I'm so old I Remember when:

[NanaK]

Hubby likes scrapple (being from Pittsburgh), and that's everything but the squeal. Or as his brother calls it, "Snouts and hooves."

Scrapple, had to look up how that was made. It said fried.

Here when they butchered a pig the ears, tails, cartilage bits where made into pork souse. It is seasoned with vinegar and cayenne and served cold.

They also made Hog Hasset. It was the inards cooked with gravy.

They wasted nothing.

 

[notabitail]

Cant be safe to go online with it when it runs on the same operating system.

And yes, Im so old I remember the Windows sequence 2.0, 3.0, 95, 98 , NT, XP, Vista (probably forgot a few and bought since)

You did forget a few. Including 3.1.

The ones I know I remember are 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11 in the consumer lines.

There were also NT, NT 4.0, and 2000 before XP unified them all.

Currently running Linux on this computer. I have taken Windows XP online before, but it's slow enough to be unusable.

 

[Some Old Guy]

Cant be safe to go online with it when it runs on the same operating system.

And yes, Im so old I remember the Windows sequence 2.0, 3.0, 95, 98 , NT, XP, Vista (probably forgot a few and bought since)

Computers, ehh? 6th grade graduation field trip, we went to Carnegie Melon museum in Pittsburgh. The highlight was being allowed inside the observation room, where we could watch people working on a real computer. The computer occupied a space at least 30 feet in depth, and 60 feet in length. A glass wall separated observers from the computer room. We watched people preparing punch cards, other people placing those cards into readers, other people performing one function or another. That computer was state of the art, and there was only one other computer like it in the state of Pennsylvania. We all got used punch cards to take home with us. Sorry, I don't remember any more details, have no idea what operating system it used, or how much electricity it used. I only remember that it was a HUMONGOUS thing, and that about 20 people were needed to keep it in operation.

That was 1968.

Later, in the Navy, I started learning a little more about computers. A buddy had one of those newfangled TRS-80 Radio Shack computers, which operated from a cassette tape - there were no floppy disks at the time. There were no disk operating systems (DOS) at the time, lol!

You mention the Windows operating systems - I had a Windows 1.something. Can't remember for sure if it was 1.0 or maybe 1.1 or something, but it was primitive. And, of course, those earliest Windows versions ran on DrDos. It wasn't until Win 3.1 that Microsoft introduced code to prevent Windows from running on non-Microsoft operating systems.

 

[notabitail]

Computers, ehh? 6th grade graduation field trip, we went to Carnegie Melon museum in Pittsburgh. The highlight was being allowed inside the observation room, where we could watch people working on a real computer. The computer occupied a space at least 30 feet in depth, and 60 feet in length. A glass wall separated observers from the computer room. We watched people preparing punch cards, other people placing those cards into readers, other people performing one function or another. That computer was state of the art, and there was only one other computer like it in the state of Pennsylvania. We all got used punch cards to take home with us. Sorry, I don't remember any more details, have no idea what operating system it used, or how much electricity it used. I only remember that it was a HUMONGOUS thing, and that about 20 people were needed to keep it in operation.

That was 1968.

Later, in the Navy, I started learning a little more about computers. A buddy had one of those newfangled TRS-80 Radio Shack computers, which operated from a cassette tape - there were no floppy disks at the time. There were no disk operating systems (DOS) at the time, lol!

You mention the Windows operating systems - I had a Windows 1.something. Can't remember for sure if it was 1.0 or maybe 1.1 or something, but it was primitive. And, of course, those earliest Windows versions ran on DrDos. It wasn't until Win 3.1 that Microsoft introduced code to prevent Windows from running on non-Microsoft operating systems.

There's a TRS-80 somewhere around here. I think they did have the option to get a disk drive later on as I remember there being TRS-80 floppies around here somewhere.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Did you work there when they did Monopoly?
Free food was the best.

Nah, I only lasted a few months. I wasn't one of the 'popular' kids, so I got the boot even though I was a good worker.

That messed with my mind for quite a few years.

 

[Some Old Guy]

There's a TRS-80 somewhere around here. I think they did have the option to get a disk drive later on as I remember there being TRS-80 floppies around here somewhere.

Yes, some of the latest models were nice, slick units that resembled some of the later Mac machines. (One could suspect that the Apple boys used the late model TRS-80 as inspiration for their early machines.) A big molded plastic case that contained the monitor, the mainboard, keyboard, one or two 3 1/2" floppy drives, everything self contained in one unit.

 

[notabitail]

Yes, some of the latest models were nice, slick units that resembled some of the later Mac machines. (One could suspect that the Apple boys used the late model TRS-80 as inspiration for their early machines.) A big molded plastic case that contained the monitor, the mainboard, keyboard, one or two 3 1/2" floppy drives, everything self contained in one unit.

I have a Macintosh SE around here.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm so old I remember when no one talked about computers

 

[notabitail]

I'm so old I remember when no one talked about computers

I'm so old I remember when people talked about computer.

 

[Some Old Guy]

Now, speaking of age, I remember when children were fed breakfast, then chased out the door, and told not to bother Mother until lunch time. And, after lunch, chased outside again, with strict orders to come in before dark. That was before the era of 'latchkey kids', when mothers all had jobs, and couldn't be home to watch over the kids. And, I was more than happy to spend all my time outdoors, unless it was raining.

That all changed when I reached the age of 5, and went to first grade. Oh yeah, that too. No daycare, no preschool, no kindergarden, no headstart. We prepared at home, showed up for registration, recited the alphabet, counted to ten, spelled our names, recited addresses and phone numbers to prove we were ready for first grade. I feel sorry for children who spend 16 or 17 years in school today. 12 years was plenty, thank you!!