Funny pic/gif thread...

A Screamer

Mr. Wilson said:
Reminds me.

I used to get the Tandy Corp professional catalogues

Looked like a phone book. It was that huge!
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My brother was a real time computer tech. After his children were born he wanted them to grow up with computers. Bought a Tandy 8088 with DUAL FLOPPIES! No hard drives in PC's yet. Of course half the programs couldn't recognize that multiple floppy drives were available. That Tandy was faster than any PC that Big Blue offered at the time.

I wasn't into computers until an unplanned midlife career change. My first computer was a screaming 486-25. Upgrade to 160mg hard drive, four meg of ram. That was a CAD monster, only cost me $6600!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
My brother was a real time computer tech. After his children were born he wanted them to grow up with computers. Bought a Tandy 8088 with DUAL FLOPPIES! No hard drives in PC's yet. Of course half the programs couldn't recognize that multiple floppy drives were available. That Tandy was faster than any PC that Big Blue offered at the time.

I wasn't into computers until an unplanned midlife career change. My first computer was a screaming 486-25. Upgrade to 160mg hard drive, four meg of ram. That was a CAD monster, only cost me $6600!

Hu
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My first "real" computer was an Apple IIe. 8 in CRT monitor, twin 5 inch floppy drives and maybe 128ram.....
33 baud rate. Ran Cobal & Fortran


P.S.

POS Brother dot matrix printer that ran green bar too.
 
Commodore 64....
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Yes computers have changed, so have other things like....
In 1972 a friend took his shotgun,in a soft case, on the school bus in the mornings. He would leave the gun on the bus. After school going home the bus driver would stop a couple miles from the kids home, kid and gun out the door and hunt the ditches home.

About that same time, my cousin drove school bus in western S. Dak. 1 morn saw a antelope with its head caught in a fence. Stopped the bus and all the kids watched him cut the goats throat and tag it. He said it was cold that morning and running late so didnt have time to gut it. Came back after dropping the kids off.
 
Started on a 186 in the early 90s...then a 286...
...just doing data entries...took them over at work because people are illiterate.
...surfed a little but didn’t know much...passing conversations felt like being at sea...
..and hearing conversations on other boats...like strangers in the night.

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They were a bit slow...:angry:....but so was I...:o
 
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