Heard Daveon Balls is transferring. If true probably not a bad thing as his pt was not going to be great and we have a ride

beat me to the punch, quick reporting

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

hahaha

Although you show your age just by knowing what that is!!!

LOL

(04-14-2014 08:22 AM)chihuskie Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

hahaha

Although you show your age just by knowing what that is!!!

LOL

You got me, I am not a recent college grad.

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

I started at NIU as a Junior in 1998 and I brought with me a lightning quick 486 computer. I finally got around to recycling it a few years ago. It was boxed away in the basement for the better part of a decade.

(04-14-2014 09:06 AM)Huskie359 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

I started at NIU as a Junior in 1998 and I brought with me a lightning quick 486 computer. I finally got around to recycling it a few years ago. It was boxed away in the basement for the better part of a decade.

I thought about saying a 286 but decided to move up one version.

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

no, i will keep my abbacus

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

LOL I remember how excited I was when I upgraded my PC from a 386 to a 486 for my Freshman year.

(04-14-2014 10:53 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

no, i will keep my abbacus

Is it next to your slideruler?

(04-14-2014 11:04 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 10:53 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

no, i will keep my abbacus

Is it next to your slideruler?

have not got to that technology yet

(04-14-2014 10:55 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

LOL I remember how excited I was when I upgraded my PC from a 386 to a 486 for my Freshman year.

Must have had that new-fangled Windows 3.1?

(04-14-2014 02:34 PM)niuaccy1976 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 10:55 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

LOL I remember how excited I was when I upgraded my PC from a 386 to a 486 for my Freshman year.

Must have had that new-fangled Windows 3.1?

I misss Supercalc!!! but when WYSIWYG came along Damn!!!

(04-14-2014 02:34 PM)niuaccy1976 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 10:55 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

LOL I remember how excited I was when I upgraded my PC from a 386 to a 486 for my Freshman year.

Must have had that new-fangled Windows 3.1?

nope...Windows 95

Anybody have the old Macintosh Classic with the little 9" black and white screen? Good times.

(04-14-2014 04:19 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Anybody have the old Macintosh Classic with the little 9" black and white screen? Good times.

Yup and it still works. My mom also got the separate hard drive to give us an additional 1mb of space. Its the size of 2 laptops stacked up.


Did anyone have a Commodore 64?

Not going to state the year(s), but I used a slide rule as a freshman, built a four function calculator as a sophomore (still needed the slide rule with the slider lost for trig, exponentials etc.) and built 4004 (that's a 4-bit first run $25 cosmetic defect donated by Intel to universities) in EE Computer Circuits as a senior and thought that I had gone to heaven. Kaypro, XT and 286 were later. In fact, I am still not sure how much of an improvement a 64 bit dual processor running Win7 and memory hogging apps is? Or, maybe I'm just an old timer.

P.S. Back then, NIU had one IBM 360 Main Frame that had been upgraded to equal a 370. All university departments used that computer only. Even NI Gas and CommEd purchased batching time to process billing invoices (but that's another thread).

(04-14-2014 02:53 PM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 02:34 PM)niuaccy1976 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 10:55 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:49 AM)klake87 Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 07:45 AM)GCD70 Wrote:  beat me to the punch, quick reporting

Thats cause your old. Gotta upgrade your Pentium 386 computer.

LOL I remember how excited I was when I upgraded my PC from a 386 to a 486 for my Freshman year.

Must have had that new-fangled Windows 3.1?

I misss Supercalc!!! but when WYSIWYG came along Damn!!!

Hahaha. Supercalc. I haven't thought of that in years. It was cooler than VisiCalc because you could change the column widths. Pretty high tech. Our office used Supercalc because the guy who bought our first PC (8088?) got one free software program when he bought the PC at Computerland(!), and then moved to quatropro later. Resisted the excel world for a couple of extra years but finally succumbed.

(04-14-2014 04:32 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-14-2014 04:19 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Anybody have the old Macintosh Classic with the little 9" black and white screen? Good times.

Yup and it still works. My mom also got the separate hard drive to give us an additional 1mb of space. Its the size of 2 laptops stacked up.


Did anyone have a Commodore 64?

I managed a trade show using a Commodore 64.