Windows 7 end-of-support

[rogue06]

The one I remember was much more crude - like a dot matrix effect which slowly materialized on the screen. But you're right - it was Bambi.

The original was considerably more grainy.

[Cow Poke]

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The original took a bit longer until Bambi was squashed with the credits taking far longer than the movie ending with Godzilla flexing its claws at the very end.

The one I remember was much more crude - like a dot matrix effect which slowly materialized on the screen. But you're right - it was Bambi.

[Cow Poke]

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.

Up til about 10 years ago, one of our local foundries used punch tape (like punch cards but on big reels) to "record" the engineering specifications for their plasma cutter machine. The engineer would design the desired product, then "print it" to tape. Somebody would hand carry that reel of tape to the shop floor, where they would feed it into another machine that would read the series of holes in the tape, and run the program to run the plasma cutter.

I kept those punchers/readers operating until I convinced them that a simple serial cable from the engineer's computer to the plasma cutter's table would eliminate the "punch/read" cycle. They were amazed how much more productive that was - and I got a significant Christmas bonus for that!

[rogue06]

Yup - I had a 300 baud modem that let me dial (literally, of course) into Sam Houston University's computer lab and be on a very rudimentary text-only bulletin board, and the highlight was watching a "movie" of Godzilla's foot crushing King Kong (might have my characters wrong, but Godzilla was one of them) in an incredibly crude slow motion graphic.

I was thrilled when I upgraded to 1200 baud!

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The original took a bit longer until Bambi was squashed with the credits taking far longer than the movie ending with Godzilla flexing its claws at the very end.

[rogue06]

And academics. You could FTP into ARPANET in the early 80s with a link from BITNET, pretty much the only way you could access the NCSA Crays at UI-Urbana without being onsite. By the late 80s, the Crays were using topline IBM 3090 600s just for I/O.

Your phone is faster than those machines now.

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.

[Cow Poke]

And academics. You could FTP into ARPANET in the early 80s with a link from BITNET, pretty much the only way you could access the NCSA Crays at UI-Urbana without being onsite. By the late 80s, the Crays were using topline IBM 3090 600s just for I/O.

Your phone is faster than those machines now.

Yup - I had a 300 baud modem that let me dial (literally, of course) into Sam Houston University's computer lab and be on a very rudimentary text-only bulletin board, and the highlight was watching a "movie" of Godzilla's foot crushing King Kong (might have my characters wrong, but Godzilla was one of them) in an incredibly crude slow motion graphic.

I was thrilled when I upgraded to 1200 baud!

[Juvenal]

TrueDat

And academics. You could FTP into ARPANET in the early 80s with a link from BITNET, pretty much the only way you could access the NCSA Crays at UI-Urbana without being onsite. By the late 80s, the Crays were using topline IBM 3090 600s just for I/O.

Your phone is faster than those machines now.

[Cow Poke]

The interwebz was pretty much the exclusive territory of the military and a few other government agencies back when I was a a young teen and Pong was possibly the only video game back then (if that).

TrueDat

[rogue06]

Another testimony from experience?

The interwebz was pretty much the exclusive territory of the military and a few other government agencies back when I was a a young teen and Pong was possibly the only video game back then (if that).

[One Bad Pig]

Another testimony from experience?

Pfft. You 'n' your brother from another mother predate both.

[Cow Poke]

Win 95

Ah, yes.... we had a guy in our Church who was a Commander with the Coast Guard who was aboard one of those vessels during trials.

[Bill the Cat]

Which Microsoft OS was it that had their system blue-screening on missile frigates, leaving them "dead in the water"?

(or am I misremembering that?)

Win 95

[Cow Poke]

Internet porn and video games?

Another testimony from experience?

[Cow Poke]

As long as it is financially feasible for Microsoft to continue to release patches, they will never get rid of Win 7. Heck, the Navy still uses XP for a few of their systems...

Which Microsoft OS was it that had their system blue-screening on missile frigates, leaving them "dead in the water"?

(or am I misremembering that?)

[Bill the Cat]

As long as it is financially feasible for Microsoft to continue to release patches, they will never get rid of Win 7. Heck, the Navy still uses XP for a few of their systems...