Just Fishing
Can't fix stupid
I was given keys to a forklift with a ball on one of the forks, and let loose in my grandpas construction business storage yard after being directed to a trailer i could play with.
Hours and hours!
What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?
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I was given keys to a forklift with a ball on one of the forks, and let loose in my grandpas construction business storage yard after being directed to a trailer i could play with.
Hours and hours!
Sparksalot
Elite Member
Yeehaw. New key fob programmed!
Yay the good ol days of a 28k dial-up modem in a house with a single phone line and cell phones were as expensive as and half the size of a car so when your buddy calls, the lines busy forever on end as you manage to load 6 web pages in an hour. So awesome.I still have one of those old pocket pc's from the 90's.
has a single pcmcia card that's a dial up modem, and not 56k.
two tone back lit lcd touch screen.
and volatile memory!
for years i used it just for solitaire.
BC (before computers) we had portable billing terminals that were about the size of a portable typewriter. They had two cups on top that would secure a phone -- landline, of course -- handset. Kind of like the TTY terminals for the hearing impaired. We could send messages between terminals; that was our early email utility. Obviously no Internet.
Tonyrodz
Resident Resident
DAMMMNNN!! You're old lol!!!BC (before computers) we had portable billing terminals that were about the size of a portable typewriter. They had two cups on top that would secure a phone -- landline, of course -- handset. Kind of like the TTY terminals for the hearing impaired. We could send messages between terminals; that was our early email utility. Obviously no Internet.
Thanks, Captain Obvious!
And, when we did get the internet, some of you may remember the Mosaic browser, one of the first. I remember having group classes at work, on what this new internet thingy was and how to use it.
iamdub
Full Access Member
I remember Mosaic. Marc Andreessen made a fortune taking what he learned writing Mosaic and creating Netscape Navigator and Netscape Corporation. He then went on to create his venture capital firm and a Billionaire along the way. I think Mosaic was licensed by Microsoft to later become Internet Explorer.
Pretty amazing living in this very time, when the rate of change made the jump to light speed.
iamdub
Full Access Member
Get me the source code and I probably could get it done pretty quickly.
So, you want me to power cycle it? Does that stop the little lights from blinking? Will that give me back my wifis?
I did my first one on a commadore 64 in Basic!Kids!
I wrote my first program on an IBM 1401.
It was the biggest one they made, 16K! At the time I thought, "who the heck is ever going to need 16K!"
No Internet, No Ethernet, no nettin'.
I should have ran with it at the time had I known where computers would be today
and ahh 14.4kpbs internet! I was going places, webtv was cool for a minute about the time I discovered internet ****, lol
I did my first one on a commadore 64 in Basic!
I was still in the Mainframe world when the world started to change with PC’s. I was recruited to a “networking” company in the very early 80’s. After spending a day at the company, the guy recruiting me, who was also new to the networking company took me out to dinner and asked what I thought.
I said, “well George, all these guys I met today said there was going to be this global network and everyone would have a computer on their desk that would talk to each other over this global network and we would all communicate with electronic mail...”. George said, “yeah, yeah, I know, pretty exciting right?” I said, “yeah, but, none of that is going to happen.”
He hired me anyway, it was a pretty lucky job change, dumb luck actually. The guys I worked around pretty much were the guys who invented the Internet, contrary to popular belief that Al Gore did it.
Some of the smartest guys I ever met, but maddening to be around. They would sit around and debate how to build a protocol that could scale up to world wide use and not break. Likely why the Internet is so reliable today, because of those guys endlessly debating what the best way to do it might be.
After getting that job, I always felt kind of like Chauncey Gardener.
PS - One of the brightest engineers there at the time was a graduate of GM Institute. I never realized how great that place was until I met that guy.
gooffeyguy
Tom
I wish I had the commadore 64 back then, but I only had the Vic-20, and I still have it with the original box on a shelf in my basement, and the datasette recorder (not disk drive, but cassette tape drive).I did my first one on a commadore 64 in Basic!
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Oh, and almost forgot, I ran the Yukon through the car wash twice today. It was so muddy, it looked like one of those prototypes the manufacturers cover up to hide the new body design.
Hopefully will have time tomorrow to install all four of the O2 sensors that just arrived from Rock Auto.
Hopefully will have time tomorrow to install all four of the O2 sensors that just arrived from Rock Auto.
Hopefully they don’t pull an @Tonyrodz on you...
George B
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No kidding!
It sounds like I am going to want to hear this story.
Maybe I will PM him and have another cup of coffee. The garage floor is pretty cold this morning.
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