Growing up without a computer!! (joke)

[GaryPanic]

Another one for you guys




Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity

A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account

A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

And if you had a 3 inch floppy .

. . you just hoped nobody ever found out!

 

[ColinEssex]

I thought we established that jokes should be in the watercooler under the jokes thread.
The Access forums are purely for Access issues.

Col

 

[GaryPanic]

Col - read you txt on this after I put this up so
yes leasson learnt GP

 

[KeithG]

Good One! I thought it was funny.

 

[KalelGmoon]

that was a pretty good one Gary, and yes I remember those days

 

[GaryPanic]

Blimey you showing your age then - nearly as old as me >>>

 

[The_Doc_Man]

You guys might remember the 3 1/2 inch floppy drives - but I recall the days of the 8-inch hard drive!

 

[Brianwarnock]

The first disk drive I remember was the demountable 2311 on our IBM 360, before that it was only punched cards for us.

Brian

 

[Rich]

The first disk drive I remember was the demountable 2311 on our IBM 360, before that it was only punched cards for us.

Brian

Unlike today using Windows and Access it's now the computer that gets punched

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Unlike today using Windows and Access it's now the computer that gets punched

Please, Rich. At least use the correct term. "Percussive engineering."

Just to confim something you probably suspected anyway, I keep a .45 caliber attitude adjusting tool handy at all times, just in case my computer needs reminding who is the boss. Works wonders at close range.

 

[Rich]

Please, Rich. At least use the correct term. "Percussive engineering."

You mean, "Progress"

 

[The_Doc_Man]

"Percussive engineering" sounds so much better than "Bang on it until it fits."

Although some years ago we had a computer tech who repaired a failing core memory plane with a 10-inch long, quarter-inch thick chisel-point screwdriver.

(OK, before you ask...) We sent that board back to the repair depot at least twice. Finally, the engineer said the only way to get the board fixed right was to take it out of circulation. Hence the screwdriver applied to a part of the memory board that didn't have any screws.

 

[RexesOperator]

Just to add to the age image (some of these references may be obscure) - Data General One Laptop, Superpet, and TRS-80 (known in Canada as Radio Shack's Trash-80). Images and information on these are lister in Museums!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

When I first met my wife, she had a trash-80, which name was also popular in the Deep South of the USA. I had an Osborne One, basically a Z-80 chip with 64K RAM (all you could fit), two floppy drives, VERY small CRT, and a couple of ports for printer and external RS-232 connections. The latter was not even an RS-232-C, because I belive the O1 pre-dated that standard.

Like your W.A. Ward quote, but he left out the fourth category. ...

"The guy who eats beans and onions makes his own wind." The Doc Man

 

[Bodisathva]

When my wife and I bought our new house, my Mom & Step-Dad thought it was time for all of my belongings which had taken up residence in their basement, to come home to roost. A couple of months ago I was going through boxes of junk that are still cluttering my basement and came across not only my very first Trash-80 (the appelation was popular in the North East as well) but it's replacement...<drum roll> the TRS-80 CLS which could now produce a whopping 8 colors

oh yeah...still have the cassette tape storage system, too

 

[Ron_dK]

I have this old baby still working :

I still can run midi files on it or use it as a metronome !