Hey! They've Got One and They are Nowhere Near as Cool!

[zippyt]

the fun thing is when a Mfg desides to REArange their serial pinout , I guess so you will have to buy a new cable from them .
That doesn't fool me ,there is TOO much info on the Interweb , I still roll my own !!!

[Elspode]

I got a later start than most of the "old timers". My first modem was a 2400 baud, but I did meet my wife on a BBS, so that has to count for something. Also, my first computer was a Atari 1040 STf.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I was waiting for you guys to get it perfected.

Remember when the Internet was all TEXT? Those were the days! And rememebr when you could use plain old DOS for your operating system and you told your computer what to do instead of Bill Gates telling YOU what to do? Remember when floppy disks really were floppy? Remember when you had to write your programming code onto punch cards? (sigh) The good old days! You kids now a days have it too easy!

[Elspode]

Punch cards?! Punch cards??! Why, when I was a lad, we would have killed for a punch card. We used to have to go down to the Ganges to scoop up mud to make tablets, then we had to scrawl our data in cuneiform under the blazing sun all day long. 10,000 of my kinsmen were killed in a raid on China trying to steal the secrets of the abacus! We couldn't even count to ten most of the time because the Pharoh would cut off our fingers if we made a programming error!

[mrnoodle]

I remember our first modem was the kind where you put the handset onto the unit itself, and it got data by listening to the screeches and tones through the earpiece. I remember when dad finally got a 1200 baud modem that you could dial FROM THE SCREEN! And it was blazing fast. The little green words just flew by.

When I got an Atari 800, my favorite game was called Red Baron or something. It was on cassette tape, and loading all 256kb of it took like 30 minutes. It had graphics though. I loved it.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Punch cards?! Punch cards??! Why, when I was a lad, we would have killed for a punch card. We used to have to go down to the Ganges to scoop up mud to make tablets, then we had to scrawl our data in cuneiform under the blazing sun all day long. 10,000 of my kinsmen were killed in a raid on China trying to steal the secrets of the abacus! We couldn't even count to ten most of the time because the Pharoh would cut off our fingers if we made a programming error!