I wish I grew up with computers when I was in school.it amazes me how computer savvy these kids are nowadays.My 10 year old nephew blows me away with the stuff he knows

I remember recording BASIC code to tape cassette that i had programmed into my Atari 600XL...

I used to buy code books that had programs in them.

Just getting a fucking square to draw on the screen was sweet!

OMG!! Castle Wolfenstein was the first game I ever played on a computer and I Loooved that game! My brother's and I used to fight over the computer just to play it - stick figures and all. :)

A1R3K, you are so right! It's crazy to think about how quickly and how much technology has evolved!!

Get a load of this...my family's 1st computer:

APPLE II AND II+ Introduced in 1977, the Apple II came with 4K RAM and hooked up to a TV and cassette tape recorder. A floppy disk was available in 1978. In 1979, an enhanced II+ came with 48K of RAM. Screen resolution 280x192x6.

http://www.authenticamber.com/apple2plus.jpg

TOO Many Things!! Who would have ever thought that I would have cum...er, I mean come...so far! :winkwink:

lol, reading this is a trip down memory lane. I first used one of these:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_computer.jpg

My grandfather died in 1964 when I was still a typically naive teenager. Shortly after his death I was thinking about how I envied him for all the changes he had seen in his life, the like of which I wouldn't experience.

I soon realized that I couldn't have been more wrong, although it took me a little longer to realize how much social change also occurs in quite short periods of time, as well as the more obvious technological changes.

Nowadays there are all kinds of discussions I avoid, because I learned a long time ago that however strongly people may feel about a particular moral or political issue today, wait 10 or 20 years and they will be equally passionate about a different point of view. Over the years it gets hard to take many things very seriously, as you realize how transitory they are.

There is however another perspective, which is that beneath the surface of all the changes, a great deal remains fundamentally the same. The automobile is a good example: packed into it is technology which has been largely unchanged for 50, 60, 70 years and more.

yes weve grown in leaps and bounds, i remember using Dos 3.1 on a 386, i also remeber 5 and 1/4" floppy drives :disgust

Man, you were a high roller! I didn't even have the joy-stick. :helpme

When I started dabbling in online communications, everyone was on 2400bps modems and EGA/VGA was the shit. When 9600 bps modems, I remember reading Computer Shopper and dreaming of forking over the $500 to buy one. LOL

I anticipate WIFI getting better and faster. HSDPA is getting big here in the Philippines now :) with 3G :)

i go through this in my head everytime i buy a new computer.

No, it wasn't pong. Though that IS a crappy game. This one involved the military somehow, but you could barely tell because of the crappy graphics.

Combat! That's it!

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