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I remember GePap insisting that modern computers hadn't revolutionized anything, they only provided incremental benefits in many fields...
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Pretty huge increments in mine.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I remember GePap insisting that modern computers hadn't revolutionized anything, they only provided incremental benefits in many fields...
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P'tui. Once, when I was a kid, my parents & I went to a department store in downtown L.A. to buy something [I don't remember what]. The saleman wrote down our order, rolled in up, put it into a metal tube, and slid the metal tube into a transparent pneumatic tube that ran up the wall, across the ceiling and back into the warehouse. Whoosh, away went the little metal tube, and a few minutes later, someone from the warehouse wheeled out our order. That was ultra cool.
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The invention of clay tablets was something that really rocked - it was pure hell if you chiseled a rune wrong.
The first PC's came when I started to study and costed something like a whole years income. Before that I have vauge recollections of visiting other people, travelling under open sky and the risk of diseases from contact with nature - it's a wonder how I survived.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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How old are people here, really?
All the time, I've thought there were lots of grownups here, but here I am, 21 years old and still can remember well how it was when I was a child and had to do other things than using a computer we first got when I was 11. I played outside. A lot. I played Nintendo. I used my bicycle. I watched TV(not much of that anymore!). I went to town to buy some ice cream and a Smurf CD or whatever was the fad at the time. I had a pretty good life actually. But I loved computers even then. My parents found out it was time to buy ourselves a computer when some friends of my parents' came to visit with their children, and I radiant with joy said "Oh yes! Then I can show them my computer magazines!".
Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
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Re: I can't remember what life was like before computers
I do. It involved 8-tracks, CHiPs, and The Dukes of Hazard, and me and my kindergarten peeps would ride around on our bikes, re-enacting the same.Originally posted by Lancer
I think I, no, that wasn't it. Of course I was single so I chased the girls. I worked. I remember when I was young having 3 jobs. Hmm. It seems like forever since I had no comp. I read alot! Was life better then or worse or just different?"The nation that controls magnesium controls the universe."
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How do you re-enact 8-tracks?No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Ride...stop...ride...stop...Long time member @ Apolyton
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I remember the big excitement in the dorm my freshman year in college when one of the engineering students called us all to the lounge to show off his new toy -- a scientific calculator. It could calculate trig functions, and had -- oooh!! -- a square root key. It cost a couple hundred bucks.
That was autumn of 1971. I took my first programming class the next year. I fondly remember carrying around my shoebox full of punch cards. Wonder if I still have my slide rule around here somewhere..
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Risk.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Calculators, yeah. It was a dream coming through when I bought my Texas SR 51 A in 75 - a year later my school bought a couple of 52's and my soul was for sale.Originally posted by -Jrabbit
I remember the big excitement in the dorm my freshman year in college when one of the engineering students called us all to the lounge to show off his new toy -- a scientific calculator. It could calculate trig functions, and had -- oooh!! -- a square root key. It cost a couple hundred bucks.
Ah, good times, good times...With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Oh God.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Well, don't be ashamed that you used cows when you had to calculate - you are after all texanOriginally posted by SlowwHand
Oh God.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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I do remember life without computers, since i bought my first computer when i was 8/9.
Before that i went outside to play with others, something which i mostly abandoned afterwards.
But there was no internet back then. My first computer was an amstrad cpc6128, and everything about it was personal. With the internet things have changed even more, since now there is the illusion that one is actually having social interaction online, which for the most part is not true.Comment
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My eldest brother has informed me that our Tandy was our first computer, which means that for the first five years of my life, I was computerless. I have no memory of this, however.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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