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laprimamirala wrote:

o m g
That TRS-80 filled our computer lab in 1980 and 1981!
Green and orange letters on a black screen! That was just plain flat out DOS...

Good old days??? In some ways, yes, but those early consumer computers were more for games..... DOS was made to help companies run spreadsheets and finally word processing.... no internet! I remember the first time a student friend of mine, at Univ. of So. Fla actually used a 300 baud modem to hook to the university's mainframe computer to do computer programming. I could not do it because it was a long distance call at 50 cents per min., and you needed hooked up for 3-5 hours to do the work needed each time. It was cheaper to drive 45 minutes to Tampa and spend the day programming on campus!

Now we complain because of 56,000 k (baud) modem speed being so slow, and most use broadband internet!

And terabyte is the new megabyte...

laprimamirala wrote:

And terabyte is the new megabyte...

Yep. remember when we were happy with a 5 meg hard drive and 256k ram?

I remember all the ads about hard drives coming down to $1 meg! That would make a 256 meg hd $256... and my 500 GB hard drive $5000 in 1987! I paid $79 for the 500 gig drive new last year!

TG wrote:

I used a typewriter in class one time... because we were talking about how it was before we had computers.

smart teacher! Good lesson! Imagine typing a couple of paragraphs, MAKING ONE MISTAKE, and having to start ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Even if you had an erasable ribbon on an electric typewriter, it didn't always work. So imagine what it was like for us the first time we used a word-processing program and were able to type stuff on a screen and were able to MOVE IT AROUND and delete things before even printing it out!!! It was unreal

and omg the WHITE-OUT we went through!! (and NO, I did NOT sniff it) :haha:

laprimamirala wrote:

and omg the WHITE-OUT we went through!! (and NO, I did NOT sniff it) :haha:

I did!

Just Joking!

laprimamirala wrote:

iluvpudge7 wrote:

[ I was 13 when Atari came out and when we got it we thought it was the most awesome thing ever!

It still is!

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Commodor 64

I need one of those! What kind of video game collector doesn't have one?

iluvpudge7 wrote:

TG wrote:

I used a typewriter in class one time... because we were talking about how it was before we had computers.

smart teacher! Good lesson! Imagine typing a couple of paragraphs, MAKING ONE MISTAKE, and having to start ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Even if you had an erasable ribbon on an electric typewriter, it didn't always work. So imagine what it was like for us the first time we used a word-processing program and were able to type stuff on a screen and were able to MOVE IT AROUND and delete things before even printing it out!!! It was unreal

Our erasable typewriter does a good job fixing your mistakes. I think we still have it somewhere...

catbox_9 wrote:

iluvpudge7 wrote:

[ I was 13 when Atari came out and when we got it we thought it was the most awesome thing ever!

It still is!

I"M GOING TO BE A TIGER SOON!

Keep it goin' g/f!

TG wrote:

I"M GOING TO BE A TIGER SOON!

Im not going to be a Tiger all to quicky lol. But Ill get there.