The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

I remember having tape casettes for your computer. (Though not my computer, since I didn't have one when those were in huse. My first computer was a mac classic I bought at the university, when I was 25 or so. It took floppies.)

Erik

My first computer used tape cassettes for memory: the Commodore VIC-20. Since it had less than 4K of RAM (not enough to store a blank page as a MS Word file, had such a thing existed) it needed the help.

edited 26th Aug '09 8:50:02 AM by ScudEast

I remember trying to bring image files from school to home one diskets. At the time, we didn't even have home internet. The sad part? This was 2004.

(not enough to store a blank page as a MS Word file, had such a thing existed)

And that is why MS Word needs to die.

I got Internet access when I got my second computer. That was in 1999 or so.

Erik

I don't have internet access.

@Jethro Q Walrustitty: I got internet late too; I remember going to the library to play Neopets all the time before we got it at home.

Edit: Oh snap, not allowed to post here. I forgot what thread I was reading, I swear.

edited 26th Aug '09 9:39:00 AM by Nyktos

Pacific: but how are you here?!?

I have work uselessly archived on near unusable zip-drives.

As for the school thing, my brother is only three years younger and there are still a lot times where I will say "And you'll probably have learnt..." "Nope" "Oh well, when I was in school I did". mostly due to us taking different high school diploma courses but shhhhhh

I can remember cassette tapes for music, but not for computers. I do remember floppy disks for computers. And Scud East, your talk of the Commodore VIC-20 reminded me of something.

I remember my first computer; an Amstrad CPC 464 with a green screen and a TV adaptor. Ee, it were grrrrreat (cue Largo, from Dvorak's 9th)*.

• I've probably completely lost most of you with that one, but consider it revenge for all those references to obscure celebrities in the Simpsons.

Our first computer was DOS. No Windows. So there.

@Catzalcoatl:Only buy houses with people you are 1. married to or b.related to by blood.

I just got a free lance offer from my previous employer. Weird.

Pomegranate Lychee Tea is good.

Pacific: but how are you here?!?

It's sort of true. I don't have internet access on my computer, because the connection gave up due to spyware. I use the family computer to post here.

Nuts, I just posted in the "TRTFCOB" thread. I said I wouldn't do that to set an example to you squares.

First home computer for me was a Kaypro II suitcase. Screen was about 8 inches square, green on black display. Used single-side 5 1/2 floppies and had a jack for plugging in an external tape drive. Ran cp/m. 64K of Ram.

edited 26th Aug '09 11:21:30 AM by Madrugada

Maturity is a psychological crutch, a mental hardening developed to rationalize disappointment. By having no expectations whatsoever, I plan on maintaining the thought patterns of a ten-year-old forever.

Let me know how that works out for you.

I also plan on never dying through sheer willpower alone.

Alright, Dire Sloth.

Go put'cher helmet on.

The short bus is almost here.

I already have it on! *points at avatar*

I wouldn't mind bringing a cheap 100-something gig hard drive back in time to 1995 and forcing tech geeks to start a bidding war for this rare and valuable treasure. And then laugh.

No, not 1 G of RAM. 1 G of hard drive space. It was a big deal back in 1995!

Remember when MB were a big deal? I don't, but they were once.

Just barely. My first computer didn't even have a hard drive, but it did support 3.5 floppies.

I think my first computer hard drive had something like 200 MB, so yeah. Then again, it may've been smaller. That thing was a 286.

By the end of its life, it was a Pentium III 500 MHz with 512 MB Ram and an 80 GB hard drive. It had none of its original parts.

edited 26th Aug '09 3:54:02 PM by BegoggledFox

I remember when I stored all of my writing on zip disks. Those were...terrible. It wasn't a matter of if they would crash, but when. I kept multiple ones once I learned (and lost a whole lot of stuff).

My family's first computer was some brand probably only existed for 5 years. It had a five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drive, and a 3-and-a-half inch drive. It ran Windows 3.0. Upgrading it with a CD-ROM, and later, Windows 98, were both big events.

My personal first computer was an Apple eMac that had 30 gigs of hard drive space and ran Mac OS 10.2.

So, how was the first Bio lab? Terrible. I accidentally set my notes on fire before the lab, so I had to teach everything from memory. Then, one of the kids asked about the scientific method, and I panicked and told him that everything was caused by fairies and moonbeams. And that this wasn't in the lab manual because most of the scientific community was involved in a sinister conspiracy to hide the existence of fairies from the general public. Also, I forgot to give them my contact information when I was introducing myself.

edited 26th Aug '09 3:59:17 PM by MetaFour