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[Riley Casey]

The geezer thread?  Glad to see you're still out there being obstreperous Dave.

[John Halliburton]

Dave,

Thanks for this, it's been a pretty fine ride.

Best regards,

John

[Stefan Maerz]

Didn't realize you guys had been around so long. I've learned *so many* things from the people here.

[Doug Fowler]

Didn't realize you guys had been around so long. I've learned *so many* things from the people here.

The "core group" of LABsters found each other on CompuServe, on the LSMAG forum which was started by Anthony McLean when he was Live Sound! editor.  This would be around 1994.  But it was a pay service, Dave put the script up in Seattle, and pretty soon everyone had migrated.

The first post was by Monty Lee Wilkes: "Check one two is this thing on?".

[Jonathan Johnson]

Hmmm... 20 years ago I was 4yrs old and had probably never used a computer. :-)

I got my first email address -- and first accessed the Internet -- the year you were born. (1990, unless that's inaccurate due to rounding errors.)

[Tommy Peel]

I got my first email address -- and first accessed the Internet -- the year you were born. (1990, unless that's inaccurate due to rounding errors.)

I was born in '89, so you're pretty close. :-) I didn't get online until the late 90's and we were still on dial up at home until '09 or '10. My smartphone has twice as much storage as our first internet connected computer, has a much faster processor, and has more than twice the memory.


Sent from my cousin's iPhone using Tapatalk while I fix my N4

[John Roberts {JR}]

My first computer back in the '70s was a kit (Heathkit version of DEC LSI 11/2) I had to built most of it and it still cost about $6500. I fully loaded it with 28k x16b memory. I had to write all the software myself to make it do anything. My first modem had rubber cups where you sit the phone on it to communicate back and forth. before the phone company relaxed interface standards.

I ran a small mail order business with that computer and even wrote one crude filter design program. Kids today have it a little easier.

JR

[Ray Aberle]

My first computer back in the '70s was a kit (Heathkit version of DEC LSI 11/2) I had to built most of it and it still cost about $6500. I fully loaded it with 28k x16b memory. I had to write all the software myself to make it do anything. My first modem had rubber cups where you sit the phone on it to communicate back and forth. before the phone company relaxed interface standards.

I ran a small mail order business with that computer and even wrote one crude filter design program. Kids today have it a little easier.

JR

(I was born in '79)

Our first computer at home was when my dad quit from HP- he bought an HP 9816 for 50% off-- and it was still something like $3750. 2 3.5" FDD, everything ran off of those, none of these sissy "windows" or "mice." Dot-matrix printer. I remember writing a report on the ostrich in the third grade ('88) and having him help me put the coding into the Pascal text program to bold the title for me. My brother actually learned to program in Pascal as well. We had a Star Trek game on there-- again, all textish based (old ASCII styled "images"). Rotary wheel on the keyboard you could use to "aim" the phaser/photon torpedoes to try and hit the Klingons.

There was an HP-designed spreadsheetish kindof program, and I remember my dad preparing tax returns with it.

First Mac Powerbook 520 in October '94, sophomore in high school. Only kid at school who brought a laptop to school! My dad was working for a bellevue, WA-based ISP at the time, so I had email early on. And a website, which I used for a run for Senior Class Treasurer. I kept changing home pages on school computer lab computers to go to my campaign page. Yay for all-HTML with the blink tag. Haha.

-Ray

[Stephen Swaffer]

 Kids today have it a little easier.

But not necessarily better.  I bet you understood the workings better than a fair number of engineering grads do today. 

[Doug Fowler]

My first computer back in the '70s was a kit (Heathkit version of DEC LSI 11/2) I had to built most of it and it still cost about $6500. I fully loaded it with 28k x16b memory. I had to write all the software myself to make it do anything. My first modem had rubber cups where you sit the phone on it to communicate back and forth. before the phone company relaxed interface standards.

I ran a small mail order business with that computer and even wrote one crude filter design program. Kids today have it a little easier.

JR

I was writing assembly language programs for VIC-20 in about 1983, in school.  We were able to eventually use it to dialup the school mainframe to do homewok at home, with one of those rubber acoustic coupler things.  300 baud, whoopee!!!

We used a lot of rubber bands in those days.....

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