From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:02:47 -0500
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
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> > From: Horn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
> > > AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
> > > MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL.
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> > Heck! We had to stand up to change the channel on the *TV*!
> > And only had 10 channels to boot. 11 if you counted that one
> > from Philly that only came in once in a long while...
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> Has it been that long since you had to snip a bit out of a 5.25 " floppy
to
> use both sides... That is for those luck enough to have a floppy disk...
> everyone else had to use a cassette recorder to load a program...
> And what about sound? A program rocked if it beeped... And if it actually
> played a MIDI tune... Well that was cool!
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> Nerd From Hell
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Hrm. First computers. My family owned a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 and then a Model 3. Also, an Apple ][, a Vic 20 and a C64.
I played on an ACS8000 at one point, and we worked on CBM Pet Computers in school in the 80's. I worked with a VAX system in college that was older than dirt. I couldn't guess at its age.
While we're on the topic, I also remember the family next door owning a TV with one of the first remote controls. It was two buttons: 'power on/off' and 'channel' and made a horrendous clicking noise each time you used the button. I think you had to scroll through every channel to find the one you wanted. Of course, with only 7 channels, who cared?
:) Jon
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