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 Re: Looking Back
[Re: Gusick]
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10/05/19 01:21 AM
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Bob Davis
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I don't remember any of this. That's because you weren't even a twinkle in your Dad's eye then. 
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 01:38 AM
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Posts: 7,512
Kentucky
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our internet was home amateur radios with powerful amplified directional antenna . In the fall we could catch skip and once talked to someone in Nova Scotia.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 01:50 AM
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Dognot
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First Computer in High School was a Sperry Rand with punch cards.
It was a government surplus.
Sometimes what didn't work out for you, did in fact, work out for you.
Haters going to hate and believers are going to believe.
Every man has two lives,The second one starts when he realizes that he has only one.
โHard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.โ
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 01:52 AM
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ReelBusy
TFF Guru
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Used to advertise in that thing. Hello 1990, the days of Comdex
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 02:05 AM
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Kenner18
Outdoorsman
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First real computer I had was a Tandy 1000 with a Radio Shack printer.
Anyone remember the Compaq portable? Or should I say luggable.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 02:08 AM
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Kenner18
Outdoorsman
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Lightning fast 8088, 80286, 386 and 486 cpu's Yes we have come a long way.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: Kenner18]
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10/05/19 02:19 AM
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Kentucky
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Lightning fast 8088, 80286, 386 and 486 cpu's Yes we have come a long way. The trash 80's !
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: Kentucky]
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10/05/19 02:24 AM
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fish4bass
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Lightning fast 8088, 80286, 386 and 486 cpu's Yes we have come a long way. The trash 80's ! My first real job was loading greenbar on a IBM 3380 impact printer. My wife was was proud I had a suit job when I went in that first night shift. I came home 12 hours later looking like I had been working in a coal mine.
Last edited by fish4bass; 10/05/19 02:26 AM.
And I know who "Jeff" is.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 02:32 AM
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Kenner18
Outdoorsman
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Digital Equipment Corporation, Univac, Burroughs? All went to the wayside.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 02:33 AM
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Kenner18
Outdoorsman
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: Kenner18]
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10/05/19 02:36 AM
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Posts: 12,526
fish4bass
TFF Guru
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Cobol and Assembler. I still see both on the job boards. It is still out there. Mainly in the public sector best I can tell. Likely more resistant to malware than any modern languages.
Last edited by fish4bass; 10/05/19 02:44 AM.
And I know who "Jeff" is.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: fish4bass]
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10/05/19 02:43 AM
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Posts: 7,512
Kentucky
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Lightning fast 8088, 80286, 386 and 486 cpu's Yes we have come a long way. The trash 80's ! My first real job was loading greenbar on a IBM 3380 impact printer. My wife was was proud I had a suit job when I went in that first night shift. I came home 12 hours later looking like I had been working in a coal mine. oh the sounds of those printers printing on that green bar dump paper.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: Kentucky]
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10/05/19 02:47 AM
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Posts: 12,526
fish4bass
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Lightning fast 8088, 80286, 386 and 486 cpu's Yes we have come a long way. The trash 80's ! My first real job was loading greenbar on a IBM 3380 impact printer. My wife was was proud I had a suit job when I went in that first night shift. I came home 12 hours later looking like I had been working in a coal mine. oh the sounds of those printers printing on that green bar dump paper. Sixteen of them. Before ear protection was a thing. 
And I know who "Jeff" is.
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 11:41 AM
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hopalong
Pescador Loco
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Pescador Loco
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ran an ibm 360/20 1972-74 that could do satellite uplink. latest greatest super comms. for the military. figured out how to route a msg around the world and back to myself thru satellites. pretty cool at the time.
had 3 tty keyboards, 2 punch card readers, 2 paper tape, 12 bank mag tape memory and took up about 3,000 sf for the whole deal.
got out and was learning cobol, fortran, snobol (think I got them right) when I had a little difference of opinion with a prof at ou.
wish I had stayed with it back then.
Last edited by hopalong; 10/05/19 11:43 AM.
" Hop, set the hook"!
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Re: Looking Back
[Re: dafanman]
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10/05/19 12:48 PM
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ReelSlow
Extreme Angler
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Trash 80 ...... man I miss it
GOD is good!
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