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RACER X
07-01-2009, 03:40 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/01/BU2618GKE7.DTL&nopu=1
Walkman, at 30, a mystery to teen
What better way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sony's iconic Walkman than to ask a teenager for some feedback on the device?
The BBC couldn't think of one, and neither can I.
I like to imagine that the experience was similar to an archaeologist rediscovering how a recently excavated artifact was employed thousands of years ago. But I'm well aware that it must have been different for 13-year-old Scott Campbell, who co-edits his own news Web site. For one, teenage impatience must have stood in the place where I fantasize scientific curiosity should have been.
"My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day," Campbell wrote. "He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realized he meant that big. It was the size of a small book."
Sure enough, people on the street noticed the antique clinging from his belt with amusement and friends on his school bus were quick to come up with some witty remark.
Campbell went on to criticize the portable cassette player's size, appearance, functionality and the "hissy backtrack and odd warbly noises."
Even when he discovered the cassette had more music on the other side (it took him three days), Campbell was still disappointed it could only hold a small fraction of what an iPod can.
"Did my dad ... really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?"
Ouch.
A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
This article appeared on page C - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
pauldun170
07-01-2009, 03:44 PM
Hey..
At least we could share music with people without being sued.
This just shows how spoiled we are if a kid doesnt think the walkman is a credible piece of technology. Where exactly does he think the ipod came from? It just magically appeared....
Flexin
07-01-2009, 03:50 PM
He doesn't like the cassette player. Give him a 8 track player for a week.
James
askmrjesus
07-01-2009, 03:52 PM
I had Black Sabbath on 8-track.
I felt old when the Walkman came out. :lol:
JC
the chi
07-01-2009, 04:00 PM
Did you feel old when they came out with electricity?
Flexin
07-01-2009, 04:00 PM
I had Black Sabbath on 8-track.
I felt old when the Walkman came out. :lol:
JC
I had a portable stereo with an 8 track player in it. I traded 3 built models and a hockey stick for it.
My Sony walkman kicked all. I loved it.
I was slow to switch to cd because I had so many cassettes. The only reason I switched was because the out puts died on my Kenwood cassette car stereo. It was going to be about $100 to fix so I said fuck it and spent $500 on a new Kenwood CD player.
James
askmrjesus
07-01-2009, 04:07 PM
Did you feel old when they came out with electricity?
No.
My Dad invented electricity before you noobs had fire.
JC
the chi
07-01-2009, 04:09 PM
No.
My Dad invented electricity before you noobs had fire.
JC
:rofl: Aight, ya got me there...
Amber Lamps
07-01-2009, 04:17 PM
I had Black Sabbath on 8-track.
I felt old when the Walkman came out. :lol:
JC
Bachman Turner Overdrive on 8 track...
Heck, we had a reel to reel in our house.:lol:
I had a close and play.
Amber Lamps
07-01-2009, 04:20 PM
I had a portable stereo with an 8 track player in it. I traded 3 built models and a hockey stick for it.
My Sony walkman kicked all. I loved it.
I was slow to switch to cd because I had so many cassettes. The only reason I switched was because the out puts died on my Kenwood cassette car stereo. It was going to be about $100 to fix so I said fuck it and spent $500 on a new Kenwood CD player.
James
The only reason I went to cd was I had a friend that worked at a record store that swapped them out for me and I paid the difference.
Homeslice
07-01-2009, 04:22 PM
Cassette players rock.....I've got a few old boomboxes from that era, like this one
goof2
07-01-2009, 04:27 PM
This just shows how spoiled we are if a kid doesnt think the walkman is a credible piece of technology. Where exactly does he think the ipod came from? It just magically appeared....
I don't know if it is spoiled or just clueless about history. Even if MP3 compression existed 15 years after the walkman was introduced it would have taken $200 worth of RAM to store one song. Without compression it is more like $2000 worth of ram (both 1993-94 prices of $50 per meg). Whatever the reason it is scary to me that this kid supposedly co-edits a news website.
HurricaneHeather
07-01-2009, 04:28 PM
I never figured out how to determine which side you were playing when you put the tape in. Is the side facing in the side playing, or the side facing out?
Waaaay too confusing for me.
askmrjesus
07-01-2009, 04:31 PM
I never figured out how to determine which side you were playing when you put the tape in. Is the side facing in the side playing, or the side facing out?
Waaaay too confusing for me.
:lol:
Facing out.
JC
Rider
07-01-2009, 04:33 PM
Just the other day I showed my 12 yo son what a cassette was. He asked what the rectangle opening below the CD opening was on the Stereo on my Maxima. So I pulled out a few cassettes. He laughed. At least we listen to the same style of music(Thrash Metal) so I can play them without him getting offended.
HurricaneHeather
07-01-2009, 04:50 PM
:lol:
Facing out.
JC
How do you know? Rather, how do un-omniscient people know?
Gas Man
07-01-2009, 04:55 PM
Cassette players rock.....I've got a few old boomboxes from that era, like this one
That one ROCKS! I got one in my garage. I've had it for 20 yrs.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l311/cjclark69/House/Garage009.jpg
I never figured out how to determine which side you were playing when you put the tape in. Is the side facing in the side playing, or the side facing out?
Waaaay too confusing for me.
:lol:
Facing out.
JC
Seriously Heather? How old are you? :lol:
Just the other day I showed my 12 yo son what a cassette was. He asked what the rectangle opening below the CD opening was on the Stereo on my Maxima. So I pulled out a few cassettes. He laughed. At least we listen to the same style of music(Thrash Metal) so I can play them without him getting offended.
That is CLASSIC. Damn kids just don't get it! :?:
Particle Man
07-01-2009, 04:56 PM
How do you know? Rather, how do un-omniscient people know?
it was in the instruction manual for the player. ;)
I had one of the first Sony Walkman models with the digital tuning and the 5 memory buttons (10 saved channels total): WM-FX41. I rarely used the casette because it ate batteries like crazy.
I used that thing for probably about 15 years and I still have it in a box in the garage... the corners are all worn off and such but it still works like a charm... went through headphones like water though :lol:
askmrjesus
07-01-2009, 05:02 PM
How do you know? Rather, how do un-omniscient people know?
Well......
You looked at the liner. If the first song on side one was, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but when you put the tape in, it played, "Eleanor Rigby", you fucked it up. :lol:
JC
Particle Man
07-01-2009, 05:06 PM
Well......
You looked at the liner. If the first song on side one was, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but when you put the tape in, it played, "Eleanor Rigby", you fucked it up. :lol:
JC
:lol:
Amber Lamps
07-01-2009, 05:07 PM
it was in the instruction manual for the player. ;)
I had one of the first Sony Walkman models with the digital tuning and the 6 memory buttons. I rarely used the casette because it ate batteries like crazy.
I used that thing for probably about 15 years and I still have it in a box in the garage... the corners are all worn off and such but it still works like a charm... went through headphones like water though :lol:
That's the truth! I got one on my way home on leave in '83 (bus ride from El Paso, Tx to Grand Rapids, Mi....:panic: I think a set of batteries were good for MAYBE 6 tapes? Hey, did yours have auto reverse? I thought that was the very APEX of technology at the time, when I got a Nakamichi cassette player. The tape would come out on a tray, flip over and go back in!:lol:
Particle Man
07-01-2009, 05:09 PM
That's the truth! I got one on my way home on leave in '83 (bus ride from El Paso, Tx to Grand Rapids, Mi....:panic: I think a set of batteries were good for MAYBE 6 tapes? Hey, did yours have auto reverse? I thought that was the very APEX of technology at the time, when I got a Nakamichi cassette player. The tape would come out on a tray, flip over and go back in!:lol:
it does indeed have auto reverse... there is a switch on the side that would automatically flip from side one to side two that you could (get this) MANUALLY flip to switch sides yourself! At the time it was freakin' cutting edge :lol:
BobTheBiker
07-01-2009, 05:17 PM
WOW. I still remember my old walkman, and probably a dozen other cassette players I had throughout middle school to drone out the idiots on teh bus. only 21 and I already feel DAMN old. hell I think I still have some WASP and Alice Cooper tapes somewhere, along with some metal church.
Homeslice
07-01-2009, 05:20 PM
WOW. I still remember my old walkman, and probably a dozen other cassette players I had throughout middle school to drone out the idiots on teh bus. only 21 and I already feel DAMN old. hell I think I still have some WASP and Alice Cooper tapes somewhere, along with some metal church.
You're only 21, yet you listened to Alice Cooper ?
HurricaneHeather
07-01-2009, 05:39 PM
Seriously Heather? How old are you? :lol:
I'm 26. If you add it all up, tapes were really only mainstream when I was a kid.
HurricaneHeather
07-01-2009, 05:41 PM
it was in the instruction manual for the player. ;)
I definitely never owned a new walkman or any tape player, so I can guarantee I never had a manual. Not that I would have read it if I had one. :lol:
Well......
You looked at the liner. If the first song on side one was, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but when you put the tape in, it played, "Eleanor Rigby", you fucked it up. :lol:
JC
:lmao:
That was my method, trial and error.
Everytime I would try it out then try my best to remember which way it was....I always forgot. :shrug:
Amber Lamps
07-01-2009, 05:59 PM
You're only 21, yet you listened to Alice Cooper ?
Dude when I was in HS in the early 80s we went through a phase where we listened to the Doors, the Who, the Beatles, etc.:lol:
Homeslice
07-01-2009, 06:56 PM
Dude when I was in HS in the early 80s we went through a phase where we listened to the Doors, the Who, the Beatles, etc.:lol:
Well yeah, seeing as how the Who and the Doors "heyday" was only like 5 years prior to that. Shit, in the early 80's those 2 bands still accounted for almost half of what the radio was playing.......And the other half of the airtime was devoted to Bob Segar, Journey, Styx, Rush, Foreigner, Joan Jett, and Loverboy....
Homeslice
07-01-2009, 07:03 PM
That one ROCKS! I got one in my garage. I've had it for 20 yrs.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l311/cjclark69/House/Garage009.jpg
That looks like a late 80's model........I'm partial to the early 80's & late 70's......This JVC here is exactly 30 yrs old. Check out the volume slide, it's like the Star Trek transporter machine, lol
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Amber Lamps
07-01-2009, 09:04 PM
Well yeah, seeing as how the Who and the Doors "heyday" was only like 5 years prior to that. Shit, in the early 80's those 2 bands still accounted for almost half of what the radio was playing.......And the other half of the airtime was devoted to Bob Segar, Journey, Styx, Rush, Foreigner, Joan Jett, and Loverboy....
Man what the fuck are you talking about? Jim Morrison was dead before I started elementary school, like 1970 or some shit, so how could their "heyday" be in the late seventies/early eighties?:lol:
Adeptus_Minor
07-01-2009, 09:55 PM
"My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day," Campbell wrote. "He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realized he meant that big. It was the size of a small book."
A new generation discovers the oldguyPod.
Homeslice
07-01-2009, 09:57 PM
Man what the fuck are you talking about? Jim Morrison was dead before I started elementary school, like 1970 or some shit, so how could their "heyday" be in the late seventies/early eighties?:lol:
Heyday in terms of airtime.......I could give a F when they died :lol:
Cassette players rock.....I've got a few old boomboxes from that era, like this one
one of my brothers had this one.
http://www.stereo80s.com/images/gallery/panasonicnational/panasonic__national__rx-5150_2_big.jpg
that thing was loud as hell
Homeslice
07-01-2009, 10:14 PM
one of my brothers had this one.
ha ha, I had one of those too, the LED on it was pimp!
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I remember having a couple of Sony's. I listened to rush for a whole summer when I got my first, stole it on my uncle with a Dr. Hook tape.
The first song I ever heard on CD was 'Lets get Rocked' by Def Leppard, and I was utterly amazed.
101lifts2
07-01-2009, 10:31 PM
Just the other day I showed my 12 yo son what a cassette was. He asked what the rectangle opening below the CD opening was on the Stereo on my Maxima. So I pulled out a few cassettes. He laughed. ,,,,,.
He was laughing that you still drive a car with a cassette.
i used to have a banging ass GE walkman with an integrated radio. still had a working MD until a few months ago. actually have a bid in on a first gen sony network walkman (20 gig) just need something big and cheep dont need any videos internet or any other crap
Gas Man
07-01-2009, 11:15 PM
it does indeed have auto reverse... there is a switch on the side that would automatically flip from side one to side two that you could (get this) MANUALLY flip to switch sides yourself! At the time it was freakin' cutting edge :lol:
The one I posted has auto reverse... but it don't flip out or nothing. It also had 2 tape decks and can play each tape... that's 4 sides without having to do anything.
I'm 26. If you add it all up, tapes were really only mainstream when I was a kid.
Yep, same age of the wife... Its amazing what 4 or 5 years does.
That looks like a late 80's model........I'm partial to the early 80's & late 70's......This JVC here is exactly 30 yrs old. Check out the volume slide, it's like the Star Trek transporter machine, lol
.
Yeah well this is all I got left. It has similar controls on top but I don't readily have a pic. Maybe tomry I'll snap one.
Well......
You looked at the liner. If the first song on side one was, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but when you put the tape in, it played, "Eleanor Rigby", you fucked it up. :lol:
JC
:lmao: :lmao:
Dude when I was in HS in the early 80s we went through a phase where we listened to the Doors, the Who, the Beatles, etc.:lol:
Waitjustadamminute... you're the chronological age of grown-ups??
Amber Lamps
07-02-2009, 01:40 AM
:lmao: :lmao:
Waitjustadamminute... you're the chronological age of grown-ups??
Look, I know the Ray Davies wrote a song about you and everything but really, why the 'tude? Will someone please explain exactly why do people that I didn't even know were on this forum decide to insult me?:idk:
I guess that I should feel privileged that you used one of your 513 posts in 8 months on me! I'd imagine that the other 512 were used trading recipes and comparing tampons on the girlie side of the forum.:lol: Oh well, see you in another 8 months for your 1,000th post.
Papa_Complex
07-02-2009, 07:20 AM
I don't need to read stuff like that to feel old. My father bought a Phillips cassette stereo for something like $500.00 back around 1970 and it was the peak of audio technology. I think that he was making about $15K a year back then, which was reasonably good money.
I've got more than 200 LPs. I'd be willing to wager that there are people on this board who don't even know what those are. Hell, I've even got a couple of old Elvis 78s hidden somewhere, unless my brother or sister ripped them off (my sister likely has, the thieving bitch).
This just shows how spoiled we are if a kid doesnt think the walkman is a credible piece of technology. Where exactly does he think the ipod came from? It just magically appeared....
No crap, right? Good grief!!
Whats worse is that my cousin was bitching not long ago, saying 'the original Nintendo, did people even buy that garbage?'
Uhh, ya, 80+ million of them asshole. It was a cultural phenomenon that started a multibillion dollar industry.
Silly children. I know if I ever have kids, when they become know it all teens, im gonna want to knee them in the face repeatedly, sooooo bad.
Papa_Complex
07-02-2009, 09:04 AM
Pong was the schiznit.
Rider
07-02-2009, 09:20 AM
He was laughing that you still drive a car with a cassette.
In 1997 the Bose stereos came with CD and Cassette. I didn't want it but there wasn't another option without a cassette when I bought the car. BTW my "old" car has zero rust and the paint still shines like the day I bought it off the showroom floor. At this point I'm keeping the car around so that when my son starts driving in 3 years it will be his car.
Whats worse is that my cousin was bitching not long ago, saying 'the original Nintendo, did people even buy that garbage?'
Uhh, ya, 80+ million of them asshole. It was a cultural phenomenon that started a multibillion dollar industry.
Silly children. I know if I ever have kids, when they become know it all teens, im gonna want to knee them in the face repeatedly, sooooo bad.
you should show him a turbographix 16 with the hue cards. probably blow his little mind
Pong was the schiznit.
Agreed, but pong (or Atari), didnt have the sudden impact on the gaming industry that the NES did.
you should show him a turbographix 16 with the hue cards. probably blow his little mind
I showed him a Sega Master System online. He didnt know Sega ever made consoles.
jesus christ. How did he miss dreamcast?
jesus christ. How did he miss dreamcast?
He's 13, born in 96, he missed a lot, yet somehow saw it all :skep:
Hell, he's not old enough to remember FFVII coming out. And thhat was the biggest video game of the 90's
goof2
07-02-2009, 10:36 AM
jesus christ. How did he miss dreamcast?
A lot of people missed dreamcast, or at least missed spending money on one.
He's 13, born in 96, he missed a lot, yet somehow saw it all :skep:
Hell, he's not old enough to remember FFVII coming out. And thhat was the biggest video game of the 90's
sentance him to twenty hours of playing kolibri :lol: that ought to teach him to shut his pie hole about classic systems
unknownroad
07-02-2009, 11:26 AM
Even when he discovered the cassette had more music on the other side (it took him three days), Campbell was still disappointed it could only hold a small fraction of what an iPod can.
"Did my dad ... really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?"
Hey, at least in my day, you could buy longer tapes that would hold multiple albums (maxed out at 120 minutes, IIRC)... so unlike the ipod they were at least upgradeable :dthumb:
He was laughing that you still drive a car with a cassette.
I shit you not, two years ago I got stuck with a 2006 Taurus as a rental car, and the fucking thing only had a tape deck, no CD player. I was astonished. Still amazes me that Ford is doing better financially than GM and Chrysler.
Avatard
07-02-2009, 11:33 AM
Better story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm
HurricaneHeather
07-02-2009, 11:39 AM
I just like to think of how that kid's kids are going to react to iPods 30 years from now. I'm guessing they will laugh at it's ridiculously dated features. :shrug:
Its gonna get to a point where their putting a suppository chip in so you can just shit out whatever information you need.
Its nice that things have gotten smaller and more functional, but its time to slow down. Its not the speed, its the wasted price of new technology with minor new features I dont need :lol:
askmrjesus
07-02-2009, 12:02 PM
Its gonna get to a point where their putting a suppository chip in so you can just shit out whatever information you need.
I think you just described Wikipedia.
JC
I think you just described Wikipedia.
JC
For Microsoft Anal OS 8.0
Homeslice
07-02-2009, 12:09 PM
You can go to Target and buy an Atari classic system for like $30-40, too bad all the games are already built in and not on removeable cassettes
Flexin
07-02-2009, 12:25 PM
:lol:
Facing out.
JC
Well that depends. Some of them would go in reverse so you didn't even need to flip it.
James
Flexin
07-02-2009, 12:28 PM
it was in the instruction manual for the player. ;)
I had one of the first Sony Walkman models with the digital tuning and the 5 memory buttons (10 saved channels total): WM-FX41. I rarely used the casette because it ate batteries like crazy.
I used that thing for probably about 15 years and I still have it in a box in the garage... the corners are all worn off and such but it still works like a charm... went through headphones like water though :lol:
I was always hooking my headphones on desks in school and ripping the cord off. But I couldn't kill the player. That think worked great until someone stole it in high school. :td:
James
Avatard
07-02-2009, 12:40 PM
My parents came back with an original Walkman from Japan, a full year before it was released here.
It got quite old, and a bit ragged, but I realized how significant it probably was, so, before it was all "used up", I cleaned it up, and put it away. I still have it, and while I haven't used it in probably twenty-some years, I believe it probably still works.
Wonder what an original piece like that is even worth...
unknownroad
07-02-2009, 12:53 PM
Better story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm
At 13 years old, the kid writes better than half the Associated Press staff these days :dthumb:
Now if you really want to blow a kid's mind, show him some of the portable electric "word processors" from the late 80's/early 90's... a fine example of technology tripping all over itself on haphazard, fucked-up hardware.
askmrjesus
07-02-2009, 12:56 PM
My parents came back with an original Walkman from Japan, a full year before it was released here.
It got quite old, and a bit ragged, but I realized how significant it probably was, so, before it was all "used up", I cleaned it up, and put it away. I still have it, and while I haven't used it in probably twenty-some years, I believe it probably still works.
Wonder what an original piece like that is even worth...
I had one of the original Rockman's.
It totally fucked my hearing up,( it goes to 11!) but at the time, I thought it was just about the coolest thing ever invented.
JC
Avatard
07-02-2009, 12:57 PM
At 13 years old, the kid writes better than half the Associated Press staff these days :dthumb:
Right? That was my take. The Brits are apparently still teaching their kids "little shit" like reading and writing...
Captain Morgan
07-02-2009, 01:00 PM
Wow, this thread brings back memories. Reel to real, 8 track, boomboxes...holy crap, I feel old now.
I didn't have the tapes for it but I was given a portable reel to reel when I was a kid, pretty sure it was before my teens. never did find any tapes in the small town I lived in, don't even know why the person that gave it to me had it without any tapes to give me too.
askmrjesus
07-02-2009, 04:26 PM
I didn't have the tapes for it but I was given a portable reel to reel when I was a kid, pretty sure it was before my teens. never did find any tapes in the small town I lived in, don't even know why the person that gave it to me had it without any tapes to give me too.
I think you just answered you own question. :lol:
JC
I think you just answered you own question. :lol:
JC
probably. :bonk:
Particle Man
07-02-2009, 05:16 PM
oh yeah, we had a reel-to-reel too... and later we had a tape recorder like this:
EpyonXero
07-02-2009, 05:25 PM
I just like to think of how that kid's kids are going to react to iPods 30 years from now. I'm guessing they will laugh at it's ridiculously dated features. :shrug:
The funny thing is that it was only a few years ago when I got my first iPod and I remember trying to explain to people what it was and why it was cool. :lol:
The funny thing is that it was only a few years ago when I got my first iPod and I remember trying to explain to people what it was and why it was cool. :lol:
I had that experience with an ATM card. I lived in KC and had ATM's all over the place. moved back home to small town MO. and was asking the banks if they offered ATM cards and they looked at me like I was crazy. they'd never heard of them before.
unknownroad
07-02-2009, 06:56 PM
oh yeah, we had a reel-to-reel too... and later we had a tape recorder like this:
Used to have a whole bunch of games for the Apple ][, run off of one of those... ah, memories :blah:
oh yeah, we had a reel-to-reel too... and later we had a tape recorder like this:
we used to have the texas instruments Ti994a. awesome computer for the time, had to use a tape recorder like that to run certain programs though
http://ciscogarcia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wallpaper-ti-994a.png
after this puppy i moved on to the iconic IBM pc 80808 with a badass mcga green screen i eventually converted into a cheap television set. used to have a picture somewhere of me watching the matrix on it.
EpyonXero
07-02-2009, 07:17 PM
I had that experience with an ATM card. I lived in KC and had ATM's all over the place. moved back home to small town MO. and was asking the banks if they offered ATM cards and they looked at me like I was crazy. they'd never heard of them before.
I remember when you used to be able to get $5 from an ATM. :lol:
Papa_Complex
07-02-2009, 07:26 PM
we used to have the texas instruments Ti994a. awesome computer for the time, had to use a tape recorder like that to run certain programs though
after this puppy i moved on to the iconic IBM pc 80808 with a badass mcga green screen i eventually converted into a cheap television set. used to have a picture somewhere of me watching the matrix on it.
I've still got a Timex Sinclair in a drawer somewhere :lol:
I've still got a Timex Sinclair in a drawer somewhere :lol:
we've supposedly got one as well, the really funny thing is after i inhereted the 80808 it was still the only ''internet capable'' pc we had at the time. Was always a trip watching my dad dialup the bbs at his office to adjust his schedule :lol: and that was probably a good 5-10 years before normal people knew there even was a net
Homeslice
07-03-2009, 01:08 PM
trs80 ftw
Papa_Complex
07-03-2009, 01:15 PM
Took my programming course on a Super Pet and CAD on a Vic-20.
z06boy
07-03-2009, 01:31 PM
Wow, this thread brings back memories. Reel to real, 8 track, boomboxes...holy crap, I feel old now.
No kidding...me too !! :lol:
I took typing in highschool....on a typewriter !! :lol
Hey my friends laughed...even then but then signed up the next year because it was a great way to meet chicks. :rockwoot:
Gas Man
07-03-2009, 07:33 PM
When I took typing in jr high it was on old manual type writers. I'm mean like classics from the 60s. Then in high school, my programming class was on the green screen Apple IIE computers with 5.25" floppy disks. Same time, I remember 75 mb hard drives being a big deal. If you had 100 you were like a PIMP.
Amber Lamps
07-03-2009, 07:54 PM
When I took typing in jr high it was on old manual type writers. I'm mean like classics from the 60s. Then in high school, my programming class was on the green screen Apple IIE computers with 5.25" floppy disks. Same time, I remember 75 mb hard drives being a big deal. If you had 100 you were like a PIMP.
Computer programming on Tandy with cassette tape decks for program back ups.
Gas Man
07-03-2009, 07:57 PM
YES cassette tape back ups... i remember that shit!!
Amber Lamps
07-03-2009, 09:50 PM
YES cassette tape back ups... i remember that shit!!
Yep and I had to back up my programs on computer paper (with the holes) to turn in for grades.:lol::lol:
Oh and we had to hook up to college servers using a modem that you put the handset in a cradle to link up and it took like a minute to get on.
Particle Man
07-05-2009, 09:13 AM
I remember when you used to be able to get $5 from an ATM. :lol:
we had one of the first ones around here in town... they called it a "Metroteller" :lol:
I took typing in highschool....on a typewriter !! :lol
same here. they were electric typewriters though.
Then in high school, my programming class was on the green screen Apple IIE computers with 5.25" floppy disks. Same time, I remember 75 mb hard drives being a big deal. If you had 100 you were like a PIMP.
a friend and I spent time before and after school teaching ourselves how to program on one of the schools two Apple II computers in BASIC. the next year they got 20 more and added a class. ended up my friend and I were helping teach the class because the "instructor" didn't know as much about programming as we did.
Gas Man
07-05-2009, 07:37 PM
a friend and I spent time before and after school teaching ourselves how to program on one of the schools two Apple II computers in BASIC. the next year they got 20 more and added a class. ended up my friend and I were helping teach the class because the "instructor" didn't know as much about programming as we did.
I hear ya... I was like a month ahead of the class. So then the teacher would get me to help other people... now its meaningless!
Amber Lamps
07-05-2009, 08:00 PM
I hear ya... I was like a month ahead of the class. So then the teacher would get me to help other people... now its meaningless!
I know that feeling! I took comp prog for two years in HS and two classes at the junior college. I join the Army, come home and what's this windows thing?:lol: I didn't own a computer for over 10 years after that. In fact this is just the second one I'm on now.
I know that feeling! I took comp prog for two years in HS and two classes at the junior college. I join the Army, come home and what's this windows thing?:lol: I didn't own a computer for over 10 years after that. In fact this is just the second one I'm on now.
I thought I was technologically retarded.
Amber Lamps
07-05-2009, 10:23 PM
I thought I was technologically retarded.
Nope I've been playing catch up ever since! I missed almost every big electronic gadget between 1983-1993 I wasn't interested anymore.:idk:
Nope I've been playing catch up ever since! I missed almost every big electronic gadget between 1983-1993 I wasn't interested anymore.:idk:
know what you mean. I didn't even own a computer till around 99 or so. I was just a few credits away from having a computer support certificate before I got my first one. a friend gave me a couple that his work was going to throw out in 98. I got them running and networked together then found out I wanted a laptop.
I've never been on the bleeding edge of computers either in the ones I've either bought or made. too damn expensive. I think it was 03 when I got my first MP3 player, it was on clearance so it was way behind on size.
z06boy
07-06-2009, 10:10 AM
same here. they were electric typewriters though.
Wow you had electricity...we typed by candlelight ? :lol: Just kidding but yep ours were that type too.
Papa_Complex
07-06-2009, 10:39 AM
Wow you had electricity...we typed by candlelight ? :lol: Just kidding but yep ours were that type too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
z06boy
07-06-2009, 11:12 AM
:lol: :lol:
Wow you had electricity...we typed by candlelight ? :lol: Just kidding but yep ours were that type too.
:D
Amber Lamps
07-06-2009, 12:01 PM
Wow you had electricity...we typed by candlelight ? :lol: Just kidding but yep ours were that type too.
Yea? Well, we typed using birds and stone tablets! Plus there were only 15 letters and numbers TOTAL!!!
Particle Man
07-08-2009, 01:59 PM
we had the huge brown IBM typewriters for typing class :lol:
THUNK THUNK THUNK *ding* RATCHET THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK *ding* RATCHET THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK *FUCK* *ratchet* *ratchet* *ratchet* THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK *ding*
ZIP
Papa_Complex
07-08-2009, 02:08 PM
we had the huge brown IBM typewriters for typing class :lol:
THUNK THUNK THUNK *ding* RATCHET THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK *ding* RATCHET THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK *FUCK* *ratchet* *ratchet* *ratchet* THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK *ding*
ZIP
Can't remember if I posted it here or not, but all of my essays in college were typed on an ancient Smith Corona manual that I rescued from a dumpster and repaired.
Flexin
07-08-2009, 08:52 PM
Can't remember if I posted it here or not, but all of my essays in college were typed on an ancient Smith Corona manual that I rescued from a dumpster and repaired.
I did by typing class on a typewriter as well. But used computers (C 64's and Apple II's) in class many years before.
I forget what grade we were in but mom bought a typewriter for use at home. It was for my sister and I and my mother also went back to university so she used it as well. It was a Smith Corona but this thing was bad ass. It had a flip up screen that you could type on first and also save it to 3.5" disk. When you were ready you could type it out.
James
Homeslice
07-08-2009, 09:42 PM
LOL.....I used a manual typewriter all the way up to about 91 or 92. Prolly cuz I couldn't afford either an electric or a computer at the time. It came in a case that you could fold up and carry with you.
Flexin
07-08-2009, 09:48 PM
I think it was around 88' when we got the bad ass Smith Corona. It was around that time that my father bought me a Vic 20 with cassette tape drive.
James
Particle Man
07-10-2009, 10:18 AM
I think it was around 88' when we got the bad ass Smith Corona. It was around that time that my father bought me a Vic 20 with cassette tape drive.
James
we had one of those! (VIC 20)... we later replaced it with a C-64 and then a C-128 (which spent most of it's time in C-64 mode: from the command prompt you'd type "Go 64" and it would ask "Are you sure?" and you'd hit "Y" :lol:)
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