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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 19, 2019 10:06:17 GMT -6
Amateurs, just a bunch of amateurs. I remember playing Jutland on the floor of the barracks. Anyone remember the TRS-80 or the TI-99, I do.
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Post by skyhawk on Jan 19, 2019 11:12:42 GMT -6
[quote author=" oldpop2000" Anyone remember the TRS-80 or the TI-99, I do. [/quote] My school had one trs80 but all the ones I learned typing on were commodore style. 5 1/4" floppies and all. And they were state of the art to us. Didnt play games on the floor of my barracks or billets but I had senior NCOs that did back in the day.
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Post by abclark on Jan 19, 2019 11:24:53 GMT -6
Can't see any of my normal friends racing to join though! I’m definitely in that boat too. I can’t even get mine interested in the naval miniatures rules I’m working on.
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Post by vonfriedman on Jan 19, 2019 11:34:32 GMT -6
Amateurs, just a bunch of amateurs. I remember playing Jutland on the floor of the barracks. Anyone remember the TRS-80 or the TI-99, I do. I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer, which used a TV as a monitor and an audio cassette to store the programs. I even tried to program a "Hunt of the Bismarck" game with that thing.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 19, 2019 13:04:27 GMT -6
Amateurs, just a bunch of amateurs. I remember playing Jutland on the floor of the barracks. Anyone remember the TRS-80 or the TI-99, I do. I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer, which used a TV as a monitor and an audio cassette to store the programs. I even tried to program a "Hunt of the Bismarck" game with that thing. I remember that machine. I started using a PC with Dos 2.0 that Gates bought from Seattle computing. I taught at the base, Windows for Workgroup and Enable software. It was a multi-document application with a word processor, spreadsheet and a Powerpoint type app. It was all dos based.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 19, 2019 13:31:37 GMT -6
[quote author=" oldpop2000 " Anyone remember the TRS-80 or the TI-99, I do. My school had one trs80 but all the ones I learned typing on were commodore style. 5 1/4" floppies and all. And they were state of the art to us. Didnt play games on the floor of my barracks or billets but I had senior NCOs that did back in the day.[/quote] From Oldpop2000: My kids took typing at their private school and used TI-99's. The only problem with the Jutland game on the floor, is inevitably, the alert siren would sound and we might play war for a couple of days. Now when we got back to the barracks, we were tired and hungry. We also could not remember where we were in the game, so we just went at it. In one game, we played war twice, drove us nuts.
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Post by tbr on Jan 19, 2019 14:12:51 GMT -6
40 Kinda weird - I am one of the last few thousand sailors to cross the Atlantic on a ship with oil fired steam propulsion.
There are so many "lasts" which slip by. Like "last to cross the Atlantic in a combustion engined plane", or one with turbojets, or "last to calibrate a mechanical gyro outside a museum"...
So many technologies which were once the height of modernity are becoming defunct museum cases. Others are kept alive by enthusiasts. Hundreds of years from now people will sill sail ships and boats when burning fossil fuel for anything but a campfire or grill will be looked on as barbaric.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 19, 2019 15:14:34 GMT -6
40 Kinda weird - I am one of the last few thousand sailors to cross the Atlantic on a ship with oil fired steam propulsion. There are so many "lasts" which slip by. Like "last to cross the Atlantic in a combustion engined plane", or one with turbojets, or "last to calibrate a mechanical gyro outside a museum"... So many technologies which were once the height of modernity are becoming defunct museum cases. Others are kept alive by enthusiasts. Hundreds of years from now people will sill sail ships and boats when burning fossil fuel for anything but a campfire or grill will be looked on as barbaric. Sounds interesting, I flew from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to New Orleans from Keesler on a Martin 404 with a leaky left engine turbo over the swamps. That was fun. I also few from Fallon NAS in a VC-120, backwards in the seat to Dayton, Ohio to the USAF Museum. That was something. I also had to run a test set on a mechanical gyro for the ASN-92 Inertial Navigation set. Ich!! We are dating ourselves. I just had to add this.... waaait for it, I worked on equipment with vacuum tubes. Specially 5814's, that was fun.
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Post by axe99 on Jan 19, 2019 16:51:33 GMT -6
43 here, nice and around the middle - but I have to say it heartens me to see so many young folk interested in this kind of thing - bravo . Not taking anything away from our elders - remember those barracks-floor times fondly I say .
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Post by rob06waves2018 on Jan 19, 2019 17:24:00 GMT -6
43 here, nice and around the middle - but I have to say it heartens me to see so many young folk interested in this kind of thing - bravo . Not taking anything away from our elders - remember those barracks-floor times fondly I say . Thanks, but we youngsters are definitely the most weird!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 19, 2019 17:29:10 GMT -6
43 here, nice and around the middle - but I have to say it heartens me to see so many young folk interested in this kind of thing - bravo . Not taking anything away from our elders - remember those barracks-floor times fondly I say . Thanks, but we youngsters are definitely the most weird! Well, I won't disagree with this statement.
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Post by rob06waves2018 on Jan 19, 2019 17:32:26 GMT -6
Thanks, but we youngsters are definitely the most weird! Well, I won't disagree with this statement. Don't worry, you old-timers aren't far behind!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 19, 2019 17:50:30 GMT -6
Well, I won't disagree with this statement. Don't worry, you old-timers aren't far behind! Probably not, we had to raise our children, then babysit granddaughter, that will make anyone weird. Ich!!
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Post by sillygoy on Jan 20, 2019 2:34:42 GMT -6
I'm barely 21. Perhaps battleships do transcend age.
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Post by KagaKaiNi on Jan 20, 2019 7:15:50 GMT -6
Only 20 myself, but the allure of warships is something that truly captures many people.
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