[THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:16:25 +0100
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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas A. Brown
> Sent: 23 June 2006 04:37
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
> Oh man, I remember them... I use to program on an Alpha Micro
> System (http://www.alphamicroproducts.com ) back in the early
> 80s) and I will save my programs on them.. wow, that is cool...
>
> Things that make you feel old
>
> 1. 8" floppies
>
> 2. Backing up data onto video cassettes
Backup up data to audio cassettes.
> 3. 10MB - 20MB drives
>
> 4. EGA Wonder being the coolest video card around
>
> 5. TeleVideo Terminals (not thin clients)
>
> 6. 1200 Baud modems being the fastest thing in the world
I can remember 300 baud modems being none too shabby.
> 7. The days when you called "application" a "program"
> and a "developer" was called a "programmer"...
Isn't it funny how spin and euphemisms have changed the terms.
> 8. When a portable computer weighted 20 pounds (Kaypro)
I can remember when "mini" computers would go through a normal floor.
> 9. Infocom games (Zork, Spellbound, and my favorite, Deadlock)
>
> 10. When being a "webmaster" was called a "sysop"
>
> Oh, I love the way it is now days but I really miss those
> days.. they were fun.. new and the sky was the limit. I
> remember learning assembly language so I could write I/O
> calls that showed up on the screen immediately vs. waiting a
> second for a print / printf command... those were the days...
> they really were... I miss them... I really do...
It truly is a different world, now.
Neil
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