30 years ago today

[Opposite Lock]

What a long strange trip...

AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/gatesletter.html) by William Henry Gates III

February 3rd, 1976. I think I was listening to Sweet's "Fox On The Run". I had no concept of "software".

[RusH]

My first computer was a Commodore 64, I mainly gamed on it. I got on-line briefly in 1986 with Q-Link. Then took a hiatus because it sucked.

In 1995 I got my first PC and NETCOM internet, I posted in RASI/C(and still do sometimes), web forums were just getting started.

Seems like yesterday that everything was so stone-aged.

[EDwardo]

30 years ago I was probably stoned. Very likely. I think.

Just a guess.

I do remember what I was doing on July 4, 1976. I went to a ballgame with a hot chick who had some Corp tickets to a suite.

I was probably stoned that day also.

;)

[RusH]

I was probably stoned

;)

Looks likw STONE will be the common link :gomer:

http://www.november2.org/images/j_stone.jpg

[Cam]

What a long strange trip...

AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/gatesletter.html) by William Henry Gates III

February 3rd, 1976. I think I was listening to Sweet's "Fox On The Run". I had no concept of "software".

When that song was at the peak of its popularity, so was a Scottish band called the Bay City Rollers. Did a 2 week bus tour with school through the NW of West Oz at the time and the only tape player on the bus belonged to a girl that would only play BCR over and over and over and over and over again! How she managed to get off the bus at the end of the trip alive is a mystery.

[dando]

My first computer was a Commodore 64, I mainly gamed on it. I got on-line briefly in 1986 with Q-Link. Then took a hiatus because it sucked.



Q Link became AOL. I couldn't afford CompuServe @ the time, so I did that, too. Played the online casino for a bit, got bored until they invented pr0n online. :gomer:

My first 'PC' was a Timex-Sinclair. I lusted after a Mac, but they were so damn expensive (some things never change). Got a TI and then a C64, and then a Commodore PC clone. My first Windoze machine was a 486/33 with a whopping 8 MB of RAM and a 15" monitor, which co$t me $2800 in '92. :eek:

-Kevin

[Gangrel]

hehehe

TI Professional System with no internal hard drive, dual 5 1/4 floppies and dual bernouli drive. Love them green tint monochrome monitors! :D

[Methanolandbrats]

Leading Edge Model D w/green monitor, spoke fluent DOS, modem the size of a shoebox :thumbup: