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[Bill the Cat]

Y'all are old!

You'll get there young'un. It happens FAST...

[rogue06]

down tootin', darn tootin', durn tootin'.


It all makes no never mind when you're an old fart.




Now...

GIT OFFA MY LAWN!!1!

[Teallaura]

Y'all are old!

Darn tootin'!"

[rogue06]

Y'all are old!

Yer down tootin' Little Miss Smarty Pants.

[NorrinRadd]

My Mom gave me a Radio Shack 16 bit toy for Christmas in 1985, I think. She thought it would help in college - even bought the data recorder to store my programs. I did a few in BASIC - she'd spent all that money - but that was about it.

Yeah... I never really went anywhere with programming. I *had* to do some in college, in FORTRAN, and was not good at it. I did write a couple of programs on my HP-41-CV calculator that came in handy. That thing was SO useful. It died just a few years ago. Sad.

[Christianbookworm]

Y'all are old!

[Teallaura]

My Mom gave me a Radio Shack 16 bit toy for Christmas in 1985, I think. She thought it would help in college - even bought the data recorder to store my programs. I did a few in BASIC - she'd spent all that money - but that was about it.

[NorrinRadd]

The first few diddly programs I wrote were in BASIC on a Sinclair ZX-81. I don't even remember how they were stored. I also wrote some kind of dopey BASIC programs on my then-girlfriends Radio Shack pocket computer.

[Cow Poke]

When I was a kid, we used 5.25" floppies... and we liked it! Our computer had no hard drive and no GUI (Commodore 64).

The first program I ever wrote (BASIC) and saved was on a cassette tape recorder attached to a Commodore 64.

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Only mine was just a cheap Radio Shack cassette recorder, if I recall.

[QuantaFille]

When I was a kid, we used 5.25" floppies... and we liked it! Our computer had no hard drive and no GUI (Commodore 64).

[Cow Poke]

It almost looks like a Tandy! And I didn't know until now that floppy disks were ever bigger than 5.25".

I still have some of those 8" floppies. They were pretty much the standard from 1971-1977, then came the 5 1/4" floppies (single sided single density, up through double sided double density), then 3 1/2" in the early 80's.

[The Melody Maker]

At one point in my career, I worked for Lanier Business Products and serviced the "No Problem Typewriter".

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It used two 8" floppy drives - one for your program, and one for your data. And it took up about half your desk.

It almost looks like a Tandy! And I didn't know until now that floppy disks were ever bigger than 5.25".

[Cow Poke]

In 1975, just before my Mom retired, the attorney she worked for bought a word processor. She had to go in for training, but she loved it.

It was bigger than a Selectric II and took up most of the desk.

At one point in my career, I worked for Lanier Business Products and serviced the "No Problem Typewriter".

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It used two 8" floppy drives - one for your program, and one for your data. And it took up about half your desk.

[Teallaura]

Neither of us were teens during any part of the 80s.

I do remember going to where my father worked back in the early 70s where they had the computer room in which some giant monstrosity used punch cards.

In 1975, just before my Mom retired, the attorney she worked for bought a word processor. She had to go in for training, but she loved it.

It was bigger than a Selectric II and took up most of the desk.

[Cow Poke]

The original was considerably more grainy.

Yeah, and at 300 baud over a noisy country phone line, it was like each line was "written" to the screen a line at a time.