Well any new one's for the list. We've seem to have slowed down on the adding of new ideas for old computer geeks.

1.    You ever owned a computer by Commodore, Atari, Coleco, or Franklin
2.    You used a game cartridge or cassette tape to load programs for you computer
3.    You thought 16 colors out of a computer were cool
4.    You know what a 300 baud modem is and used one
5.    You know what a bulletin board system is
6.    You know what ANSI graphic are
7.    You know what a tagline is
8.    You had two telephone lines in your house, one for voice and the other for the computer
9.    You used a TV for a computer monitor
10.  You know what punch cards are
11.  You keypunched cards
12.  You remember when mainframes took up whole rooms and only had 64KB of memory
13.  You know what a 9 track tape drive is
14.  Your first PC was an 8 bit computer
15.  You know what EGA is
16.  You remember 8 inch floppy drives
17.  Your first computer used KB instead of MB for memory size
18.  Your first printer was dot matrix

OhforFive Added
19.  You had to buy a clock/calendar board for your first PC.
20.  You know what a CPM OS is

Ozone Rambler Added
21.  You know what an Apple Lisa is
22.  You built your first computer and it wasn’t a PC
23.  You know what GWBasic is
24.  You consider Windows the Johnny come lately has you owned an Apple Mac or Commodore Amiga in the 80's

Will Added
25.  Radio Shack sold their own line of computers (ie TRS-80, Tandy)
26.  You know what a Timex Sinclair is

Any one get any new toys for their computers over Christmas? Saw an article over on CNET.com about Vista having been out for a month now and few businesses buying it. Most feel that Vista is not ready to replace XP yet and more changes are needed to make it a viable OS. Have to wait for the consumer version later this month to see what happens.


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How about: "Your first printer was thermal."


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Not Thermal, 9 pin Dot Matrix...

How about...

27.  Your first printer was either a thermal or 9 pin dot matrix.


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Or how about you typed hundreds of lines of code out of a magazine so you could play a game...



Last edited by Mike on Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:41 pm; edited 1 time in total

Mike wrote:

Or how about you typed hundreds of lines of code out of a magazine so you could play a game...

Man, I did that many times.


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My additions:

You were active on fidonet
You have a published geek code
You have a public pgp key
You know the difference between poke and peek
You purchased a cassette deck because it was recommended in the computer manual
You run 3 computers of one monitor, one keyboard and one mouse
...and one printer, with a print server
Your house has a hub
For the real old timers, you've seen core memory
When you hear fingernails on the black board, you dive for the hard disk power button
You know how the term "disk crash" was derived
The fire chief cries when they look in your computer room
You run VMware so you can play DOS games
You know what a distro is

My current system runs XP 64bit, 4 Gigs of RAM and 1.5TB of disk space all running on an AMD64-57.  My VM's consists of WFWG, XP, SuSE, Slackware, FC5 XP Pro, Solaris 10, FreeBSD 6.  I have a Server 2003 running on a 2nd computer, FC 5 on a 3rd and XP Pro and SuSE 10 on my laptop.

I just started winding my way back to Windows.  I am not planning to go with Vista at this time, although I think I have a RC in a VM. :)

Said let's get back to the list and look what happened...

1.   You ever owned a computer by Commodore, Atari, Coleco, or Franklin
2.    You used a game cartridge or cassette tape to load programs for you computer
3.    You thought 16 colors out of a computer were cool
4.    You know what a 300 baud modem is and used one
5.    You know what a bulletin board system is
6.    You know what ANSI graphic are
7.    You know what a tagline is
8.    You had two telephone lines in your house, one for voice and the other for the computer
9.    You used a TV for a computer monitor
10.  You know what punch cards are
11.  You keypunched cards
12.  You remember when mainframes took up whole rooms and only had 64KB of memory
13.  You know what a 9 track tape drive is
14.  Your first PC was an 8 bit computer
15.  You know what EGA is
16.  You remember 8 inch floppy drives
17.  Your first computer used KB instead of MB for memory size
18.  Your first printer was dot matrix

OhforFive Added
19.  You had to buy a clock/calendar board for your first PC.
20.  You know what a CPM OS is

Ozone Rambler Added
21.  You know what an Apple Lisa is
22.  You built your first computer and it wasn’t a PC
23.  You know what GWBasic is
24.  You consider Windows the Johnny come lately has you owned an Apple Mac or Commodore Amiga in the 80's

Will Added
25.  Radio Shack sold their own line of computers (ie TRS-80, Tandy)
26.  You know what a Timex Sinclair is

Mike Added
27.  You typed hundreds of lines of code out of a magazine so you could play a game...

Snorin747 Added
28.  You were active on fidonet
29.  You have a published geek code
30.  You have a public pgp key
31.  You know the difference between poke and peek
32.  You run 3 computers off one monitor, one keyboard and one mouse...and one printer, with a print server
33.  Your house has a hub
34.  For the real old timers, you've seen core memory  
35.  When you hear fingernails on the black board, you dive for the hard disk power button
36.  You know how the term "disk crash" was derived
37.  The fire chief cries when they look in your computer room
38.  You run VMware so you can play DOS games
39.  You know what a distro is

I certainly remember typing programs from a magazine into my old C64. With all the peek and poke commands to go along with them.


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Okay, who is getting ready to run out and buy Vista? After the discussion here about Vista I'll probably wait till the first service pack comes out.


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To be honest, I don't see any "must have" feature in Vista that would make me pay for it anytime soon. I've been using it on my work laptop (Vista Business with the Aero Glass interface, it was my personal laptop I had trouble getting it to work on earlier in the thread) because IT is putting it through its paces to determine a reasonable plan for upgrading the rest of the company and testing for application compatibility and issues and all (we're on "software assurance" licensing with Microsoft, which means we basically pay them annually to be able to upgrade to newer versions of operating systems and apps we've bought licenses for without incurring any extra cost). Anyway, the differences are mostly eye candy. This Dell Latitude D610 (Pentium M 1.7Ghz, 1GB RAM, ATI x300 video adapter) runs more sluggishly under Vista than XP. Programs take a bit longer to launch, and just moving around in the OS is less responsive. I could turn off the eye candy, but then I'd basically be running XP. I have a feeling that when we do upgrade our corporate workstations, we'll configure Vista by default to have all the graphical enhancements turned off just to save the performance hit.

I do have to say though, it is very stable. Previous Microsoft operating systems tended to be fairly flakey and SP1 was usually hot on the heels of the release. I haven't had any blue screen type of crashes, just a few application compatibility issues that the vendors say are known issues.


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Will,  I have to be honest with you. All the stuff I have seen on Vista so far says even after all this time MS really wasn't that ready to release it. While stable there seems to be a lot that MS really doesn't have as polished up as they ususally do. I think with everything they took out of Vista it really shows that they may have bite off more than they could chew.

Anyone else looking at Vista or not?


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Yeah, I think the rush job is probably what contributes heavily to the performance lacking in comparison to XP (which I mentioned in my last post). That's probably the biggest negative that I can see, is that it feels more sluggish working on the same hardware than XP does. So maybe SP1 will be like game manufacturers have to do now, and release performance optimizing patches :)


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Probably wanted to get Vista so Bill can go and retire or whatever it is he is going to do. MS really had an ambitious program for Vista and then they didn't deliver half of what they were going to. I'll wait for a while to see if Vista really becomes that well accepted in the home market. MS may have to support XP for alot longer than they were planning on.

One question. Why is it that every new OS release it is compared to Windows 95 release? The marketing is always, The greatest release since Windows 95 or The most improved and stable Windows since Windows 95. Talk about living on past glories.


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I'm going to hold off on Vista at least until they release Service Pack 1.  

I kinda sorta built myself a new 'puter this week. Same case, but I got a Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H motherboard, two gigs of Ballistix Tracer RAM and a PCI Express Sapphire Radeon X1650 video card.

I used my current processor, a P4 3.4 GHz. Unfortunately, the mobo only has one IDE connector and my hard drive didn't like playing with my DVD on the same channel, so I got an IDE to SATA adapter for my hard drive. I also swapped my power supply for a 680W model.

I played a little Quake 4 last night. Very nice. Have to try Doom 3.  


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The more I use Vista, the more I like certain features and the more frustrated I get with others. Unfortunately Microsoft seems to have taken a similar tact with Vista as they did with WinME. Not in the complete lack of stability department (ME was an absolute disaster), but in the lack of compatibility. One biggie I've run into is that Vista pretty much drops OpenGL graphics support, and while there is a patch for NVidia adapters, ATI owners are pretty much screwed. I found that out when I reloaded Knights of the Old Republic to play, and when it didn't work I had to go Googling. Sounds like a lot of "legacy" games are going to have issues with Vista. Way to go MS...  pretty much assures that when I build a new computer this spring primarily for gaming that I'll be putting XP on it.


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