Three miles from my house. I’ve never been there though.
If you don't have anything nice to say
Love it! I remember my dad signed us kids up for a BASIC class at the local Radio Shack after he bought our first computer. This had to be around 1980. In my memory it was a Tandy (because it came from Radio Shack, I guess), but I don’t know that for sure. The only detail I remember is that we used cassette tapes for storage. LOL!
Eventually moved on to the Commodore 64 and Apple IIe. I spent a LOT of time on that Commodore 64 playing Ultima III when I was 12 years old.
Man, I hear you on the cost. I can do better than that. I got mine for free, for signing up on the family plan with MetroPCS.
They generously gave me, my wife and daughter a ZTE Blade Z Max! Which, according to my current government, is a Chinese spy phone, I guess.
My son decided to spend $50 more and upgrade to the LG Stylo 3, because he had actually heard of LG and not this ZTE nobody. That, or he just likes K-Pop.
Would you, after your thread devolved into computer reminiscing?
I hope @Queenv likes computers.
C64 was the first computer I owned. The PET we had at school, and it was the first computer I wrote code for.
I think you’ve nailed it.
The first computer code I wrote was for a PDP-11. #MAINFRAMESFTW!
That soulds cool. You actually got to write code to simulate a landing?
Mine were process control computers operating at ‘level two’ to the ‘level one’ PLC (programmable logic controllers) on the machines.
Really really really REALLY basic stuff (so to speak
I would love to have gone on with it as a career, but undiagnosed ADHD (not that it was really known about back then anyway) made it pretty much impossible. (It did get diagnosed last month, at 54, so I guess better late than never
I created a thread under the humor (this is spelt wrong by the way) category. Without minimizing the intent of this thread,it’s meant to be a place for the misunderstood to spread their wings. Baytovin, Terrance, TJ, Mic, you know who you are. You fat bastards
It’s “If you don’t have anything ig-nert to say…l
Totally agree, Mic. **** them.
With the Samsung Note 9 just coming out, I figured the older models would take another step down in price. Hope so - I am watching the market. For now I still use a flip phone (my employer gives it to me for free).
They’re pretty awful in terms of pricing down here as well. I’m def on the “cheap but good” bandwagon.
Interesting. My kids tell me I have ADHD, and the nurses I worked with when I was the Maintenance Director at a rehab facility, my last full time gig before semi-retirement, said I was on the spectrum as well. It’s always worked well for me. I hyper-focus and excel at whatever is my passion at the time. I did well as a pilot, trades related tech stuff, scuba diver and firefighter. I believe, if you can harness it, it can be a good thing.