Kurassier Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 The good news is...if we can manage to get together at a convention sometime down the road....we can all legally drink I knew Russ was a secret member of the HBOB! That's why I developed Mk III Advanced and Improved Beer Distillery so fast...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumVie Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 Hey Russ...... My first Apple is serial number 2543.............my neighbor who got me started in computers Apple was serial 122 ( got my computer a few weeks after him). My first programing job was doing the Retirement program for Trader Joe's on Apple IIs with 5MB Corvus harddrives and a <dare I say it> network. I have floppy disks older then the kids I go Microsoft classes with. Good Cheer, Rick McF "Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid." –MarkTwain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowKitsune Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 Gads! I thought having to work with PDP-11s and Magnetic Reel-to-Reel tapes made me old. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquilonia Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 I did Basic and MachineCode programming with 64k machines... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WKE235 Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 I remember working one summer at Argonne labs on some high school work program. Basically all I did was pull printous from the high speed continous feed printer (the size of a Minivan), and distribute the printouts. The computers all ran off of these HUGE magnetic storage disks. They would pop these things onto and off of all the silos for reading or storage and processing based on requests. The disks / platter were the size of extra large pizzas with covers over them to protect the disks. There was a picture on the wall boosting that they had "X" number of the silos working and "Y" such disks for media / storage. It came out to something like a total of 200 Gb of space total in the whole facility at the time. And these machines and disks took up a VERY large room. When I think back to those days, and the fact my PC now has as much storage as Argonne Labs did many years ago (and of course a LOT faster CPU to top it off), that puts it all in perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T'Aleen Empire Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 Face it we are all ...OLD FARTS :lol: Also I pickup up a 6 in 1 replacement replace remote last night and it was SO AWESOME to sit back and be able to do everything with one darn remote while sitting in my recliner, now if I could just get a device to put in DVDs, CDs, and VHS tapes.....without having to get up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ur Lord Tedric Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 I remember marking cards with 2B pencils - carefully. Very simple numbers, equations and a few GOTO statements! Used to feed them into the teletype sort of machine to generate a nice ribbon of punched tape, that you then fed into the computer... Mind you, I was at school then, so I'm not THAT old!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhaseDragon Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 That convention idea seems like a good one. I vote for Las Vegas. Of course I live in Vegas so I don't have to travel. I would like to meet some people face to face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKO Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Why not meet in Amsterdam, I suppose the HBOB would like that too (or to try something different)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowKitsune Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 I'd rather go to Amsterdam than Vegas any day of the week. ... unless there is a European Airline workers strike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurassier Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Hey, the HBOB is exxtttttrrrrrreeeeemmmly flexible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternusIV Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 I vote Vegas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lugal Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Vegas! I'm always looking for an excuse to lose my money!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixitixl Posted August 22, 2003 Report Share Posted August 22, 2003 Vegas for me as well! I would not be hard to convince the wife we should go to Las Vegas. Now I just need a plan for her when I make my way to the convention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cargus10 Posted August 22, 2003 Report Share Posted August 22, 2003 I haven't been to Vegas in a while...I'd go, if I had some advance notice on when so I coudl get a cheap flight :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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