Ha! I had a modded 1541 (added memory for custom copies - could copy protected games) - a regular 1541, the 1571, AND the rare 1581 drive!!! My dad actually USED GEOS so he had the 512k memory expansion too. Never 2400 baud though.
I was in grade 4, which makes it 12 or 13 years ago, so I was 9-ish. At first, I was reluctant. It was still fairly new then, and everyone was raving about it. Me, being too hip for shit, avoided it until I found out that I could game online, and it went from there.
Nice.
My 128 served me well up until HS graduation then I used the computer labs on campus...the next computer I owned was a P3 500Mhz.
Man I can't imagine having the internet in grade school.
I had to get a magazine with the source code for games in it, type the whole thing in by hand on my C64.
I had to get a magazine with the source code for games in it, type the whole thing in by hand on my C64.
Don Vito Corleone
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I first used it in late 1994, when I was temping at MCI in Walnut Creek CA. The first thing my boss and I did was look for nudity, and found some nudist website. It didn't look great with the 16-color VGA my shitty old computer could display!
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eh, maybe 94 or 95? dial-up, of course. I was elated when i started to take classes at a community college and they had a fast network connection
I remember my grandmother getting broadband before we did...Id go stay at her place some weekends because of it
I remember my grandmother getting broadband before we did...Id go stay at her place some weekends because of it
'97 is when I bought my first PC and got online. Didn't think it was worth it before then, and still paid through the nose for the technology at that time. Didn't help any that I lived in Guam at the time, and was stuck with 28.8 dial up that I bought a packet of hours per month to surf ($70 for 100 hours....ouch!!).
However, my first foray into computers (and I'll really be showing my age here) was as a junior in high school, when we had a time-share connection with the server co-owned by all the schools in the county. We had a combination dot-matrix printer with a keyboard built into it, no monitor, and our dial-up connection was a telephone (rotary dial still, I believe) with a modem cradle. You dialed the number, waited for the squeal-squawk, put it into the cradle, and then sat down at the keyboard and logged onto the server. We programmed in basic, and typed each line of code in, one at a time. Then print out your program, or run it and see if it worked, and re-type any lines you flubbed. No monitor, so your typing skills better be pretty good!
It wasn't until the year after I graduated that my high school bought THREE Apples for the students to learn on. Yes, three computers for the entire student body! :laugh:
However, my first foray into computers (and I'll really be showing my age here) was as a junior in high school, when we had a time-share connection with the server co-owned by all the schools in the county. We had a combination dot-matrix printer with a keyboard built into it, no monitor, and our dial-up connection was a telephone (rotary dial still, I believe) with a modem cradle. You dialed the number, waited for the squeal-squawk, put it into the cradle, and then sat down at the keyboard and logged onto the server. We programmed in basic, and typed each line of code in, one at a time. Then print out your program, or run it and see if it worked, and re-type any lines you flubbed. No monitor, so your typing skills better be pretty good!
It wasn't until the year after I graduated that my high school bought THREE Apples for the students to learn on. Yes, three computers for the entire student body! :laugh:
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Yup - I kept on trucking with my 128 for as long as I possibly could. I'm fairly sure I still used it to type papers in GEOS for school until I graduated in 96. My IBM PC at that point was a 386sx-25 cobbled together out of garbage parts - literally. We would go dumpster diving behind cpu shops for parts. It had SIPP's for memory. I bought solder type SIPP sockets at a computer store to put SIMM's into and put the normally soldered pins into the SIPP sockets.. Wasn't until 99 that I got a Cyrix 6x86-200 that could run win95/98.
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Nope. My friend worked for a tiny ISP in a strip mall, ISPs were on every corner back then, not like it is now. The first thing I did was have him help me set up a home page. Most got their pron from the backroom of your mom&pop VHS video store back then. Another biz model that has mostly gone the way of the Dodo. Trying to look at low-res pics over dial-up was an unfulfilling activity. I suppose if you were underage it was worth it.
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I'm trying to remember if my middle school had a computer lab... Yeah, I don't think so. Kids actually play in the playground after school and participate in group activities instead of hiding in the computer lab doing shit. God I hate the fucking computer and internet revolution.
Probably 94, sophomore year in high school. Only had a computer lab for word processing 1st year. Then they added 2 more computer labs later with internet access.
Probably 94, sophomore year in high school. Only had a computer lab for word processing 1st year. Then they added 2 more computer labs later with internet access.
DrPizza
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1985. I was working on a terminal on a VAX 11/780 at Alfred University and someone from Rochester Institute of Technology sent me a message. I was thinking "wtf is going on? Is this a trick or something?"
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