BusyBee Blogs

[HAL Pilot]

BusyBee is one of our "been there, done that" Viet Nam veterans who was flying combat missions when dodging SAMs and AA was just another day at the office. He has recently post a couple of blogs entries that are "good reading" and I highly recommend them.

http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/blog.php/21573-BusyBee604

(He's was definitely rocking the cruise stash too...)

 

[Jim123]

BusyBee- thank you for taking the time and effort to share these stories.

Hal- thank you for drawing everyone's attention to them as I otherwise wouldn't have known to look there.

What a great read while I enjoy my freedom and personal liberty- freedom to enjoy something as simple as a cup of coffee on a lazy Saturday morning.

 

[Catmando]

BusyBee is one of our "been there, done that" Viet Nam veterans who was flying combat missions when dodging SAMs and AA was just another day at the office. He has recently post a couple of blogs entries that are "good reading" and I highly recommend them.

http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/blog.php/21573-BusyBee604

(He's was definitely rocking the cruise stash too...)

Thanks for the link. Until now, I had overlooked his blog.

 

[twobecrazy]

Great reading thanks for sharing the link! Also glad to see BzB got his new keyboard...

 

[brownshoe]

Great reading thanks for sharing the link! Also glad to see BzB got his new keyboard...

Not just a new keyboard: Toshiba - 5gb ram 50 gigs of storage, and external HD greater than 500gig -. bigger keyboard and bigger monitor. BzB is kickin' now!

(Just to think…25 years ago I thought I was hot stuff when I had an AT with two 20meg HDs and a math copro chip. Ahem… not to mention an EGA card and EGA monitor, Viewsonic, mind you. Needed that so I could play all those Sierra games! Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest and of course Leisure Suit Larry.)

 

[Flugelman]

Not just a new keyboard: Toshiba - 5gb ram 50 gigs of storage, and external HD greater than 500gig -. bigger keyboard and bigger monitor. BzB is kickin' now!

(Just to think…25 years ago I thought I was hot stuff when I had an AT with two 20meg HDs and a math copro chip. Ahem… not to mention an EGA card and EGA monitor, Viewsonic, mind you. Needed that so I could play all those Sierra games! Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest and of course Leisure Suit Larry.)

Heh... Neophyte...:icon_tong

I was the first guy on my block with a 1200 Baud modem and a Televideo MPM (Multi user CPM) machine with a 10MB internal HD.



Only because that is what we sold and I could get them at cost.

 

[CAMike]

Not just a new keyboard: Toshiba - 5gb ram 50 gigs of storage, and external HD greater than 500gig -. bigger keyboard and bigger monitor. BzB is kickin' now!

(Just to think…25 years ago I thought I was hot stuff when I had an AT with two 20meg HDs and a math copro chip. Ahem… not to mention an EGA card and EGA monitor, Viewsonic, mind you. Needed that so I could play all those Sierra games! Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest and of course Leisure Suit Larry.)

"Leisure Suit Larry" was a hilarious game back in the dawn of PC games. My customer "Sierra Online", now known as Universal Activision designed and manufactured that game in Oakhurst CA when 100 meg hard drives and 386 processors were all the rage. Great tech back then. Now? Not so much if anyone even remembers late 80's tech.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

I won't even bring up my old Commodore 64. :icon_wink

 

[MasterBates]

Classic games, them all.

 

[coolhandlukesd]

BusyBee, thank you for taking the time to retell your historic role you played in the Vietnam Air War.

 

[Catmando]

I won't even bring up my old Commodore 64. :icon_wink

Nor my Apple IIC with its whopping 124K memory and hooked up to a 300 Baud modem.
Sloooooooooooooooooooooow.

Nor the massive and expensive IBM mainframe that filled a large room in college. Its only input was punch cards, and it had the processing power of a maybe digital watch, but at probably 1/10th the speed.

A typical IBM 7094 sold for $3,134,500 in the 1960s.​

Programming with FORTRAN into punch cards was so tedious, I sometimes wondered what good computers would ever be.

 

[brownshoe]

BTW. Where is BzB? He has a new 'puter! No more "*'s" which seemed to upset some folks.:icon_wink

Steve

 

[Flugelman]

BTW. Where is BzB? He has a new 'puter! No more "*'s" which seemed to upset some folks.:icon_wink

Steve

Well, hopefully he's "Busy" putting together some more blog entries.

 

[brownshoe]

Well, hopefully he's "Busy" putting together some more blog entries.

I say we start PM'ing the shit out of him! Maybe that'll get the "old fart's" attention.:icon_wink Hey, ask him some questions about when he flew with Eddie Rickenbacker.

Steve

 

[Flugelman]

I say we start PM'ing the shit out of him! Maybe that'll get the "old fart's" attention.:icon_wink Hey, ask him some questions about when he flew with Eddie Rickenbacker.

Steve

Heh... I thought he was Rickenbacker's "On Wing".:icon_tong