Old Timers... Warning Old persons comments within! :)

[Canada EH]

Imagine the tech we will have in 20 years.

......a blink of an eye

[vanished]

I remember Windows 98 on a Pentium 200 MHz but I'm not amazed by what we have today... I think I got into it late enough that everything since what I can remember just feels like the inevitable progression... not a miracle  

[stconquest]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I remember Windows 98 on a Pentium 200 MHz but I'm not amazed by what we have today... I think I got into it late enough that everything since what I can remember just feels like the inevitable progression... not a miracle  

Ah, the Pentium.  133MHz or 166MHz.... I can't remember.  It was my second PC.  Soon got upgraded to something like a Pentium MMX 233MHz(maybe 200MHz) with turbo boost.  Those were multi-thousand dollar setups.

 

I started renting games for PC at a local store (Microplay) on that MMX.  Single player console gaming was nearly dead to me not soon after.

[VerticalDiscussions]

You guys have had the real deal in computers xD! Altough, nowadays its just too convenient and efficient ^^

[stconquest]

8 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

You guys have had the real deal in computers xD! Altough, nowadays its just too convenient and efficient ^^

*fits in the palm of your hand

[Bouzoo]

7 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I remember Windows 98 on a Pentium 200 MHz but I'm not amazed by what we have today... I think I got into it late enough that everything since what I can remember just feels like the inevitable progression... not a miracle  

Windows 98, pffft, that was elite. Although I will never forget my PC with 98, used to played Prehistorik 1 & 2 on them. I know they were DOS games, but you could play them on 98. I wish I could say the same for Dangerous Dave. 

[CRA5HMAN]

I just turned 47 but I started when I was 30.  My first PC was a Duron 800 to play UT 99.  I do recognise the the jump in tech and can somewhat relate to the OP.  My first gaming experience was circa 1981 in Computer Camp at my elementary school on a PET, the game was called Weather (I think).  

[vanished]

4 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

Windows 98, pffft, that was elite. Although I will never forget my PC with 98, used to played Prehistorik 1 & 2 on them. I know they were DOS games, but you could play them on 98. I wish I could say the same for Dangerous Dave. 

well mind you I was 5 at the time, so I didn't really have much for context  

[Nuluvius]

On 30/09/2016 at 7:49 AM, jugster42 said:

Does anyone my age (44) or older ever look at there IT and think... I am in My own Future.... like startrek game true minus the space bit..

I live in a state of perpetual servitude of the digital, I'm literally immersed in it every day of my life and have been since I was very young; what I see when I look around is that it's never enough. Indeed our rate of progress is certainly impressive given the last thirty years but I can't help but think that we can and should do better.

 

I've had the privilege to play with some very impressive technologies but ultimately these have proven to be very primitive in comparison to what nature can do i.e. our own bodies for instance.

 

Remember that as a race we are literally fighting the clock; the time it will take until another mass epidemic, Chicxulub, our star swelling to incinerate us or the eventual heat death of the universe.

 

We should be a lot further on by now...

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, Nuluvius said:

I live in a state of perpetual servitude of the digital, I'm literally immersed in it every day of my life and have been since I was very young; what I see when I look around is that it's never enough. Indeed our rate of progress is certainly impressive given the last thirty years but I can't help but think that we can and should do better.

 

I've had the privilege to play with some very impressive technologies but ultimately these have proven to be very primitive in comparison to what nature can do i.e. our own bodies for instance.

 

Remember that as a race we are literally fighting the clock; the time it will take until another mass epidemic, Chicxulub, our star swelling to incinerate us or the eventual heat death of the universe.

 

We should be a lot further on by now...

The sun has about 4.6 billion years before that and the earth would become in hospitable long before then but agreed we should be much further along by now.

 

Problem is greed.

 

Humans are inherently for ones self over everything else sure we care and love for some humans but we don't really care to any extent outside our small circle.

 

human body is amazingly complex but nature has had 4 billions years we have had only a few decades.

Edited October 1, 2016 by vorticalbox
Fat thumbs and a touch screen.

[done12many2]

This was the first computer that my parents bought my brother and I.  

 

Do you guys remember covering everything to include the monitor with plastic covers to keep the dust off?  

 

 

[johnny5c]

I remember seeing this commercial when I was like 10 and being completely amazed.

 

 

[VerticalDiscussions]

Well, i know this is probably too much salt to throw into LTT, but dont you guys with ages +35/40, ever worry with the body diseases that usually show up around that age or about wether or not you feel like youve accomplished yourselves in life? Dont you guys also start to think even deeplier on the topic of premature death? Just curious, cuz im constantly thinking about these haha, so asking the respectful "elderly" around here about those things.

[WkdPaul]

30 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

Do you guys remember covering everything to include the monitor with plastic covers to keep the dust off?  

Haha totally forgot about that!!!

 

But yes, we had those plastic covers, so did others that I knew that had a PC!

 

 

 

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

50 minutes ago, johnny5c said:

I remember seeing this commercial when I was like 10 and being completely amazed.

 

 

I see your oldschool commercial and raise you this:

 

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

2 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Well, i know this is probably too much salt to throw into LTT, but dont you guys with ages +35/40, ever worry with the body diseases that usually show up around that age or about wether or not you feel like youve accomplished yourselves in life? Dont you guys also start to think even deeplier on the topic of premature death? Just curious, cuz im constantly thinking about these haha, so asking the respectful "elderly" around here about those things.

Fuck off calling me elderly! 

 

And nasty shit starts showing up around 55-60 most of the time, so I'm not quite fucked yet.

[stconquest]

2 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Well, i know this is probably too much salt to throw into LTT, but dont you guys with ages +35/40, ever worry with the body diseases that usually show up around that age or about wether or not you feel like youve accomplished yourselves in life? Dont you guys also start to think even deeplier on the topic of premature death? Just curious, cuz im constantly thinking about these haha, so asking the respectful "elderly" around here about those things.

You know what is scarier?  Being young and stupid.  I look back and realize all the times I was stupid and could have died... much faster than any disease I know of.

 

...but seriously, I think about my death.  At 39 I am not so scared.  If I get something fatal, so be it.  ...

 

Fuck that, I want to live forever!

[done12many2]

On 9/30/2016 at 3:48 PM, KkEvIn_Heart said:

 

How does it feel to be 44? I'm exactly half your age mayne. I'm 22

 

I'm not 44 yet, but I am retired.  Trust me when I say that life DOES NOT suck here.

 

2 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Well, i know this is probably too much salt to throw into LTT, but dont you guys with ages +35/40, ever worry with the body diseases that usually show up around that age or about wether or not you feel like youve accomplished yourselves in life? Dont you guys also start to think even deeplier on the topic of premature death? Just curious, cuz im constantly thinking about these haha, so asking the respectful "elderly" around here about those things.

 

I spent many years during my career doing stuff that could of resulted in a "premature death".  I'm here and no longer sweat the small shit.  

 

My goal now is to ensure that my kids don't have to go through the same shit that I had to.

[AresKrieger]

2 minutes ago, stconquest said:

Fuck that, I want to live forever!

Immortality is one of the greatest treasures one could posses but eventually it would be a curse, just imagine what would happen to the world if we discovered the means to obtain immortality on a world perspective. I know what would likely happen, but despite the fact it would surely doom the world as we know it I'd make that trade. When you believe in nothing the only thing that matters is your own existence, a grim realization maybe but it is the most rational outlook I can find.

 

 

Also I can't help thinking about the member berries joke while reading this thread

  

[stconquest]

2 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Immortality is one of the greatest treasures one could posses but eventually it would be a curse, just imagine what would happen to the world if we discovered the means to obtain immortality on a world perspective. I know what would likely happen, but despite the fact it would surely doom the world as we know it I'd make that trade. When you believe in nothing the only thing that matters is your own existence, a grim realization maybe but it is the most rational outlook I can find.

 

 

Also I can't help thinking about the member berries joke while reading this thread

When you realize that all you probably have is your existence, you sort of want to keep it as long as possible.  

[SpaceGhostC2C]

3 hours ago, done12many2 said:

 

Do you guys remember covering everything to include the monitor with plastic covers to keep the dust off?  

 

 

Oh, definitely! We had dot matrix printer on top of the desktop case on the first PC, both besides the monitor. Hence, we had one plastic cover for the monitor and another for the printer (i don't remember if it was long enough to cover the computer as well, but no need to). We might have had one for the keyboard as well, but it was in a slide-in tray with a door, so no much point in covering it anyway.

 

It made me remember the static discharge noise when powering on the CRT monitor... And the PC turned on/off with the PSU switch, only "reset" and "turbo" buttons in the front 

[done12many2]

14 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

We had dot matrix printer on top of the desktop case on the first PC

 

Remember this stuff?

 

How about the wood desks that had the paper feed slots to feed the paper through to the old dot matrix printers?

 

Man, life was good.  

 

 

[johnny5c]

4 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

I see your oldschool commercial and raise you this:

 

 

How about a small computer,

And who could forget King Kong Bundy,

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

2 hours ago, AresKrieger said:

Also I can't help thinking about the member berries joke while reading this thread

  

Member looking at porn pictures online?

Member Whitehouse.com?

Member Napster?

[PaintChips]

When I was a child our schools were heavily Commodore 64, Amiga or Apple II-IIgs and amber or green Wyse internet terminals were at the public library. Around the time of the Berlin Wall being torn down it kicked off the Macintosh II/Quadra transition to PowerPC era in the form of desktop publishing trend in student newspapers via ClarisWorks & Print Shop. In school we didn't have PCs until Bill Clinton launched the partnership with Microsoft called "Net Day" with blazing fast Pentium 75Mhz PCs with 16MB of RAM running Win95+Office '95.  Anyone who grew up during this era hated Microsoft for their browser tactics against Netscape.

Never owned an earlier Mac as my mum worked in a field where PCs were common, however I did get lots of PC games since they were a heck of a lot cheaper than consoles of that era.

I've used MSDOS 5.0-6.2, Windows from 3.1/NT 4-Win9x then XP to Win10. MacOS 7.1-7.5(school era), 7.6 to OS X. BeOS 4-5(PPC & Intel x86). For a period of time I jumped between Yellow Dog Linux(PPC) & Red Hat Linux 6-7. At one point I did use IBM's OS/2 Warp 3.0 to 4.5(aka eCommStation) because ComputerCity(pre-CompUSA buyout) had it on sale for $50 for each new version license and my dad was obsessed with it until IBM sold it off to eCommStation. What grinds my gears at my age is the crazy PCMR types don't care about the background of members on various communities, if you aren't a Windows Purist it becomes a reason to dismiss others easily as not being worthy of any opinion. From growing up during the Microsoft anti-trust era, Linux, BSD & MacOS were solid alternatives than sticking your eggs into one OS/platform. Spent much of the dotcom era dealing with Red Hat servers and using Sun Solaris. In the *real* IT field most people I've worked with haven't touched Windows since NT4/Win2k. On an awkward note Microsoft has tried to recruit me several times, had to pass on the offers as it would become a conflict of interest in OSS projects I submit fixes to and their anti-OSS stance is worth noting(Microsoft compared Linux to Communism from 1996-2004).

Looking back a 486DX2 50Mhz vs Core i7 6700K is a wild leap, on the Mac side going from a G3 to a Core i7 MBP was unexpected considering Apple had deep ties to both IBM & Motorola/Freescale PowerPC alliance. My old Aluminum PowerBook G4 dual-boots Debian for historic reasons, back in 2004 not many university IT depts supported Linux in a campus environment