Posted on 03/14/2025 12:48:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
/John Connor watching y’all making friends with AI
Indeed. And no mention anywhere of the IBM-PC, IBM-AT, etc. C'mon guys.
And I think you mean "Apple II" not "Apple I". The "I" was just a populated circuit board for techies. The "II" was the one that became popular.
You should try using profanity with it.
It’s kind of weird fun.
Oops, no you’re right, they mentioned the Apple II. My bad.
No thanks.
Honestly, retard is a silly word to use in 2025.
It was used when science was a lot more behind the times.
Nentally challenged or special needs works better. I’m sure even some on here with special needs folks in their family wouldn’t take kindly to them being called “retards”.
But you and me are outdated fossils anyway and no one really cares what words we use:)
I disagree with a lot of the nonsense word changing and meaning changing nowadays...but this one I agree with.
As for AI, it can only put out what is put in..and liberals run big tech.
I agree that at least what the word meant to most people once should show as a past use.
Erasing history is never good.
Does my hoard of old laptops running everything from Windows 98 to Windows 7 suddenly become valuable?
They still work.
Well they have turned laptops into cloud machines..
No connectors
Cannot pull 5he battery for a hard reboot.
Oh for my 15 year old Sony viao!
In 10 years you won’t recognize them..............
Wait until they become teenagers!
“And I think you mean “Apple II” not “Apple I” “
You are of course correct and I was just rereading up on the famous “Trinity” made up of the Trash 80, the Commodore Pet and the Apple II.
Apple I was just a log that proved Woz could do a motherboard and not much else. Apple II made the company a player.
Hey, we’re all old now...fuzzy memories of those days.
Clarke was a prophet
Nah, my family doesn't mind in fact they join in and gang up against me.
In 1976, I worked for Teccor in Euless, Texas, and they had an Imsai 8080 hooked to a teletype so programs could be entered via a keyboard and saved to paper tape reels. I think that was the format used to distribute Gates’ BASIC program.
If you are into old games.
Now GOG has some of them updated to run on the current platforms but they do not have the original Oregon Trail. Which I think is a crying shame. And the new one is $30! Well sort of new, it is a nine year old game.
Still tempted to get it. Maybe for my birthday.
Toss up between Battlefield 1942/ Vietnam and Monopoly that ran on XP.
I still have an XP gaming laptop that runs and play a round every so often.
My W7 laptop is docked to a pair of 34” monitors that I turn on every so often and play some rounds of BF.
You don’t have to have CLOUD, do you ?
Cool.
I just could never bear to get rid of them when I upgraded.
I do need to find the right ( and affordable) CMOS battery/connector for my Toshiba Qosmio.
That is the only one that is currently not booting up.
I have old Panasonic Toughbooks and a Fujitsu Lifebook that I got before Wacom really got into active displays.
The stylus is attached by a string and stored in a little built in pocket on the side.
So weird.
Never threw out any of our desktop towers either.
Some day after all the house fire stuff is sorted out, I might start piddling around with those too.
OMG I forgot to mention my old Bondi Blue iMac and PowerBook G3.
Yeah, that was the standard gig back then.
My fingers got sore punching those TTY keys!!
Then we got VT100s and it was waaaay easier and fun...
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