In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Topic: In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile... (Read 5101 times) previous topic - next topic

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #30 – January 03, 2007, 12:20:56 AM

Quote from: Red_LX;121256

mmm...dot matrix goodness!

Dot matrix was good, (My first was a DMP-400 from RS) BUT one of My printer was a big Omega or Olympia (don't remember) DAISY WHEEL, what the hell, this printer made a noise like an IARQ war, and shake rignt to left on the table:grinno:

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #31 – January 03, 2007, 12:22:55 AM

Quote from: Tbirdmaniac;121432

Right?...

No.

Quote from: wikipedia

The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #32 – January 03, 2007, 12:24:52 AM

I guessed It's right because I see on TV 15years ago on first computer, and that was explaination...

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #33 – January 03, 2007, 12:29:15 AM

My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 with 2k or 4k of memory (don't remember exactly) and a ****!n datasette, "press play on tape" wahahhaahhaha!...

My first IBM compatible was a TANDY EX with a 5.25 on the side, this TANDY was more than compatible with My toaster:grinno:

Funny to see these old ads from Tandy, Radio ShOck eheh!:dunce:

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #34 – January 03, 2007, 01:24:50 PM

Hello fellow Commodorian. I also had the VIC-20 (still do at my parents house). Still also have a shoebox full of cassette tapes with programs on them. My friend had the more powerful Commodore 64. The graphics were so much better on it than the VIC-20. Did you ever get COMPUTE magazine? I used to subscribe to it and type in the programs at the end of magazine. Ah, the glory days.

In 6th grade, we had a Atari 600 (I believe). I used to use the Atari version of COMPUTE to type in programs (mostly games). It would take about 3 days to type it all in (hunt-n-peck).

On up to 7th/8th grade, we improved our BASIC skills on the Apple ][. This time we were creating pictures by setting each pixel. I went a step further and started animating my pictures and creating routines to 'move' my pixels around the screen. The one everyone liked was when I had created a 'mine shaft' and you were falling though it.

My high school years were on a Apple ][ e and Apple ][ gs. Ahh, extensive BASIC programming. I then went on to hacking into our school diskettes. We each had one in programming class that had a passcode you had to enter to access the disk. I finally figured out the POKE command to invert the screen and it would display in the top middle. I even found a way to pull up a program from one disk and save it to a different one. The program that was used prevented someone from changing disks.

Then I really stepped into changing times. I joined the Marine Corps and they taught me COBOL programming on the mainframe. What a freaking nightmare. To this day, I will be forever haunted by the missing . within a program! 4 months of training and I get to my first station......NO MAINFRAME!!!! From there a friend of mine taught me dBase programming, then Clipper, FoxPro for DOS, FoxPro for Windows.

That's where the saga ends. Now I do things other than sit in front of my computer all day looking at message boards.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #35 – January 03, 2007, 04:01:13 PM

When I started grammar school in 91 we had Apple IIe computers that lasted us for a long time. I went to a catholic grammar school so they couldn't buy new computers because they couldn't afford it. Some of the computers had green screans, you were lucky if you got a color one

. They had a game called Oregon Trail on them. It was the best game ever

! When I got to the 8th grade (99-00) they finally got the same high tech computers that most of the students had at home: windows 98 machines with 56k modems woooohooo.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #36 – January 03, 2007, 05:12:07 PM

oh boy, i hate to do this and switchup subjects,, i have a working Phillco floor model radio. I also have a nifty source for tubes if anyone is interested.

It has a 78 turn table also. Dad sat infront of it and listened to germany bombing poland during wwII. Back then i guess radios were the internet, thanks to Marconi and the first wireless telecommunications in 1901.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #37 – January 03, 2007, 06:57:02 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302;121558

They had a game called Oregon Trail on them. It was the best game ever

OH MAN!! I remember that! Me and my friends played every chance. Oh the memories......*You die of malaria*

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #38 – January 03, 2007, 07:28:15 PM

From now on I will choose to "ford the river". Even if it leads to my demise.

And speaking of old things, there is a Rockola jukebox in my parents garage. Plays 45's and it's got a bunch of badass rock on it.

I want a garage of my own so i can claim it.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #39 – January 04, 2007, 12:28:01 AM

Quote from: CougarSE;121591

OH MAN!! I remember that! Me and my friends played every chance. Oh the memories......*You die of malaria*

I'd always have my family die of disese because I didn't buy medicine. Instead I bought bullits to shoot those squirls. Every time I forded the river I would sink and someone would die. That game kicked ass

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #40 – January 04, 2007, 05:12:47 AM

i still have my apple ][e the lights dim when I power it up I used that thing all thru college to write up papers and the like all the while learing the joys of Dos and windows 3.1

just think of all the things like this that started out as a fad to most people or a rich persons toy and have become mainstream then think of all the other stuff that was supposed to revaltionize the world and never caught on

thank GOD that they invented Floam

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #41 – January 04, 2007, 10:23:01 AM

*Susie has chicken pox*
*Susie breaks her leg*
*You run out of bullets*
*An oxe dies*
*A wagon wheel breaks*
*Bobby drownes while fording the river*
*Your family is hungry*
*again you die of malaria*

Ah what it would have been like to be on the oregon trail.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #42 – January 04, 2007, 11:13:36 AM

When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail, his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather, roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axels, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #43 – January 04, 2007, 12:57:43 PM

I remember when I was in sixth grade around '91 or so. They would let us go to the computer lab for thirty minutes once a week and play Oregon Trail on the Apples there.

I remember saying to my teacher once, "I'll never make it to Oregon in half an hour!"

Ah the innocent days of youth...

In 1983 Ford change automotive styling forever with the new Bird/Cat. Meanwhile...

Reply #44 – January 04, 2007, 04:09:02 PM

Quote from: CougarSE;121754

*Susie has chicken pox*
*Susie breaks her leg*
*You run out of bullets*
*An oxe dies*
*A wagon wheel breaks*
*Bobby drownes while fording the river*
*Your family is hungry*
*again you die of malaria*

Ah what it would have been like to be on the oregon trail.

You ever get the *Bandits steel your food and kill Bobby* message?

Quote

I remember when I was in sixth grade around '91 or so. They would let us go to the computer lab for thirty minutes once a week and play Oregon Trail on the Apples there.

I remember saying to my teacher once, "I'll never make it to Oregon in half an hour!"

Ah the innocent days of youth...

We got 45 minutes to get to Oregon every Friday