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What is your earliest computer related memory?
Milla Janick
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12-06-2009 14:09
Playing tic-tac-toe against a computer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Melita Magic
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12-06-2009 14:11
From: Rime Wirsing
I guess when the thread originator can't even stay on topic it's time to call it a day :rolleyes:


It's actually a really nice thread.

Some of us are just feisty. Heh. Sorry :P
Melita Magic
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12-06-2009 14:11
From: Rime Wirsing
I think that was a typo...


LOL! (And ew.)
Kay Penberg
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12-06-2009 15:28
From: Melita Magic
It's actually a really nice thread.


I second that.
Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 17:44
From: Caliandris Pendragon
Personally, my first computer was an Amstrad512
Yes! Another Amstrad user.

I can remember trying to create a program using Logo to draw letters on the screen so I could program their positions... *L*
Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 17:47
From: Veritable Quandry
When I was your age, we had to enter our data using a small magnet and a steady hand. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways. Whippersnappers these days with their keyboards and operating systems...grumble...grumble...
You had magnets? Luxury! We had to mix chemicals to make batteries and then hook them up to frogs' legs. you poured in a little of this, the leg went to the left for "ON"; pour in a little of that, the leg went right for "OFF". And we loved it!
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12-06-2009 21:01
From: Jig Chippewa
Talking about old computers and memories affixed to them is about as much fun as listening to paint dry for the generation born into macs and laps and mobiles.

I bet they had nostalgic chats about chain mail in olden days. Before artillery was invented.

So Hurry up, granma and granpa! Don't miss teh bus!

::smiles sweetly:: the great thing about kids is that they think they will never be old enough to have nostalgia for the things that were once new to them.

From: Veritable Quandry
When I was your age, we had to enter our data using a small magnet and a steady hand. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways. Whippersnappers these days with their keyboards and operating systems...grumble...grumble...

From: Esquievel Easterwood
You had magnets? Luxury! We had to mix chemicals to make batteries and then hook them up to frogs' legs. you poured in a little of this, the leg went to the left for "ON"; pour in a little of that, the leg went right for "OFF". And we loved it!

real programmers use butterflies.... just saying ;)
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 22:02
From: Void Singer
real programmers use butterflies.... just saying ;)
Thank you, Gracie. ;)
Jig Chippewa
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12-06-2009 22:15
From: Void Singer
::smiles sweetly:: the great thing about kids is that they think they will never be old enough to have nostalgia for the things that were once new to them.

real programmers use butterflies.... just saying ;)


That's very funny about the froggy legs, esquieval. Not sure about teh butterflies metaphor.

Maybe I'll get nostalgic for some things but computers are just glorified typewriters so you cant really get warmly involved in a piece of plastic and tiny spot welding. I migth as well fall in love with a steam iron.

But dont mind my interruptions. Just carry on...jig unzips her jeans and get ready for bed.
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12-07-2009 00:34
butterflies --> http://xkcd.com/378/

oh, and if you get asked sometime in your future, what was your first virtual world (or where was your first virtual sex) I expect you to remember this thread =)

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12-07-2009 01:33
From: Void Singer
butterflies --> http://xkcd.com/378/


What a marvellous website! Thanks for that link.
Jig Chippewa
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12-07-2009 05:44
From: Void Singer
butterflies --> http://xkcd.com/378/

oh, and if you get asked sometime in your future, what was your first virtual world (or where was your first virtual sex) I expect you to remember this thread =)

PS
and don't hog the covers


I'll have to go back to my calling cards listings to see who that was (about 600 men in the past, I should seriously think). I can't get online right now but I think he was a unemployed Scotsman or a Swiss bloke who was a teacher (or doctor?). Then there was a Swede who was very helpful (if you understood Swedish) and he was into boats.
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12-07-2009 05:54
From: Jig Chippewa
about 600 men in the past, I should seriously think


How do you find the time to post here :eek:
Maggie McArdle
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12-07-2009 05:57
can't remember the make or model but i do remember playing duke nukem on it.
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12-07-2009 06:23
They were showing "War Games" on the TV at the weekend... made me think of this thread!
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12-07-2009 13:48
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Tod69 Talamasca
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12-07-2009 15:36
I still remember paying $500 for 4 MB of RAM (thats MEGAbyte, not GIGAbyte) in 1994 for my 486DX-2, and another $500 for a 1 GB Hard Drive.
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12-07-2009 16:06
From: Tod69 Talamasca
I still remember paying $500 for 4 MB of RAM (thats MEGAbyte, not GIGAbyte) in 1994 for my 486DX-2, and another $500 for a 1 GB Hard Drive.
Luxury!

The original Altair came with 256 bytes of RAM (that's 256 bytes, not kilo or mega), for $500 assembled. A 4k memory board was another $400.
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12-07-2009 16:15
From: Kay Penberg
How do you find the time to post here :eek:


I use sl as a relaxation from my real work and its been a night time thing for me. Late, late at night, coming down from my busyness SL is a quiet solitude. Hal appears from UK and we make love. I wander. I schmooze around. Then I find sleep.
This is not my computer so I only use this for a few days for this forum.
I have had sex with many men in sl. They're all wonderful. I wish the men in my real had teh charms of many of these men but I dont meet them even in what I do. :)
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-07-2009 17:39
From: Void Singer
butterflies --> http://xkcd.com/378/
*LOL* I thought you were talking about Grace Hopper's original computer bug. Your response is more chaotic, though.
Kay Penberg
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12-08-2009 01:48
From: Jig Chippewa
I wish the men in my real had teh charms of many of these men but I dont meet them even in what I do. :)


RL men don't have the same opportunities to edit themselves as do SL men :)
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12-08-2009 03:51
From: Esquievel Easterwood
*LOL* I thought you were talking about Grace Hopper's original computer bug. Your response is more chaotic, though.

both work, although IIRC grace's was a moth.
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12-08-2009 05:45
From: Kay Penberg
RL men don't have the same opportunities to edit themselves as do SL men :)
Nor are they equipped like a satyr or unicorn.
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12-11-2009 23:10
Here's a link some might enjoy:

Retro delight: Gallery of early computers (1940s – 1960s)

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/12/11/retro-delight-gallery-of-early-computers-1940s-1960s/

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12-12-2009 03:11
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
Here's a link some might enjoy:

Retro delight: Gallery of early computers (1940s – 1960s)

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/12/11/retro-delight-gallery-of-early-computers-1940s-1960s/



That's a marvellous link!
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