Let's take this thread back to the 70's

Soul Tramp

Soul Tramp

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After college (mid 70's) I was into the micro computer craze big time! This era was the wild west of computers. Other than ascii and ebcdic, there were no standards and every vendor had proprietary software and hardware. Both professionally and as a hobby, I was working in machine code and assembler (as well as higher level languages). It was a time when we hobbyists were designing, etching, and building our own boards since the "PC" had yet to hit the market. As a hobbyist I was building based the Z80 and S-100 bus.

It really was a unique time in the world of computers. I've been so tempted to play with 8080 assembler, even bought an old programming book like the one we used way back.

Anyone else play with this stuff back in the day?
 
Soul Tramp said:
After college (mid 70's) I was into the micro computer craze big time! This era was the wild west of computers. Other than ascii and ebcdic, there were no standards and every vendor had proprietary software and hardware. Both professionally and as a hobby, I was working in machine code and assembler (as well as higher level languages). It was a time when we hobbyists were designing, etching, and building our own boards since the "PC" had yet to hit the market. As a hobbyist I was building based the Z80 and S-100 bus.

It really was a unique time in the world of computers. I've been so tempted to play with 8080 assembler, even bought an old programming book like the one we used way back.

Anyone else play with this stuff back in the day?
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Yup, my life...
 
I don't go that far back, but had a Commodore Vic 20/64 Apple II/E. I remember typing in program code from a book and it had a cassette drive. Still got the tape with the programs on it from 35 years ago. First PC was a 80286/12mhz with 4mb ram and CGA graphics card, 4 colours, wow!
 
I was on the Internet (NSFNET) in 1986. A local guy, graduate student who advertised in the San Diego Union Tribune, set up a 56kbit/s backbone connection in his strip mall location to one of the super computers in San Diego, the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) on the campus of the university of California, San Diego (UCSD). I had to add a second dedicated Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) phone line to the house for connection to the California Education and Research Federation Network (CERFNet) which the ISP provider charged me $15.00 a month to connect. Que up the sound of a 1980's modem connecting over the phone line.

Once I got the modem card, the sound card, and the video card interrupt jumpers on the 286 Motherboard figured out (there was only one combination that worked), I was able to hear JFK's Inaugural address (stored on the digital archives at Stanford University) over the small Logitech speakers. it was pretty cool and my daughter who was four years old at the time, said she would like to talk to JFK...

Mark
 
Late 70's there was a place in the Boston area call "Town Dump" (if I remember correctly). They got a lot of the surplus hardware from Rt 128 around Boston. At that time, it was the high-tech Mecca. We'd pick up hardware for next to nothing to cobble together with our homemade systems.
 
What a bunch of losers. When I look back to the 70's, I remember Acapulco Gold, teensy bikini's, bad ass V8's from the big 3, the best bands to hit the scene which has never been matched, and $35 gold prices....... I don't remember no shitty ass computers, DOS, OR 286 Motherboards. If that's what you remember from the 70's............. Shoot yourself now and save precious time because you already have "Old People Memory Issues" (I forget what they call it).......

Oh, and my old Programming Books????, I took them to Germany to use for toilet paper. The geek computer homo's got beat up at lunch time after we got in the mood with some Boones Farm and a chillum full of Panama Red................... Smile though, you can still rely on reincarnation if you don't get stuck in somalia or north korea. :)
 
I'm just old enough to remember the early internet, windows 3.1 and 95. I did have a Commodore 64 setup which predates me by a few years. Sold that for a pile of cash.

As for the "glory days" all the girls hated me and all the cars sucked. Had to nerd out to not go crazy.
 
mr_rye89 said:
I'm just old enough to remember the early internet, windows 3.1 and 95. I did have a Commodore 64 setup which predates me by a few years. Sold that for a pile of cash.

As for the "glory days" all the girls hated me and all the cars sucked. Had to nerd out to not go crazy.
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All the cars sucked??? I had a 68 Camaro, a 66 GTO Convert, a 74 Challenger, a 72 cutlass....... None of them new but I had them in the 70's....... Gas lines and the public switch to 4cyl's too but I had a great 70's. As for women trouble???? Maybe it was something besides the 70's???? How's your luck with them these days?
 
WOPL Sniffer said:
What a bunch of losers. When I look back to the 70's, I remember Acapulco Gold, teensy bikini's, bad ass V8's from the big 3, the best bands to hit the scene which has never been matched, and $35 gold prices....... I don't remember no shitty ass computers, DOS, OR 286 Motherboards. If that's what you remember from the 70's............. Shoot yourself now and save precious time because you already have "Old People Memory Issues" (I forget what they call it).......

Oh, and my old Programming Books????, I took them to Germany to use for toilet paper. The geek computer homo's got beat up at lunch time after we got in the mood with some Boones Farm and a chillum full of Panama Red................... Smile though, you can still rely on reincarnation if you don't get stuck in somalia or north korea. :)
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I didn't miss out on the good stuff! Sometimes the geeks get the hot girls. We're still married.

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WOPL Sniffer said:
All the cars sucked??? I had a 68 Camaro, a 66 GTO Convert, a 74 Challenger, a 72 cutlass....... None of them new but I had them in the 70's....... Gas lines and the public switch to 4cyl's too but I had a great 70's. As for women trouble???? Maybe it was something besides the 70's???? How's your luck with them these days?
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The cars from my glory days sucked, maybe except for the nuchargers/challengers. All the 90s JDM cars are now wayyyy too much $$$ and are slower than my lesbo wagon. As for the girls, the juice ain't worth the squeeze, not to me anyways.

Maybe I'll hot rod that old Ford at some point......
 
mr_rye89 said:
The cars from my glory days sucked, maybe except for the nuchargers/challengers. All the 90s JDM cars are now wayyyy too much $$$ and are slower than my lesbo wagon. As for the girls, the juice ain't worth the squeeze, not to me anyways.

Maybe I'll hot rod that old Ford at some point......
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What is a Nucharger? Even my first car, a 64 Comet 289 with 3 on the tree was cool in it's own way......... 90's cars??? Were talking the 70's I think so 90's cars were not even a thought.
 
63 & 64 Impala SS , 72 340 Cuda , 63 Falcon Sportwagon , 75 Firebird Formula and a few Built 60's and a 71 Superbeetle.
They dont make em like those no more.
Sure miss the Cuda.
 
What the fuck is wrong with people these days????????????


Move over fillers - here's why people are having facial injections made from fish sperm​


from the BBC news site......... Can it be real????
 
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