daguin said:
[quote author=amkdeath link=1196136920/120#124 date=1210214776]psh...
I remember... um.... centrino processors!!!
I had an 8088 at work (an 8 bit BUS screaming at a blindingly fast 5MHz, Baby! and why in the heck would anybody even need more than 640KB of RAM anyway?)
and a Commodore 64 at home (Just plug in the "file cabinet" cartridge and away we go!)
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Double psh!
I started with an abacus!
Then a wee computer called a Sinclair XL with a whopping 1Kb of RAM (and a wonderful version of BASIC if I remember correctly), then a Commodore PET with a buggy cassette data storage drives, then an Atari 520 ST, then an Atari MEGA ST with a HUGE 10Mb Hard Drive the size of a pizza box, then (finally) an Apple Mac IIfx, then Quadra 950, then Mac G3, G4, G5, Powerbook, iMac, Mac Pro. (Phew!) And that was just at home...
At school we programmed an IBM360 the size of a large room in Fortran, by marking punchcards, with lead pencils no less... Then the beginnings of C, although I always preferred to write in BASIC. I can remember my first 300baud modem and the thrill of being part of CompuServe back when the precursor of html, Hypertext, was yet to realize it's full potential. I can remember doing graphics on the PET where the pixels were the size of my pinkie fingernail, programming biorhythm charting software, before anyone had even thought to let anyone other than accountants and scientists use computers. It's been a constant learning process and it never stops, because if you don't keep up you're out of a job in 5 years... I don't envy you youngsters... thanks to Moore's law you'll see 10 times the change in your lifetimes as I've seen in mine. Keeping your skills up to date will be a lifetime burden if you want to stay employed and relevant. You will live in interesting times...
Good Luck to y'all!
