haven't times changed

[MrRiplEy[H]]

No issues with sound quality on my Galaxy SIII.

It is much better than the landline I have to use at work.

Yeah same with our iPhones no problems whatsoever. They must be talking about 200 dollar 'smartphones' with chinese 1 cent microphones

[lengro]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/video.cfm?c_id=5&gal_cid=5&gallery_id=140331

Monochromatic CRT monitors, dial-up modems and big, heavy & noisy keyboards - lol yeah, time flies! 

[RotBaron]

Bunch of old farts, hating on the smart phone  .

Lol, why is the delete (back/erase characther) button right next to the letter M? I heard the iPhone5 fixed that, true? I look down and what I've text looks like a huge mess of someone who just aimlessly texts away.

[guncrasher]

Yeah same with our iPhones no problems whatsoever. They must be talking about 200 dollar 'smartphones' with chinese 1 cent microphones

isnt the iphone made in china with 1 cent microphone?


semp

[Tank-Ace]

Lol, why is the delete (back/erase characther) button right next to the letter M? I heard the iPhone5 fixed that, true? I look down and what I've text looks like a huge mess of someone who just aimlessly texts away.

Don't know. Will never overpay for an apple device, so again don't know. And I fixed the problem by using SwiftKey Flow on my Android phone. Best $1.99 I've ever spent in my entire life.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

isnt the iphone made in china with 1 cent microphone?


semp

No they use a high quality 2 cent one.

[ROC]

you'll be able to copy it, print it out and save it on paper, now that's the future!  LOL

[rpm]

Monochromatic CRT monitors, dial-up modems and big, heavy & noisy keyboards - lol yeah, time flies! 

LOL I cleaned out a storage shed the other day and had some old monitors in there. Those things weighed a ton!

[Meatwad]

Monochromatic CRT monitors, dial-up modems and big, heavy & noisy keyboards - lol yeah, time flies! 

Good ol green monitors, even had the amber ones

Great for getting characters burnt in the crt

[Brooke]

You spoiled kids! 

I wrote programs on this:



and first played a flight sim like this:



and owned a first computer like this:



and parents paid $400 for a 128k floppy drive like this:



and graduated to Air Warrior at $12/hour that played on a map like this:



Today's Aces High is a fabulous dream come true and a miracle of technology.  People whine about this or that minor inconvenience and threaten to quit because of it lack all perspective.

[100Coogn]

My Vic 20 (using tape deck for data stream)


Went to the commodore 128 (big upgrade at the time)


Then the almighty TI-99/4a


Coogan

[lengro]

My very first computer (not the actual one, but one I got later) from 1983.
It's a ZX81 clone with a whooping 2KB of RAM.

Once in a year or so I dig it out of the closet and power it up:

Originally, the software was loaded from a tape recorder, but nowadays I hook it up with my Galaxy S4, and feed it with digitized wav-files of the original tapes. The monochromatic graphics are then displayed in all its glory on my 46" Sony LCD TV. That is +30 years of tech working together



In the same closet, I also got my second and third computer; a C64, and an Amiga500, also both fully functional.

Oh, the nostalgia...

[rpm]

I remember when I went bigtime, 286. "I love my AST Bravo!"

[Meatwad]

This was my very first one, given for free. Rest after that was anything from a C-64 and on up

[guncrasher]

you guys are spoiled rotten.  when I first took computer classes in 83, we would write the full program on paper and after the program was fully debugged and approved by the teacher then we would turn on the computer and see it in all it's glory.

two things we really hated back then.  pr#3 and pr#6.  you failed to do those when you first turned on the brand new apple2c and you had to retype everything.  once we spent 45 minutes typing everything in only to discovered that my idiot partner forgot to do pr#6(iirc), so we couldnt save it on tape.  oh and the time that this girl trying to be cute leaned over and put her hand on my keyboard and press the reset button by mistake.  I could hardly enjoy being with her later in the afternoon.

I remember whining a 5 dollar prize that the teacher offered for writing a program that would calculate the prime numbers from 1 to 1000 in the shortest time.  mine was 45 seconds, beat second place by over a minute  .


semp