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03-05-07, 10:18 AM	#451 (permalink)
Zaniax Aximsite Legend Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 15,594 Location: Goa, India iTrader Rating: (1) Awards Showcase Total Awards: 7 Thanks: 9 Thanked 24 Times in 24 Posts View MyPDA	... FORTRAN was the programming language .

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Originally Posted by Zaniax

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... FORTRAN was the programming language

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Just slightly before my time. I do remember reading the book "My Computer Likes Me Because I Speak In BASIC"

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03-05-07, 10:44 PM	#453 (permalink)
diducmeb4 Aximsite Elite Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,572 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia PDA: X51V Phone: Walkie-Talkie Carrier: Pigeon Tablet: Stone Laptop: Legal Pad PMP: Phonograph iTrader Rating: (1) Thanks: 3 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	Remember when laptops weighed 25 pounds and had a 20 mb hard drive? Last edited by diducmeb4 : 03-06-07 at 06:39 AM.

03-06-07, 03:49 AM	#454 (permalink)
theAxMan Aximsite Veteran Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,089 Location: Los Angeles, California PDA: ^^^AND COUNTING Phone: .................... Carrier: TO BE Tablet: CONTINUED........... Laptop: when i feel like it iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	do u remember a radio shack trash 80 otherwise known as trs 80 __________________

03-06-07, 05:39 AM	#455 (permalink)
ZAX51VBMB Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 64 Location: Pretoria, South Africa PDA: X51V Phone: Samsung SGH-D900 iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	Remember when sex was dirt and the air was clean... __________________ ------------------------------------------------------------ There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. ZAX51VBMB - Proudly South African

03-06-07, 10:50 PM	#456 (permalink)
theAxMan Aximsite Veteran Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,089 Location: Los Angeles, California PDA: ^^^AND COUNTING Phone: .................... Carrier: TO BE Tablet: CONTINUED........... Laptop: when i feel like it iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	remember when the internet didnt really exist? __________________

03-07-07, 09:26 AM	#457 (permalink)
Zaniax Aximsite Legend Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 15,594 Location: Goa, India iTrader Rating: (1) Awards Showcase Total Awards: 7 Thanks: 9 Thanked 24 Times in 24 Posts View MyPDA	Remember when we upgraded from 45 to 110 Baud - wow ! .

03-07-07, 03:11 PM	#458 (permalink)
mutton-javelin Aximsite Minor League Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 157 Location: Massachusetts PDA: x51V(as soon as I buy it) iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	Ax man I remember the TRS 80. Monochromatic screen and all.

03-07-07, 03:28 PM	#459 (permalink)
breley Aximsite Veteran Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,590 Location: SW Ohio PDA: i760, X7501, X800 Phone: Samsung SCH-i760 Carrier: Verizon Laptop: Toshiba A215 iTrader Rating: (1) Awards Showcase Total Awards: 9 Thanks: 37 Thanked 27 Times in 24 Posts View MyPDA	Never got to play with the TRS-80, just started seeing Commodore CBM 4032s in high school. __________________ breley \| Aximsite/Mobility Site Review Staff, *Administrator* *\| Judge, Smartphone & Pocket PC Best Software Awards 2008*

03-07-07, 07:16 PM	#460 (permalink)
Box Aximsite Hall of Fame Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,544 Location: Somewhere in Eastern Europe. PDA: X51v, HTC 7500 iTrader Rating: (0) Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5 Thanks: 32 Thanked 75 Times in 67 Posts View MyPDA	Remember when your neighbour had ordered a Black and White TV and it would be delivered in about a year and cost as much as his house, and it only picked up one channel. And the washing machine was going to be delivered the same afternoon, so you went to the kerosene fridge and got a beer.

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Remember when your neighbour had ordered a Black and White TV and it would be delivered in about a year and cost as much as his house, and it only picked up one channel. And the washing machine was going to be delivered the same afternoon, so you went to the kerosene fridge and got a beer.

what are you 200 years old?

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03-08-07, 12:56 AM	#462 (permalink)
aximbigfan Aximsite Hall of Fame Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 8,859 Location: St. Louis, MO PDA: Palm T2, VX Axim X30 Phone: Razr V3 Carrier: T-Mobile Tablet: Toshiba M400 Laptop: Inspiron 6000 PMP: Lexar 256mb iTrader Rating: (0) Awards Showcase Total Awards: 4 Thanks: 2 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts View MyPDA	remember when un punctured c02 cartriges leaked? chris __________________ Oolong lives on... 35.10848 major geek

03-08-07, 12:57 AM	#463 (permalink)
La Petite mort Aximsite Minor League Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 200 PDA: (see phone) Phone: PPC/6700 SmartPhone Carrier: Sprint iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	.....when people used spell checkers? __________________ . . Life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change. . .

03-08-07, 12:59 AM	#464 (permalink)
aximbigfan Aximsite Hall of Fame Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 8,859 Location: St. Louis, MO PDA: Palm T2, VX Axim X30 Phone: Razr V3 Carrier: T-Mobile Tablet: Toshiba M400 Laptop: Inspiron 6000 PMP: Lexar 256mb iTrader Rating: (0) Awards Showcase Total Awards: 4 Thanks: 2 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts