I remember when

[sesame]

I saw with bulging eyes, the first functional mother board at the institute. We ran small programs in Assembly language. And then whoosh! Assembly language is out of vogue in front of basic!

I remember when I had to push in 3 floppies one after the other in order to load Lotus123. That was before Wordstar and Excel era. I had to mention the row and column number in order to access a spot on the screen.

Then came the mouse and Windows and I was so fascinated by those new concepts. God, I was nostalgic for Lotus123. I wouldnt let it go. And GW Basic, Qbasic.... I had to work so hard to master them and suddenly they were obsolete! Damn!

[sesame]

The same sequence of events rocked the C language and Visual basic. Then I dated with Flash actionscript and Director Lingoscript for a while.
Wham, bam, thank you programmer.
They were replaced by Actionscript3.0 and better things. And I wondered,
Will I go on learning a new language or program every year?
How many languages will I have to learn in a single lifetime?
Will I be a student forever?

So I said, What the hell!
Changed gears and chucked programming all togather

And started with Animation.... And me and Annie will go on living happily everafter.

Originally Posted by sesame

The same sequence of events rocked the C language and Visual basic. Then I dated with Flash actionscript and Director Lingoscript for a while.
Wham, bam, thank you programmer.
They were replaced by Actionscript3.0 and better things. And I wondered,
Will I go on learning a new language or program every year?
How many languages will I have to learn in a single lifetime?
Will I be a student forever?

So I said, What the hell!
Changed gears and chucked programming all togather

And started with Animation.... And me and Annie will go on living happily everafter.

I am probably the same age , just didn't go through all that stuff , still haven't , you guys are the true pioneers

[sesame]

I worked with DOS in my childhood.
I started computing at the last phase of Lotus-123.
Bill Gates had not yet bought Wordstar and Excel.
Windows was yet to come. But Assembly language
& Basic were already goners.

I wonder why did they make us study obsolete languages so hard!!
Morons! What a waste of our time! We could be studying C, C++,
which were on full swing at that era! The Education Dept. is still filled with incompetent, Unimaginative people.

As soon as Bill Gates bought Excel, Wordster and launched Windows with office suite, an invisible war began to get the contenders out of the scene. So, Lotus Suite had to go. MsExcel took it's place. Wordstar became MsWord. Gates bought small programmes like Paint and what not! And DOS experts had nothing else to do but suck thumbs!

Those who stuck with DOS, Basic or C, did so only as a hobby, out of nostalgia for those fine programmes... and labeled themselves as the Old School. The "Brave New World" had no longer any room for outdated technology.

Regarding modern languages, I think Java is here to stay, C++ is still at work beneath the surface. But .Net, magnificent as it is, will be relaced by some new toy out of the sleeve of Bill Gates. He will do this to keep pace with the competition and also for earning another pile of billions. Businessmen dont like it peaceful and stagnant.

[Christine]

I remember my family's first computer, Windows 95

Main uses was paint, pinball and sometimes solitaire

[randolph]

Ah, the good old days!
I started my computer experience punching IBM cards and submitting them to the campus IBM 360. What a pain! Then the lab bought a Digital MINC and a mile high stack of manuals that I was supposed to understand. It had two huge floppy disks and fortran and basic. I was supposed to develop a data base program for our lab data and I had no training in computers! Fortran was horrible, I finally resorted to a customized version of Pascal. My home computer was a TRS80 . Then the IBM PC came out with Word and Excell and compiled basic and computer programming became fun. It was so much easier to program in DOS before Windows, you wrote a program and ran it. Windows made things much more complicated. Then the Internet came along and the world changed. Now everybody has their own secret access to loads of PORN!

[transjen]

I rember when i was very young my dad had a computer is was a Comadore 64
Jerseygirl Jen

[sesame]

Do you know that those bulky 486 computers can run Windows 3.1 or an early version of Linux with flair. It can even surf the internet! I know its totally impractical, thats why they end up in trash. But sometimes such an impractical endeavour can be a source of fun. Its just like vintage cars.

[DSL]

I remembered i should have stayed away from that last drink.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

I remember that this was the start up screen of my cpu.

C64-01.gif


JohnDowe.