The Welcome Mat

fluffy wrote:
So am I the same time as the board? I am so confused.
MY watch and the board say the same time.

each person can set the clock to what they want it to be, like i said its in the profile

Psychotic_Carp wrote:

fluffy wrote:
So am I the same time as the board? I am so confused.
MY watch and the board say the same time.

each person can set the clock to what they want it to be, like i said its in the profile

I get it now.
For some strange reason I thought the clock on the board stayed true to your time...don't ask me why.
I have some innate misunderstanding of computers.

fluffy wrote: I get it now.
For some strange reason I thought the clock on the board stayed true to your time...don't ask me why.
I have some innate misunderstanding of computers.

thats because you use...... NM

Psychotic_Carp wrote:

fluffy wrote: I get it now.
For some strange reason I thought the clock on the board stayed true to your time...don't ask me why.
I have some innate misunderstanding of computers.

thats because you use...... NM

What's NM? I know it's something nasty about Macintosh.
Smart Ass!

fluffy wrote: What's NM? I know it's something nasty about Macintosh.
Smart Ass!

fluffy wrote:

Psychotic_Carp wrote:

fluffy wrote: I get it now.
For some strange reason I thought the clock on the board stayed true to your time...don't ask me why.
I have some innate misunderstanding of computers.

thats because you use...... NM

What's NM? I know it's something nasty about Macintosh.
Smart Ass!

When he doesn't have anything else to fall back on, he can always just trash the mac. It's his security blanket, sorta like Linus

kurt culler wrote:
When he doesn't have anything else to fall back on, he can always just trash the mac. It's his security blanket, sorta like Linus

See what he doesn't get is that I was an ANTI- computer person and it was
only because Macintosh are so user friendly that I broke down and learned how to use one. Were it not for Macintosh, I wouldn't be here.
( here being on this screen)

fluffy wrote:

kurt culler wrote:
When he doesn't have anything else to fall back on, he can always just trash the mac. It's his security blanket, sorta like Linus

See what he doesn't get is that I was an ANTI- computer person and it was
only because Macintosh are so user friendly that I broke down and learned how to use one. Were it not for Macintosh, I wouldn't be here.
( here being on this screen)

I started on a TRaSh 80 Color Computer with a tape drive back around 1980 or so and then moved on to Commodore Vic 20s in junior high and then TRaSh 80 Model IIIs, Intels and an IBM PC in high school. The first computer I ever owned was an Apple II+, then I had an Apple IIe and finally a series of Macs

kurt culler wrote:

fluffy wrote:

kurt culler wrote:
When he doesn't have anything else to fall back on, he can always just trash the mac. It's his security blanket, sorta like Linus

See what he doesn't get is that I was an ANTI- computer person and it was
only because Macintosh are so user friendly that I broke down and learned how to use one. Were it not for Macintosh, I wouldn't be here.
( here being on this screen)

I started on a TRaSh 80 Color Computer with a tape drive back around 1980 or so and then moved on to Commodore Vic 20s in junior high and then TRaSh 80 Model IIIs, Intels and an IBM PC in high school. The first computer I ever owned was an Apple II+, then I had an Apple IIe and finally a series of Macs

why why WHY!!!!

kurt culler wrote: I started on a TRaSh 80 Color Computer with a tape drive back around 1980 or so and then moved on to Commodore Vic 20s in junior high and then TRaSh 80 Model IIIs, Intels and an IBM PC in high school. The first computer I ever owned was an Apple II+, then I had an Apple IIe and finally a series of Macs

What did those TRaSh 80 computers actually do? Weren't they like glorified word processors?

fluffy wrote:

kurt culler wrote: I started on a TRaSh 80 Color Computer with a tape drive back around 1980 or so and then moved on to Commodore Vic 20s in junior high and then TRaSh 80 Model IIIs, Intels and an IBM PC in high school. The first computer I ever owned was an Apple II+, then I had an Apple IIe and finally a series of Macs

What did those TRaSh 80 computers actually do? Weren't they like glorified word processors?

The TRaSh 80 Color Computer we had in 5th/6th grade didn't do much, but the Model IIIs I used in high school were cool. You could program in Basic and they had compilers for COBOL and Fortran. I don't think I ever used it as a word processor. I did quite a bit of my programming during high school on punch cards, though. It was a lot different than these days.

kurt culler wrote: The TRaSh 80 Color Computer we had in 5th/6th grade didn't do much, but the Model IIIs I used in high school were cool. You could program in Basic and they had compilers for COBOL and Fortran. I don't think I ever used it as a word processor. I did quite a bit of my programming during high school on punch cards, though. It was a lot different than these days.

It sounds like you're describing prehistoric times.
What were Cobol and fortran?

fluffy wrote:

kurt culler wrote: The TRaSh 80 Color Computer we had in 5th/6th grade didn't do much, but the Model IIIs I used in high school were cool. You could program in Basic and they had compilers for COBOL and Fortran. I don't think I ever used it as a word processor. I did quite a bit of my programming during high school on punch cards, though. It was a lot different than these days.

It sounds like you're describing prehistoric times.
What were Cobol and fortran?

COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language and is a programming language that was very popular in the 60s-80s and is probably still used on older machines.

Fortran stands for Formula Transtator and was a required language for many business majors. It was a pretty easy language and I was able to help a few students in college, though I'd never taken the language myself.

Other languages I learned included:

RPGII which stands for Report Program Generator and was a cool language to program in

Assembler which was more of a mainframe language and was sometime a bitch to use because of the various registers and such

Pascal was one of your elementary programming languages and has been supplanted by c++ or other derivations.

BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) which was fun to program in, but not as powerful as some of the other languages.

I have a Computer Science degree in addition to my math degrees and have a lot of programming experience, but it is all 10-15 years out of date now.

Kurt , you are awe inspiring and scary at the same time.
I mean that in a good way.

christmas is my all time favorite but i am a big holiday person i dec out for all of them!