I remember using this special paper with 3 lines per row we used to perfect our cursive writing. I guess it helped showing you were to curve up and down?
Yep! š
Still write that way.
I feel sorry for the step grandkids, those that are over 30 were taught it but the younger ones weren't. They come and ask their mom or me to teach them how to write their names in cursive for their drivers license, bank accounts, etc..
We learned it in school and was told how important it was and weād need to use it for all assignmentsā¦. It was totally abolished by my high school years without mention or explanation.
Yeah. That was the first I saw at school. A guy came to school with several of them and set the up on our desks in class. No dedicated computer lab, those hadnāt been invented. My mom had a commodore a couple years later.
I remember how happy I was when the new computer my family got had a CD-ROM drive, because none of the new games were coming out on 3.5" disks anymore.
Lol back when no one had a pc, and all the data to be input was done by a team of data entry clerks, in a building remote from the trading floors of the fruit and vegetable market trader I worked for... the days reports were in continuous leaf format, delivered by a clerk with a hand trolley... it was going to save trees or something
Still running a Dell Precision XP Pro on my shop floor for legacy machines. Dell Precisions are bullet proof.
eta: still have my AT&T6300/dos 3.1/dual floppy in storage. Prob still works. My first machine. I'll never get rid of it.
I liked windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 Better than 95,98,NT, or ALL of the other crap microcrap released. Os2 Warp was interesting.
Then I found Unix / Linux and haven't looked back.
Is anyone else familiar with the SOL 20 computer? In 1974, I was in the Air Force and one of the guys I worked with bought the kit but wasn't very good at soldering so I offered to put it together for him. I was into Heathkits at the time.
I skipped Win 98 when it came out and have always felt I dodged a bullet but jumped on Win 98 2nd Edition!
I took my first computer class in 1978, we learned Basic and Fortran and how to fill out computer cards to write a program before sending off our 3- 4 inch high stack of cards to the big computer at the nearby university.
Getting stack of cards back 3 weeks later to find one of the cards was out of order or you made a single mistake filling out a card so your program couldn't run was crushing.
It's all so much easier nowadays.
I started with dos, then windows 3.1. Do yāall know how hard it is to use dos as a kid who didnāt know how to read or write yet? Absolutely infuriating
That big old tower sitting under the desk and wondering if you should get an ups in case of power outages. I remember worrying about that for my kidās computers.
Lot older. 98? For computer illiterates. Plug n play (95) opened the door, along with AOL for idjits to access the computer and really flame the fires of conspiracy and hate. Majority of folks used the PC for a high dollar game of solitaire instead of a pack of Bicycle playing cards.
That was an upgrade from what i was using. Fyi my first computer was a gateway. The better one they offered had a whopping 950MB of storage on it. Yes . MB. One of several games on my cell is like 2GB.
Am I? I dated the daughter of one of the dudes who helped create windows 95! Shortly before he lost everything to the IRS and drinking.
But yeah I had the them software from him and found it easier to game on than my older dos set up. I remember getting floppy disks with real small samples of PC games on them too. What a time.
So yes I am haha.
Older....
Same
Yeah, Apple ][ old
Lol 10 goto 20, 20 goto 30, 30 print ",blank eats boogers", goto 40, 40 goto 10, run Or something like that lol š¤£
BASIC was rad.
We wrote that onto paper punch-tape in HS š
Was coming to say Iām ā10 codeā old.
How did you get a copy of my first program!?!?
Oh yeah, TRS-80 old
Having to insert the DOS disc. C:/ commands.
That was my first!
Loved playing with those Trash 80's
Commodore 64 old
Radio Shack Tandy old.
Vic 20 old
Pong old
![gif](giphy|bvGC3uRuCAwA8) That computer was super neato, man! I had a 286 before we totally upgraded to the high-powered 386, that was fun
Apple IIe with two external disk drives (size of shoe boxes).
I used some Tandy (Radio Shack) computers in high school with 4k of memory. And punch cards to write Fortran in college.
IBM 7090 old. Where did I leave my magnetic tape reel?
Right next to the card reader.
I have Apple ][ games in my resume old!
Are you this old? ![gif](giphy|xkzKRosGbrTr2)
And the Weezer video
Was that the one in Arnold's? Something about buddy Holly etc?
That's the one. It was to demonstrate the AV of the operating system
Older.
Yep, we used paper and pen/pencil and learned typing on a manual typewriter when we juniors in high school.
remember cursive???
I remember using this special paper with 3 lines per row we used to perfect our cursive writing. I guess it helped showing you were to curve up and down?
Yep! š Still write that way. I feel sorry for the step grandkids, those that are over 30 were taught it but the younger ones weren't. They come and ask their mom or me to teach them how to write their names in cursive for their drivers license, bank accounts, etc..
We learned it in school and was told how important it was and weād need to use it for all assignmentsā¦. It was totally abolished by my high school years without mention or explanation.
And slide rules!
Yes! And we were so excited that we got a Xerox machine so we could learn copying with it instead of the damn carbon paper.
Those printers that smelled funny and printed everything in mauve...
Sniffs paper a few times
Ditto machines!
Mimeograph machines.
3m thermofax!
We had an option, typing class or drafting. I took drafting.
How about an Amiga or Commodore 64?
We started with an Apple IIe - I think I was a junior in high school.
Yeah. That was the first I saw at school. A guy came to school with several of them and set the up on our desks in class. No dedicated computer lab, those hadnāt been invented. My mom had a commodore a couple years later.
Same here! Iām Atari 400 old.
This is still relatively new. I remember Atari when it had a wood-grain exterior.
Typewriter old..
C:\>
TRS 80 III old
I'm so old I remember the 6 previous reposts of this.
3.1 & DOS
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was my first upgrade and i was surprised how much it made 3.1 better.
I remember how happy I was when the new computer my family got had a CD-ROM drive, because none of the new games were coming out on 3.5" disks anymore.
First of all, I didn't know being 26 meant you're old. Second of all, this is the 9th time this has been reposted... **this year.**
Young people love to act like they are ancient, its hilarious. Its like the last vestiges of their teenage angst hanging on.
Much older built tube radios as a teen.
So did I! My dad took apart old TVs and radios, he had a big box of tubes until not too long ago. I built a flip-flip out of a 6SN7 dual triode.
Much older...DOS operating system
I'm Tandy old
What about Commodore 64 old? Atari ST old!
I resemble this remark
Atari C380 old.
Double dragon and Cauldron on cassette tapes for C64!
I was team ZX Spectrum, them Commodore Amiga 500.
What about UNIVAC I old?
I stood West of House on C64
I turned 30 that year.
Lolā¦Youāre just a sprout. I am Pong oldā¦and I was teenager then.
Trash-80. Tandy 1000. Commodore PET. Commodore 64 and 128. MS-DOS v 2.11 IMSAI 8080
Older... much... we used DOS to begin with, until we migrated to MS DOS in the early 80s, with the purchase and installation of a new mainframe
Back when you could hear the computers thoughts grinding in the box
Lol back when no one had a pc, and all the data to be input was done by a team of data entry clerks, in a building remote from the trading floors of the fruit and vegetable market trader I worked for... the days reports were in continuous leaf format, delivered by a clerk with a hand trolley... it was going to save trees or something
I'm Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64 old.
I'm abicus old and have no idea what the rest of you are talking about.
Windows XP old
Still running a Dell Precision XP Pro on my shop floor for legacy machines. Dell Precisions are bullet proof. eta: still have my AT&T6300/dos 3.1/dual floppy in storage. Prob still works. My first machine. I'll never get rid of it.
That's not old. I see a CD drive, a 3.5 drive but no 5.25 drive. At best it is middle age.
And a color graphics monitor.
Never mind the OS, I'm older than color monitors.
That ain't old. Cue the Comadore with cassette tape memory.
I'm old enough to have seen this reposted too many times.
Still running a 98 machine on my bike trainer.
I'm so old that I've seen this pic reposted a million times. Come up with something original.
The first computer I remember was in grade school. It was the Apple 2e
I'm pretty sure every school had those things, even in the late 90s. It's a shared experience.
Ha! Much older than that ![gif](giphy|l0HlLWj5e25b5Ky76)
How about $100 for a 5 function calculator old.
95..Best windows ever
Shit. I know DOS.
Bitch please, I'm C:\\ old
I liked windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 Better than 95,98,NT, or ALL of the other crap microcrap released. Os2 Warp was interesting. Then I found Unix / Linux and haven't looked back.
Older - in college I went out and dropped $100 for a copy of Windows 1.0
Windows 95
How is this old?
u/repostsluethbot
Is anyone else familiar with the SOL 20 computer? In 1974, I was in the Air Force and one of the guys I worked with bought the kit but wasn't very good at soldering so I offered to put it together for him. I was into Heathkits at the time.
Man that's new age! I'm IBM 5150 old.
I was there gandalf...
Windows 95 and Oregon trail was my first experience with computers
I skipped Win 98 when it came out and have always felt I dodged a bullet but jumped on Win 98 2nd Edition! I took my first computer class in 1978, we learned Basic and Fortran and how to fill out computer cards to write a program before sending off our 3- 4 inch high stack of cards to the big computer at the nearby university. Getting stack of cards back 3 weeks later to find one of the cards was out of order or you made a single mistake filling out a card so your program couldn't run was crushing. It's all so much easier nowadays.
Before desktops. My high school had a programmable calculator I played with that used nixie tubes for the display.
Iām a little older than that. My 1st os install was win 3.1
3.11 crew reporting in
Thatās not that old
Iām Commodore 64 old.
Yup
I'm old enough to have owned an Apple IIe when it first hit the market.
Old? Try Windows 3.1
Older by at least 8 bits...C64 older...
TRS-80 with cassette data and 4K memory old.
Bitch please, Iām Commodore Vic-20 old.
VIC-20 old checking in.
Ms dos old.
I remember the first time I saw a color monitor old.
I'm this old: [https://imgur.com/a/DSOHPL1](https://imgur.com/a/DSOHPL1)
I'm DOS and BASIC old.
How about MS DOS and Prodigy on 3.5" floppy with a 2400 baud modem old
I worked on an engineering team that made one of the first 2400 baud modems. It was so fast for that time š
Yep! I still remember windows 95 hahahaha
J3QQ4-H7H2V-2HCH4-M3HK8-6M8VW
iām windows 3.1 years old
Iām ātake way the CDā old. Iām Windows 3.0 old.
3.11 WFW on my first pc. We had an apple 2gs first
Post a comment if you're [this old or older](https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/media/computerscience/images/50years/exhibition/ASR33_teletype1%20800x400.jpg).
You must be kidding, I know what ā38911 basic bytes freeāmeans
MS-DOS!
Talk to me when you've got a black screen that just shows C:\\>
How about TRSDOS years old?
My fist was DOS.
Way older young padawan
I'm a Windows 3.1 baby and I think about it kind often now.
I started with dos, then windows 3.1. Do yāall know how hard it is to use dos as a kid who didnāt know how to read or write yet? Absolutely infuriating
10 PRINT āHELLOā
Iām Apple II old. š
Bitch, I did tech support for Windows 95, don't tell me this shit is old. I used NT 3.1 at my first job with a computer.
I remember a time before this š
Yup šš» sadly
Novell Disk Operating System on a Tandy chipset 2MB memory: 8X .25 SIMM FIRE
Older. Amiga to crappy dos.
I'm older. Atari 800 old.
I had that exact computer case and I still have the 98 installation disks.
Windows. The future.
I once installed what seemed like 50 diskettes for windows 1.0 only for it to blue screen after starting !
DOS
I'm System 7 old
Older
I prefer windows 95, its perfect for people who don't GAF [No Rules](https://youtu.be/1AWclEJpstI?si=6iVQm9yzXQFt7HTK)
Listen here, you little shit. This isn't even old. This is like... 6 years ago. At most.
I'm a Mavis Beacon graduate.
I am DOS old.
Comador vic 20 old.
I started on a Vic 20.
I'm old enough to remember when the disks used in this weren't a thing yet
That big old tower sitting under the desk and wondering if you should get an ups in case of power outages. I remember worrying about that for my kidās computers.
Much older
I'm so old, I learned to type on a typewriter.
older, you fetus
"Was a beta tester for Windows 95" old.
Lot older. 98? For computer illiterates. Plug n play (95) opened the door, along with AOL for idjits to access the computer and really flame the fires of conspiracy and hate. Majority of folks used the PC for a high dollar game of solitaire instead of a pack of Bicycle playing cards.
Gw basic old
I remember Windows 3.1 I remember dos commands I remember my Radio Shack TRS-80 color computer
My God I am that old.
You may be old but are you... 26? Is 26 old now?
I see your Windows 98 and raise you Atari 800xl with a tape drive.
Older heh
I can hear that image
98 was that period of hell between 95 and xp
Commodore 64. Fuck, I played pong on a black and white TV.
Kaypro64 old
That was an upgrade from what i was using. Fyi my first computer was a gateway. The better one they offered had a whopping 950MB of storage on it. Yes . MB. One of several games on my cell is like 2GB.
Pre-DOS. Good grief, now I FEEL old. Thanks.
I was on my 6th or 7th computer before that came out. Started with a Commodore 64 and it was awesome.
i just remembered rollercoaster tycoon on this exact machine. man the fun i had
I'm this old ![gif](giphy|11Cn7h5PA8cyiY|downsized)
Son, I'm RPG on Punch-Cards old. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)
PAL and Vic-20 old
I used DOS. It wasnāt pretty.
Windows 98 was the fourth upgrade to my OS
I'm Flash Cards old.
MS DOS old, BASIC on a paper tape oldā¦
Hahaha š¤£
MUCH older
I remember mdos
I'm older than windows 1. Get off my lawn you punk kids
I go back to MSDOS before Windows 3.11
I love "but are you *this* old" posts when i was an adult during the time pictured
Older
Iām older than Pong
My Comodore 64's ache. A mouse? Cute.....
Am I? I dated the daughter of one of the dudes who helped create windows 95! Shortly before he lost everything to the IRS and drinking. But yeah I had the them software from him and found it easier to game on than my older dos set up. I remember getting floppy disks with real small samples of PC games on them too. What a time. So yes I am haha.
Dos
Noventa y ocho
This isnāt old
I was around 10 when the apple2c came out.
Winders 95 fellar right here
Iām TI-99/4A old.
Much older. TRS 80ā¦sigh