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Ginsu Victim:
That old man in the video, Dick Halloran, looks nothing like Scatman Crothers.
wp34:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on June 29, 2013, 01:18:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: wp34 on June 29, 2013, 01:13:23 pm ---I remember waiting 20 minutes for a game to load from cassette on my Atari 800--only to find out it didn't load properly and I had to rewind and try again. :banghead: It's the 80's equivalent of "when I was a kid...".
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:lol
When I was a kid... when the phone rang, we had to answer it to find out who was calling...
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;D
Now the caller just flashes on the TV and you can decide whether or not to get up and answer it.
Back then I remember putting "*70" in the dial string to turn off call waiting. Used to drive my parents nuts when people could not get a hold of us because I was on my modem.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: wp34 on June 29, 2013, 03:02:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nephasth on June 29, 2013, 01:18:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: wp34 on June 29, 2013, 01:13:23 pm ---I remember waiting 20 minutes for a game to load from cassette on my Atari 800--only to find out it didn't load properly and I had to rewind and try again. :banghead: It's the 80's equivalent of "when I was a kid...".
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:lol
When I was a kid... when the phone rang, we had to answer it to find out who was calling...
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;D
Now the caller just flashes on the TV and you can decide whether or not to get up and answer it.
Back then I remember putting "*70" in the dial string to turn off call waiting. Used to drive my parents nuts when people could not get a hold of us because I was on my modem.
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That's funny, my parents used to do that to me. But we had something like one of these, (second from the bottom). It was so bad, I considered getting a job just to have a second phone line put in.
DaOld Man:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on June 29, 2013, 10:54:51 am ---
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on June 29, 2013, 03:36:34 am ---Recognize any equipment in this news cast from 1981?
http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/
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2 Hours?! That's torture! How the Hell did you guys survive?
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Being a kid in my days wasnt easy. We had to walk 20 miles to school, uphill both ways, and when it snowed, we had to push the bus load of smaller kids through the snow drifts.
But seriously, I didnt own a computer until about 1986, and it was a small TS-1000 that my sister gave me. (She got it at one of those time share promotions. She didnt know anything about it so she gave it to me.)
It had a whopping 1 K of ram! (It was a cartridge that plugged into the back of it.)
That was my first experience in programming, because it didnt come with any programs, I had to write my own.
Lucky for me it did have a manual with all the basic commands listed in it.
My first program was a simple version of Tic Tac Toe.
I didnt get online until around 1995, then it was just a bulletin board type deal. My Packard Bell had a screaming 2800 baud modem.
It wasnt until 1997 that I got a 486SX and got on the real internet. (Still dial up though.)
My how far technology has come in the past 25-30 years!
EDIT: Oops, the Packard Bell was a 486SX the one I bought in 1997 was a 586, I think.
shponglefan:
"Estimated two to three thousand computer owners in the Bay area..."
Ah, what simpler times. ;D
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