Modern Times..

[VinceBordenIII]

This is a one terabyte Solid State Drive. You can get them for like $150.00.
I'm going to stick an old 500GB HDD in as well, but I'm really starting to winder why?

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Wonder what 1 TB would have cost when I was in college?

[Animal]

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. It was only a keyboard. You had to use a television as a monitor and a casette tape recorder to save data.

The next (besides using punch cards in Fortran and having to run them through a huge computer in the one computer lab on campus) was a TRS-80. No hard drive. Booted from a floppy and saved to floppys.

My first with a hard drive was a IBM XT. It came with a 10mb hard drive. woo hoo!

[VinceBordenIII]

You must be around my age. Had I gone straight from high school to college, I never would have studied CS, and if I had it would have been punch cards. But those days made you careful programmer, I'll bet. Careful with errors, careful with memory.
My last job, I'd just throw some shit at the compiler and see what would stick.

[Animal]

You must be around my age. Had I gone straight from high school to college, I never would have studied CS, and if I had it would have been punch cards. But those days made you careful programmer, I'll bet. Careful with errors, careful with memory.
My last job, I'd just throw some shit at the compiler and see what would stick.

the punch card days were very weird. you had to be very organized and extremely careful. You were allotted "X" hrs of computer time. Every time you ran your cards through the big mainframe they reduced your balance of hrs remaining. If you ran out, you were fucked (or had to pay more $$$). You had to be careful that your coding was right and then you had to be super careful to keep your cards in the right order. Drop that box of cards and you were fucked. The only real "languages" that i learned were fortran and basic. and of course you had to know dos back in those days when the desktops started coming out. My stroke of luck was that my mom forced me to take typing in high school. she wanted me to be ready for college and able to type papers. I was using a slide rule in high school. no calculators and certainly no computers.

[Antknot]

My first computer was a ZX-80. I ordered the kit but they had run out and sent an assembled one at the kit price. Then a Sanyo MBC-555. Dual floppies no hard drive. Still have it. In the original box along with the software and monitor.

First calculator was a Bomar 4 banger Showed it to a math teacher in college. He tried a divide by zero, was amazed at seeing error displayed. Asked "How did it know?"

[VinceBordenIII]

I had a Tandy with an 8088. Don’t remember the model. Used Kermit to connect to university mainframe. Friend had one of those portable compaqs with the tiny screen. Maybe 6 inches? Fun times.

[Who]

ah the good old days, did evvan even have a kid or tat back then?

[Geist]

I remember when Battlefield Vietnam and Unreal Tournament 2000 took up half my 80gb hdd. Ah, youth these days don't even know the struggle.

[Gunzen]

I bought a computer when I got our of college and was working at Apple. I got it for 1400 bucks with their discount and is was 2MB and 37Mhertz. Retail it was over three K.

[Gunzen]

I remember when Battlefield Vietnam and Unreal Tournament 2000 took up half my 80gb hdd. Ah, youth these days don't even know the struggle.

Battlefield 1941 was the best first person shooter of all time. I like Vietnam too, but the trees, and bushes were hell on my RAM.