[69_Goat]

Originally Posted by ReverendMaynard

Don't forget the punch cards homie lol.

Now, that was before my time!

[rickss69]

We talking about the Florida ballots?

[MaadDaawg]

Yeah, DOS 3.1 was the ultimate. Used to program some in it and once mapped the "E" key on the secretary's computer to flash "I want to have sex with the operations manager" for about 1/10 of a second .... couldn't read it but I was hoping for some subliminal action LOL. Used a program called "DosKey", I ended up telling her cause she couldn't understand why the E key wouldn't work hahaha..

Anyone else remember the cheapest way to buy a 20 MB hard drive was to get a Hard Card that plugged into a slot on the mobo... and cost ONLY $400 ?? Which reminds me, I found some old computer tools in the garage when we cleaned up for the garage sale and thought about posting pics and seeing if anyone could guess what they were.... they were memory chip pullers LOLOL way back from the days before SIMMS, DIMMS, etc

Playing Startrek on Compuserve in text only cause there were no graphics online back then.

And the biggest piece of crap ever invented by man "Windows 3.0" hahaha

Even better... the old teletype machines. Like a typewriter but it punched holes in a paper tape that was about an inch wide. If you had a long message the tape could end up being 5 or 6 feet or longer. You'd then feed it into a "reader" that would pull it through and send the represented letters over the phone line to another teletype machine. If the tape broke on you, you had to hurry up and try to get feed the second (or third) piece of tape into the reader at just the right time or it wouldn't work and you had to start all over again !!!! See all the fun you missed hahahaha

[DrNip]

I remember when 3ghz then 4ghz then 5ghz was a dream. Now it's 6ghz or at least for me....

[Bones]

I can remember back when BASIC was being used and the TRS80's were the hot ticket. Did a graphics program in school that simply awed everyone since I figured out a way to make it draw a line with three instead of five lines of code. Ran much faster then the other programs submitted.

Gee - It's plain silly nowadays getting a machine to draw a simple, straight line faster....

[Kal-EL]

I remember when it was just 4 of us here at OCA.

[DrNip]

Yep.

[Chuchnit]

Oh boy I remember that too Good times...