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*
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!
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
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?
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
lol, the first PC i had was a Windows 95 with a Pentium 150 Processor and 32MB of RAM if i remember right.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. Þ
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
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.
do you remember what bill gates said "640k is enough" & now we have people using 2plus gigs of ram nevermind hard drive space
