Russians at Red Flag

[HAL Pilot]

This was the CGI in 1986

As a computer scientist, this makes me laugh...

As a computer scientist with a degree dated just 4 years earlier in 1982, that makes me say "how the fuck did they do that?"

Shit was changing so fast that when I hit shore duty in 1989 and went back to my same college/same advisor and said "I want to do a Masters", he laughed. "Minimum of 2 years undergrad courses to catch up before you start on the Masters..." So I did ERAU aviation management.

 

[Jim123]

As a computer scientist with a degree dated just 4 years earlier in 1982, that makes me say "how the fuck did they do that?"

I dunno HAL... probably something like this

10 PRINT"\|/\|/|\\/"
20 GOTO 10

 

[KBayDog]

Shit was changing so fast that when I hit shore duty in 1989 and went back to my same college/same advisor and said "I want to do a Masters", he laughed. "Minimum of 2 years undergrad courses to catch up before you start on the Masters..." So I did ERAU aviation management.

You would have had to get caught up on the technological marvel that was Windows 2.1...

...unless, of course, you were a fanboy who would have gladly doled out nearly $8K for this bad boy:

 

[Scoob]

I dunno HAL... probably something like this

10 PRINT"\|/\|/|\\/"
20 GOTO 10

Hello, Dave, you're looking well today.

 

[Brett327]

These were my first two computers:

 

[jmcquate]

Mine was a Trash-80. I loaded programs with a cassette tape player

 

[phrogpilot73]

This was my first...

 

[KBayDog]

Mine:

 

[zipmartin]

I learned FORTRAN on something like this:

 

[Brett327]

Mine was a Trash-80. I loaded programs with a cassette tape player

My Atari had a cassette tape drive before I shelled out $450 for a 5.25" floppy drive.

 

[HuggyU2]

I learned FORTRAN on something like this:

Yep! Sophomore year, I did assembly language on punch cards. Remember those card boxes that held 2000 cards?!

 

[scoober78]

This was me...

When you turned it on, it booted instantly, but this was all you got.

***COMMODORE BASIC****
31743 BYTES FREE
READY
<CURSOR>

 

[MasterBates]

Mom had this for the office.

I had this, and was semi good at programming.. Then Atari went tits up.

 

[scoolbubba]

I didn't have a computer til the dell dude sold one to my rents when I was a freshman in high school. I learned how to type on a word processor...

 

[MasterBates]

My family was the "Early adopter, late upgrader" type..

Brand new Apple IIc in 1984-5.. And that's what I used in HS. And went to college and typed papers on the SUN 6/490 mainframe, along with doing most of my programming and engineering homework on that, and using the SPARCstations for CAD/CFD/FEA stuff.

When Pollak (GM supplier I worked for) bought my a Silicon Graphics Octane workstation to do CAD and FEA on, I was mindfucked by the power of it. Although my cheapie laptop may be better now. At the time, coming from either ancient stuff at home, or a mainframe that was either scary fast or slow depending on how many were SLIRP'd in for internet access.. It was eye watering.

My mom was still running the family business on the IIc in 2001, when I gave them my college desktop I built on my way to OCS. I think it was a 586-200 maybe? I don't even know what the numerical designators for processors are anymore.