100 members

[tt3]

Think we'll hit it by November? I was suprized, last time I noticed we were still in the low 60's, and now we're above 80!
Hey, guys just signing up, post away, tell us who you are, what you are doing, rant a bit, we love it! The more folks posting, the more the rest of us know you are out there, and you know we are out here!
Thanks for joining, pitch in!
Cheers,
Tony

[SAHF]

100 :?:

I remember when we only had like 40+ :D We are cooking with greese NOW!!

[kidswriter71]

Well, I am new to this forum but not new to computers, the internet, and forums in general.

I've been online since before the internet was available to the general public. I used to run a BBS with a 300 baud modem and yammered away on Fidonet. I remember when 1200, then 2400 baud was screamin' fast :lol:

You'll find that my posts are generally long-winded and don't always make sense :wink: I love to write - it was my first love before I got into radio. With any luck I'll be a published children's author sometime soon. I've got a lot of writing under my belt; technical articles, manuals and such and a few years ago started writing kids books in my "spare time". Now that I am a SAHD and not working 10-18 hours a day I actually have time to finish some things and complete the submissions process...

There, now you know a little more about me.

I'm glad I found this place...

[tt3]

I remember logging into the Shadow BBS with my 1200baud modem on my folks computer... what a hoot!

[kidswriter71]

I remember The Shadow. It was quite a board. One of the biggest, I think. I ran two boards, Multiplicity and The Radio Room. My boards were rinky-dinky though.

Ah, the days of BBSing! Slow modems, ANSI graphics, 5 1/4 inch floppies, and upgrading to a 40 meg MFM hard drive for the bargain price of $120!

[tt3]

I thought I was king sh!t when I got an 80mb harddrive to load "eye of the beholder" on!
Them's the days, eh?
:lol:

[SAHF]

Ah..the good old days!

16MB Ram....16 million color video cards and DOS....DOS games and learning how to work..himem.sys and moving your mouse drivers around so you could play the games! Then QEMM came out...what a HUGE jump in technology!

NICE!

[SAHF]

Come on now...the Vic20 was AWESOME!!

[kidswriter71]

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A.

16k of RAM, 16 color graphics.

It was really something special when I got the cassette drive to go with it...

[kidswriter71]

I thought I was king sh!t when I got an 80mb harddrive to load "eye of the beholder" on!
Them's the days, eh?
:lol:

That was quite the gaming monster machine you had there. :prayer: :supz: :mrgreen:

[Jackson's Dad]

Oh man, we got ourselves a group of old computer geeks. Excellent! My first computer was an Apple II. Not a IIe or a II+, but a 1976 Apple II. Spent a summer scraping untold layers of paint from my uncle's old farmhouse to earn it. Still have it, although it barely puts along now. My parents just dug up a box of my old floppies, filled with the games I played and the silly programs I wrote. I'll have to get it working again just to see if any of them will still load.

[tt3]

My brother had an Apple Laser something or another... somewhere between the IIe and mac. Then he swiftly went to a dos system :P

[benj]

What do you get when you cross an old computer geek and a sahd

brewer?....Stale Ale

[benj]

No worries Louis... I missed the mark probably...It's more an Aussie style pub yarn...

Try this ..

A woman drove me to drink
and I never had the courtesy to thank her -W.C. Fields

[SAHF]

What do you get when you cross an old computer geek and a sahd

brewer?....Stale Ale

:lol:

The TAPE drive was STATE of the ART for its time. M.U.L.E. was one of the first games I had for it! Played it like EVERYDAY!! lol

[benj]

Sorry Louis, being born and bred in the States I find cricket even more boring than baseball. I'm a NFL man and Soccer during World Cup...I have been to Scotland and appreciate the Bagpipe and the Malt.

[tt3]

What do you get when you cross an old computer geek and a sahd

brewer?....Stale Ale
:lol: :lol:

And if I'm caucasion can I call it Stale Pale Ale? Can I use that?!? If I still did labels for my beer, I'd put that on there for sure, giving credit to benj for the title!

[kidswriter71]

Believe it or not, the Commodore 64 and 128 were in use as broadcast automation systems at quite a few radio stations, even into the mid-90's. We affectionately called them the "Commode Door" :D

My childhood pal, who is now a C++ programmer guru, had a C64. The one thing I remember about it was waiting 10-15 minutes for the programs to load off the 5 1/4" floppies. #-o

[SAHF]

Yeah, I remember that well. Would put a prog in and go eat dinner.... dad would say "it's thinking"

It was like waiting for your first webpage to download from the internet on your brand spacking new 14400 modem! :roll:

:D

[Don-Dad]

We were too poor for computers :oops: We only had an atari game system because we won it form captain crunch cereal. My riend had a commodore 64, we used to play a football game on that for hours.

Back on topic, up to 88 members, 100 should happen by years end.

[Jackson's Dad]

sounds good!

[Remington]

I got some beer ready for the moment.

[tt3]

I almost always have beer ready for any moment, I'm in!

um... is that 9pm cst?
:oops:

[floridamcmarion1]

:D :D :D :supz: \:D/ :partyman: \:D/ :supz: :D :D :D

In case you have not noticed, on October 3rd, 2004, 2nd time around officially became the 100th member of DadStaysHome.com :!: :!: :!:
That means he buys the next round, right :?:

[Don-Dad]

I need beer after this move, almost done ) Might not be online much the next week :( Waiting to get the new cable modem.

[Remington]

I am sipping a beer now... why wait? :D

[SAHF]

=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

[tt3]

Day late and a dollar short, but I'm sipping a few pints to catch up with all y'all!
:partyman:

[Remington]

glug glug! Tell me when to stop! :wink:

[tt3]

*hiccup* Shheeesh, nooooone said we had to sop, er, stop, did they?

why won't the room stop spinning?

:wink:





(um, on the outside chance you think I'm serious... just kidding)

[Hawkbit]

For the record, I found this link through the book "Pregnancy Sucks: For Men".

The info here has been a big help so far, even though ours is still 3 months off... Holding my breath till 5/1/05.

[Don-Dad]

Pregnancy Sucks: For Men Nice book title, hehehehe. They never asked for my permission for a link, maybe I can sue :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Don-Dad]

that or cause a ruckus.

[Indy]

that or cause a ruckus.

I plan to form two parties, then fillibuster when we hit 300.

[jeffus]

Well, who's gonna be #200?

I see the member counter is precariously hanging at 199!

Wow, 200. Don, you may be on Oprah's radar sometime soon! :D

[jeffus]

Where was I when this thread was going on....?

I was dorking around on the Radio Shack Trash 80's, the Texas TI99 as well with the tape that never quite worked too. (circa 1982)

Went to the major leagues in college coding FORTRAN on punch cards. Submit cards to mainframe - wait for big-ol-print-out. Never drop the cards! (circa 1984)

Huge step forward using the library terminals (circa 1987) for PASCAL. No paper/cards. A tad more interactive.

By 1988, they were handing out PC's to all the freshmen. 8088's if I'm not mistaken (maybe 286's). But they ran word processors and BASIC. Great for senior thesis's.

Oh, the 286 processor. And then the 386. WordPerfect. Lotus 1-2-3.

Can't tell ya how many autoexec.bat and config.sys 's I wrote wayback.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

[tt3]

Dude, I had to go back two pages to figure out what the heck you were talking about!!
Brings back memories though... Reading threads from two and three years ago!

[jeffus]

Louis is picking at old wounds and this is the pus that came out.....:shock: