anyone else who is 30+ think this too?

[imported_anacardo]

I wish you would acknowledge my mad props to James Longstreet. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[astroglide]

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Damn, you have been around for a while. I started during the 9600 phase.

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try c64 acoustic coupler ("hang the phone up on the speaker" wargames-style) modems at 150 baud. i'm only 27, he's probably done it too.

[Shajen]

wtf, geek out dude.

I bow down before your geekedness.

[Hal 2000]

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Where the [censored] were these women when I was in High School?

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Did you go to school in the South, though?

[BoogerFace]

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Bulletin Board Systems and ASCII for teh win! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Lawrence

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ASCII art - I don't miss it.

[renodoc]

I used to fill out fortran cards in school.

[Barry]

Back then an IBM 360 running VM1 was the nuts (or the tits). Also JCL was a pain in the neck as you would make some stupid typo and you would find out several hours later that your "job" JCL'd and you would have to resubmit it.

[Ulysses]

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Damn, you have been around for a while. I started during the 9600 phase.

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try c64 acoustic coupler ("hang the phone up on the speaker" wargames-style) modems at 150 baud. i'm only 27, he's probably done it too.

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I saw WarGames on a plane back to the States from Norway when I was about 13. I fell in love with Ally Sheedy and also decided that computers and hacking were very sweet and thus I must have a computer and modem. We got a Commodore 64 with a modem. But to my dismay, instead of the sweet acoustic coupler like in WarGames, the new 300bps modem had the phone line plug in directly. I also decided I was going to program sweet games. Unfortunately, I never actually hacked anything or wrote a game, though. I did, however, download lots of cracked C64 games and make lots of explosives and stuff from BBS recipes.

[TimM]

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I saw WarGames on a plane back to the States from Norway when I was about 13. I fell in love with Ally Sheedy and also decided that computers and hacking were very sweet and thus I must have a computer and modem. We got a Commodore 64 with a modem. But to my dismay, instead of the sweet acoustic coupler like in WarGames, the new 300bps modem had the phone line plug in directly. I also decided I was going to program sweet games. Unfortunately, I never actually hacked anything or wrote a game, though. I did, however, download lots of cracked C64 games and make lots of explosives and stuff from BBS recipes.

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Wow, all the same here, except the part about the plane to Norway. I'm a bit older than you so I also had a computer before the C64 - a TRS-80 Model 1, with cassette tape drive (no modem). I was also going to write sweet games and make lots of money off them. I never finished anything I started though.

[Ulysses]

Yes, tape drive! I had one of those for the C64. I don't remember if I ever had a floppy drive for the C64 or if that was when I upgraded to the C128. I also remember something about how I was going to write game programs and send them to these computer magazines for sweet cash.