I remember when

[transjen]

I rember a lot of bozos running around like chicken little screaming Y2K and the end of the world was coming when every computer crashes and massive blackouts and nuclear missles going off. Then midnight on 1/1/00 not a damn thing happend
Jerseygirl Jen

[ila]

Originally Posted by transjen

I rember a lot of bozos running around like chicken little screaming Y2K and the end of the world was coming when every computer crashes and massive blackouts and nuclear missles going off. Then midnight on 1/1/00 not a damn thing happend
Jerseygirl Jen

I remember that. I was heavily involved in emergency planning for a cellular telephone company at that time. It was very thought provoking, to say the least, trying to come up with all possible scenarios. And then the big night and like you said Jen, nothing happened.

[transjen]

A guy who lived a block away in july of 99 actualy bulit a bomb sheltor and for the rest of 99 was stocking it full of canned food guns and ammno, Bet he went DOH when nothing happend
Jerseygirl Jen

[lacey_maxie]

I remember my first PC with windows95 long time ago and literally I was scared to switch it on because I thought I would screw it up.....

[ila]

Originally Posted by transjen

A guy who lived a block away in july of 99 actualy bulit a bomb sheltor and for the rest of 99 was stocking it full of canned food guns and ammno, Bet he went DOH when nothing happend
Jerseygirl Jen

I got a good laugh out of that.

I know people that tore out gas fireplaces and put in woodburning fireplaces because they thought that they wouldn't be able to heat their house otherwise.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by ila

I got a good laugh out of that.

I know people that tore out gas fireplaces and put in woodburning fireplaces because they thought that they wouldn't be able to heat their house otherwise.

A lot of people here in NJ did the same thing, I was still living at home with my parents at the time and i rember my dad saying it's a bunch of BS and besides if it's GOD'S will that everything blows up then it will happen and there's nothing we can do about and bomb shelter or no bomb shelter will make a differnce if it's our time then it's our time, I grew up in a strong Chatlic household
Jerseygirl Jen

[johndowe]

Hi there.

I started with an atari 2600 game console then i got a commodore 64, 286, and xt almost at the same time...

Learned basic on a Dec PDP11 - 45 RSTS/E, later tought myself to program my 64 in assembler basic was way too slow, learned pascal, didn't like it, too easy to make errors with all those begins and ends DON'T BUG ME ABOUT THAT, you like Pascal fine, lets agree to disagree ok. liked dos i would combine small ASM programs in batch files and make my old pc's do what i wanted, the only thing that i find stupid is microsoft, an operating system should take as little system resources as possible, within reason, and that excludes every programming language but ASSEMBLER, windows would be much smaller, faster, and more stable were it programmed in ASM instead of C. C and all it variants should be used for custom programming to keep developement times and costs down, everything else SHOULD be programmed in ASM, but i know i'm preaching to a deaf audience on that one, because everything today is qiock, quick, quick, and assembler is only quick, quick, quick, when running, not while in developpeng, and you need discipline and resolve to program in ASM effectively, most companies are too "something" to even try something like that, they'd have to invest time, energy and money creating and mantaining (DEBUGED) code libraries, even though it would make their products much better in so many way.

Got carried away there.

JohnDowe.

[sesame]

Johndowe,
I liked your post and understand your point. Windows and even Linux have to incorporate scores of programmes for supporting entertainment to suit the needs of most customers. And look at windows Vista now, it eats up 10-15 Gigabytes of diskspace! And think of the RAM capacity we will be needing in future to support that kind of memory overload!

If the whole nine yards are done in Assembly, the GUI will become cripled and the debugging will kill a few programmers. Put VC++ and Asm side by side. What do you see?

Furthermore, ASM is(or, should I say, was) for geeks, not laymen. But most peole can handle Visual Basic. And then there is the question of being just structural (as in C programming) and Object Oriented Programming as in C++ onwards. VC++, Java and .Net are object oriented through and through. Could ASM ever have handled that?

But one string that Microsoft is pulling is really evil. They are getting tie-ups with Intel and other major players. And these harware giants are producing machines that can only run in the most recent version of windows. So, if we upgrade hardware, we are being forced to buy Vista and "more to come" and pay Microsoft. And some of my favourite softwares wont even run in XP-sp2 or Vista!

[shadows]

Originally Posted by ila

I remember that. I was heavily involved in emergency planning for a cellular telephone company at that time. It was very thought provoking, to say the least, trying to come up with all possible scenarios. And then the big night and like you said Jen, nothing happened.

Well, at least we can all relive those moments once 2012 gets closer. There are a lot of people that really believe that the end of the world will happen then!

Myself, I think I will just enjoy the movie with the same name(2012). Life is too short to worry about something that no one has any control over anyhow.

My first computer was a Commodore "VIC-20." It used a "cassette" recorder for data storage and hooked up to a TV. I would have been like 9 or 10. Wish I still had it just for fun!

The first "real" PC I had was an IBM "AT." This was based on the Intel "286" CPU and ran DOS 3.3. I later added a "287" math co-processor, an Intel "Above Board" memory card, and an "EGA" (not VGA) video adapter. Anyone remember any of this stuff? This is the computer I used through high school. It now sits in pieces on a shelf in my office.

Somewhere, in Junior High or early High School, I built a Radio Shack "kit" that could be programmed in Assembly language.

In college (Purdue), the first language I learned was Fortran. I already knew Basic and Pascal from messing around on my own. I also used "punched cards" for a simulation we did in a Probability and Decision Theory class. I picked up "C" on my own and by working with one of my professors. I used to have a copy of Kernigan & Ritchie somewhere.

The first programming class I taught was C++. Most of the classes I teach now involve "applications." For example, my Operations class uses Excel heavily. Mostly for things like inventory management and statistical quality control. I also teach Data Analysis which uses Oracle and Project Management which uses a variety of software packages.

Anyway, this post is probably getting boring, I should stop...

Andrew

Thought I'd share this ad for the "Vic." It features none other than Captain Kirk!

[randolph]

I remember when we WON wars!

[jodarling]

Originally Posted by randolph

I remember when we WON wars!

I remember when you used to call em "Policing Actions" when you didn't win em.

[johndowe]

Originally Posted by aw9725

My first computer was a Commodore "VIC-20." It used a "cassette" recorder for data storage and hooked up to a TV. I would have been like 9 or 10. Wish I still had it just for fun!

The first "real" PC I had was an IBM "AT." This was based on the Intel "286" CPU and ran DOS 3.3. I later added a "287" math co-processor, an Intel "Above Board" memory card, and an "EGA" (not VGA) video adapter. Anyone remember any of this stuff? This is the computer I used through high school. It now sits in pieces on a shelf in my office.

Somewhere, in Junior High or early High School, I built a Radio Shack "kit" that could be programmed in Assembly language.

In college (Purdue), the first language I learned was Fortran. I already knew Basic and Pascal from messing around on my own. I also used "punched cards" for a simulation we did in a Probability and Decision Theory class. I picked up "C" on my own and by working with one of my professors. I used to have a copy of Kernigan & Ritchie somewhere.

The first programming class I taught was C++. Most of the classes I teach now involve "applications." For example, my Operations class uses Excel heavily. Mostly for things like inventory management and statistical quality control. I also teach Data Analysis which uses Oracle and Project Management which uses a variety of software packages.

Anyway, this post is probably getting boring, I should stop...

Andrew

Hi there.

I remember, and i STILL have my C64, somewhere...

And i still hsve a 386, 486, P2, & Celeron CPU's of course i built most of them myself as a CPU tech, also had an XT and a 286 but they were left behind when i moved out of my ex wifes (our) apt.


JohnDowe.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by johndowe

Hi there.

I remember, and i STILL have my C64, somewhere...

And i still hsve a 386, 487, P2, & Celeron CPU's of course i built most of them myself as a CPU tech, also had an XT and a 286 but they were left behind when i moved out of my ex wifes (our) apt.


JohnDowe.

My first was a Radio Shack "color" computer. With a couple of friends we modified it to run two floppies and read an Eprom. We built battery powered data loggers for field use that recorded temperature data on the Eproms which then could be read by the computer. I prepared a series of little programs to analyze the data to provide the grower with information on high and low temperatures and day degree accumulations. We actually sold some of the units to citrus growers in the San Joaquin Valley in California. We eventually gave up because of the poor quality of the chips we had to buy from hobby suppliers since our needs for chips were such low volume. It was a fun project while it lasted, however.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Was that a coco, or a coco2?

But good job on the mods, i also moded my C64, floppy drive and Joy sticks, but i didn't make any money with it.


JohnDowe.