Youngsters not happy oldies going online

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Feb 1 2008, 12:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Feb 1 2008, 10:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ Jan 31 2008, 09:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I agree.

Oldsters like cpawfan should go back to their punch cards and slide rules.</div>

I'm into the modern stuff. I just swapped my 8 inch drives for a pair of 5 and 1/4 inch drives
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please, please tell me you're serious. I have a floppy disk and I have no idea what, if anything, is on it. I suspect I've saved it for a reason.
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Porn...?

 

^ Those naughty flapper girls

 

It's a picture of Dumpy and John Hollinger crunching numbers in their Speed-o bathing suits.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Feb 1 2008, 10:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Incidentally Peg, you know there are 12-year-olds out there who think that Vista and the new version of Word are just the coolest thing, are learning everything there is to know about them, and will compare all computer software to them for the rest of their lives. You, on the other hand, are just scoffing at them and trying not to spend more time than you have to learning how to use it.

It is starting--you're on your way to becoming a grumpy old man. Congratulations!</div>
I compare everything to Windows 3.1

I feel old

 

I miss 3.1... I kept it on my old desktop when '95 came out for a while

 

I remember playing Reader Rabbit on 3.1
Those were the days.

 

Heheh, Reader Rabbit. Anyone remember Rocky's Boots?

 

Was I even a sperm then?

 

http://www.warrenrobinett.com/rockysboots/

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MyNetsForLife @ Feb 1 2008, 07:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>http://www.warrenrobinett.com/rockysboots/</div>

That takes me waaaaayyyyy back.

 

Crazy to think about how much things have changed. In grammar school, the best computer available was an Apple IIe, and my first PC ran MS-DOS only.

And to think, I'm only 24.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thrilla @ Feb 1 2008, 07:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Crazy to think about how much things have changed. In grammar school, the best computer available was an Apple IIe, and my first PC ran MS-DOS only.

And to think, I'm only 24.</div>
And now I feel young again.

 

This was my first computer.

It had 3.5 KB of useable RAM and the processor ran at 1.0227 mHZ.

 

Why?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MyNetsForLife @ Feb 1 2008, 08:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Why?</div>

My Dad wanted me to learn to program in BASIC. I learned how to make a box and change the cursor four different colors.

That's as exciting as it sounds, so I tried to play games on it (like GORF) but you can imagine what those were like.

I got a Commodore 64 soon after and that was a computer that was actually useful.

 

Ah, the good old C64. The games I used to play on that...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Feb 1 2008, 08:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ah, the good old C64. The games I used to play on that...</div>

My favorites were Hardball (the game Fred Savage is playing at the beginning of Princess Bride), International Superstar Soccer, and all the Infocom games (like Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide).

I used to have to beat the shit out of my hard drive to get games to load, though.

Now, of course, I just have to click.

 

I played all the old Nintendo games on mine, as well as older games.

 

I had a Sinclair ZX-81. It has 1k of RAM, but I bought the 16k expansion pack. I had a few games that I could load using a tape recorder, but the volume had to be just right for it to work.

I'd post a link, but I don't know how and I don't care to learn.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Feb 1 2008, 09:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I had a Sinclair ZX-81. It has 1k of RAM, but I bought the 16k expansion pack. I had a few games that I could load using a tape recorder, but the volume had to be just right for it to work.

I'd post a link, but I don't know how and I don't care to learn.</div>

You just need to add: "Now get off my lawn!"