How can we have forgotten this 30th anniversary?
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ehanes7612
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the first personal computer (Apple) with GUI..i had one
ehanes7612
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well, my school had one
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Clark
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Well, I had a idea about this, and I checked on the internet.
ehanes7612
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i remember when this came out and my step brother (PC guy) constantly talking about how slow it was compared to PC's ..i was excited about it...graphics on a computer!
Scott Ware
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Oh lordy, I feel old. I think that was the day Doritaenopsis and Doritis, et al imploded into Phalaenopsis. No. Wait. That came later. Wasn't it when the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) officially adopted TCP/IP, thus allowing Al Gore to create the internet?
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Clark
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I still think the internet will yield the answer.
btw, me and Al Gore are beer buds.
just kidding.
btw, me and Al Gore are beer buds.
just kidding.
You got it Scott.:clap::clap::clap:
Transmission Control Protocol allowed all different computer networks around the world to communicate. The official date of adoption of the new protocol, known today as TCP/IP, made the Internet, and this forum possible. And that's worth celebrating.
That was fast!
Transmission Control Protocol allowed all different computer networks around the world to communicate. The official date of adoption of the new protocol, known today as TCP/IP, made the Internet, and this forum possible. And that's worth celebrating.
That was fast!
ehanes7612
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It's not about Apple or PC.oke:
yeah, well, back then people would argue about who was better, Burger King or Macdonalds..we were quite ignorant about computers back then, still are....try explaining inverted delay in microchips (MOSFETS) as the reason why computers were so slow back then....(okay, i took a course in circuit theory)
I don't quite agree Ed. I bought my first computer, at this time, a Commodore CBM with floppy disks. It was so hard to boot that I had to learn about programming in order to use it. Now, that technology has become so easy to use that I don't know how it works anymore.
ehanes7612
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I don't quite agree Ed. I bought my first Commodore at this time, a CBM with floppy disks. It was so hard to boot that I had to learn about programming in order to use it. Now, that technology has become so easy to use that I don't know how it works anymore.
well, i am saying that we (the general pop) were ignorant as to the physics behind signal processing of microchips..my brother could comment on the relative speeds of the different computers but he didn't know about MOSFETS, Capacitors, First Order systems, etc....but i see what you were saying now..i really hated programming myself(loved the physics behind the microchip though) and my love affair with a Commodore 64 lasted one month before i threw it against my bedroom wall (because of constant debugging and rebooting)...computers made great calculators though (i had no reason to store files back then) but i preferred the hand held ones
I was taking computer science in fall of '83 and everything was done on huge networked computers, and we all used 'terminals'... I didn't use the internet at all until I went back to school in '92. when I was taking classes in '95, a housemate in the IT department at school would have to occasionally reprogram his modem manually (it was for a pc of course) and go into the system and reconfigure everything which would take hours. he would scoff at mac programs and control panels that wouldn't 'let' the user go in manually and fuss with settings, said that was so (something slightly negative that I can't quite remember). when I went back to school in '92 and had to do my first report, I had to find a computer lab where I could do and type in my report in a few hours... the pc lab had these computers with little cardboard sheets that went around the outside of the keys/keyboard to tell you how to use the word processing program. .. after that didn't work I asked the lab proctor if there was a better way, and he pointed me to the small mac lab down the hall and after discovering Word 1 or 2 on it, I was finished in three hours; the rest was history! Thank God for macs and menus! (crossed-fingers to pc's )
)We had a mainframe in the press room in Montreal with One megabyte of memory for about 70 journalists. Every couple of days, we would get the message on our computer station saying: ''Drum almost full''. So the technician would ''empty'' the drum and we could work again.
Once the computer went down for a whole month. For weeks, I saw all kind of computer experts walk in and out the room with no resulting fix. Eventually, some aliens dressed up in Japanese or Chinese skins showed up and the mainframe worked again. We had to work with typewriters and a Commodore 64 in the meantime.
I still have pieces of that mainframe computer at home with the plaque that was on it saying Hendrix. My little piece of computer history.
Once the computer went down for a whole month. For weeks, I saw all kind of computer experts walk in and out the room with no resulting fix. Eventually, some aliens dressed up in Japanese or Chinese skins showed up and the mainframe worked again. We had to work with typewriters and a Commodore 64 in the meantime.
I still have pieces of that mainframe computer at home with the plaque that was on it saying Hendrix. My little piece of computer history.
SlipperFan
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I'll drink to that.
I can remember when my husband was looking forward to the time when a computer would hold a megabyte of memory. Way long time ago! It's ironic that now he is not very computer literate, though he uses his a lot, and I'm considered to be the computer person in our home!We had a mainframe in the press room in Montreal with One megabyte of memory for about 70 journalists. Every couple of days, we would get the message on our computer station saying: ''Drum almost full''. So the technician would ''empty'' the drum and we could work again.
Once the computer went down for a whole month. For weeks, I saw all kind of computer experts walk in and out the room with no resulting fix. Eventually, some aliens dressed up in Japanese or Chinese skins showed up and the mainframe worked again. We had to work with typewriters and a Commodore 64 in the meantime.
I still have pieces of that mainframe computer at home with the plaque that was on it saying Hendrix. My little piece of computer history.
Haha. I met my best college friend trying to find someone to help me w/ Basic. Ticker-tape for Fortran, keypunched card,etc. what fun!!
