If you know what this screen is, you're old.... - Page 2

H165 · #16 11-23-2019, 09:36 AM

Gimme a break......this is a middle-age screen:

THIS is an old screen:

DenverSteve · #17 11-23-2019, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by M19

First programming class in High School in 1972-3. Phone couplers to the main frame downtown. Punch-tape program record! First program? List all the prime numbers up to 1000.

A buddy of mine actually invented the first external in-line modem connected to the computer. His company (Practical Peripherals) was gobbled up by Hayes and, yes, he's now extremely wealthy.

Lkristians · #18 11-23-2019, 10:14 AM

And I thought I was dating myself for even remembering PRODIGY!

TBman · #19 11-23-2019, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by srick

Remember how exciting it was to successfully land a LEM on the moon as each line typed out? For me, that was on a DEC PDP-8 with Model 32 TTY and punch tape boot loaders.

When I went to college in the early 70s, the students were still using stacks of punch cards to run their programs on an IBM 360/70. I’m pretty sure they were programming in COBOL.

Face it Marty, we’re sounding pretty old here!

When I decided to leave construction and get my college degree we had to do Cobol. (accounting major with computer minor/concentration) I was used to the integrated editors with built in compilers of Microsoft and Borland and then I had to do this code, submit, debug/edit, code, submit, debug/edit routine with the college computers (late 80's). Drove me nuts, but I still Aced the courses.

FrankHudson · #20 11-23-2019, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by RP

That's not old - I thought you were going to show a television test pattern. Remember when TV channels went off the air at night and showed one of these for hours along with the steady tone of someone who had coded....

And this BBC test pattern helped inspire "And the Wind Cries Mary" from Jimi Hendrix.

After all the jacks are in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed

spike66 · #21 11-23-2019, 10:38 AM

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and
down a gully.

TBman · #22 11-23-2019, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by spike66

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and
down a gully.

Look right. Look left.

Wow. I can't remember the name, but I remember the text based mystery games.

Daniel Grenier · #23 11-23-2019, 10:45 AM

Here's old (in terms of communications gear, that is) ... I actually worked on these as a Teletype & Crypto Tech in the Air Force ... Now THAT makes me feel old!

It's a Teletype Corporation Model 19 Send and Receive unit. It had a whopping 60 words per minute speed! Compare that to the upcoming 5G systems that are something like (in comparison) 200 Million words-per-minute or so?

#24 11-23-2019, 10:48 AM

I still use DOS at times at work. Mostly Linux admin now though.

TBman · #25 11-23-2019, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by J-Doug

I still use DOS at times at work. Mostly Linux admin now though.

There's also software for the PC called DosBox. I was using it for a little while to fool around again with my pascal compiler, but I noticed clock issues and it drove me a little nuts. Sometimes things would run fast, other times slow.

JCave · #26 11-23-2019, 01:36 PM

Or the good old PDP8.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

Spent may hours in front of one of those...

Murphy Slaw · #27 11-23-2019, 01:56 PM

My first home computer was a Tandy...

#28 11-23-2019, 02:08 PM

My first home computer was a Commodore VIC 20, though I played around with a borrowed PET before that. Remember Basic language programming?

imwjl · #29 11-23-2019, 02:20 PM

Maybe some will get a laugh that I got put on a plane for a week long Windows NT 3.5 class but had my \ confused with /.

Unlike most I worked with UNIX and had a job that was known as Apple Evangelist when that change occurred. More funny to me is when I did have to use DOS and computers when finally graduating from college I hated it so I thought I'd quit. It wasn't much after that when I had Cisco, Microsoft, IBM and Apple certifications. I hated command lines so much I thought I'd go back to commanding a Kenworth.

Now there are times when I miss the command line. My SDWAN devices that were controlled with a terminal window are not web browsers. I can't do search and replace with text.

The command line is still there for my Nutanix, some Cisco devices, PowerShell and it's part of why I like a Mac for more irony. At the start a Mac was all moving a mouse.

M19 · #30 11-23-2019, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by srick

When I went to college in the early 70s, the students were still using stacks of punch cards to run their programs on an IBM 360/70. I’m pretty sure they were programming in COBOL.

Face it Marty, we’re sounding pretty old here!

Freshman year Chem Eng we were punch-coding it with Fortran, and my Dad bought me a TI-50 calculator (not programmable) with all the highfalutin' functions....cost him $150. Senior year, my (now wife) girlfriend bought a TI-30 with the same functions for $30.

I think it's kind of neat to have lived through the integrated circuit evolution revolution.