Yes, then came zmodem what memories... The ascii art was in those days amazing. Nothing like we have now of course...
-----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 10:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Why did you get into computers? (was: churvii: a study in brainiacs) On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:24 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So.......how did everyone else get into this business? > > I can date it back to starting on computers when I was 8 on a TRS-80 > CoCo II. My grandmother got herself and me each one and we sat down > and typed in the code from the book. > > That sparked my love of computers - from there it was simply a natural > progression. > > Hatton > I remember my dad brought home an IBM PS/1 out of the blue one day. I was a freshman in high school. A buddy of mine, who styled himself as a hacker, was all excited because the machine had a 2400 baud modem. We'd spend hours dialing up company modems and logging onto their system with the "Guest" account......we thought we'd "hacked" into their system. I remember the early bulletin board systems.....using Xmodem to dload dirty pictures in the middle of the night........man......tons of memories. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259464 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
