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"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 07/09/2020 at 23:53 • Filed to: None

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/10/2020 at 00:18

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 Whipper snapper you probably weren't even alive yet when the IBM XT was being used in people's kitchens.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/10/2020 at 00:31

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I was a win98/MacOS9 kid

PyramidHat > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/10/2020 at 00:33

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So, when I was a freshman in HS (1986) our computer lab had these (or similar) and they had a game called...Carbuilder?  Autobuilder?  Something like that?  You’d punch in a bunch of specs (weight, HP, dimensions, etc...) and it would run the numbers and give you a review of how the car handled and such.  It sucks in retrospect, but it was cool back then.  

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > PyramidHat 07/10/2020 at 00:35

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was it this? https://oppositelock.kinja.com/cartest-exe-fun-with-dos-422562209

kanadanmajava1 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/10/2020 at 05:11

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I have this IBM on my office desk as a decor ation. It has the fancy H ardcard option but unfortunately the display is dead (it’s also missing the contrast knob) . It’s the first desktop PC at our office and it was p urchased in the early 80's. I also have our first portable PC hidden under my desk.

barnie > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/10/2020 at 07:40

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Thank you, Rusty. My 1st semester of assembler (bal360) final was a stack of punch cards in a shoe box in ‘ 81. Prof had a stack of boxes sitting beside his desk to go thru. Kids do have it easy these days.

Goggles Pizzano > PyramidHat 07/10/2020 at 12:11

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We had a rinky- dinky aerodynamic simulator in shop class. You had the abi lity to move pixels in a simple side view. Teacher gave each of us copy to take home for a 3 day assignment. Great fun.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > barnie 07/10/2020 at 13:52

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I hope I haven’t affronted you; apologies if so . I turn 56 next week and I think that makes me one of the elder statesmen around here.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/10/2020 at 13:53

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This was fun. I think the guy would’ve done well to present it in one third the amount of time, but I enjoyed watching it.

barnie > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/10/2020 at 14:31

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Oh, no, Rusty, n ot at all. I’m only 5-years yer senior so we’re on the same pages. Kids do have it so easy these days. They carry more computer than we had downtown in their pocket. In my first job, not even a terminal in my office (PCs weren’t invented yet). Wrote code on forms that DE clerks typed in then waited a day or 2 for output  or a dump on 132-char z-fold paper. PCs were miraculous and now the stuff that a mere phone can do!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > barnie 07/10/2020 at 15:12

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Yeah. My first PC was Windows 3.1 and I had zero idea about anything. I missed DOS by a whisker.