You could make memes out of the faces on some of these people.
Anybody up for a random meme dump?
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You know, using pictures of your dad as a comical jab at my expense is just sad...
I may be over 50 now but I was only 5 when the TRS-80 came out... nice try though...
If I'd had a computer when I was in high school it would have been housed in a building larger than my house.
I know you're old but not that old...
Close to it..... OK not that they were common in 1976-77 but this was a computer back then.
What were computers like in the 1970s?
At the beginning of the 1970s there were essentially two types of computers. There were room-sized mainframes, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, that were built one at a time by companies such as IBM and CDC.
There also were smaller, cheaper, mass-produced minicomputers, costing tens of thousands of dollars, that were built by a handful of companies, such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company, for scientific laboratories and businesses.
Still, most people had no direct contact with either type of computer, and the machines were popularly viewed as impersonal giant brains that threatened to eliminate jobs through automation. The idea that anyone would have his or her own desktop computer was generally regarded as far-fetched. Nevertheless, with advances in integrated circuit technology, the necessary building blocks for desktop computing began to emerge in the early 1970s.
My dad barely touched a computer in his lifetime. You'd normally see him in bib overalls.
Came pretty close to that here. It's still snowing a couple hundred feet up...
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And it's snowing...
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I didn't touch one until 1988 when I was one of the few who knew how to type and all our lesson plans at the NCO Academy I worked at had to be all put into the computers. I spent close to 2 weeks doing nothing but typing 8-10 hours a day.
I didn't own a computer until 1996 since at the time they were so expensive.
Close to it..... OK not that they were common in 1976-77 but this was a computer back then.
What were computers like in the 1970s?
At the beginning of the 1970s there were essentially two types of computers. There were room-sized mainframes, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, that were built one at a time by companies such as IBM and CDC.
There also were smaller, cheaper, mass-produced minicomputers, costing tens of thousands of dollars, that were built by a handful of companies, such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company, for scientific laboratories and businesses.
Still, most people had no direct contact with either type of computer, and the machines were popularly viewed as impersonal giant brains that threatened to eliminate jobs through automation. The idea that anyone would have his or her own desktop computer was generally regarded as far-fetched. Nevertheless, with advances in integrated circuit technology, the necessary building blocks for desktop computing began to emerge in the early 1970s.
Oregon Trail. I played it...
Used to play it all the time as a kid but it didn't look like that.
I wasn't a kid when I started playing it and when I did that is how it looked. But remember I'm old as dirt...
You're a pup.... I was in the Army when I started playing Oregon Trail.
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