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Kids react to old computers
YOU TUBE ^ | 25 MAY 2014 | YOU TUBE

Posted on 05/26/2014 8:48:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

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To: Viking2002

Sounds like you learned a lot and had a lot of fun doing it. I love tinkering too.


21 posted on 05/26/2014 10:46:30 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Also played was a later version of the original. I remember those graphics.


22 posted on 05/26/2014 10:49:17 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Within a couple more years after that, I was installing and repairing them full-time for a living. Still am, to a degree, but I'm getting to an age where I'm sort of getting left in the back of the pack. The industry has changed a lot in the last 20 years, and I'm not some 20-something year old kid anymore who can start from the bottom. I guess I'm an old analog guy in a digital world. I keep up as best I can. Physical limitations are starting to come into play. Can't crawl under desks or in ceilings and pull cable like I used to, and more places are making tech support wear a lot more hats these days, as a matter of economics. It's sort of, "OK, what are we gonna do with the old guy?" LOL
23 posted on 05/26/2014 10:55:36 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Liberals - destroyers of both men and civilizations. The Fourth Turning Cometh.)
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To: coloradan

Yeah I had the same, but didn’t have the luxury of a recorder. You flip the binary toggle switches and press the enter button to load each byte as you recall. Do that over and over many dozens of times to load up some routine, and hope you didn’t screw up. I always locked the door when loading up a routine so I wouldn’t be distracted.


24 posted on 05/26/2014 11:11:50 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I would give the kids a slide rule and see if any of them can figure out what to do with it.

Do kids even know how to use a ruler,compass, and protractor these days?


25 posted on 05/26/2014 11:19:50 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
I would give the kids a slide rule and see if any of them can figure out what to do with it.

Do kids even know how to use a ruler,compass, and protractor these days?

Not only would they not know how to use them they would have no idea what they were.

26 posted on 05/26/2014 11:30:21 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This is to balance the daily “Average Freeper Reacts to New Technology and Pleads for Technical Assistance” thread.


27 posted on 05/27/2014 3:35:25 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Reminds me of my old Commodore.


28 posted on 05/27/2014 3:36:19 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Viking2002
I was the terror of every BBS in my area code.

LOL. I loved BBS's. I remember some of the different ones: Spitfire, Citadel, Tribbs, Wildcat, JetBBS... there were so many, but these seemed to be the most commonly used software in my area. Those were some fun times. I had a few friends who were Sysops... my favorite being a place called the Blue Light Special.

29 posted on 05/27/2014 4:15:02 AM PDT by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Dallas59

It was cute but staged big time.


30 posted on 05/27/2014 4:15:19 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: Viking2002

Same here! Never could afford the floppy disk drive. I seem to recall it costing almost as much as the computer and I think at the time the 1200XL was retaing for something around $600 to $700. And that was 1983 money.


31 posted on 05/27/2014 4:31:11 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Extremely Extreme Extremist; Impy; Perdogg; sickoflibs; Clintonfatigued; ...

Ha... I remember working at a place where had a state-of-the-art “286” to SHARE between four people...

Had my very own DEC VT180 at home. Wow... boat anchor now.


32 posted on 05/27/2014 4:45:21 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Back in our day, WE had to TRUDGE UPHILL BOTH WAYS in -500 KELVIN TEMPERATURES just to get a computer to DO ONE REGISTER LOAD.... and we LIKED IT THAT WAY.


33 posted on 05/27/2014 4:53:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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34 posted on 05/27/2014 4:56:27 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: coloradan
My dad had an Imsai 8080 when I was a kid.

An Imsai 8080 is worth a LOT of money to a collector today. I sent away for information on it, didn't buy it (mistake), but years later I sold just the paperwork for good money.

35 posted on 05/27/2014 4:58:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

HEATHKITS!!! Wow, I LOVED Heathkit projects. I didn’t get any myself (because I was a girl :-P) but my brother was very generous in letting me help build the ones he got gifted. A lot of my interest in technology came out of those happy hours building and using Heathkits.


36 posted on 05/27/2014 5:22:04 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: catfish1957

This was my first computer.

I eventually got a 64K module for it from data20 (that was the name of the company that made them. Lord knows what happened to that outfit.) It did have 80 columns, tho.

This was followed by the Commodore-64, which had a lot of utility for a long while. Even spreadsheets (HES-Calc), graphing (HES-Plot), and the usual gamut of word processing programs. It was a gaming machine at the time for sure, but I really didn’t play many games on it. Mainly Zaxxon and Geopolitique 1990 (my favorite).

After selling that machine, I graduated to the PC in it’s many incarnations, but the early years were full of fun and wonder.

CA....


37 posted on 05/27/2014 6:28:20 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: napscoordinator

I get the impression they were actors...more than an impression.


38 posted on 05/27/2014 9:25:29 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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To: Carpe Cerevisi
This is to balance the daily “Average Freeper Reacts to New Technology and Pleads for Technical Assistance” thread.

Now we need something for the "Average Freeper who's been here for X number of years and still doesn't know how to post a pic." :-P

39 posted on 05/27/2014 9:40:30 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: uglybiker

“Are you logged in?” “Get a MAC!” “Use Linux!”

Some of the absolute worst computer advice I’ve ever seen was in this forum. Occasionally some of the best too.


40 posted on 05/27/2014 1:22:58 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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