MS Vista Who Cares?

[RedCherry]

My first computer cost $1,500 and that was with an employee discount. My neigbor took me in posing as my Dad. It was a PCJr with 512k ram (I upgraded from the standard 256k ram) and no hard drive. I learned to program cobol on that sucker, had to swap my program floppy, then the floppy with the code on it to compile it, lol.

Just think what even $1,500 can get you now. I remember PDP 11/70's with no monitors in college, and even puch cards, which we had to do 1 program with just to show what the OLD technology was like.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

...and even puch cards, which we had to do 1 program with just to show what the OLD technology was like.

Whoa, just took a trip down memory lane. I had to use punch cards for all of my freshman and sophomore, and most Junior level Comp Sci classes in college. Fortran, Cobol, Pascal... ahhhh, the good ol' days

[MrYum]

Vista looks kinda purdy, but think I'll wait a bit for em to shake things out some.

Yup, I remember back in college...working on dual floppy systems...and that was cool stuff then! My first system was a 12 mgz 486...custom made by a guy I met through my college professor. Seems to me I paid right around 2 grand for that puppy too...lol.

Though I certainly don't get by with cheap machines these days either. I built the machine I'm using now almost 3 years ago...got about $3k into the machine. It's still fast and stable after almost 3 years...certainly don't get that out of those sub $1k Dells.

[RedCherry]

Does anyone know how compatible this will be with existing software? I"m with you MrYum, I'm waiting until it is out awhile and the bugs are shook out. It took me forever to switch from '98 being an old dos prompt person, I hated the way 2000 took you more away from that, lol. This last computer I finally caved and went to XP.

[DJilla]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

My first computer cost $1,500 and that was with an employee discount. My neigbor took me in posing as my Dad. It was a PCJr with 512k ram (I upgraded from the standard 256k ram) and no hard drive. I learned to program cobol on that sucker, had to swap my program floppy, then the floppy with the code on it to compile it, lol.

That's a cute story, you forgot to mention that crazy little chicklet keyboard. I was working in a beta computer store which was trying to become a franchise (I was a purchasing agent and you wouldn't believe how much stuff was given to me free... software came in plastic baggies and we would round table with Bill Gates twice a year at expos). Very exciting days and you a girl at the time into PC's, very cool.