wanna feel old

[z06boy]

Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

Wow, this thread brings back memories. Reel to real, 8 track, boomboxes...holy crap, I feel old now.

No kidding...me too !!

I took typing in highschool....on a typewriter !!

Hey my friends laughed...even then but then signed up the next year because it was a great way to meet chicks.

[Gas Man]

When I took typing in jr high it was on old manual type writers. I'm mean like classics from the 60s. Then in high school, my programming class was on the green screen Apple IIE computers with 5.25" floppy disks. Same time, I remember 75 mb hard drives being a big deal. If you had 100 you were like a PIMP.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

When I took typing in jr high it was on old manual type writers. I'm mean like classics from the 60s. Then in high school, my programming class was on the green screen Apple IIE computers with 5.25" floppy disks. Same time, I remember 75 mb hard drives being a big deal. If you had 100 you were like a PIMP.

Computer programming on Tandy with cassette tape decks for program back ups.

[Gas Man]

YES cassette tape back ups... i remember that shit!!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

YES cassette tape back ups... i remember that shit!!

Yep and I had to back up my programs on computer paper (with the holes) to turn in for grades.

Oh and we had to hook up to college servers using a modem that you put the handset in a cradle to link up and it took like a minute to get on.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

I remember when you used to be able to get $5 from an ATM.

we had one of the first ones around here in town... they called it a "Metroteller"

[zed]

Originally Posted by z06boy

I took typing in highschool....on a typewriter !!

same here. they were electric typewriters though.

[zed]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Then in high school, my programming class was on the green screen Apple IIE computers with 5.25" floppy disks. Same time, I remember 75 mb hard drives being a big deal. If you had 100 you were like a PIMP.

a friend and I spent time before and after school teaching ourselves how to program on one of the schools two Apple II computers in BASIC. the next year they got 20 more and added a class. ended up my friend and I were helping teach the class because the "instructor" didn't know as much about programming as we did.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by zed

a friend and I spent time before and after school teaching ourselves how to program on one of the schools two Apple II computers in BASIC. the next year they got 20 more and added a class. ended up my friend and I were helping teach the class because the "instructor" didn't know as much about programming as we did.

I hear ya... I was like a month ahead of the class. So then the teacher would get me to help other people... now its meaningless!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

I hear ya... I was like a month ahead of the class. So then the teacher would get me to help other people... now its meaningless!

I know that feeling! I took comp prog for two years in HS and two classes at the junior college. I join the Army, come home and what's this windows thing? I didn't own a computer for over 10 years after that. In fact this is just the second one I'm on now.