Feeling Old (again)

[rrowan]

So I have been looking at different things of late (3d Printer and software, Electronic Circuit design, DIY PCBs, CNC, etc) and some of the free stuff (my favorite price) keeps coming back to Autodesk software (who would of thought that 30 years ago when dos version of AutoCAD cost more that my yearly salary). The other part that makes me feel old is the series is called 123D. I keep thinking of Lotus 123 instead of Autodesk software (which they also host Instructables) like TinkerCad, 123d Design, 123D Circuit, 123D Catch, 123D Make, 123D Sculpt+, Meshmixer, Sandbox. So strange how things have changed. Btw, I don't work for Autodesk or have stock in them or anything related to them besides using AutoCAD at work. I am just a poor state work that works at Rowan University in Glassboro NJ.

Rick R.

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

Happy Virtual Birthday!   lol...

Keith

Older (even virtually) beats the alternative...

[twooly]

Lotus 123 oh how I don't miss that one bit.  Lotus on OS2 yikes, I'm having my support nightmares come back.

[rrowan]

Lotus 123 oh how I don't miss that one bit.  Lotus on OS2 yikes, I'm having my support nightmares come back.

LOL how about PFS:Write or Dbase Q&A (database)

Wordstar brings back bad memory of my older sister crying. She spent a full day typing in it and when she went to save the program crash and she lost everything (she is not a cryer either)

I did have a Zenith Computer that had Windows 1.0 on it. A buggy file manager or at least it try to be one. I do wish I kept the 5.25 floppy disk the program installer was on. Oh well.

Rick R.

[tbone321]

WordStar, WOW, what a piece of crap.  I preferred WordPerfect but you kinda needed to know what you were doing and how to read the formatting characters when some questionable edits would trash the formatting.  It was in no way a WYSIWYG processor. 

[mac50]

  as for being old, i learned fortran (among others) using punch cards on a ibm 360

[tbone321]

LOL, Fortran and Cobol on the same machine with punch cards. 

[RJ]

Bunch of young pups!   

I did even have dos or unix, my first computer was programmed with toggles in hexidecimal processor op codes. 

RJ

[n1ist]

Hex?  Newcomer...  I used to do Octal, which was natural for DEC's PDP and newer Intel 8080...  My first computer was 1802-based.  Now that's an odd architecture.

/mike

[RJ]

My first computer was 1802-based.  Now that's an odd architecture.
/mike

Same here! Cosmic Elf baby all the way!

RJ

[smeighan]

I started programming in 1972 on an ho 2116, 2100, 21mx. I programmed an Intel 4004 (predecessor to 8008), toggled programs into Altair and imsai computers. College used PDP 8's. Had a trs80, a Sinclair portable, first hand held calculator, ibm 26 and 29 punched card machines, Novell networks, yep things have changed. Biggest change is probably smart phones. What hasn't changed? How business views IT, how IT views business


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[rrowan]

LOL this has turned into a fun topic,

Does anyone remember the days when we used Vixen 2.1.x without having the awesome ability of xLights or Nutcracker?
 

How about when RJ created the Grinch Controller?

Rick R.

[onesmoothhead]

I am a vixen 2.1 I Remember the USB port issue and I would sit or and make sure I did not assign an second port to the hub or the whole show would crash.

[chrisatpsu]

My first computer was 1802-based.  Now that's an odd architecture.

/mike

I came along later...   My first computer was Motorola 6809 based...

Cassette Tapes baby!!!

[tbone321]

Yea, my buddy had an Atari 400 with a cassette tape deck to load software.  Man did that take forever to load.  They attempted to copy protect them but my high fidelity 3 head cassette deck had no problem duplicating them, copy protection and all.  When I bought my Atari 800XL I also bought the 5 1/4 floppy drive and a dot matrix tractor fed printer.  I was high tech!