[QUOTE=Best4bond;30986504]Anyone at home still use IBM?[/QUOTE]
I have an old IBM laptop from ~2000 (might be earlier), 4 gb HD and 128 mb ram I think. It takes around 10 minutes to start, since there's a problem with the motherboard. It goes into this BIOS thingy where you can search for errors and you HAVE to search the RAM slots then restart the computer for it to boot.
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that's cool as shit!
thats amazing![img]http://sn.im/27yeb9[/img]
Aren't you that guy who always brags about what your parents do and what they give you?
[QUOTE=Mr.T;30985976] The only way to program these was to use low level machine code or binary code.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ci1iU.png[/IMG]
Just a question, how old is your mother?
Thats pretty cool, hopefully it runs in the family.
ur dad is older than my great grandpa
[QUOTE=Trogdon;30989815]ur dad is older than my great grandpa[/QUOTE]
Alot of people say that to me.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;30990220]Alot of people say that to me.[/QUOTE]Your dad is about the same age as my grandfather. I'm assuming your much older than a lot of us though.
Still, that's pretty neat. I was about to say, that diagram doesn't really look that impressive by today's standards, but like you said, that took a lot of work to do something that simple on a computer back then.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;30986504]Anyone at home still use IBM?[/QUOTE]
The laptop mouse is an IBM mouse.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;30986504]Anyone at home still use IBM?[/QUOTE]
I'm typing this on my IBM model M keyboard
okay OP thats a cool story
do something important yourself and post back and I will care more
[QUOTE=Demache;30990823]Your dad is about the same age as my grandfather. I'm assuming your much older than a lot of us though.
Still, that's pretty neat. I was about to say, that diagram doesn't really look that impressive by today's standards, but like you said, that took a lot of work to do something that simple on a computer back then.[/QUOTE]
I'm fourteen.
My Grandfather coded banking systems for Halifax and UK Cash Machines.
Your father is the same age as my granfather, and I'm a good few years older than you. Pretty crazy.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;30992303]I'm fourteen.[/QUOTE]My grandpa is 60, my da's 40. Having a kid at age 61 is directly amoral. You're not going to have anyone with life experience to guide you later in life at all. I'm sorry to drop this on you. If you dad loved you, he'd turn 50 next year instead.
BTW my dad invented Bionicle.
In all seriousness though, Pretty awesome story. I like being taught about these things, so thanks for posting this. I hope all this "old dad" stuff doesn't bother you...
[QUOTE=Bomimo;31015408]My grandpa is 60, my da's 40. Having a kid at age 61 is directly amoral. You're not going to have anyone with life experience to guide you later in life at all. I'm sorry to drop this on you. If you dad loved you, he'd turn 50 next year instead.
BTW my dad invented Bionicle.
In all seriousness though, Pretty awesome story. I like being taught about these things, so thanks for posting this. I hope all this "old dad" stuff doesn't bother you...[/QUOTE]
Wow moral booster...
[QUOTE=Mr.T;31016175]Wow moral booster...[/QUOTE]Now i'm actually sorry. :smith:
My grand-uncle (who just recently died of lung cancer, he was the one that got me interested in computer programming and physics :saddowns:) used to program using punchcards in the 70s. :v: I'll tell you guys more if you want.
[QUOTE=Trogdon;30989815]ur dad is older than my great grandpa[/QUOTE]
OP is maybe 40 or older.
[QUOTE=B-hazard;30988529]Aren't you that guy who always brags about what your parents do and what they give you?[/QUOTE]
he's the guy who wanted to build a thorium reactor and start a political party
He worked on [del]Sperry[/del]Univac hardware?
What a total badass. I have heard how legendary those systems were compared to other computers at the time. Awesome design too.
I think the oldest thing my father ever programmed for was a PDP-8 while he was still in university. Nothing special but to this day he insists on never seeing a punch card again.
Edit: Ooh, totally related to this thread for total nostalgia reasons.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs[/media]
I am 14 and I have said that enough times already.
That must be every programmers dream.
Cool !
[QUOTE=wewt!;31017364]he's the guy who wanted to build a thorium reactor and start a political party[/QUOTE]
and he got a high-spec server from the UN because his mom works there
[QUOTE=MIPS;31020327]He worked on [del]Sperry[/del]Univac hardware?
What a total badass. I have heard how legendary those systems were compared to other computers at the time. Awesome design too.
I think the oldest thing my father ever programmed for was a PDP-8 while he was still in university. Nothing special but to this day he insists on never seeing a punch card again.
Edit: Ooh, totally related to this thread for total nostalgia reasons.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs[/media][/QUOTE]
Jump to 8:45 on that video and you can see exactly what my father did.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;31028203]and he got a high-spec server from the UN because his mom works there[/QUOTE]
Mr.T
instead of all of those silly website ideas
how about
wait for it
how about you host Facepunch
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