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Noob Days...
datora:
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--- Quote from: Kyrdua on June 26, 2011, 05:45:19 AM ---what's your equivalent of google back then?
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To paraphrase the Matrix: You must first understand that there is no google. Used to be Something called "grep." Still is if you live in a *nix bash. But, that's once you were actually in a particular system ... try to imagine there is no browser. Google up the "gopher:: protocol," back before there was http:// or even ftp:
I learned my first "PC" interface on a system that used a cassette tape as it's disk drive, I experienced orgasmic joy when my dad got a 12 MHz Intel 386 processor PC. Had this monstrous 10 MB hard drive in it; we hardly knew what we would do with all that space. I remember wiping it clean and installing DOS 4.something as an upgrade to the DOS 3.something it came with. Later, when 486 systems running at 33 MHz (some were even clock-doubled to 66 MHz!) were available, I pirated a copy of DOS 6.2 from work and kept the system alive for another couple of years until the invention of the Pentium processor.
There was no Internet to connect to. We used candles and mirrors to flash Morse Code at each other, until someone thought to invent electricity one day ....
;D 8)
Meomix:
--- Quote from: datora on June 26, 2011, 06:08:55 AM ---.
--- Quote from: Kyrdua on June 26, 2011, 05:45:19 AM ---what's your equivalent of google back then?
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To paraphrase the Matrix: You must first understand that there is no google. Used to be Something called "grep." Still is if you live in a *nix bash. But, that's once you were actually in a particular system ... try to imagine there is no browser. Google up the "gopher:: protocol," back before there was http:// or even ftp:
I learned my first "PC" interface on a system that used a cassette tape as it's disk drive, I experienced orgasmic joy when my dad got a 12 MHz Intel 386 processor PC. Had this monstrous 10 MB hard drive in it; we hardly knew what we would do with all that space. I remember wiping it clean and installing DOS 4.something as an upgrade to the DOS 3.something it came with. Later, when 486 systems running at 33 MHz (some were even clock-doubled to 66 MHz!) were available, I pirated a copy of DOS 6.2 from work and kept the system alive for another couple of years until the invention of the Pentium processor.
There was no Internet to connect to. We used candles and mirrors to flash Morse Code at each other, until someone thought to invent electricity one day ....
;D 8)
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Holy shit, thats worse than 1985, were you using something like IBM 5100 back then?
froody1911:
All hail datora, our omniscient patriarch.
In comparison to him, we are all noobish little bitches.
datora:
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--- Quote from: Meomix on June 26, 2011, 06:15:02 AM ---were you using something like IBM 5100 back then?
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Honestly, I've forgotten. It was the one computer available to the "Academically Talented" (the AT) students at my high school. Out of 45 or so of us, only about ten of us were trusted enough to fight for time using it. I joke not: we r*e*s*p*c*t*e*d those cassette tapes. Very fragile and much wailing, gnashing of hair and pulling of teeth when they overheated and stretched. There was no system to duplicate them for back-up copies.
My first programming experiences in University were cardboard, key-punch cards and a DEC writer (a dot-matrix printer with a keyboard on it). No monitor; all programming was done type-written on paper. Monitors were too luxurious to waste on freshmen; they were reserved for upper classmen and professors. PASCAL, COBOL, Structured Basic ... how I remember you with great loathing and no small amount of fear.
Burkingam:
Doing pascal on paper is fun, except for the part where your hand hurts. I had an exam like that this semester.
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