...Just a reminder...

[trip]

I realize that many of us are new to KawaNOW, but we seem to be getting kind of lax in the posting of our pictures in our footers.

Remember that pics posted in your footers should be no bigger than 350x350 pixels in size.

This helps greatly for those that log in with slower connections.

If you have any questions, feel free to get with me or check the Forum FAQ.

Thanks,
Trip

[dogdoc]

+1, Thanks for the reminder Trip.

[lw]

Thanks Trip. We get our internet via party-line so the size limitation definitely helps. OK, so it isnt party line, but it is dialup and definitely sux. Hoping to have better provider soon and find out how the other 3/4 lives.

[dantama]

Thanks Trip. We get our internet via party-line so the size limitation definitely helps. OK, so it isnt party line, but it is dialup and definitely sux. Hoping to have better provider soon and find out how the other 3/4 lives.

LW, I feel bad for you. I went to high speed about 4 years ago. I decided after the 6 month introductory rate to go back to dial up. Couldn't do it, and went right back to high speed.

Here's to getting the lines out to your street soon. :)

[cactusjack]

Wow, I didn't think anyone used dial-up anymore. I haven't had dial-up since Qwest installed DSL in our area 10 years ago, and for the past 7 years I've had high-speed cable internet.

I really have a need for high-speed internet since I am often on call and need to work from home. I realize not everyone has that option.

[dantama]

Cactus, I never even used a computer till 9 years ago :)

[cactusjack]

Sooner or later, even a Luddite gets sucked into the wake of modern technology. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

PC's weren't readily available until I'd already been out of high school for several years. I took a computer science class as a senior and we did everything with punch cards. I bought my first "real" computer about 20 years ago, a Tandy EX-1000. I taught myself how to use it and started applying it to my job as a service manager for an office equipment company. Because I was "ahead of the curve" at the time, I helped integrate the newly acquired PC's into the service department and ended up turning that experience into a successful career for myself. But if someone would have told me back in high school that I'd someday make a living in IT, I would have laughed at them. I wanted to be an auto mechanic.

[ice793]

It's good you didnt take the latter. look at our industry now in the dumps i hope the government does something to help gm or im out of a job.

[waterman]

Wow, I didn't think anyone used dial-up anymore. I haven't had dial-up since Qwest installed DSL in our area 10 years ago, and for the past 7 years I've had high-speed cable internet.

I really have a need for high-speed internet since I am often on call and need to work from home. I realize not everyone has that option.

Some of us live in the boon docks and don't have some options CJ. :)

[traveler]

We live at the end of a red dirt road . just the way i like it , althought its real hard to keep my baby clean. we got DSL back in the summer "wow" its way better .

[rksaw]

Out at the church we have to have satelite service in order to have "high speed internet". Even then it's only half as quick as DSL and doesn't touch Cable. It is amazing what those in rural settings have to put up with...y'all in the city have it so nice.

[cactusjack]

Wow, I didn't think anyone used dial-up anymore. I haven't had dial-up since Qwest installed DSL in our area 10 years ago, and for the past 7 years I've had high-speed cable internet.

I really have a need for high-speed internet since I am often on call and need to work from home. I realize not everyone has that option.

Some of us live in the boon docks and don't have some options CJ. :)

Yeah I forget not everyone lives in the big city. I wasn't trying to make fun of anyone for using dialup, I was just surprised anybody still used it. I guess I thought everyone had access to DSL or cable by now. I lead a sheltered life. ???

[cactusjack]

Out at the church we have to have satelite service in order to have "high speed internet". Even then it's only half as quick as DSL and doesn't touch Cable. It is amazing what those in rural settings have to put up with...y'all in the city have it so nice.

We just have crime, pollution, traffic and other big-city "amenities" you don't have to deal with. I think I'd trade it for the good life living in the boonies.

[rksaw]

CJ, you'd be surprised. It has been said that:

"40% of the drug use takes place in urban areas...guess where that other 60% is." - Village Missions Training Video

Until two years ago, the Coos Bay/North Bend area (pop. 26K) was the largest area in the country without Natural Gas. It is amazing what life is like outside of suburbia.

I was totally clueless about it before we moved to a rural area. I thought that there would be all these kids in 4-H and FFA, but all the kids are bored and feel trapped where they live; they feel like they will never amount to anything and have to suffer through the life that they have been handed...I would compare it to those who grow up on the reservations.

[trip]

Since we're all reminiscing.....1986.......I remember using a 300 baud modem on a new IBM PC XT. I thought that modern technology had just arrived at my front door. Could watch each line scroll up on each screen. Man, that was dog fast!! http://s2.images.proboards.com/cheesy.gif

I also remember installing my first 80 meg hard drive. I could run a string of companies on that at the time. I used to run a BBS called "Mainframe BBS" at home. Had every file known to man for download.

BTW, I still have an actual IBM PC XT with boat-anchor keyboard and greenie-weenie monitor in a box in my closet. Hoping someday it can go into a museum.

[mcdaddy]

IBM XT, that was high tech. Being as I worked in the PC Division at the time and did a lot of spread sheet work, I got one of the first IBMPC's (before hardfiles). Single Floppy drive, using Visicalc.

I was creating inventory input/output statements penciled in on like 30 columnar pads. It took about 3 weeks each month to take the foot tall ledger printouts and sort through the data to pull out the numbers needed to create a report for each product we produced.

When I got the PC and learned Visicalc, I reduced it down to about 4 days. The Mgmt team at the time thought I was a hero.

[blowndodge]

I remember my first lap top. ACER I think is the name. I still have it hear somewhere. Windows 3. 2meg of ram and a 30 med hard drive. Professions Write 2.2 I don't believe Word was out yet or it was too big to install. Took 33 3 1/2 inch discs to install Windows! Has DBase +3!! what a useless program now a days. Did have a neat golf game installed on it! Back then it sold for 2700 bucks!!

I have the option to switch from fiber optics to dial up at will. Dial up is used when I don't want my IP addy tracked. Sometimes ya just gots to stay hidden.....Thats the only thing negative about not having dial up. The internet world knows where you and your computer live.....I've never liked that thought.. That IP # is assigned exclusively to you.

[dantama]

BD, I think there is a program out there that can mask your IP and you can make yourself look like you are anywhere in the world.

Here's my I remember when. I worked at a computer place in 1983. Anyone know Wicat computers? I remember sending a bunch to Texas. I just worked in shipping, so I didn't know how to use one. But I remember seeing a bunch of Tech types huddled around a monitor that showed a butterfly in color filling the screen and the butterfly moving its wings. They were all totally amazed at the different colors and talking about how this new color monitor was going to be "our bread and butter".

[caddman11]

My first computer was a Commador 64 Portable, about the size of two reg briefcases with a 4" screen and about 25 lbs. What a beast. You couldn't see a whole line of test, you'd have to scroll. I think that was about 1985. No hard drive, just those big 5.25 disks. My wifes first computer was a $22,000 DEC Rainbow with software (1 piece of software) and only did court reporters work.

[bigjohn]

I'll do you one better. I 1979 I bought my first "PC." A Radio shack TRS-80 Model II with a whopping 4K of memory. Yes, boys and girls, I said 4K of memory. I upgraded to 16K then to 32K when I finally got some cash. It came with the keyboard/cpu (Z80), a black and white monitor and a cassette deck for storage. You had to load in a resident keyboard debouncer program to keep the keys from double typing on every stroke.

Eventually got the "expansion unit" that allowed me to add on a floppy drive and a 300 baud modem.

I took this unit to college and wrote a text editor that I used for my homework assignments. The printer was a 40 column thermal printer and I would tape the pages together to make a full size two column page. Instructors liked it because they could read my papers (my handwriting is less than stellar).

Those were interesting times.

[trip]

Those Trash 80's were good PC's for a while. I remember using a Compaq that was not a laptop, but was a portable PC. The keyboard would latch onto the front and cover the monitor. No mouse back then.