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I think my 'Google foo' may have up and 'Google left the building' .. LOL
Graduated in 1967 and got a draft notice that summer.
Further education had to wait.
Night folks.....another long drive in the morning..................
G'nite inspects ... have a good one
The operating system we were being taught to program for was called Apple Basic. It confused me so bad, there was no way I could do anything with it. Every command I typed gave me "Syntax Error".
This ^^^
Part of the problem with Wickedpedia, is that just about anyone can change what the facts are supposed to be. The government is not the only ones that deal in disinformation.
Wassup everyone!
I’ve been in and out of the forum the past several weeks but I’m still here! Anyone miss me? Lol
I’ve been in and out of the forum the past several weeks but I’m still here! Anyone miss me? Lol
Very true!
Oh, and HEY JIMI and CROMWELL! Where the heck are you guys?
They are usually pretty good IMO, but you do have to be careful. The devil is also in the details. There was the Apple 1 that was released without the Mac OS, but I'm getting too snookered to go search anymore tonight
I think I'll hit the sack. G'nite to those still here.
G'nite Sarah. Have a god one!
Nitey nite, Sarah.
Well, Rye and Choder, I'm leaving the Old Phart thread in your capable hands and headed for my pillow.
Don't forget to turn out the lights when you leave.
Don't forget to turn out the lights when you leave.
G'nite Draconigena. Catch ya later.
What kind of ohms are you running on the v3?Just mixed up 30ml of low nic juice and put an old Rose V3 in service on an old RX200 at 16 watts. Been a year at least since I've vaped the RX.
This is really nice
ETA: I think a cookie run is in order
It reads 0.58 on the RX200 and 0.60 on my black box ohm reader. It's SS 316 at 27 gauge I think, 3mm ID. It's been a while since I wrapped it, but that's in the ballpark. Very nice vape at 16.5 watts for me, though it's a bit on the warm side
I was taught how to use this calculator in grade school.Honestly, I don't remember any computer programming courses in high school. Of course, that could just be 'cause I'm an old phart
And how to use this copier.
It was the 2 sided copy version.
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Omg @The Cromwell I think you might be an ANCIENT Phart. Jeez Louise! Did you learn to drive in a Ford Model A?
Omg @The Cromwell I think you might be an ANCIENT Phart. Jeez Louise! Did you learn to drive in a Ford Model A?
The 2 horsepower version.
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@The Cromwell you take the (blue) cake! 
Actually learned to drive in a 56 Chevy.
My 1st 4 years of schoolin was in a 1 room school house with outhouses and a potbelly stove in the middle of the 1 room.
Had to get water from the well outside.
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20.
Built my first PC. Had a 16 bit 8086 20mhz i think clock and a bleeding edge 30 meg hard drive that sounded like it ran on diesel and cost $400. Just for the hard drive.
Had a bleeding edge COLOR graphics card that did an amazing 640X480 in 16 colors.
And a blazing fast 1200 baud modem.
My 1st 4 years of schoolin was in a 1 room school house with outhouses and a potbelly stove in the middle of the 1 room.
Had to get water from the well outside.
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20.
Built my first PC. Had a 16 bit 8086 20mhz i think clock and a bleeding edge 30 meg hard drive that sounded like it ran on diesel and cost $400. Just for the hard drive.
Had a bleeding edge COLOR graphics card that did an amazing 640X480 in 16 colors.
And a blazing fast 1200 baud modem.
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A 56 Chevy. Wow. I remember one around that age, in the small town where I met my husband in 1974, some kid had taken it under his wing and loved it back to life. Painted it white and candy-apple red. It was beautiful. May have been a 55, I'm not certain.
My first school was just a regular schoolhouse in town. Cafeteria was downstairs, and when I was in first grade, lunch at school cost 10 cents. Had an auditorium where we gave our first grade "recital" in which I got to play ... wait for it ... the TRIANGLE! lol
Don't even remember the first computer I owned. Hubbs had a Radio Shack Color Computer in about 1981, with which you could do exactly nothing. At that same time, I was learning to write SAS on an IBM 370 mainframe at the University of Georgia. IBM DOS PCs were just beginning to be sold to businesses and rich people. Price for the first PC bought at my current employer was $5,495. This was the IBM PC-AT, which had a 10Mb hard drive and dual floppy disk drives, if I'm not mistaken.
A bit later I always had PCs at work, and usually work furnished me a "luggable" (Compaq, weighed about 30 pounds) or a laptop (after such things existed), so I didn't need to own one of my own. Think the first one I actually owned may have been some old piece of junk I bought from work once we cycled it out for something newer. I bought it because I needed to write an application for my husband's work - I wrote a hotel maintenance management app in dBase III+, so that would have been about 1987.
After that, at work, we used PCs with the original version of Windows, then Windows 286, and on and on through Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and now I'm pretty much stuck on Windows 7. Don't like Windows 8 or 10. Did use a Macintosh in the Advertising Dept. at work for graphics ads and such. Remember learning to use Aldus PageMaker was about the most amazing thing I'd done in my life to that point. You could produce a document that looked like it had been professionally typeset with that software. Don't know of anything like it out there now, but that's outside the scope of my work these days anyway.
In 2000 I bought a Sony Vaio like one I'd had at work - still think that was the nicest machine I ever had, for what it could do at the time I had it. It had a flat-screen Trinitron monitor. Beautiful for the time, built in speakers that sounded as good as the stereo in my house.
Learned to drive on a 1971 Ford Maverick that belonged to my Aunt Dezzie. Yes, Dezzie. Bless her heart. She was about the sweetest person you'd ever want to meet. Got my license the day after my 16th birthday. When we went to DMV on my birthday, they insisted that I had to get a permit before I could get a license. So I got my permit that day, then came back the next day and got my license. How's that for bureaucracy?
My first school was just a regular schoolhouse in town. Cafeteria was downstairs, and when I was in first grade, lunch at school cost 10 cents. Had an auditorium where we gave our first grade "recital" in which I got to play ... wait for it ... the TRIANGLE! lol
Don't even remember the first computer I owned. Hubbs had a Radio Shack Color Computer in about 1981, with which you could do exactly nothing. At that same time, I was learning to write SAS on an IBM 370 mainframe at the University of Georgia. IBM DOS PCs were just beginning to be sold to businesses and rich people. Price for the first PC bought at my current employer was $5,495. This was the IBM PC-AT, which had a 10Mb hard drive and dual floppy disk drives, if I'm not mistaken.
A bit later I always had PCs at work, and usually work furnished me a "luggable" (Compaq, weighed about 30 pounds) or a laptop (after such things existed), so I didn't need to own one of my own. Think the first one I actually owned may have been some old piece of junk I bought from work once we cycled it out for something newer. I bought it because I needed to write an application for my husband's work - I wrote a hotel maintenance management app in dBase III+, so that would have been about 1987.
After that, at work, we used PCs with the original version of Windows, then Windows 286, and on and on through Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and now I'm pretty much stuck on Windows 7. Don't like Windows 8 or 10. Did use a Macintosh in the Advertising Dept. at work for graphics ads and such. Remember learning to use Aldus PageMaker was about the most amazing thing I'd done in my life to that point. You could produce a document that looked like it had been professionally typeset with that software. Don't know of anything like it out there now, but that's outside the scope of my work these days anyway.
In 2000 I bought a Sony Vaio like one I'd had at work - still think that was the nicest machine I ever had, for what it could do at the time I had it. It had a flat-screen Trinitron monitor. Beautiful for the time, built in speakers that sounded as good as the stereo in my house.
Learned to drive on a 1971 Ford Maverick that belonged to my Aunt Dezzie. Yes, Dezzie. Bless her heart. She was about the sweetest person you'd ever want to meet. Got my license the day after my 16th birthday. When we went to DMV on my birthday, they insisted that I had to get a permit before I could get a license. So I got my permit that day, then came back the next day and got my license. How's that for bureaucracy?
Ahh DBIII+ so slow...
Wrote some programs for it to analyze surveys and such.
Fire it off and go have lunch and a nap.
Wrote some programs for it to analyze surveys and such.
Fire it off and go have lunch and a nap.
no one around?
Well my status is tired.
Worked all day cleaning up fire debris.
Vaped with a Merlin original RTA most of the day. Finally have a build in it that I like.
Well my status is tired.
Worked all day cleaning up fire debris.
Vaped with a Merlin original RTA most of the day. Finally have a build in it that I like.
Are ya still here, Crom? Anyone else?
I am still here.
Hope your day went better today than the day before....
Hope your day went better today than the day before....
Not particularly. I did not get to work on the splitter carb because the fear of impending blizzard caused me to have to do some serious work on the cow barn, cow pen, chicken coop, horse corral, etc., while the weather was still halfway decent, and it all had to be done before we get more snow.
I need to get my yard mowed before the next snow here.
Nothing to mow here. The last couple days have melted a lot of snow, but not all of it, and new grass has not even started yet.
Phillip mowed our lawn Sunday.
I have some clumps that need knocking down and lots of violets blooming in the yard.
The roses are blooming here, and we already have our first tomato on one of the plants.
Doubt if I will even have a garden this year. Too much to do because of my workshop burning down.
Also will be redoing my kitchen soon.
Also will be redoing my kitchen soon.
Evenin' spects
Not I
Not, and a bit worried about him....
I saw something that looked like it might become a dandelion, but that's about it....
(I see some of the missing emojis have returned)
(I see some of the missing emojis have returned)
This is day 2 without Jimi. Hope he is OK...
Hoping Jimi just went back into hibernation.