Over-the-hill geek test: do you recognize "1200 8-N-1" and know what it means???

[LeeTJ]

Vesa wasn't retarded, it was just a bit ahead of it's time.

basically AGP = Vesa.

 

[StageLeft]

Wasn't precisely sure but knew that it was baud and the rest was details about the rates and what not.

I started out with a 2400 baud though. Not that 1200 crap

 

[conjur]

Heck...I was using a 300baud modem with my Atari 1200XL to dial into the campus computers and upload my homework

 

[Whizzy]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: WhizzyThen all you old 'geeks' must know what a Vesa Local Bus was....

It was a PC standard for about a week and a half, during which time I bought a really expensive PC. Then found out later I was stuck with that proprietary video card for eternity.

So true !!

Not to mention how hard it was to put the card into the slot without bending (or even break) it..

 

[Jzero]

I remember 2400 N81, but not 1200. I guess I'm not over-the-hill yet. Hah!

 

[kranky]

Oh, and I remember we paid around $80,000 for 256K of RAM once. That's 256K, as in one-quarter of one megabyte. It was for a PDP-11 system.

 

[Mallow]

hehe, I'm too young for this thread

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Vesa wasn't retarded, it was just a bit ahead of it's time.

basically AGP = Vesa.

WTH are you talking about? Vesa was a handicapped and politically trashed standard for an upgrade to the EISA bus. PCI blew it out of the water when intel introduced it.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
Damn I am getting old. I remember all that stuff.

I hope it doesn't mean I'm getting old.

I'm 23 and remember all that stuff.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Anyone remember nixie tubes?

We still have equipment that uses them. After a 30+ hour shift (sigh), watching wildly flucuating readings is mildly hypnotic due to the character offset!

Cheers!

I love those old display tubes! Old man had a bunch of Radio equipment from the USAF that had those.

 

[BoberFett]

Too bad computers don't have Turbo button anymore. That was always a nice excuse to tell people who wanted to know why their software was running slow. "Check your turbo button" and hang up on them.

 

[Descartes]

As a programmer, I work with RS232 all the time, so I'm very familiar with it. I don't believe this makes me over-the-hill (currently 22)...

 

[thebestMAX]

Anyone remember nixie tubes?

Yeah. When I worked for the Big Red Ball, Burroughs Corporation, they were used as a display in the mainframe console.

Remember rotating drum or core memories? Punched paper tape? BCD Loaders?

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: Whizzy
Then all you old 'geeks' must know what a Vesa Local Bus was....

Had one in my 486DX/2 66, that's not old...

How about an EISA bus? Had one of those too, even had a SCSI card that used it.

Hopper

 

[hevnsnt]

I love these threads.. takes me back to the good ol days.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Vesa wasn't retarded, it was just a bit ahead of it's time.

basically AGP = Vesa.

That is mostly true, but AGP has everything that VESA lacked, like bus mastering and plug and play support.

VESA was more an improvement on EISA and MCA than anything else, it came out before PCI as far as I know.

Hopper

 

[sharkeeper]

NIXIE tube wristwatch!

Talk about nerdy!

Cheers!

 

[tigerwannabe]

this is like a stroll down memory lane

 

[SaltBoy]

So, which did you prefer -- PCBoard or WWIV?

 

[heartsurgeon]

I recall seeing characters forming on my screen

screen???

i remember teletype machines, paper tape (and tape cuts), bootstrap loaders,
punch cards, remember the cute little square ones with round holes of the IBM system 3?

PDP-5!! whoa that was an oldy

Data General Nova "minicomputer"

those goofy little mag tape rolls for the PDP-11

ah the good ol days....

 

[Grasshopper27]

heartsurgeon = the winnar!!!

Hopper

 

[jaybittle]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
So, which did you prefer -- PCBoard or WWIV?

I was partial to WWIV.. I ran a board for almost 7 years on it.. Help write some of the modifications for Wayne Bell... That was truly the good old days..

As for Procomm vs Kermit.. I used neither.. I used Telix.. and I remember when Zmodem came out, and it had the awesome capability of auto-recovery of where your download failed last.. because downloads failed all the time back then.. line noise, et cetera..

And lastly, my first computer (a $3000 4.77/10mhz 8088 XT) had a turbo switch.. that's what you used to switch from 4.77 (LO) to 10mhz (H).. little did we know we were all overclockers back them, in fact, it was almost a 100% overclock ;-) I sometimes wish they would build turbo switches on today's cases, just for giggles..

cheers,
--jb

 

[DaveSimmons]

My first printer was a refurbished RO33 teletype, connected to my TRS-80 model 1. Man, that was a loud printer! 1200 baud? I could only dream of those $300 1200 baud modems

 

[GeekDrew]

Dang, I'm only 18, and I remember 8N1, VESA, etc...

 

[Eli]

Yep

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