lilbit

Nothing like getting yer hands on a new (albeit used) computer. Wonderful what one can do these days on a new system. I started out on the old DOS back in Piedmont, CA. HAD to program Space Invaders BEFORE you could play it...YES...I'm THAT old. Now the programs have become so easy....and the screens sooo large and clear. What a wonderful time to be alive and SOBER. To think a few years back...I was hooked up to an intibator (breathing machine) and tied to a hospital bed. Selfish indeed....especially to myself.
Now I am sitting at the most wonderful computer I have EVER bought. I worked hard...got CLEAN and SOBER...and am in the process of raising some wonderful kids. Husband and dog taboot!
Funny how life changes...just when you thought it was all over.
Thank GOD! I am alive and SOBER.
It's really THE best gift I could ever give myself...THAT and the MAC!
Keep HOPE alive...all day...just for today...one day at a time.
PEACE BE WITH YA'LL!
The Bitz...is back in bizness.....

adore79

Yeah, the year i graduated high school there was only one computer in the school that was hooked up to the net, those cheep skates! Now the net is everywhere.

Daddio

When I was in college studying Electrical Engineering, Personal Computers had not yet been invented!!!!! We dinked around with a Kim-1 Microprocessor. The DEC-PDP-8 had toggle switches (8 of them for an eight bit word) to toggle data into the processor.

So yes, I am very proficient with a Slide Rule. Geeks Rule!!!!!

Wecome back Bitz. Nice post......

Zencat

Here's my pops standing in front of my first computer. It was coal powered back in the day.

lilbit

I had a friend that had a Lisa...no shite!
The old ASIC is still near and dear to my heart...never forget when my dad had his first computer on the block...hell...the whole neighborhood. The monitor was like three feet long and the black screen with the green code still exist deep in my hard drive memory.

lilbit

ASC11...geesh...still a bad speller after all this time...

Daddio

ROFLMAO.. Hey Zencat - that was wayyyyy toooo funny. Thanks, I needed that.

Aysha

My first computer was a texas instrument keyboard type thing you hooked up to the tv. All I did was play mouse hunt on it. sorta like pac man. Not sure what else you could do with it.
First time I got internet was in 1999. I quit doing hard drugs and stopped running the streets for 9 mos because I got addicted to the net. How funny is that?

Klynn33

Zencat

I agree with Daddio - still laughing...
God it's nice to laugh again...

(thanks)

lilbit

Does anyone remember the old Spelling Bee machine? It was red....looked like a huge calculater and had yellow buttons...the voice was total cyber! I think it had a lil book that came with it...and you went to spel the stuff it asked...I'd love to see one of those things again....I begged my parents for that thing and they had to save up to get it. Had it for years....NOT THAT IT HELPED MY SPELLING ANY!

lilbit

Speak and Spell...THAT'S what that thing was called!

Rowan

I remember Speak and Spell! Do you remember Merlin? The red freaking portable computer? It looked like a phone handset or something. My sister had one and never let me use it!

lilbit

Rowan....I had a friend that wouldn't let me touch Merlin!!!!

Rowan

Lilbit .. maybe it was my sister!!! LOL

lilbit

That was my first laff out loud of the day! Thank you!

HeavyJ

What a great story! Good for you.. (I remember in my grade school, we had a book that said "One day man will reach the moon".....

Heavy

lilbit

HeavyJ....do you really think we ever went to the moon? I don't.

HeavyJ

Yeah, I think we did, I'm a bit of a science nut...however, I totally respect your beliefs too. Maybe we really didn't go, but I like to dream....

Heavy

SoBearish

My 1st PC had 1k of memory lol

I just got a new Macbook and it is amazing!!!

lilbit

I went fot the desktop imac...had the laptop...but NEVER made it out of the bassment. Waitedten years for this thing...and worth it!
Love my Macz...we just fit nicely.