TEENS REACT TO WINDOWS 95

[bigguy]

TEENS REACT TO WINDOWS 95

[BF]

Windows 95 seems like just last week to me.  

btw bigguy...how did you manage to get the video to imbed onto the site (in '95 I couldn't have told you what imbed meant...not sure I do now   )

[cookiedough]

I do not have windows 95, but in the basement have the same monitor type and old Dell keyboard with Windows 98 on it still works, I think,  guessing if I recollect having a 550mhz processor-big time fast???  Not like I could get much more than 25 bucks for it all including the keyboard now, just that NO ONE wants old school anymore.  Sort of depressing, I still have the receipt when bought new from Dell and was around 2300 bucks - OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[scooperhsd]

We got rid of our computer museum contributions about 6 months ago - I still kept a Dell optiplex with a PII 300 MHz 500 MB of RAm running Windows XP..

But I still had my original PC - an AST Premuim 386SX/16 MHz with 16 MB RAM (maxed out) that it last running was as a N ovell file server

next was an 80486DX2 (66 MHz clock) with 32 MB RAM.

An AST Advantage Pentium 75 MHz with 128MB RAM

one motherboard that started with another PII 300 MHz, but I was able to put a replacemnt CPU of PIII 600 MHz - 750MB RAM

A Dell Work station that used RDRAM and one or two PIII 700MHz

a couple other motherboards that took newer CPUs and memory.

And what we are using now - a couple of Lenovo laptops running Win10.

And EVERYTHING had been on a network along the way

[dinosnake]

Heh.      Let them react to Windows 3.11, or let's see them give love to the first version of their computer god, an original Apple Macintosh.

Would love to see what they thought of DOS 5, DOS 3, TRS-DOS, CP/M and a Commodore PET!

[Crackerborn]

I am wracking my memories to remember how many punch cards it took to run the quadratic equation in Fortran. Then, of course, the word editing was in Snowball, and database would have been run in Cobalt. The main frame was in a four-story building at USF (Tampa) shared by FSU (Tallahassee) and what was a keyboard and CRT? As  a Chem major, I was allowed time in the clean room to run programs with data for various labs but we had to assemble the programs with the data. Sometimes that took longer than the slide rule but was much more accurate since it carried nine decimal places.

I wonder what a teen would think of a slide rule?   

[hubcapsc]

I still have a couple of GRiD laptops...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass

Whoa...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Lot-Grid-System-2107-2101-Grid-Compass-Computer-1107-GridCase-3-DSP-225-/191812526075?hash=item2ca8eadffb:g:TvEAAOSwDuJWzQ1Y

The lightweight half-inch-thick X1 Carbon laptop running Linux I'm typing this on is where it is at, though 

-Mike

[PAVALKER]

Still got my Sanyo MBC675 portable PC, with mono screen, dual 5 1/4 floppies and...DOS.

I gave up on the Smithonian coming for it.....

[da prez]

  A friend of ours stated that we have more technology in our cell phones than the first man on the moon had. Kind of scary  .

                                        da prez

[signart]

I literally have a truckload of these...

[bigguy]

Windows 95 seems like just last week to me.  

btw bigguy...how did you manage to get the video to imbed onto the site (in '95 I couldn't have told you what imbed meant...not sure I do now   )

It's not really imbedded. I just linked a screenshot of the vid, stored on my server.

[Serk]

I wonder what a teen would think of a slide rule?   

I found my dad's old slide rule from college in the 1960's and showed it to my 13 year old daughter. She was intrigued and briefly entertained the idea of trying to learn to use it but 13 year olds have very short attention spans. She took it to school and her math teacher was intrigued by it too.

  A friend of ours stated that we have more technology in our cell phones than the first man on the moon had. Kind of scary  .

                                        da prez

The Apollo Guidance Computer was both very primitive, and incredibly brilliantly advanced in how much they managed to do with so little... Some light reading on it - https://igotoffer.com/blog/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/

As far as modern tech vs. older, it's dizzying how far and fast it's come...

The raw speed of a few classics:   (A gigaflop is 1 billion floating point operations per second)

Cray 2 Supercomputer (Most powerful computer on Earth until 1990)   - 1.9 gigaflops
Deep Blue (Super computer that beat Gary Kasparov at chess in 1997) - 11.38 gigaflops
The original Intel Pentium 60 CPU  (1993)                                        - 0.06 gigaflops
Intel Pentium III 500 (1999)                                                           - 1 gigaflop
Apple iPhone 5s                                                                          - 76.8 gigaflops
Samsung Galaxy S5 Smartphone (With ARM Exynos based CPU)         - 142 gigaflops

So far, Moore's law is still holding steady, although it's demise has been predicted many many many times...

(And yeah, I know gigaflops isn't the most accurate means of comparing computing power, but it's the simplest and easy to reference.)

[The emperor has no clothes]

"Her teacher was intrigued by it also" ?  Either I'm just too freaking old or teachers are learning different stuff. I kind of liked learning how to use a slide rule.

[Serk]

"Her teacher was intrigued by it also" ?   Either I'm just too freaking old or teachers are learning different stuff. I kind of liked learning how to use a slide rule.

Around 1974 when the handheld electronic calculator came out was when slide rules basically disappeared all at once.

So someone born, say, as late as 1966 would probably have had zero or near zero exposure to a slide rule, outside of grandpa digging his out of a back drawer or in a museum.

And someone born in 1966 would be 50 years old today.

(And many of my daughter's teachers are my age or younger, and I was born in 1971...)


Edit -

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you really prefer a slide rule, there's an app for that!

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timscott.sliderule&hl=en
That other fruity phone - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-slide-rule/id421890273?mt=8

[bigguy]

I was born in 1956, and I learned to use a slide rule in high school. Thanks for the link Serk. I'll have to check that out.

[baldo]

"Her teacher was intrigued by it also" ?   Either I'm just too freaking old or teachers are learning different stuff. I kind of liked learning how to use a slide rule.

Around 1974 when the handheld electronic calculator came out was when slide rules basically disappeared all at once.

So someone born, say, as late as 1966 would probably have had zero or near zero exposure to a slide rule, outside of grandpa digging his out of a back drawer or in a museum.

And someone born in 1966 would be 50 years old today.

(And many of my daughter's teachers are my age or younger, and I was born in 1971...)


Edit -

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you really prefer a slide rule, there's an app for that!

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timscott.sliderule&hl=en
That other fruity phone - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-slide-rule/id421890273?mt=8

I don't remember the number, but a basic 4 function calculator was crazy expensive back in the early 70's. The old TI's were big time back then....

[The emperor has no clothes]

"Her teacher was intrigued by it also" ?   Either I'm just too freaking old or teachers are learning different stuff. I kind of liked learning how to use a slide rule.

Around 1974 when the handheld electronic calculator came out was when slide rules basically disappeared all at once.

So someone born, say, as late as 1966 would probably have had zero or near zero exposure to a slide rule, outside of grandpa digging his out of a back drawer or in a museum.

And someone born in 1966 would be 50 years old today.

(And many of my daughter's teachers are my age or younger, and I was born in 1971...)


Edit -

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you really prefer a slide rule, there's an app for that!

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timscott.sliderule&hl=en
That other fruity phone - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-slide-rule/id421890273?mt=8

  So you are politely saying I am too freaking old .

[Serk]

So you are politely saying I am too freaking old .

I'm not saying you're old, but if you were a jug of milk I'd give you a good sniff before pouring you on a bowl of cereal...

...I would NOT recommend you buy green bananas any longer...

...if you're gonna become a vampire, it's now or never...