What was your first computer?

[pgp_protector]

Now you have to figure the itsy-bits plug-in thingamies (I can't even think of the word).

USB Thumb Drive?
or MicroSD Card?

8 inch or 5¼ ?

Used both

 

[faroukfarouk]

Flash drive or jump drive.

Right!

 

[faroukfarouk]

I know, when I was in the Navy we had bins full of them and no way to find out what was on them. But we couldn’t get rid of them either.

If it was the Navy, throw them overboard?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

USB Thumb Drive?
or MicroSD Card?

Used both

The only thing older than an 8 inch floppy are the giant magnetic tape reel to reel do hickies that made the Six Million Dollar Man sooo Cool!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

If it was the Navy, throw them overboard?

Ahhh! That was a no-no!! I was on a submarine.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Ahhh! That was a no-no!! I was on a submarine.

Yes, this really would have been a no-no if you were in a sub!

And I reckon that with all the best computers, signals can be very faint when really well submerged...

 

[pgp_protector]

The only thing older than an 8 inch floppy are the giant magnetic tape reel to reel do hickies that made the Six Million Dollar Man sooo Cool!

Actually When I first started I was using Audio Cassette for Data storage.

 

[South Bound]

When I was

I know this might be scary for those who can remember back in the dark ages of the PC market.

I remember my first computer. I bought it from the commissary in Ft. Carson Colorado. I can't remember how much it costed but it was mine and I loved it.

My first one was a commodore 64 and I remember pulling it out of it's box, hocking it up and staring blankly at a screen that had only the cursor blinking back at me.

I remember getting a book on computer programs and having the tediously type in line upon line of the only game I thought I could play and that was Chess. Oh, dear Lord, not only did I have to retype all those commands, every time I turned the thing on, I had the humiliating experience of loosing every chess game I attempted. Great yet another thing I sucked at and this time I put out money to be this humiliated. Heck, I could go back to high school and be humiliated and save my money. lol

It was not until I found the miracle of cassette drives that I saved myself the drudgery of typing in those commands, but all it did was hasten the humiliation.

When I was in college, somebody gave me an Apple II. Had no clue how to use it. I played Breakout and Failsafe on it a couple of times and then didn't even go near it for years.

In the early 2000s, I got one of my brother in law's hand-me-downs. I think it was an Aptiva.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Yes, this really would have been a no-no if you were in a sub!

And I reckon that with all the best computers, signals can be very faint when really well submerged...

I was on it from 1991-1995. The best computers were the size of rooms with vacuum tubes. But today I hear they even get e mail underwater.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I was on it from 1991-1995. The best computers were the size of rooms with vacuum tubes. But today I hear they even get e mail underwater.

...even in the Phillipines Trench?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Actually When I first started I was using Audio Cassette for Data storage.

How much storage space was on a cassette?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

...even in the Phillipines Trench?

While they can go that deep, they won’t be coming back up.

 

[pgp_protector]

How much storage space was on a cassette?

30 to 45 minutes depending on the Length of the tape

 

[Aryeh Jay]

30 to 45 minutes depending on the Length of the tape

Touché

 

[faroukfarouk]

While they can go that deep, they won’t be coming back up.

Easier for Neil Armstrong to go in the other direction, than it is to go right down there...

 

[pgp_protector]

Touché

But I think the max was under 64K of storage.
(and that would take 1/2 hour just to load )

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Easier for Neil Armstrong to go in the other direction, than it is to go right down there...

Water pressure is no joke. We would tie strings across the inside of the hull on the surface and by the time you got to the depth you wanted, the string would be sagging a lot.

Then you tighten it and before you reach the surface it snaps.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Water pressure is no joke. We would tie strings across the inside of the hull on the surface and by the time you got to the depth you wanted, the string would be sagging a lot.

Then you tighten it and before you reach the surface it snaps.

Maybe if they spent more effort on people's decompression and less on debriefing...

 

[faroukfarouk]

Actually When I first started I was using Audio Cassette for Data storage.

Looks about typical!

 

[Cimorene]

1st gen. MacBook Air.