Born in the 60's

itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
dems4me said:
I remember when they went from DOS to Windows 95 :shocking:

I'm such a young pup :blushing:
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You mean Windows 3.1??

Lotus 1-2-3

Microsoft Word came on two floppies and wasn't resident on a hard drive. One was your program disk (drive a:) and the other was your data disk (drive b:)

My fist computer was a Commodore..

I remember when we got our first color TV..

Touch Tone phones..

Didn't see cable until I was in High School.

Fuel INJECTION!!!

Microwave ovens.
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
and don't forget the original cell phones.. for regular people not just the rich.

Huge bag phones..

Or the ones that looked like Get Smart would use.. or an Army Field phone.
 
clevalley

clevalley

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itsbob said:
You mean Windows 3.1??

Lotus 1-2-3

Microsoft Word came on two floppies and wasn't resident on a hard drive. One was your program disk (drive a:) and the other was your data disk (drive b:)

My fist computer was a Commodore..

I remember when we got our first color TV..

Touch Tone phones..

Didn't see cable until I was in High School.

Fuel INJECTION!!!

Microwave ovens.
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:yeahthat: to all of it!!!

Ms Word and Lotus 1-2-3 (all pre-office stuff)... remember the word processor Word Star? :lol:
 
Larry Gude

Larry Gude

Strung Out
I disagree...

Kain99 said:
Here's a random thought: People haven't changed one single iota. :love:
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...with that one.

Back in the day, 'health care' was the family doctor. Now, it's forms and insurance and, soon enough, government. There's really no such thing as a doctor anymore.

Back in the day, if you were fat, you ate too much and didn't do enough. Now, you're in need of...health care.

Back in the day 'street cred' was you smoked or were a pretty good fighter. No one respected thugs and thugs didn't expect to be respected. Now, cred is a gun and whether or not you'll 'allow' someone to 'dis' you. Everyone MUST be respected.

Back in the day, no one was a victim. Now, everyone is.

Back in the day, we all knew our responsibilities and some of our rights. Now, we know ALL of our rights and few of our responsibilities.

I could go on, but we are a different people. We don't have a matter of fact mindset about being Americans any more. We're losing sight of those ideas that people still want to flock to because they see it clearer than we do.
 
jetmonkey

jetmonkey

New Member
Pandora said:
I was watching the news and thinking... When I was a kid, I would have never imagined

- We'd have 100's of channels and a remote control to scroll through them all
- People would fight for the right to marry a person of the same sex.
- Home detention would be a common sentence.
- We would sit here and see, first hand, the tragic impact of an earthquake in China, people running, crying, searching for their loved ones on our butts in our living rooms.
- Gas is nearly $4.00. It was about $1.00 when I started driving in the 80's.

Yet...

- We have no cure for MS
- We have no cure for cancer

And I thought for sure we'd have cures for both.

Anyway, just some random thoughts.
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I just checked my butt - no Chineses :shrug:
 
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toppick08

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Larry Gude said:
...with that one.

Back in the day, 'health care' was the family doctor. Now, it's forms and insurance and, soon enough, government. There's really no such thing as a doctor anymore.

Back in the day, if you were fat, you ate too much and didn't do enough. Now, you're in need of...health care.

Back in the day 'street cred' was you smoked or were a pretty good fighter. No one respected thugs and thugs didn't expect to be respected. Now, cred is a gun and whether or not you'll 'allow' someone to 'dis' you. Everyone MUST be respected.

Back in the day, no one was a victim. Now, everyone is.



Back in the day, we all knew our responsibilities and some of our rights. Now, we know ALL of our rights and few of our responsibilities.

I could go on, but we are a different people. We don't have a matter of fact mindset about being Americans any more. We're losing sight of those ideas that people still want to flock to because they see it clearer than we do.
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Dr. Fenwick......:yay:
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
itsbob said:
You mean Windows 3.1??

Lotus 1-2-3

Microsoft Word came on two floppies and wasn't resident on a hard drive. One was your program disk (drive a:) and the other was your data disk (drive b:)

My fist computer was a Commodore..

I remember when we got our first color TV..

Touch Tone phones..

Didn't see cable until I was in High School.

Fuel INJECTION!!!

Microwave ovens.
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I remember our first color TV and touch tone phones. Our old rotary phones were hardwired into the wall.

Grandma got cable when I was in middle school and it was a special treat to be able to go visit and be able to watch MTV. My parents were out of reach of cable until after I graduated college.
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
Penn said:
If I recall correctly, the software program was called Wordstar. Every command from save to end was controlled by using the shift key, or control key.

Control S, for instance - saved the current works you had just typed, or else it would be lost. :lmao:
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Wordstar was the MS word competition if I remember correctly, just like Lotus 1-2-3 was the competitior to Excel.
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
clevalley said:
:yeahthat: to all of it!!!

Ms Word and Lotus 1-2-3 (all pre-office stuff)... remember the word processor Word Star? :lol:
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My second computer class was office like software.

First part of the course they taught us how to boot up using DOS, file management.. file trees. then we got the Wordstar and Lotus Disks.. student copies, so everything we did in Wordstar every fifth letter or so was an '*'.

I remember building this HUGE formula in Lotus that figured out a monthly payment, from a loan amount/ interest/ and time. The spreadsheet actually built an amortization table, figured commission for the salesman etc etc..

the professor was looking over my shoulder while i was working on it, asked what I was doing. he said, you can stop anytime now, you have an A.. then proceeded to show me the Payment Function, though i don't think that did an amortization table.
 
Penn

Penn

Dancing Up A Storm
itsbob said:
Wordstar was the MS word competition if I remember correctly, just like Lotus 1-2-3 was the competitior to Excel.
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That was back in '84, when I was stationed in Panama City(Tyndall AFB). There was no such thing as a mouse to click on icons, because there weren't any icons! There was no desktop either.

When you turned on the PC, and it booted up, all you had was a dark screen and a ......C:/......flashing at you. You typed in the name of the program you wanted to execute, and voila! :starcat:
 
bcp

bcp

In My Opinion
my first computer class covered things like Bianary Coded Decimal Notation, and machine language.
then as we advanced we got to learn all about programing in COBOL, Pascal, Fortran.

I remember working on a UNIVAC ANYUK 5 Mainframe when I first went in the Navy.
I think total memory on that system was 16k and you had to set the registers manually to bootstrap it, you could even do the step start and watch the lights on the registers light up.

Potter Drives, the Card reader, the teletype and that beast of a printer that would walk across the floor if not for being bolted down.
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
bcp said:
my first computer class covered things like Bianary Coded Decimal Notation, and machine language.
then as we advanced we got to learn all about programing in COBOL, Pascal, Fortran.

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Working on my degree in 2001 we still did the same.

Started with Assembly language, still learned COBOL (after the HOT y2K years) and stepped lightly into fortran and Pascal.
 
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