Countdown to Armegeddon: Will Yooper's post count break the internet?

[unionrdr]

And for those of use that play or used to play guitar while stoned, what might happen...

 

[passedpawn]

Y(ooper)2k was a fizzle. Just thought I'd close the loop on this one.

 

[Yooper]

Y(ooper)2k was a fizzle. Just thought I'd close the loop on this one.

You made us laugh (again), though.

 

[MaddBaggins]

On another forum I've been a part of since 2005, I have around 4000 posts. Chat posts don't count toward the total. Years ago, some friends and I started a counter website that tracked how many posts we made in a specific thread. Last time I looked, I had nearly 100k in that thread alone, not to mention the rest of chat.

 

[unionrdr]

This thread keeps giving me flashbacks to programming in college in the early 80's. Coming up with icons, windowing software, etc before they became part of windows was exciting. At the time, we were learning C, but now it's C++. Among others, like Cobol & Fortran. I'm a bit rusty for this new-age stuff, thus the flashbacks? Gee, thanks...I think?...IDK?...

 

[PlexVector]

I heard HBT had to upgrade to a 32 bit system just because of @yooper, so we're safe until she gets to 4294967296 posts!

EDIT: (just to be safe)

 

[jleiii]

This thread keeps giving me flashbacks to programming in college in the early 80's. Coming up with icons, windowing software, etc before they became part of windows was exciting. At the time, we were learning C, but now it's C++. Among others, like Cobol & Fortran. I'm a bit rusty for this new-age stuff, thus the flashbacks? Gee, thanks...I think?...IDK?...

Icons, windowing?? How does that work in 80x24?
Two of my community college professors went in on an Imsai 8080 and the first code they wrote (toggled?) was a keyboard driver. That was in '78. We were impressed!
I was writing machine code on my TRS 80 Model 4 as soon as Radio Shack started selling a compiler for it - Fortran 4, pbly 84ish. But, ended up writing inventory control and customer manager, for my fathers mfg business, in basic instead (with a direct access DB on 5.25 floppies!). He used it for probably 10 years till computers for the masses, and programs, were more affordable. I still have it all.... and with much effort managed to get the data off the TRSDOS disks on to MSDOS disks. But that's a whole other tale.

Ahhh, the good old days.

And, glad to hear Yooper did not crash HBT.

 

[unionrdr]

Icons, windowing?? How does that work in 80x24?
Two of my community college professors went in on an Imsai 8080 and the first code they wrote (toggled?) was a keyboard driver. That was in '78. We were impressed!
I was writing machine code on my TRS 80 Model 4 as soon as Radio Shack started selling a compiler for it - Fortran 4, pbly 84ish. But, ended up writing inventory control and customer manager, for my fathers mfg business, in basic instead (with a direct access DB on 5.25 floppies!). He used it for probably 10 years till computers for the masses, and programs, were more affordable. I still have it all.... and with much effort managed to get the data off the TRSDOS disks on to MSDOS disks. But that's a whole other tale.

Ahhh, the good old days.

And, glad to hear Yooper did not crash HBT.

I don't rightly remember, since a certain son didn't understand you don't toss the floppies on the floor after loading them, then rolling the bloody chair over'em! We used Tandy computers in programming class @ Ohio Business College in 83-84, or 82-84? There were like 4, maybe 5 of us in class that came up with these things. Me & 2 classmates/buddies did the icon thing to initiate a program from the title screen, as we used to call it. I could sit at those computers back then & do calculus all day. I had a year & a half in when Ford transferred me to Cinci, where only one lousy credit was transferable. I had saved all that stuff, but it's gone now. I think I still have the coco1,2, & 3 with the floppy drive though.