----- 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)
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Horn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:18 PM > > To: Killer Bs Discussion > > Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles) > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > 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. > > > > 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... > > 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! > > 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. :-)
Dan M.
Obviously not owned, but used? We had TRS-80s in high school (seventh grade). Advantage of having the Tandy dealer also being the school teacher.
I have no idea what they were, but my brother did his senior college project in 1975 on punch cards, he made a program to track the motions of the planets for so many years. When I went to the same college ten years later (and a college summer school three years before that) I used the same computers. They made my head hurt.
Kevin T. - VRWC No Eniacs in my past
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