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Discussion in 'Safety valve' started by steimy, Mar 1, 2005.

  1. geestar20

    geestar20 Active member

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    Happy Birthday -Scoop-

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  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    not in front of the kids, jr!!!
     
  3. Praetor

    Praetor Moderator Staff Member

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    Time accelerates as you get older ... so you'll get really old really fast ... so you'd best start looking to invest in a walker or better yet a wheelchair cuz in almost no time you'll be old and decrepit and falling apart..... geez im feelin the effects of age ... cant sleep at night ...


    *oink*
     
  4. djscoop

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    thanks for the birthday wishes. yeah, after 21 they just seem to come quicker and quicker, and they have kind of lost their appeal of having a party. yeah...I'm getting older! Time to do all those grown up things, like get a career, get a wife, get a retirement fund, have a family. Man, what happened to the days of allowances? One hours worth of lawn mowing and I'd be set for the week! The only thing that reminds me I'm still semi-young is that my students are only a few years younger than me, and when I get people in their 40s and 50s in my class, that really makes my day!
     
  5. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    djscoop, happy birthday, young pup as i was 24 when you were born & when i got my 1st computer, a ti99-4a & still have it in its box
     
  6. djscoop

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    thanks ddp. that thing must be an antique by now and probably worth some money...

    the oldest computer I had a friend gave me years ago. It was the kind where you had to load audio-sized cassettes in to load the various programs. commodore 64 maybe?
     
  7. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    commodore vic20, 64 or 128. mine also used tape til i got an atari 130xl? with 5.25" floppy drive & built my monitor for it
     
  8. Pop_Smith

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    lol, the first PC i had was a Windows 95 with a Pentium 150 Processor and 32MB of RAM if i remember right.
     
  9. steimy

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    Nephilim
    Don't take it the wrong way. I wasn't implying that you did nothing. I was just frustrated and venting.
    I would like to tell the reposters what to do but i am afraid i would just lose it and start spouting foul phrases after the first few and get myself banned.
     
  10. Auslander

    Auslander Senior member

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    my first computer was a Windows Millenium Edition setup with a 700 MHz from Gateway that i got in the winter of '00. for your reference, i was 12 :) the oldest computers i ever had the privilege of working on had both the floppy drives and were Macs...i can't remember much more because this was in about 3rd grade.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    steimy, sometimes look at the post, think about it & comeback later in day to see if somebody else responded or not than add your 2 cents.
    my 1st ibm type got in 89-90 was a clone xt turbo with 5 1/4 drive & monochrome screen
     
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  12. steimy

    steimy Active member

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    since we switched to first computers, mine i do not know if it even qualified as a computer was a Commodore 64. But back then the games i had for it, back in the days of floppy discs, were still way better than anything else like the Atari 2600. I remember sitting there playing Test Drive, Drink & Drowned, Tapper and all those other classics for hours.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    it was a computer as it rivalled apple2's
     
  14. Mr_Taz_UK

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    Wow...that takes me back...

    My first computer was a 1981 (I was 8) [bold]Acorn Atom[/bold] It had a [bold]1Mhz[/bold] processor and [bold]2Mb ram[/bold] we are talking fast

    OMG...I am getting old.

    :eek:Þ
     
  15. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    2 meg of ram, are you certain as the 1st pcs only had about 64k & wasn't til the 286/386 they had 2 meg
     
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    speaking of memory, did you know that the lunar module that landed on the moon had a whopping 72k of memory! Its pretty amazing to think we made it all the way to the moon (supposedly) with that kind of technology.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    do you remember what bill gates said "640k is enough" & now we have people using 2plus gigs of ram nevermind hard drive space
     
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    lol, its because GAMERS want to push technology to the limit :D
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    not just gamers but also video editing & whatnot
     
  20. djscoop

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    yeah gamers more rely on video cards than ram
     

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