I miss classic computing

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Before Windows 11, MacOS X, Ubuntu and so on...

 

[BrianL]

Classic Computing for me looks like this:

 

[bcla]

PR#6

Those were the days.

 

[tvguy]

Basic computing to me is my Commadore Vic 20 with cassette tape backup and learning to program it to display a screen full of a curse word.

 

[BrianL]

I grew up in the 8-bit computer era. We had these at school in the classrooms:


The o'l TI-99 with some educational cartridges and a few games.

The Computer Lab had the C64's and some Apple ][ units:



We got to go there once a week to learn some BASIC - LOAD "$",8.

At home, we eventually got this Apple ][ C knockoff, the Laser 128, with a whole 128 KB of RAM, baby!



Good stuff!

 

[luvthatduke]

Never had a PC at home until Win95.
I still have the big HP behemoth,
it's a giant paperweight.

I do miss my HS tech classes
where we hand wrote programs
on graph paper using Cobal & RPGII.

 

[GoingSince1990]

10 PRINT “WHAT IS YOUR NAME?”
20 INPUT A$
30 PRINT “HELLO, “,A$,”!”

Am I showing my age here?

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

10 PRINT “WHAT IS YOUR NAME?”
20 INPUT A$
30 PRINT “HELLO, “,A$,”!”

Am I showing my age here?

You're bang on! I used to code mini-games in BASIC using the BBC Micro Computers before RISCOS came along.

 

[tvguy]

I grew up in the 8-bit computer era. We had these at school in the classrooms:

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The o'l TI-99 with some educational cartridges and a few games.

The Computer Lab had the C64's and some Apple ][ units:

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We got to go there once a week to learn some BASIC - LOAD "$",8.

At home, we eventually got this Apple ][ C knockoff, the Laser 128, with a whole 128 KB of RAM, baby!

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Good stuff!

I'm old. Those are the computers my KIDS had in school.

 

[BrianL]

I'm old. Those are the computers my KIDS had in school.

This one more your speed?



Or maybe this:



Or this:



This thing maybe:

 

[Mysterian]

Classic Computing for me looks like this:

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LOAD “IAgree”,8

 

[PollyannaMom]

I had a TRS-80 as a teen, that I programmed in BASIC. I can still picture the lesson book.

I wouldn't remember how to do it now, but I had the coolest kaleidoscope program I used to run as background music in my room. - It set little rectangles (mirrored in each quadrant) in random colors with a sound associated with each one.


PS - I had to Google whether to type BASIC in lowercase or all caps, and learned it stood for: Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I remember back to DOS.

C:\>

OMG I hated that! I remember being in school having to suffer through computer class having to (attempt to) learn DOS. I remember stuff like WordStar, Word Perfect... but Print Shop was fun

 

[kanerf]

Yup, I remember my mainframe days. Storing reports on mag tape. Writing programs and punching them out on cards to be read in. And who can forget those 1200 and 2400 baud modems!

 

[soccerdad72]

I grew up in the 8-bit computer era. We had these at school in the classrooms:

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The o'l TI-99 with some educational cartridges and a few games.

The Computer Lab had the C64's and some Apple ][ units:

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We got to go there once a week to learn some BASIC - LOAD "$",8.

At home, we eventually got this Apple ][ C knockoff, the Laser 128, with a whole 128 KB of RAM, baby!

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Good stuff!

Did you ever try typing in one of those games from the back of Compute! Magazine?

 

[LYSE]

I just miss it before the "smart iot" phase, now in days we have all these cheap "smart" products that are actually dumber than the non smart products and all these people that think they know about tech just because they can follow the super simple setup instructions... meanwhile all these shady security practices become common place.

 

[BrianL]

Yup, I remember my mainframe days. Storing reports on mag tape. Writing programs and punching them out on cards to be read in. And who can forget those 1200 and 2400 baud modems!

This you?

 

[GAN]

Before Windows 11, MacOS X, Ubuntu and so on...

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You must be young ....not ONE mention of a Winchester Drive

 

[GAN]

Anyone ever program in Assembler? Good times....

 

[GAN]

This one more your speed?

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Or maybe this:

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Or this:

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This thing maybe:

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Only a select few of us can identify the Antikythera Mechanism. I mean if you know, you know.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism