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[STRIPE69]

1990s

Smell what The Rock is Cookin!!!!

 

[STRIPE69]

1980s

ThunderCats Hooooooooo!

 

[DragonLord47]

I used to love this cartoon in the early to mid 90s, sadly I don’t think it caught on. I think it only had a couple seasons, but it was good.

 

[saddlebum66]

Zorro- Walt Disney grabbed this up for his original 1950s B/W Americana tv show. it aired on Wednesday night. Davy Crockett, Elfego Baca, John Slaughter, Francis Marion, Zorro all come to mind....some caught on enough to have companion products....Crockett's Coonskin Cap....and this collection. I didnt have this boxed set, but had a rapier with a chalk tip. My mother gave these to the kids at my 7th Bday party, in lieu of Favors....for weeks after, everywhere in the neighborhood, Z's were visible....Zorro was truly Everywhere!

 

[dartel]

 

[saddlebum66]

Windows 3

 

[dartel]

Windows 3

It's photoshopped. That's modern Word, but Clippy hasn't existed in Word since the 90s. But it's the only actually Clippy, non-meme, shot I could quickly find.

 

[saddlebum66]

I remember the thing...First thing I did was to dis-invoke the help screens....I had been using the other guys word processor....not lotus but....Ah...Wordperfect, which I liked better.. . Word tended to screw me up

 

[saddlebum66]

I remember it, and used DOS in the day. Not well, but I used it.?That was in the days when Microsoft bought what they didnt develop.

 

[saddlebum66]

Used to be a magazine called "Compute" which printed programming for do it yourselfers... I liked that one....debugging was a pain, but it was a way of learning

 

[saddlebum66]

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Thats exactly how I felt about that little @#$!%$&....even had a smarmy look to him

 

[spinachisgross10]

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Eddie played it better

 

[saddlebum66]

I could have wished for a similar assistant for excel...that took a little more of a learning curve. Pencil and paper I was fine but if they required a spreadsheet, I was in trouble.

I had clippy enabled for word processing. That was something I did infrequently so it was helpful. On Excel? No way.

 

[saddlebum66]

For me, formatting documents (Word, word perfect) was a struggle early on. Didn't do it often.

Spreadsheets was another story. But, I'm a numbers kinda a gal so that should make sense.

Mmmhmm. My favorite Word Processor

 

[UR20Z]

My high school got computers my junior year. Computer science I was mandatory for all Juniors.

They were TRS80's. Older than those in the picture.

My first "official" computer course - "BASIC for Business" - was taught on TRS-80 Model IIIs.

I'll never forget the "Connect to the printer, LIST your code, do a final run, and hand in the printout - your grades will be ready in about three weeks" final class - I had to re-write my entire program from scratch after getting a "DIRECT STATEMENT ON FILE ERROR" message when I tried to load what I'd saved at the end of last week's class...

It wasn't until about 3 years later I found out what had caused the problem (In essence, something got glitched during the save, nuking a line number), and what the fix (change "LOAD" to "EXEC") was that would have pulled it back from "Data Heaven".

Still aced the course, but man, you wanna talk about sweating bullets trying to reconstruct 3 weeks of work in a 2 hour session...

What impressed me most was that I managed to re-create the program with only one error - When adding up the "how much social security should be forwarded to Uncle Sam?", I added it up proper, but fat-fingered the "TF" variable as "FT" in the print statement, so what got printed under the "TOTAL FICA" header was a big fat zero.

 

[UR20Z]

Mmmhmm. My favorite Word Processor

HELLLLLLLLLLO, Selectric!

First typewriter I ever used that could keep up with me without jamming about every 5th keystroke.

Then along came the version that had the "lift-off" correction tape - Suddenly, I thought I was in heaven

 

[saddlebum66]

The II was the best....never liked the IlI and the first was not much better but I never learned to type. 45 wpm was the best I could do.

 

[Meg97]

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Meg

 

[Taopony]

Neopets! Was fun when I was younger, got really into it. Funnily enough, the site introduced me to the basics of investing and web design as well.

 

[BruceD77]

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They even made a 4 door version....
It was called the WEGO..

 

[BruceD77]

Freestylin' magazine...

 

[humananimal]

They even made a 4 door version....
It was called the WEGO..

Was there a LEGO version too ? ?

 

[dartel]

Was there a LEGO version too ? ?

I think that's called the Nissan Cube.

 

[UR20Z]

Was there a LEGO version too ? ?

Yeah, but it was only sold in France

 

[saddlebum66]

? "In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man" ?. Add in my dear old Daddio, and these are the guys who told me. From the left: Gene, The Ranger, Hoppy, and Roy. Tonto is not on the Ranger Ring, because he had a ring of his own. These were gumball machine prizes, but represented a spectrum the stars and celebs today could never live up to. Laugh if you will, but I KNOW who I am....who are you?

 

[saddlebum66]

Almost to the Minute, 79 years ago. And damned if it needs more explanation than this: Some of these guys are people I grew up with.‍?

 

[Puhp]

 

[saddlebum66]

And the Morning and the Evening were The Longest Day. ?"Bless em all..." ?

 

[Taopony]

Kinda wish they would release an HD remake of this game on the Switch. It's a masterpiece.

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Funnily enough, not long after I made this post, they released an HD remaster... lol

 

[BruceD77]