TLoATDaE
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I feel a lot older than this.
Nov 12, 2023 6:03 PM
TLoATDaE
2612
43
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I feel a lot older than this.
Gorgoror
GenXHippie
My high school computer lab was a portable building dropped in the middle of the campus in 1983 and that was where you would find me. 18 dumb terminals and a giant shared drive that sounded like construction equipment.
womblemessiah
A COMPLETE BEAST! I got a shot of one of these babies running twin 8" floppy drives in 1982, it turned my world upside down. Within 4 years, i'd graduated into this beauty /gallery/SrsBhez
Zetor
Yes. My first school computer. We had dual floppy station on a cart to load sw on them. /get off my lawn.
FlashHardwood
Look at Mr. Rich High School here and his PET
TLoATDaE
My highschool was the place for all the Trades programs: drafting, sheet metal, woodworking, pattern-making, auto-body, auto-mechanics, machine shop and welding. I was the first male that took typing back then. Caught a lot of heat for it, too. Then it became a mandatory pre-req for the computers courses the very next semester.
Iwasoutedbyatroll
We punched out cardboard chads…
Sooner70
Someone grew up in a rich neighborhood (computer labs in grade schools in the 1970s??).
mercbrit
Meh.
PrinceOfWhales
Yes...and go schedule your colonoscopy.
OMGamIImguringCorrectly
We had TRS-80's
skipweasel
I remember a workshop full of them - I used to work for a small firm that developed IEEE-488 bus interfaces.
cyberimg
IEEE-488 stuck around pretty long in the electronics equipment word. Many a oscilloscope, frequency generator, spectrum analyzer could be hooked up using that till the '00s, even early '10s for later revisions of existing model equipment.
skipweasel
I can still do the handshake sequence in my head!
kinghupahjoop
we had trash 80's
MrListerTheFirst
Apple ][. Not in highschool though; those were in college, later.
CacheRAM
I graduated in 1984. Our school had a couple of Tandy TRS-80 Model III with TWIN 5 1/4 floppy drives. I got me a Commodore 64 (and I still have it - needs keyboard repairs).
VeryStableGenius
PEEK( . Y . )
TLoATDaE
POKE to input, PEEK to check a value. Yup. Commodore BASIC for ya.
GanjaPlanet
We had a shitty 150 baud telephone handset type modem and a teletypewriter. The computer was a remote mainframe powered by a monkey with an abacus.
RedTailedHawk
I still remember the lawn mowing game.
PostalHeathen
My school had Apple IIs. :(
nerdofepic
Yup, same. And exactly one with a color screen instead of just green.
ME2BNS12
We had a mix of the white and the green screens because the miscreants kept breaking the monitors
beAbetterperson7
The C64 is when I entered the computer world.
NeverMetAGoodMod
I can't remember what computers we first used. We had to put in numbers in order to make circles. Then later we got Apple computers which had a pretty good GUI for the time, like early 90's. We could make rudimentary cartoons as the file loaded every image you made in order when you opened it up.
Stressicca
i think we had apples but that was like 40 years ago lol
jargonmon
TSR-80s here
k5user
atari 800s and we ran logo on them ...
mikeymikec
BBC's, then Archimedes, then PCs running Windows.
BobAllen2004
My HS computer lab was full of these.
woozle
go older. I remember those LP record size disks. 101/2 inch. and punch cards. Boy, I despise punch cards.
TLoATDaE
I remember touring the University, and learning about punch cards. We had a few classes where we wrote the program, punched the cards and the university students entered them in for us and gave us the output results. That was middle school for me.
cyberimg
You means those rigid disk packs you had to manhandle in and out of the reader? I only used the punch card as a lark, as they were still present but unused. Same for the original teletypes. You know, the screen less type to paper, get a response on paper.
GenXHippie
I dropped my final exam and had to hand sort every card manually. I share your hate.
woozle
there's a quote from an 1800's officer evaluation where the commander says about one officer: "a man in whom all unite in speaking ill. A knave despised by all." I find that appropriate.
GenXHippie
Corporal Cardstack… such an asshole.
76000BatteryLlamas
You're supposed to draw a line across the top of the stack for this very reason
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
Username checks out