlled the fuel injector mixture on the dinosaurs???
Actually, the one I am talking about was Radio shack. A kit.....
I remember DOS... And BASIC, and Fortran, and Cobalt...
And what were those 7 1/2" floppy discs???? You know the soft flexible ones before the 4 1/2" hard floppy....
Used a cassette to "program' the comp. Had no hard drive, it all got loaded in 4K of ram! 4K!!! then we got a "Big update" 8 K ram!!! 8 K!!!!
Yeah, now the RAM on today's computers is bigger than the hard drives on the old computers that we learned on....
Yes Delta
nice... Good luck and stay safe
Us old farts remember that...
The young ones like Chris and Rani are like, "Whaat"????
Computers did not just POP up. It took a lot of work by a lot of smart people to get what we have today, basically an appliance....
Today's generation doesn't understand what a "do loop" is or where the term came from....
actually, i used those big 7 inch floppies up until junior high. the smaller ones all the way thru college in fact. I didn't get a CD player until college. And we still had 45s and record players. Now if you go just 6 years younger to my siblings, you would be correct. I even learned C dos and how to type all that in. you know, before the days of user graphic interfaces and the Microsoft Windows 95 software.
and there were even 5 inch floppies too.
Have one I built when in high school.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. LOVED wasteland and pirates....
haha we had the 1980s summer Olympic game and then oregon trail
How many time you die playing Oregon trail???
too many to count. I think i only made it all the way once or twice. I know I usually died in the northern plains when i couldnt find buffalo or ran out of bullets.
we also had Carmen San Diego too. That damn cunt was a PITA to catch but I did catch her several times.
I froze to death so many times.......
And Indians got us.......
Usually some thing of historic and trinsic valueWhat did you catch from her???
Binary... i remember it vaguely..
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