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doug293cz said:
Brew 66 was disgusting - worse than Olymipa. I remember the Northlake Tavern in the "U" district in Seattle. They had the best pizza around, but the only beer they had was Brew 66. In those days, I was willing to compromise on the beer to have the pizza.

Brew on :mug:
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That's a very good amount of feedback. I came to the PNW in 1988 to work for a certain airplane company who doesn't like to be mentioned. In fact I worked at the Renton plant for a few months in the late 90's.

Anyhow, we would go to a place called the buzz inn and order pictures of 66. It was ok but I always woke up not feeling well.

The U district is another story. Best memories are meeting people there and going to Green Lake to swing from the tire swing on the little island when the water was warm. Yes, Seattle was cool in the early 90's, lol.
 
bracconiere said:
i remember swaggered pot....now they want $20 for one seed.....and i've seen pot plants, they make a lot of seeds.....
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I remember that in 1982 weed was call commercial columbian and it had seeds and stems. Then in late 1982 it started coming from N California and it was called sensimilla. I was told that was
Spanish for seedless or literally "without seeds". Anyhow, I remember that in 1982 weed had seeds, then it didn't. Then I went into the military and couldn't have it with seeds or without.
 
you were a kid and dad bought a second hand one of these, and if i remember correctly the games were all educational?

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i was very young but i think i was learning how to spell jumping over barrels.....lol (strangely i remember it looking different )
 
Early to mid ‘70s there was an electronics company called SouthWestTechnicalProducts based in Texas.
I built my first computer kit from them.
Motorola 6800 processor and a whopping 1k of ram.
When I ran my first computer program, it took nearly an hour to debug the code (something about a “get” command).
Those were the days!
 
Sebastian Weetabix said:
Early to mid ‘70s there was an electronics company called SouthWestTechnicalProducts based in Texas.
I built my first computer kit from them.
Motorola 6800 processor and a whopping 1k of ram.
When I ran my first computer program, it took nearly an hour to debug the code (something about a “get” command).
Those were the days!
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Nearly an hour ?? :p
I remember days, approaching nervous breakdown, trying to find a space or comma in the wrong place.

This was college. COBOL on card readers. Admittedly I was not very good at it. I recall a lot of code bloat. I must have killed a forest working on one program.
 
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Sebastian Weetabix said:
Oh hell no!
This was the original “Hello World” program!
It took longer to debug than it did to actually input.
But debugging was a point of pride.
And far too often the mistake was one of perception, not incompetence.
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Yep, I went through the mainframe compiler / fanfold output times, the card entry (Hollerith cards) to mainframe to fanfold times, etc. I still write code daily for my work. Things have changed a bit since then, haha.

That guy Hollerith got the idea for the punch cards from the french, who used a similar card to program their automated looms. Hollerith made the cards the exact same size as the dollar bill (a bill was larger then than now). Hollerith became somewhat successful with this little invention - later, he renamed his company IBM :).
 
passedpawn said:
Yep, I went through the mainframe compiler / fanfold output times, the card entry (Hollerith cards) to mainframe to fanfold times, etc. I still write code daily for my work. Things have changed a bit since then, haha.

That guy Hollerith got the idea for the punch cards from the french, who used a similar card to program their automated looms. Hollerith made the cards the exact same size as the dollar bill (a bill was larger then than now). Hollerith became somewhat successful with this little invention - later, he renamed his company IBM :).
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And yet, he tried to get Steve Jobs to write the operating system for the new IBM home computer.
Jobs said he was too busy, but this kid he went to school with would probably do it for him. Kid named Billy Gates.
And Microsoft Windows GUI was born.
 
That ain’t DOS, the disc operating system.
That is the Graphical User Interface that Gates and Microsoft are best known for.

I could be wrong! I thought I was once way back when, but it turned out I was wrong!
 
BruceH said:
The story I remember is that IBM saw the future of computers in hardware. So some smart MBA types outsourced the dos to some kids named Bill Gates and Paul Allen to lower their costs.
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It was more of a schedule issue. Time to market required they procure a pre-existing OS. They tried for CPM, but the owner's wife and head lawyer wouldn't sign the NDA, so IBM went looking elsewhere. They ended up at Microsoft who had bought (or would go out and buy after the deal) Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer (IIRC). Q-DOS got rebranded as PC-DOS and MS-DOS. The smartest thing MS did was to license DOS to IBM rather than sell it outright. MS went on to shaft IBM on the OS2 joint development agreement by splitting off Windows as a separate product, and then forcing OS2 to become incompatible with Windows.

Brew on :mug:
 
My first PC had no hard drive. DOS (3.x) booted from a floppy into RAM. Then you could pull it out and use the floppy to load your software. It was called a PC jr.
ba-brewer said:
I don't recall the source but I think the GUI made famous by apple and MS was someone else's idea. I want to say it was group at Xerox but it could of been somewhere else.
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Yea, I think it was Xerox. They also invented the mouse.
 
ba-brewer said:
I don't recall the source but I think the GUI made famous by apple and MS was someone else's idea. I want to say it was group at Xerox but it could of been somewhere else.
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don't forget the Amiga Workbench! and how you had to downgrade it to play games! i always hated that thing....
 
ba-brewer said:
I don't recall the source but I think the GUI made famous by apple and MS was someone else's idea. I want to say it was group at Xerox but it could of been somewhere else.
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Yep, Zerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) Jobs visited there, then implemented for Apple. Then Apple sued Microsoft for implementing a similar windowing system in Windows. PARC also invented the mouse.

Brew on :mug:
 
Remember when it was just good planning to buy a months worth of groceries so you didn't have to go back for a month?

Now it's almost a crime and called hording. Why? Because we want to have a months worth of groceries so we don't have to go back for a month? New normal, lol.
 
nobadays said:
Heck... Three, even four finger lids for $10 -$15... yeah lots of shake, seeds and stems but hey it worked!
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Now you are showing your age.....recently I was talking to someone (much younger than I), that was describing what an ounce held in a plastic sandwich bag looked like. I said "oh you mean a three finger lid" and his answer was "what is a lid?"
 
BruceH said:
Anyone remember when weed had seeds? How about using an album cover to separate them? How about when Schlitz was the number 1 beer and it had Gusto?
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Narcos: Mexico season 1 is all about the guys who introduced the world to "sin semilla"

senior year high school, english class assignment was to submit a song as a poem. I did Rush "The Trees" & the teacher wanted to hear the song, so I brought in the album.

I opened it to show her the lyrics and apparently forgotten I had used it to de-weed the seeds in a previous session. She said "don't worry about it" & when she returned the album, it was clean

not surprising, she was a flower child from the 60s & the absolute coolest teacher I ever had
 
Our first computer back in the early 80's was a Texas Instruments TI-99. No hard drive, just the cassette tape. Mom bought an RU486 thing to make it faster. I learned to program on that thing; I remember getting Byte magazine and looking for the programs they would include, and typing for what seemed like hours to make pretty patterns on the TV. Then we got an Apple IIc and thought we were hot sh*t. Those were fun days.
 
seatazzz said:
Our first computer back in the early 80's was a Texas Instruments TI-99. No hard drive, just the cassette tape. Mom bought an RU486 thing to make it faster. I learned to program on that thing; I remember getting Byte magazine and looking for the programs they would include, and typing for what seemed like hours to make pretty patterns on the TV. Then we got an Apple IIc and thought we were hot sh*t. Those were fun days.
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For me, it was a TRS-80......started using it to produce and print out bills to customers.
 

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