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Ah yes, the good old days!

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Basil

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I remember installing these older operating systems. What fun! Windows 7 was the last Windows OS I used before I moved to Apple.



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Believe it or not, I have a set of disks, (13 to be exact ), for Windows 3.1. Remembering just how cool that was the first time I installed them. For the first time I actually had pictures and push buttons. Hard to believe that was top shelf when it was new, I think that was back in 1991. 95 I had a CD disc to install it. :ROFLMAO:
 
When I first started into computers I was using 8 inch floppy discs on a dual drive Shugart disc reader.
 
Bayless said:
Me too but it was a dual drive 2.4MB all at the same time.
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The first computer I used at college was a PDP with a Western Union teletype machine with paper tape. Put the paper tape dots in a dixie cup with a firecracker. Takes a while to clean up.
 
Back in college I kept a garbage bag that I filled with the punched out bits the card machines created. Had a buddy with a jeep, when it was full we drove around town and campus making it "snow".
 
We had a guy at the Forest Service air tanker base where I was flying that was a real pain in the rear. We filled the defroster vents in his car with those punch card bits. Years later he would still get them flying out whenever he used the defroster. It was the gift that kept on giving.
 
DocDup1 said:
We had a guy at the Forest Service air tanker base where I was flying that was a real pain in the rear. We filled the defroster vents in his car with those punch card bits. Years later he would still get them flying out whenever he used the defroster. It was the gift that kept on giving.
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When I was working at NORAD, living in the barracks, I once put a bag full of those little chips in my room mate's sock drawer!
 
Basil said:
I once put a bag full of those little chips in my room mate's sock drawer!
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Just me being pedantic again, but weren't they called 'chad'???
Or was that just a Florida election thing.
 
They were called chad and the infamous "hanging chads" went all the way to the Supreme Court. Now, it is hard to find anyone who knows what a punch card is. Having used them as a graduate student, I can tell you that is a good thing.
 
Going back to the 80s, possibility the late 70s, we had a large truck crane that had a computer in it, it was about 12" square and 24 inches long and weighed about 100 lbs, mounted inside on the cab roof and it took punch cards. A different card for different ways the crane was set up, It would weigh and register anything over 2o lbs. up to 100 tons automatically. That was an Osha requirement back then and still is, but with more sophisticated software and NO punch cards! :thumbsup2:
 
I thought it was pretty slick back in my 70s college days to have access to use the AS400 that the department had. I could type up papers on it rather than using a typewriter. it didn't format or spell check or any of that, I had to print, adjust by adding spaces to go to the next page and so on. But even with all that I liked it better than manually using a typewriter and redoing pages if I made a spelling error or other mistake. As an employee of the student computer center it was one of the privileges I got. Now, auto spell check, formatting and such spoils me.
 
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