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mystic96:
Ooh, ooh, ooh  :lol

* Brother had a C64 when I was probably 6 or so? Didn't really use it, just played a couple games here and there. Mostly got beat up trying to turn it on when he was in the "Intendo" room.
* Started playing more games and learning to type on my mom's Apple iie that she would bring home from work.
* Built my first computer (not my computer) with my friend's dad... think it was a 386 box? Back when they had the turbo buttons, lol.
* -My- first computer was a P/133 with 64MB of ram and a 1.6GB hard drive (this was legendary at the time). Later upgraded with a scsi2 cdrw ($550!!!), an extra 128MB of ram, and a 4.x GB hard drive. Surprisingly, mixed cds for a buck a song were extremely popular in high school too  :laugh2:
* Next was a dual P3 450 system with ~80gb of storage and started my dive into video recording/editing/burning compilation discs of tv shows and other finds on usenet.
* Somewhere in between the P/133 and P3 system I picked up a Tandy 1000 for like $20 - had a sweet 5.25" 20MB external hard drive! Used it to code school stuff on because the 133 was too fast and any apps that relied on counting cycles didn't jive between the 133 and the IBM PS2s at school.

From there, lord who knows. My current system is an i7 hex core w/ 24gb of ram, mirrored SSDs for boot and a couple of whatever gb drives for temp storage and test VMs. My server is nothing great, but mostly used for media streaming and web serving. I think there's just a hair over 6tb in use.

Consoles... yeah you guys are talking about systems I've never even heard of. Did they make you use punch cards in those relics too? ;D Let's see... in order, no less -- Atari something (7200?), NES, GB, SNES, Genesis, PS1 (bought with my first paycheck of my first job that I got the day I turned 16!), PS2, Xbox, XB360, Jaguar, PS3, Wii, XB360#2, XB360#3. Oh shoot, I lied... I have a GBA and PSP somewhere, no idea when I bought those.

You old farts are going to scoff, but I suppose I'm the young buck with only 15 years of experience. Started as a programmer for IBM when I was 18 using VB6 to create front end for SQL databases. Got tired of programming for the man, so fast forward and now I am an engineer for one of the big 3. 10 years in there were with a single company. The best and worst years of my life so far. Now I work almost a whole 40 hours a week and am never on call. I'd say, "Guess it worked out in the end." but the truth is I probably still have another 30 years ahead of me so who the heck knows. Hopefully Skynet comes online before then, because this whole "working past 40" thing sounds like a pain in the ass.

Oh, yeah no degrees and no certs. Although I did stay at a Holiday Inn once :o

Drnick:

--- Quote from: mystic96 on March 21, 2013, 09:21:03 pm ---Ooh, ooh, ooh  :lol

Consoles... yeah you guys are talking about systems I've never even heard of. Did they make you use punch cards in those relics too?

You old farts are going to scoff, but I suppose I'm the young buck with only 15 years of experience. Started as a programmer for IBM when I was 18 using VB6 to create front end for SQL databases. Got tired of programming for the man, so fast forward and now I am an engineer for one of the big 3. 10 years in there were with a single company. The best and worst years of my life so far. Now I work almost a whole 40 hours a week and am never on call. I'd say, "Guess it worked out in the end." but the truth is I probably still have another 30 years ahead of me so who the heck knows. Hopefully Skynet comes online before then, because this whole "working past 40" thing sounds like a pain in the ass.

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Punch cards, not quite.  Although some of the systems mentioned would have been better off with using them :)

As for the working past 40",  I'll Let you know how that works out June 9th :)

mystic96:

--- Quote from: Drnick on March 22, 2013, 03:36:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: mystic96 on March 21, 2013, 09:21:03 pm ---Ooh, ooh, ooh  :lol

Consoles... yeah you guys are talking about systems I've never even heard of. Did they make you use punch cards in those relics too?

You old farts are going to scoff, but I suppose I'm the young buck with only 15 years of experience. Started as a programmer for IBM when I was 18 using VB6 to create front end for SQL databases. Got tired of programming for the man, so fast forward and now I am an engineer for one of the big 3. 10 years in there were with a single company. The best and worst years of my life so far. Now I work almost a whole 40 hours a week and am never on call. I'd say, "Guess it worked out in the end." but the truth is I probably still have another 30 years ahead of me so who the heck knows. Hopefully Skynet comes online before then, because this whole "working past 40" thing sounds like a pain in the ass.

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Punch cards, not quite.  Although some of the systems mentioned would have been better off with using them :)

As for the working past 40",  I'll Let you know how that works out June 9th :)

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I gotta say, it's so impressive (not to mention humbling) what was done with such little hardware back in the day. I recently watched a show called Atari: The Agony and the Ecstasy and I bow down to those devs... they worked freaking miracles. Buncha coke heads to be sure, but they still worked miracles.

But yeah, compared to some of the Atari 7x00 games I saw/played when I was younger, I'd have to agree with you!  :lol

Re: 40 -- Don't do eeeeeeeet!!!! ;D

ark_ader:
Punch cards and paper tape (nightmare), three quarter inch tape,12" WORM, QIC, 8" floppies,  RLL & MFM 5mb full height drives and wait for it...EDSI.  :o

Yeah I'm showing my age....   ;D

Gray_Area:
.....I was expecting stories of happenings.

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