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woohoo Send message Joined: 30 Oct 13 Posts: 973 Credit: 165,671,404 RAC: 5 |
if you spend more money on your car versus your computer does that revoke your geek membership |
Monday Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 |
it feels like I've broken a bone in my hand. |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
if you spend more money on your car versus your computer does that revoke your geek membership You sly devil!!! You're converting your car to crunch work units, aren't you!!!!!! |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
it feels like I've broken a bone in my hand. Go to the emergency room and find out. |
Monday Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 |
No I dont think its broken it jst realy hurts. |
Monday Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 |
It's feeling much bettter now. |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
It's feeling much bettter now. Rub your neck with whiskey from the inside... that'll help it. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66180 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
i have to see that movie now Are you are sure I'm not a NERD?? The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
Are you are sure I'm not a NERD?? Or......a rare hybrid like a Gerd or Neek. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66180 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Are you are sure I'm not a NERD?? I'm very much likeable, I'm highly regarded around here by people in the park and I do have social skills, so I can't be either, I don't quite fit. The definition of Geek... The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Are you are sure I'm not a NERD?? Uh Vic... we all use computers to look for space aliens. That sounds pretty geeky to me. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66180 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Are you are sure I'm not a NERD?? I've been using computers since 1979. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
I used my first computer in the mid-80's in a college class on programming in BASIC. In 1988 I wrote my Master's thesis on a department computer using WordStar, and boy was I glad I did. My thesis chair flew to Chile that year to adopt a baby. Per her request, I had given her several chapters of my thesis to read on the plane. When she got home she called me up and said, "I can't find ANY of your chapters, sweetie!" How incredibly awesome it was to hit a button and print them all out for her again. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66180 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I used my first computer in the mid-80's in a college class on programming in BASIC. I had an Adult School class where I got a certificate in Computers and one in Basic Programming, the school used a TRS-80. Considering I'd never had an Algebra class, I got a B+ in Basic, I also learned how to type by typing in lots of Atari Basic computer programs from Compute Magazine, I started building My own PC Clones in 1992 and yeah I figured out how to write an autoexec.bat file and a Config.sys file, the memory manager I used was Qemm.. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Interesting things they call art in London ... Roller Derby Kisses at Finnish Institute King's Cross. https://www.facebook.com/FinInstLondon?fref=nf |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
the memory manager I used was Qemm.. Oh, the good old days. Qemm and Desqview ('windows' for DOS) by Quarterdeck. With it we ran a dialup BBS that could have FOUR users online at a time! Edit: Remember Stacker? Compress/decompress all files on the fly to fit 40meg on your 20meg drive. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
If we are going for geeky history... I built my first computer myself in 1966. Took my first Fortan class in 1970, on an IBM 360. IIRC, it had 640k of RAM, in a case the size of a small fridge. (That's not me in the picture, I looked WAY cooler in 1970.) I wrote my Masters Thesis on a Wang, in 1984/1985. Figures from Fortan programs run on a Varian, (that the school had just purchased to replace a cabinet sized HP that ran on paper tape) and on a CDC first generation CAD system. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3308 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
First version was 3.4, then they brought out V4 where you could "walk the menus" wow rocket science at the time. It still had those damn dot codes at the beginning and end to control headers and footers and page lengths etc HTML "code" still uses a few of those Word Star dot commands for page headers, etc... and even some of those control codes for bold, italics, underscore, etc. Chris, I remember using all of the other programs you mentioned at one point or another through the years. I spent many hours mastering them for for my computer programming/computer science degree from the mid to late 80's. I can remember when the college I was going to got MS Word and Word Perfect with WYSISUG (what You See Is What You Get) print preview. Made formatting and typing term papers (with variable width fonts) a whole lot easier and a lot less wasted paper. |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
Ah yes Corel Wordperfect and WYSIWYG (wizzy-wig). It was the DOS leader, but showed the way for MS Word to take over in Windows which it did. I went straight from Wordstar 6 to Word. I never understood the need for those fancy word processors.... we all had EDLIN! :) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Ah yes Corel Wordperfect and WYSIWYG (wizzy-wig). It was the DOS leader, but showed the way for MS Word to take over in Windows which it did. I went straight from Wordstar 6 to Word. I had "vi" on my SUN Sparc workstation:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi |
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