When...

[Paul Pless]

...is Jamie gonna learn how to use the vBulletin editor? You know, so he can quote people in the little dialogue box and post pictures and such.:D :D :D

[S.V. Airlie]

Never Paul.. I am not a technocrat. You are 15 yrs. younger. Ya grew up with this shyte.
I learned on SPSS, WHAT 5 and Cobalt. Ever heard of them?
Ya expect miracles, pray! Damn ya.

and it has reached the point where I am too embarrassed to ask. LOL

A well deserved ribbing though. No harm.. go with the flow. :) Carry on... !!!!!

[Popeye]

my computer runs on kerosene

[katey]

Had I a little more kerosene, I might have posted yesterday. However, despite the fact that I *knew* I had over an hour of charge left in my laptop, it was too cold in the house for it to turn on. The power came back on early this morning (Tuesday) after being out since Thursday night. I was getting a little tired of waking up to 38 degrees in the living room.

/end whine/

Katey

[JimD]

Ya don't need no editor to post pictures you guys! Ferget the little yellow icon. Just copy/paste. You can copy and paste can't you?

[S.V. Airlie]

Shyte.. tried that.. Umm Reddog sent me all sorts of pictures.. Umm. still there. posted no.. C&P.. obviously works for others. I must be on the ignore list. LOL

okay.. I'm gonna C&P. Not all pictures look good or promising.Worse than the issues are... But what the heck. I'm never gonna hear the end of this. Oh well, the forum is like family. I never hear the end of it from my family either...

[JimD]

.. Umm Reddog sent me all sorts of pictures.. r...

The pictures MUST BE ON THE INTERNET FIRST!!! yA CAN'T DO IT FROM YER HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!

Edited to add: please disregard upper case shouting and excessive use of exclamation points

[John B]

too late! my ears are ringing.

no. its the phone... excuse me,

[Popeye]

in the beginning , man created pong and pong begat asteroids

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

in the beginning , man created pong and that begat asteroids

I played "MoonLander" on a teletype before Pong was a glint in its father's eye.

Nim.

[shamus]

That Cobalt was a great language, but not as good as Krypton, which had an automatic encoder if I remember wrongly....

[S/V Laura Ellen]

I cut my teath on a 4GL called Mapper. The company I worked for had developed all their own applications in house (finance, maintenance, HR, logistics, production scheduling, etc).

[S.V. Airlie]

Does anyone remember the " never ending do loop"?

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

I cut my teath on a 4GL called Mapper. The company I worked for had developed all their own applications in house (finance, maintenance, HR, logistics, production scheduling, etc).

Syntax from hell - really - but responsible for one of my favorite quotes:

I don't know if Mapper's user friendly
But it sure has friendly users.

[Bruce Taylor]

I played "MoonLander" on a teletype before Pong was a glint in its father's eye.

You had a teletype?! We had to carve our computers from a block of stale cheese.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

The teletype was a special treat - you first had to compile and run a program - error free first time - in Algol60 - armed only with a twelve button non-interpreting card punch (0,3,8 = comma)....

Stale cheese was but a dream.

[Popeye]

i had to store my programs on a paper ticker tape and roll it up and carry it around in my naugahyde brief case with my spare pocket protecter and red led texas instruments calculator i got at radio shack ,

some lucky bastards had stale cheese

[paladin]

well....my first computer was a magnetic core unit by General automation, and you had to hand program the cores in machine language....had to go to school in Kalley fornya to learn how to talk to it.....:D when the computer lost it's mind (regularly) you had to restart it by probing the appropriate spots with a flashlight battery...(late 60's)

[Bruce Taylor]

some lucky bastards had stale cheese

Well, when I say "cheese," I don't mean real cheese like the rich kids had....

[BrianW]

...is Jamie gonna learn how to use the vBulletin editor? You know, that BrianW guy is so damn cool. I want to be just like him. :D :D :D

Thanks Paul! I like you too. ;)

[Norman Bernstein]

well....my first computer was a magnetic core unit by General automation, and you had to hand program the cores in machine language....had to go to school in Kalley fornya to learn how to talk to it.....:D when the computer lost it's mind (regularly) you had to restart it by probing the appropriate spots with a flashlight battery...(late 60's)

*sigh* I gotta admit, I knew how to toggle a bootloader into a Data General minicomputer.... started a PDP-11 by entering an octal address... used punch tape on a Model 33 Teletype (a LOT!)... erased EPROMS with a UV light... this was in the early 70's.

[Popeye]

often smoke would billow from my ears and finally a tiny message on paper would eject from my mouth

[John B]

often smoke would billow from my ears and finally a tiny message on paper would eject from my mouth

oh come on! thats the sanitised version.