Grizz's New Laptop

Watched an episode of Timeless where they went back in time to one of the Apollo launches at NASA-a woman boasted that the computers that take up this entire room have 4 meg of memory, one of the time travelers says his toaster has more processing power than they had at NASA back then

 

Which one was that? I had a Tandy MC-10 and a Commodore 64 that used one.

 

Oh do I remember!

First semester at college had us using Fortran. High school we learned basic.

Made some basic programs then later used Turbo Basic as a compiler so we had Exe files to run rather than having to go into GWbasic to run the programs.

First computers we used were Texas Instruments PCs. An almost IBM compatible computer.

 

Had a Sinclair that had a cassette drive.

Gary

 

B beginner
a all purpose
S symbolic
I intrinsic
c code


been a long time over 30 years but it made it real easy to write I will not super glue cap rolls to the typewriters before a typing test 500 times they

never would have caught me if I could have just stopped laughing literally roflmao

yup then when I learned to program a simple if then statement with a counter soo long ago teachers did not know what I did...

 

10 x=0
20 x=x+1
30 ? "I will not super glue cap rolls to the typewriters before a typing test."
40 if x<500 goto 20


Of course, I don't remember what the exact command was to send it to the printer instead of to the screen.

 

I couldn't ever type fast. I use to just type up a document t and format it just like the typing program use to print it out. Then make up some random words per minute and turn it in. I couldn't type fast enough to get a decent grade.

The computers in typing class when I was in HS were OLD then. Our copter tech lab had 486s back then but they were several years old and replaced by the time I took tech 2. I think they were replaced with pentiums.

"IBM compatible", there is a term you don't hear anymore. Ha

 

You had computers in typing class? Heck, we didn't even have electric typewriters! I'm not even sure the school had a computer - if they did, it wasn't until the last couple of years and then it would have only been to do grades and simple stuff like that.

 

Dang, I'm only 34!

 

Us either. At that time the only calculators were expensive and for engineers. I actually told my mother if she died I wanted her HP-35 calculator (the original offering, not their re-issue). She hasn't died yet but gave it to me about 10 years ago Course I plugged it in and realized I have a much smarter calculator that also is a graphing model, and in color, that cost me several hundred $$ less than her HP did back in the 70's .

 

We used slide rulers in Math and Physics and I learned to type on a manual typewriter. Mental long column adding was taught in my business courses. When I took my pilot training, we used round slide rulers called a comploter (sp?) I still have it somewhere in our stuff. It wasn't until the daughters were in high school that we invested in a computer. It was the model before the 286.