Underwater. ;-)
OMG I am getting old.
I learned 8080 microprocessors when they were cutting edge.
We put them on submarines and used them to handle individual signal processes to free up the mainframe.
We were high tech beeotch!!
Using a typewriter. ;-)
Didn't know what a microprocessor was in those days but I did have one of those portable AM transistor radios that ran on a 9 volt battery and had one of those earplugs that only went in one ear because without stereo, why bother with two?
I used to sneak that radio under the covers at night where I'd listen to baseball games or some Top 40 radio.
Actually, I was working at my 3rd job, the first having lasted a week. The second (better paying) lasted three months. The 3rd (better paying again) lasted 5 years until 1975. Next month I retire from my 5th job.
I saw my first handheld calculator in 1973. An HP35 for $400.00. Time moves on...
In 1971 I was in the Army.
I built my first PC in 1982. It was a cobbled mess built around a much modified TRS-80 motherboard. Z80 CPU, twin 5-1/4” floppy drives, tape storage (no hard drive), homebrew power supply, running NewDOS 80. I still have that thing on a shelf in my shop.
Brings back lots of memories.
The tech moment that I saw but missed the significance was “fiber optic cable”. I saw it in the 1980’s. All Electronics in CA advertised it in their parts catalog. I asked myself, “what possible use could it have”, “sure you can make a computer on one end of a room talk real fast to a computer on the other end of the room, but why”? Little did I know that they would wire the world with it.
Junior in High School
I was not happy that there was a standard until then.
My first computer was a 486 that I built. Then those SOBS came out with the Pentium and my software was obsolete! LoL
As I recall it, Intel went through several generations of microprocessors from the 8086 to the 80286 (commonly called just '286',) 80386 (386,) and the 80486 (486.)
The next generation should have been the '586', but other companies were making pin-for-pin clone chips of Intel's microprocessor, and using the same part numbers 80286, etc.
Intel decided to call their next generation chip the "Pentium" instead of the "586" because they could copyright the name Pentium, but couldn't copyright the name "586." Intel then started the "Genuine Intel Inside" ad campaign.
Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines, First Marine Brigade, FMF
I was 30 years old, in Los Angeles and building a pc from scratch in an S-100 box. Gave up on that later and bought one of the first TRS-80 model 1's (Z80, an improved 8080) off the end of the assembly line - which I promptly began to modify repeatedly.
With some 'puter friends, we opened one of the first stores in town offering custom programs we had written for the business community. (accounts payable, receivable, inventory - others)
Today, I'm still working with 'puters handling ultra-high speed data via international satellite. But, being over 70 years old, I've decided to retire soon and go back to playing with 'puters as a hobby versus vocation.
Enjoying the 4th grade.
The first computer I learned to use was the size of the kitchen table.
It was called the Comp 10.
You booted it with code on paper tape.
It was able to add, subtract, multiply and divide. LoL
>>Where were you in ‘71 ?
Still in diapers.
1971? I was jungle dancing in the Ashau Valley up near Laos... setting up ambush for some slanty eye commies during that Lam Son 719 fiasco. A good time was had by all... Right unkus? LOL!
I’ve got a Z80a made into a tie tack. It’s way cool bit nobody knows what it is, but me. I only use it with my flying toasters tie.
Seymour Cray invented the microprocessor. He never got credit for this contribution to computer science.
5 years old, we just got our first color TV, still have it too.
Graduated HS in '71. In 1968 I was in my school's first ever "computer" class. The computer was a Digital PDP-8, and we actually toggled stuff right into it. The class was (obviously) all new material for everybody. Nobody had ever sen a computer before. The first thing we learned was what "binary" meant.