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I bet Ed uses a special version of NagBap with him. ?

SSD's? *Pfft!* I prefer 3D, holographic crystals farmed from Atlantis. ?

I see it twice in your original post. One's larger than the other.

The forum can upload the image from any link you provide. I didn't change anything to your link in my reply above except to add the missing "g" then it worked.

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That 'ol thought experiment. If you were to suddenly be able to relive your life, but with the knowledge you've gained, what would you do differently? #1 would be to put as much money into Microsoft when it was first created that I could (and sell it all in August of 1999). Sure, there are other things, but all of those are only enhanced (or become possible) with sufficient funding!

Apple, 1977

Aww... He's surrounded by plenty of love he'll do just fine! Those pups sure didn't think he was "different" (except maybe nicer to them). ?

I think you missed the obvious! Great Value Guitars! ? Not like it matters, they'd probably always be out of stock on the ones you'd really want. ?

I somehow missed out on paper tape (NOT complaining! LOL), but also had a class that did the punch cards. The fun prank was to rubber cement two of the cards together about 2/3's of the way back and put everything back in someone's deck (but weren't those boxes cool?). They would load their program into the hopper and it would chug along just fine until it hit our "surprise" - hehe...? Coleman had both IBM 370's and a nice 4341 mini-mainframe that was prominently placed right in the middle of the school (and named Kermit). I actually saw one of the techs fix it with a soldering iron! Fortunately, I'm NOT old enough to have ever seen (or performed) true debugging which is where a tube (or valve for you Brits) has attracted and killed a moth or two so someone has to go in there with a feather duster and "de-bug" the workings!

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Nice try, and we already know about the new browser they just released. ? (Besides, it's "psyche!" not "sike!") ?

The "bits" have chimed in! ? I wonder if kids are even taught there's such thing as registers... Or if they even know what a nibble is!

NagBap is very real! ?

I have two, 250 GB Samsung EVO's that are two and four years old. Both have had ZERO issues (but I also have Carbonite so my files are safe if one should die). With the lower prices, I definitely will be getting an M2 next time, and larger too, probably 1 TB. I'll keep using the 250's as OS drives.

You just paste the "Share" link. The forum software should do the rest (proof above!).

With a face like that you'd rather be be cider?

"South of 5 grand?" That cheap? ?

For lack of one little "g" at the end of your image link... ?

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!" ~ Moses

I like being delusional. I mean, have you really taken a good look at what's actually happening out in the so-called "real" world lately??? *Bleh!*

This is fun! After a couple of college classes at SDSU while still in high school, I enrolled for a bunch of classes at a community college, made the football team, but only got two calculus classes and dropped off the team. I was supposed to go to Annapolis and fly F-14's, but I grew too tall so, next I went to a private, IT-based college where I took four years in two (Coleman College). I had classes in Assembler, Fortran, PL/I, COBOL, BASIC, RPG and C. Since I had already been programming in a few of those, I had time to set the high score on the Miss PacMan machine during breaks. Half-way through, we all had internships with "real" companies so we could learn not to wear white socks with suits and they could use us for copying and data entry. I got to go to a Defense Contractor (CSC) and, during the initial orientation meeting, the Senior Contracts Administrator was disappointed that we weren't there to code something for her (because we hadn't had classes in that language yet). However, I already knew it and jumped at the chance to do something new. Within a couple of days I had figured out who the "REAL" programmers were, secretly hacked into their accounts to learn all their coding techniques and created the basics of the program that maintained all modifications to the project contract for over five years. At the end of the week-long internship, several guys there lobbied for me to get a contract to finish my work. Next thing I know, I've got a lucrative consulting job as a teenager which turned into being the tech-lead for the CMQA department where I got to build everything and even work on the guidance system of the Tomahawk Missile System. I also got favorably noticed by DEC by pointing out some major vulnerabilities in their system ('cause I'd used them! LOL!). I was there for five years until the main project was cancelled. For most of the time we were right across the street from Miramar Naval Airbase where I had a base pass (ironic to think I could have been flying out of there!). I found out during a Change In Command ceremony that my cousin had been the base commander there! I met with several Admirals there (Cold War paranoia mostly), but never ran into my cousin. Small world! Ah... Mammaries! ? I'll save the story of how Biff became the name of the mail app on Unix for a later time. LOL!

Noice! This is what I had a terminal logged into when UNIX v1 came out. It was so long ago that we had to use lowercase "L's" for 1's! ? We had to use an acoustic coupler where, if you whistled into the phone just right (4,800 Hz I believe), you could connect at 300 BAUD, otherwise you were stuck with 110 BAUD...

I started young. Did you ever hear about those teenage hackers recruited by Defense Contractors? That was me. $34/hour back during the Cold War days! I wish I knew just how awesome that was back then like I do now...