Anyone else remember being a computer noob?

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Probably dating myself here. My elementary school had a computer game with a supposed turtle to draw lines on the screen via commands. Took me aboot 2 weeks to figure out how to fill up the entire screen with lines.

Called logo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...(programming_language)

 

[HardcoreRobot]

there is always more to learn

 

[hiromizu]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Probably dating myself here. My elementary school had a computer game with a supposed turtle to draw lines on the screen via commands. Took me aboot 2 weeks to figure out how to fill up the entire screen with lines.

Called logo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...(programming_language)

I would kill to use that interface again. I wonder if there's a virtual java applet somewhere..

 

[BrownTown]

I do remember that when I was a kid people thought I knew alot about computers because I knew how to use MS Word and Excel, but compared to know with computers being my hobby and having a EE degree I knew pretty much nothing back then. I would probably say my biggest newbie moment was when we replaced out 600mhz PIII with a 2.0G P4 and I though that since it ran 3X faster AND was a higher number it must really be like 5 times faster . So all that Intel makret BS with Netburst having such high clockspeeds got me hook line and sinker. Also didn't know a such thing as a "graphics card" existed for a long time and though they were all just integrated into the motherboard. Actually TBH I still have NEVER owned a discrete graphics card in my entire life. The last computer my parents had was still integrated gfx, and the laptop I have owned for the last 4 years is technically got a 4X AGP slot, but the chip is still directly soldered to the board, not in any graphics card. So really all my knowledge is still something of a theory since while I know about all the latest and greatest CPUs the best I have ever owned myself is a 1.6G Banais.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Probably dating myself here. My elementary school had a computer game with a supposed turtle to draw lines on the screen via commands. Took me aboot 2 weeks to figure out how to fill up the entire screen with lines.

I remember that too... LOGO?

OMG...show turtle!

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I remember when my elementary school got a brand new computer lab, stocked with Apple IIE's.

I remember when the teacher than ran the computer lab in middle school pulled myself and a friend out of class to try and fix the various broken Apple IIE's in that school's lab. He also had us do the paperwork on the ones that we couldn't fix. We wound up fixing most of them, and only had to do repair paperwork for a few. We spent the rest of the day "testing" the computers with a wide variety of games to make sure they were working properly.

We took some of the extra disk drives from the broken machines and hooked up eight of them to one Apple IIE. That way we could make copies of the B sides of our Ultima IV disks and have one drive for each disk side, rather than have to swap them out while we played.

I remember getting the Packard Bell 386-SX with the "big" 107 MB hard drive, instead of the one with the smaller 80+ MB drive. I removed Windows because it took up too much space, and just used DOS for everything. I still recall that the version of Windows on both machines was supposed to be the same, yet when I removed it from my machine it freed up an amount of space greater than the hard drive size of the other machine I almost bought.

 

[Chaotic42]

I got a computer when I was four (1986), so it's been a while, but I do remember there was a magazine that would have pages of code for you to program games or utilities into your computer (Santa's Landing, Turkey's Revenge, etc). I saw that the Mac pages had no line numbers and I thought that they were misprints.

I also had trouble understanding exactly what line I could stop coding on to test the program.

Edit: It was Family Computing Magazine
Example

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: hiromizu

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Probably dating myself here. My elementary school had a computer game with a supposed turtle to draw lines on the screen via commands. Took me aboot 2 weeks to figure out how to fill up the entire screen with lines.

Called logo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...(programming_language)

I would kill to use that interface again. I wonder if there's a virtual java applet somewhere..

There is a linux port, think its called kturtle

http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/

 

[gamefreakgcb]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Probably dating myself here. My elementary school had a computer game with a supposed turtle to draw lines on the screen via commands. Took me aboot 2 weeks to figure out how to fill up the entire screen with lines.

I remember that too... LOGO?

 

[gamefreakgcb]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Probably dating myself here. My elementary school had a computer game with a supposed turtle to draw lines on the screen via commands. Took me aboot 2 weeks to figure out how to fill up the entire screen with lines.

I remember that too... LOGO?

Holy hell. I was just trying to figure out the name of that app. Good times though.

 

[kranky]

First computer I ever touched was a $500,000 PDP-11/70 in a glass-walled room. It had a row of red toggle switches on the front panel and to boot it you had to flip each one to a certain position. All command-line interface.

Photo link.