What happens when you take a few kids from the early 21st century and show them technology that’s no more than 30 years old?
Well, this:
Generation Y Tries To Understand Technology From The 1980s
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The first desktop computer I used was the Tektronix 4051 I was an engineer at Tek at the time.
My first home computer was a Commodore VIC 20 followed by the Commodore 64 shown in the video. My next computer was a major investment – the original Macintosh.A few years latter I got my first PC loaded with Windows 3.1. -
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@JKB: That’s pretty amusing. Plus, I was driving a similar car up until a couple months ago. No power *anything*.
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in 1970, I failed Calculus I at my university because I was not able to figure out how to write the equation formulae in Basic II, IIRC. I might have never entered the information age except that when I returned to graduate school, one of my teachers lowered the grade on my term paper because “it was marred by typographical errors and overstrikes.” I started writing my essays on the library computers using Symphony.
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My first not counting the game console precursor in the 70s (the Odyssey machine I “earned” for learning how to swim was a Z80 (mountain view IIRC) in an IMSAI chassis. These were kits. The IMSAI box was wild to build since it used 100 pin S100 edge connectors, around 15 of them, each requiring careful soldering to the backplane, or 15000 solder joints that had to be perfect. The box needed all of those connectors since we were still buying 4K and 8K ram cards – also kits – that were super flakey dynamic ram.
Other radio amateurs of a certain age and place may have similar stories.
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@Doug Mataconis: That saying is outdated. They would have to get off the couch to be on your lawn. Maybe, “stop hacking my wifi signal” would be more appropriate.
