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Noob Days...
froody1911:
--- Quote from: datora on June 26, 2011, 06:25:50 AM ---.
--- 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.
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That's exactly how my dad described learning programming in college. He's 47.
Kyrdua:
--- Quote from: froody1911 on June 26, 2011, 06:21:45 AM ---All hail datora, our omniscient patriarch.
In comparison to him, we are all noobish little bitches.
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this will replace your BL quote, thank you.
--- Quote from: Burkingam on June 26, 2011, 06:30:40 AM ---Doing pascal on paper is fun, except for the part where your hand hurts I mean. I had an exam like that this semester.
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you gonna use paper and typewriter too?
datora - man, you're damn awesome. you've probably pretty much seen computing evolve.
also
--- Quote ---I experienced orgasmic joy when my dad got a 12 MHz Intel 386 processor PC. Had this monstrous 10 MB hard drive in it
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THIS QUOTE IS MADE OF WIN
## of course i know this is how hi-tech shit was back then, but hell it's still epic in retrospect.
Micharus:
Yep, been there done that, had the 'use search' response and all.
These days I think a bit before I post and there have been several times where I have gotten halfway through writing a response and thought, "Nah, it's not worth the time" and hit the 'go back one page' button.
--- Quote from: Kyrdua on June 26, 2011, 06:45:05 AM ---
datora - man, you're damn awesome. you've probably pretty much seen computing evolve.
also
--- Quote ---I experienced orgasmic joy when my dad got a 12 MHz Intel 386 processor PC. Had this monstrous 10 MB hard drive in it
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THIS QUOTE IS MADE OF WIN[/center]
## of course i know this is how hi-tech shit was back then, but hell it's still epic in retrospect.
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Heh, those were days.
When I think of just how far PC's have come, it just boggles the mind.
I remember going to Tech and using what they considered to be 'state of the art' computers back then. I can't even remember what they were, but they had monochrome screens and 5 1/4 inch floppy drives.
Those drives were massive, they held 360k on ONE disc! :o :o
--- Quote from: froody1911 on June 26, 2011, 06:32:17 AM ---That's exactly how my dad described learning programming in college. He's 47.
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Man I feel old. Not as old as your father though. :P
froody1911:
--- Quote from: Kyrdua on June 26, 2011, 06:45:05 AM ---
--- Quote from: froody1911 on June 26, 2011, 06:21:45 AM ---All hail datora, our omniscient patriarch.
In comparison to him, we are all noobish little bitches.
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this will replace your BL quote, thank you.
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Oh boy.
Kyrdua:
^ ??? i don't get it.
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