Simply random stuff

[Bill B]

When I was still woykin’ fo’ da man, I occasionally noted that when I graduated from college, the closest thing to a PC had an S-100 bus. I never had one of those, but I did have a Hp-43, which could do conditional branching.

Without a GUI, though, I doubt if PCs would be anything like they are now.

Yep, up until Windows and whatever the Apple equivalent was at the time, you needed to be willing to get technical (at least a little). Once the "user friendly" GUI screens showed up, the prices had come down to reasonable and the whole thing took off exponentially. The internet made it useful to the average person. The last component, high speed modems made it enjoyable to browse and opened it up to all kinds of desirable practical and frivolous applications.

 

[JohnN]

Why did I come across this gibberish after imbibing a single martini whilst listening to the Mercury CD of Bernard Herrmann’s magnificent score for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”. I certainly deserve better!

I specialize in gibberish.

Forget Bates, call me Norman

 

[4-earredwonder]

https://www.aol.com/news/asian-elephant-learned-peel-her-024252389.html
No JUNK in this TRUNK!

 

[4-earredwonder]

And while we're UP UP and AWAY .....

https://www.daily-choices.com/up-in-the-air-flight-attendants-share-secrets-only-they-know/2?xcmg=1

 

[inspclouseau]

Kathy made me a homemade coconut cream pie. My favorite since forever! Seeya.....gonna get to it~

 

[4-earredwonder]

NOTHING remotely Romantic about the Wild, Wild, WEST!

https://www.daily-choices.com/photos-of-the-old-wild-west/2?xcmg=1
And who knew that Annie Oakley, born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was such a LOOKER:

JESSE JAMES.........BOYZ THOSE DAYS!

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Kathy made me a homemade coconut cream pie. My favorite since forever! Seeya.....gonna get to it~

Hurrah for Kathy! Looks delicous. Any special occasion? I'm a big coconut fan too. I'm always surprised by how many people aren't. But then my poison (and not in a good way) is Cilantro. Pooey pooey pigs feet!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Hurrah for Kathy! Looks delicous. Any special occasion? I'm a big coconut fan too. I'm always surprised by how many people aren't. But then my poison (and not in a good way) is Cilantro. Pooey pooey pigs feet!

And when are YOU going to bake ME a Lemon Meringue pie [my fav], SW?

I see, wiseguy Tony Plaza pilfered a slice!

 

[cbmmm3]

Kathy made me a homemade coconut cream pie. My favorite since forever! Seeya.....gonna get to it~

marry that girl !!!!!!!!!

 

[MidiMagic]

I have been using computers and wri9ting programs since 1968.

My biggest complaint is that you can't use any software you bought or wrote that is over about 10 years old, because they keep changing the operating systems to make old stuff not work. People who want panned obsolescence should be kept away from companies who sell software. It should be illegal to make software you paid good money for stop working.

The worst case of this I remember was when a huge inventory database at the place I worked for stopped working. The operating system had an update that disabled this software. Neither Microsoft nor the database company would provide a way to get the database back. I used a disk sector editor and found that the files were not stored in a human readable form.

 

[kap'n krunch]

am updating my RedBubble "store" (I barely make anything, it's like having a gumball machine!)...got a few new ones which are really cool; Monads, linear studies from the early 1600s and all kinds of sundries...
https://www.redbubble.com/people/empanadilla/explore?asc=u

 

[4-earredwonder]

HOLY

https://www.aol.com/18-000-cows-killed-texas-030003888.html

 

[mandrix]

The dial up modem. You would hear it dial...then start making a bunch of freaky noises and then - viola - connected in sweet 14k baud. And then 28k came along........

Oh man I was on a dialup and on Compuserve. I was using an 800 WATTS line @ $8/Hr (big money for me back then) and some specialized software to quickly download new posts off the BASIC programming forum and/or post my stuff and get offline. Then I got a new 14.4 modem. Joy of joys. LOL! I got a free subscription to Prodigy but it was slooooow. AOL came along but still slow on a dial up line as well.
I got a job at an R&D lab for Generous Electric and used to go to work early and get on a pc and surf the local BB's, play games, whatever. "My" Lab pc ran the P-Pascal OS, sort of a pre DOS OS. Then one day DOS came. Eventually there was the internet at work. Oh joy. What to do with this? Then one day Amazon, selling books and trinkets. Google. Hmm. DOS "Visual Basic" hmm?Nothing I could not do myself but bought it anyway. Windows v1.. More Windoze. Windows Visual Basic v1. Stayed on the phone for an hour to buy it directly from MS. lol.
Those were fun days for me.
My first "high speed" connection and for years was Hughesnet satellite. 3Mb down/76Kb up if you're lucky and it's not raining. Still only have good old double twisted pair ADSL when fiber runs right down the road by my mailbox for the telecom's backbone. (thanks to the guv'ment's "rural broadband intitiative") yeah, thanks me.

 

[barfle]

I specialize in gibberish.

Forget Bates, call me Norman

I once had a job where mynoffice had a window, and across the street was a building with a sign that read “The Norman Bates Company.” I always imagined the lobby with a bunch of stuffed owls.

 

[barfle]

I have been using computers and wri9ting programs since 1968.

My biggest complaint is that you can't use any software you bought or wrote that is over about 10 years old, because they keep changing the operating systems to make old stuff not work. People who want panned obsolescence should be kept away from companies who sell software. It should be illegal to make software you paid good money for stop working.

The worst case of this I remember was when a huge inventory database at the place I worked for stopped working. The operating system had an update that disabled this software. Neither Microsoft nor the database company would provide a way to get the database back. I used a disk sector editor and found that the files were not stored in a human readable form.

I had a similar situation. I ran my own shop, some could say into the ground, for a few years. My inventory and bills of materials were on a DOS relational database program called pcfile-r. It won’t run, even from a command line any more, and the format of the data is definitely not something I would care to decode by hand.

 

[ar surround]

am updating my RedBubble "store" (I barely make anything, it's like having a gumball machine!)...got a few new ones which are really cool; Monads, linear studies from the early 1600s and all kinds of sundries...
https://www.redbubble.com/people/empanadilla/explore?asc=u

Nice stuff, kap'n! (I looked for a standalone Bluray of the Atmos mix of DSOTM....unfortunately....................)

 

[inspclouseau]

Hurrah for Kathy! Looks delicous. Any special occasion? I'm a big coconut fan too. I'm always surprised by how many people aren't. But then my poison (and not in a good way) is Cilantro. Pooey pooey pigs feet!

Ha!!!! Cilantro! Kathy is a big fan of that stuff too. It was my birthday a few days ago. But would rather not talk about that This is the second one after us and family finished the first.. oh man... I am spoiled to the core. ~Mike

 

[inspclouseau]

marry that girl !!!!!!!!!

LOL I married her long ago

 

[Sonik Wiz]

It was my birthday a few days ago. But would rather not talk about that

Oh c'mon. Smile ! It's been statistically proven that those with the most birthdays live the longest!

 

[JohnN]

Oh c'mon. Smile ! It's been statistically proven that those with the most birthdays live the longest!

And you have proof of that.