Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

Where are you going to school in the dark below the 49P ?? Plz
Sloth
Try up here , sun up at 09:15

 

So true , Pick a side and let it START ,

 

Hasn't changed much in fifty years, at least on one side of the street. Bus stop was on the corner, just uphill of where a car would go if they came speeding down the pavement and missed the turn on the ice.

Google Maps

Open street view and spin 90 degrees left.

I walked 1/4 mile to the end of the pavement and stood there in the dark waiting to catch the school bus. Then it was a forty-five minute bus ride to school. In the winter we cleared a fire pit in the snow and had a fire to stay warm.

 

I’m officially this old. The first computer I ever bought was by mail order in 1981, and it cost me $5,000 — about $18,700 in today’s money. For that price, I got 16 KB of RAM, a Z80 processor running at 4 MHz, and two 170 KB single‑sided floppy drives. No hard drive. A 12‑inch monochrome monitor that topped out at 80×25 text resolution.

It was more than half a year’s salary for me at the time. I paid for it by running payroll for businesses and writing software in BASIC.

 

My first computer was an Atari 800XL - 64K RAM, two double side floppy drives, a tiny black ink printer that never worked right (paper kept going off at an angle), a small portable color TV as my monitor. I paid about $350 for the Atari stuff all together, another $80 for the TV. Less than $500 all told. 1984, I was in the Navy, living offbase with a shipmate. We had both just rotated to shore duty. I was inspired by another shipmate who had his Atari onboard ship - the earlier Atari 800 with 16K upgraded to 48K, one singleside drive and a smaller color TV monitor. He'd paid over a thousand bucks the year before. Prices tanked in 1984, just before the software industry also tanked, many companies went under.

 

My first computer was an Apple IIC that the 'family' got in the mid 80's.
Apple IIc - Wikipedia
I got a subscript to PC Mag, at the time they were including BASIC code. I had one issue that had a flight simulator landing, had to retype all the code from the magazine into the computer. And it worked!

The first one I bought on my own, was a PC, 486DX from Micron Computers. A whopping 340MB hard drive with Windows 3.1 and DOS. I remember the ad saying that i would never run out of hard drive space. This was '93 or '94.

 

A friend gave me a computer he couldn't give away.It was a TI mini.
It had 2 main parts one about the size of a big refrigerator and the other the size of a chest feezer. I ended up scrapping them out for the metal.

 

A "mini"? I'd hate see the big one.

 

Steve Jobs was once quoted saying "Nobody needs more than 64K!". Hehe.

 

I'm sorry, if "Common sense" was available as an option they'd be getting things done right now

 

The problem is the democommies have been claiming they own "common sense" for so long the Great Unwashed Masses have been bred to believe it. So, no help there.