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[mitchell65]

Thought I would just say Hello. I have been using Windows in one form or another since version 3.0. For you youngsters out there that was the version before Windows supported True Type fonts and you were lucky if you had more than 6 or 7 fonts on your system. Each font was bought separately and was quite expensive. Most of us today have far too many fonts on the system.
I joined the Forum as I had a few queries with Win 7 but before I needed to post any of them I easily found the answers via the Forum search box. So for that 10 out of 10. Thanks

 

[Airbot]

Hi Mitchell, welcome aboard.

 

[Crispy]

Welcome to the forums, I still remember the days of Windows 3.1 lol. mmmmm Magic Carpet.

 

[Kari]

Hi Mitchell, welcome to the Seven forums. It's always nice to have other older geeks here, not to be the only one who still remembers what EGA and DOS mean.

Kari

 

[Tews]

Welcome to Seven Forums Mitchell

 

[adt]

Welcome to the forums

 

[Phase]

Welcome!

 

[valtonray]

Thought I would just say Hello. I have been using Windows in one form or another since version 3.0. For you youngsters out there that was the version before Windows supported True Type fonts and you were lucky if you had more than 6 or 7 fonts on your system. Each font was bought separately and was quite expensive. Most of us today have far too many fonts on the system.
I joined the Forum as I had a few queries with Win 7 but before I needed to post any of them I easily found the answers via the Forum search box. So for that 10 out of 10. Thanks

welcome to sevenforums it's nice seeing someone come in to join our community here with such experience.

 

[Arc]

Welcome in Windows Seven (Forums) Family. We are increasing in an accelerated rate

 

[mitchell65]

Welcome in Windows Seven (Forums) Family. We are increasing in an accelerated rate

Perhaps even exponentially then, thanks for the welcome

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Mitchell, welcome to Seven Forums!

 

[karlsnooks]

Welcome. Always glad to have another member with years of experience. The equipment changes but the problems are the same.

I cut my teeth on the IBM 650 and SOAP. That should give the youngsters something to google.

 

[ryo]

Welcome. Always glad to have another member with years of experience. The equipment changes but the problems are the same.

I cut my teeth on the IBM 650 and SOAP. That should give the youngsters something to google.

you cut ur teeth on IBM?? seems so nice

but also in here i can explore more thing and help other too to solved problem, this nice forum

 

[CarlTR6]

Welcome Mitchell. I learned MS-DOS and Windows 3.0. That was LONG time ago.

 

[RedBirdDad]

Welcome aboard! Always room for another old guy!



karlsnooks: I cut my teeth on a 1620 and Fortran.

 

[karlsnooks]

RedBird,
Not that much later. I've also programmed the 1620 in Fortran. Did you ever get to learn how to wire up a 101 board which was used on the 650s and on the Ibm 101?

Ah the joys of punched cards.

 

[RedBirdDad]

RedBird,
Not that much later. I've also programmed the 1620 in Fortran. Did you ever get to learn how to wire up a 101 board which was used on the 650s and on the Ibm 101?

Ah the joys of punched cards.

Fortunately I'm not that old!

Although I've spent a lot of time at 026 and 029's! I satisfy my mainframe fix every once in awhile by running a Hercules system with a 3174, 3278 and 3287.

 

[whs]

Hmm, some oldtimers are talking - 650, 1620. Those were second generation for me. I started on a Zuse Z11. And I also remember the damn drum rotation calculations one had to make to optimize performance. But a machine I really liked was the 1401 (variable word length). Then the 7070 and 7090 and on to the /360s and on and on. You had to have muscle in those days hauling the boxes of 2000 punch cards around. All that is good old history for the Smithsonian museum - and so are probably some of us. LOL

 

[RedBirdDad]

Z11, I've read about that machine. Quite ahead of it's time.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has TWO operational 1401's. One is a German machine complete with 50Hz power and the other from Connecticut.

Maybe we need an old timers forum. The kids would have no clue what we're talking about.

 

[MrEd]

Hello, my name is Ed, and I'm an addict.

Am I in the right place?! lol