Ok Photographers, How old are you?

[drcandon]

Geeezz...reading this I feel old...Commodore 64...what about the Vic20 and using a cassette drive to store programs that you had to use peek and poke to do..Of course I stayed with Commodore until they went stupid..how about the Amiga 500, then 3000, then 4000???? The first HDD I had was for the Amiga 500 was 40 meg I think and cost an arm and a leg...

Then switched over to IBM and the 386, then 486..then OMG!! the first Pentium proc...as far as memory goes you had to be very very rich to have anything approaching 500m..let alone a couple of G..

On the home entertainment from...8 track, then cassette, then my crowing achiement my first VCR...it weighed as much as a VW Beetle ( the real Beetle - not the fake one) was top loading and ate tapes at a rate of one per day..but I could record TV...

Oh yea and TV was TV - no-one ever heard of resolution

And since this is a photography board my first 35mm camera was a bulky manual focus Mamiya...( remember that brand???) but it had interchangeable lenses, that cost more then the camera itself....had a very prinitive internal light meter so, I had to learn how to use a hand held one...OMG..I think I still have it???

 

[DVC Jen]

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That right around the time the Commodore 64 came out. But that was to expensive for us.

Oh wow - we had a Commodore 64 - it was one of the first major purchases Ian and I made together as a couple. There was some game we played for hours and hours on end on that thing - but for the life of me I can not remember what it was.

 

[Abby's Dad]

Old enough to remember 8-Track tapes and only-three-channels-on-the-black-and-white-TV.

~YEKCIM-the-Ancient

I remember buying 3 albums by Steve Miller Band on 8-track that had been dumped into the bargain bin, the ones that weren't going to make it (maybe it was the 8-track that wasn't going to make it, but I had just on the jumped on the 8-track band wagon and needed some tunes to play). Yet, they are still touring and still kicking it. And three channels of black-and-white - so many choices now, but you can still only watch one at a time (PIP doesn't count).

It is funny reading the various posts, I liked progamming in Pascal, and I liked the rocket ship game where you put in the different parameters - was that Lunar Lander? First computer, Radio Shack Model III, 16K RAM, two single-sided 160K floppies, low-resolution graphics (we're talking 1/4" pixels here, sort of black and white, or was it green and white?). A lot of the programs loaded from cassette tape and may take up to a half hour to load - if you didn't get a glitch, in which case you started over. And I loved Dancing Demon! (For those who missed this one, head on over to You Tube - there are a number of versions of this one). Paid $2500 up front, with delivery in 6 weeks. Once it came in, we got the memory upgraded to the max - 48K ! (for like $300 for that extra 32K). And hard drives - there were some available at the time - Winchester drives, $5000 for a 5 mgb drive. Next, you got to spend an arm and a leg for a 9-pin dot matrix printer. Fortunately that was soon surpassed by spending another couple of grand for a daisywheel printer - real honest-to-goodness letters! Ah, the good old days!

Fred

 

[YEKCIM]

I remember buying 3 albums by Steve Miller Band on 8-track that had been dumped into the bargain bin, the ones that weren't going to make it (maybe it was the 8-track that wasn't going to make it, but I had just on the jumped on the 8-track band wagon and needed some tunes to play). Yet, they are still touring and still kicking it.

Funny you should mention SMB - I was rockin' out to "Fly Like An Eagle" on CD on the way to work this morning. Ain't nothin' like 70's classic R&R, regardless of the recording medium! If anyone disagrees with that, I'll bonk you with my cane!

~YEKCIM-the-Ancient

 

[DawnM]

I had a Kaypro! That was my first computer!

My first laptop was a Tandy! It had about a 7" green screen and weighed about 14 pounds!

Dawn

Oh wow - we had a Commodore 64 - it was one of the first major purchases Ian and I made together as a couple. There was some game we played for hours and hours on end on that thing - but for the life of me I can not remember what it was.

 

[DueyDooDah]

Old enough to remember that color TV was a new thing - and we had the first one on the block. I was already in the Navy fo 10 years before I even heard of a personal computer (first one had 16K [not M or G] of RAM, 0 floppies, and a cassette tape for data storage).








[57 in September]

 

[Shutterbug]

29 here. Old enough to be blown away that my first computer had a 1.2 gig hard drive with one of those brand spankin' new "Pentium" processors! One of my first thoughts when getting that computer was:

"1.2 gig hard drive? I'll never fill that thing up."

Oh thats nothing... I am 44, I had Commadore 64 with tape drive.
I remember my parents using a camera that you had to hold at your waist because the viewfinder was in the top of the camera. You then put a bulb in for each flash photo.

Also I had to learn photography the old way....taking photos and waiting until they were process and got the prints back to see if what I was doing was right.

 

[gometros]

I remember when the only way around the Internet was by using my friends Archie and Veronica. You could ftp and telnet, but you couldn't http

 

[Abby's Dad]

Ain't nothin' like 70's classic R&R, regardless of the recording medium!
~YEKCIM-the-Ancient

AMEN! But I do like CDs better than 8-tracks!

 

[Anewman]

29 here. Old enough to be blown away that my first computer had a 1.2 gig hard drive

Your first computer had a Hard Drive....

LUCKY

I just turned 40

I remember Remote controls were called "clickers"
My first VCR had a WIRED remote
My first internet bill from prodigy was like $200

 

[polkadotladybug]

I recall my parents having a camera with a flash cube on the end? I guess it only could flash four times - LOL? Then it progressed to a longer flash thingie - maybe that had 10 flashes on it?

OMG - I found this on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eGZX_4EIEU

I remember getting a plain old tape deck for Christmas - you know the flat black ones - no radio - just a tape deck. And then sitting in my bean bag taping songs off the radio - a separate radio! I thought I was very cool - that was in 1979 or 1980 -

I really am 39 - at least till September!

 

[NostalgicDad]

Well, 2 days until I'm a true "40-something". Right now I'm just a 40-nothing!

Everything everyone has mentioned to this point, I remember. One thing comes to mind though..........walkathons?

 

[madge]

I am feeling old, I was cleaning out some old photo stuff and found and old Kodak 18% neutural gray density card and wondered who here could tell our new photographers what that is and what it was used for.

This old card taught me a great deal about exposure and light in the good old days of manual film photography.

Just wondered who would know what it is?

I bought a grey card last fall, my photography teacher recommended we have one.

 

[Mick00]

I'm too young to remember most of the thing you guys mentioned hehe

 

[mabas9395]

And I thought I was old. Boy, some of you guys are ancient.

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. But not just the regular 2K version, we had the optional 16K expansion pack!!!

And at school, we used a TRS-80 to play Oregon Trail old-school style.

I would spend hours typing in

10 PRINT "DAVID IS COOL"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

And I got started in photography with a Pentax K1000.

 

[Tuffcookie]

I still have my first camera..a Kodak Brownie!

I'm 55 and going thru my 2nd childhood!

TC

 

[jann1033]

I recall my parents having a camera with a flash cube on the end? I guess it only could flash four times - LOL? Then it progressed to a longer flash thingie - maybe that had 10 flashes on it?

yeah you could take 4 photos in a row without burning you hands taking out the used flash bulb( and one of the girls in the video had on a houndstooth dress so guess that was when i was about in 5th grade )the flash cube was on my second camera, my first had the giant funnel shaped single bulb flash that was about as big as the camera but did have a button to eject the bulb, nothing but the best
tuff cookie mine was an ansco cadet ( knock of of the brownie i think)but do you remember what kind of film it took?

 

[Master Mason]

I still have my first camera..a Kodak Brownie!

I'm 55 and going thru my 2nd childhood!

TC

I have my first camera as well, it was a "Mikey-Matic" 110 or 126 film can't remember at the moment and you pulled down Mickeys ear to take the picture. The first SLR I used was my dad's Practika, and my first was also a Pentax K1000, my older son has it somewhere.

 

[DawnM]

Oh, well....you will be there before you know it. It happens to the best of us.

Dawn

I'm too young to remember most of the thing you guys mentioned hehe

 

[DawnM]

I remember that! They were soon called "trash 80s"

My first "real" camera was my dad's OM10 Olympus hand me down. I used it for YEARS and got great pics with it.

Dawn

And I thought I was old. Boy, some of you guys are ancient.

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. But not just the regular 2K version, we had the optional 16K expansion pack!!!

And at school, we used a TRS-80 to play Oregon Trail old-school style.

I would spend hours typing in

10 PRINT "DAVID IS COOL"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

And I got started in photography with a Pentax K1000.