The Computer Age

[Mobasser]

I've learned to use my fish finder pretty well, but it's not hard. Where I've had trouble is doing basic functions, copy, paste, and similar things. I'm sure like most things, the more you do it, the easier it becomes.

[Log Catcher]

I struggle with all this technology. There are many things I don't know how to do on the computer. We even got new android smart phones earlier this year. I can make a call or answer a call with it. I thought I was really doing good when I finally sent a text message with it. Someday I will push my luck and try to send another one.

[Mobasser]

I've learned to use my fish finder pretty well, but it's not hard. Where I've had trouble is doing basic functions, copy, paste, and similar things. I'm sure like most things, the more you do it, the easier it becomes. I'm just happy I can log on to BR, and make these post.

I've learned to use my fish finder pretty well, but it's not hard. Where I've had trouble is doing basic functions, copy, paste, and similar things. I'm sure like most things, the more you do it, the easier it becomes. I'm just happy I can log on to BR, and make these post.

I've learned to use my fish finder pretty well, but it's not hard. Where I've had trouble is doing basic functions, copy, paste, and similar things. I'm sure like most things, the more you do it, the easier it becomes. I'm just happy I can log on to BR, and make these post.

[CrankFate]

Born in 76 got out of HS in 1994. We did not have computers in school. There were no cell phones. We had computers in my junior high, but all we did was play Oregon trail probably once or twice a month for about an hour. I still took typing class in high school on a typewriter. They had computer classes, which were still new when I was in my second year of college. So if you’re feeling old, just think, it wasn’t until 1996 that they started teaching computers in school. It was between then and when I got out of college that computers became another supply like notebooks, text books and calculators. The computer age started a lot later than it feels like today.

[Tennessee Boy]

I was first exposed to computers when I took a programming course my senior year of high school in 1980.  We were using Radio Shack TRS80 computers.  I took to it quickly and I became a software developer after I graduated from college. The technology has changed a lot in the last 40 years.

[Catt]

1981 I started with a Microsoft PC-DOS 1.0, don't know a whole lot. Just keep moving up from there. 15 years in the aerospace industry I have used some pretty high tech equipment. I used a 3D digitizers, I placed part needing to built on the "table", turn it on & went home. The next morning I had a detailed 3D blueprint ready for the CNC mill.

 

Actually I got kinda burnt out with it all. 

 

Greatest invention ever: computer 

Most aggravating invention ever: computer 

[schplurg]

11 hours ago, king fisher said:

I think computers and other new tech. makes people lazy.  Just look at your TV remote.  Can you imagine someone so lazy they wont bother to tell their wife or kids to turn the TV channel?

Ya but there were only 3 channels back then! 4 if you count that one local UHF channel.

[Jaderose]

10 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

Fish finder?

Nope.  

[The Bassman]

I struggle with tech like a lot of you guys. I'm still on a flip phone (go ahead and laugh). Not related to tech but a bad choice I made in high school (68-72) was taking junior ROTC instead of shop. Bad enough getting teased when in uniform but to this day I'm not comfortable with power tools, saws especially. My dad was handy and tried to teach me but it just didn't click with me.

[gim]

2 hours ago, Jaderose said:

Nope.  

You don't even use sonar?  How the heck do you know how deep it is?

[padlin]

19 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Not far behind you - 1959/1978

 

1971-72 school year I was at a private college-prep school. They had an old HP Mini with those yellow roll-paper terminals. I taught myself the programming language so I could have the computer do my math homework for me.

 

High-school - we had Decwriter terminals with dial-up connections to the state educational computer. Played text games, learned more programming.

 

Air-Force (1980-1984), my primary job was computer op. Purchased a Commodore-64 in 1982 and have had at least one computer since...right now there's three in the house.

 

 

Pretty much the same story, minus the prep school. Spent my AF years in the underground at Offutt in computer maint and the next 35 at the WSJ in tech of all sorts. Computers and phones are no problem but... I'm on my 2nd fish finder and still don't know what it's trying to tell me so I don't use them regularly. Temp and depth is all I get out of them. Maybe I need to spend more then $100.

 

[MN Fisher]

5 minutes ago, padlin said:

Spent my AF years in the underground at Offutt in computer maint

3907 CPUSS?

 

I was running the computer in the basement that supported the War Room.

[Glenn]

Ever since I was a kid, I liked to take electronics apart to figure out how they worked.  Radios, walkie-talkies, toasters, electric drills, you name it.  Then computers caught my eye.

 

I wrote an essay on Cray-1 supercompters in jr high.

 

Learned Basic and a little bit of Cobal and Fortran in high school.  My friend had a Trash80 and I a Texas Instruments computer where I learned DOS and played text-base games. 

 

In college, I was all over USENET and networks; and I took a typing class - I was the only guy in a class of 35.

 

When the web hit in the early 90's, I taught myself html, javascript, web design, and usability.  Launched BassResource, then went to work at Microsoft where I learned more object-oriented languages and XML, as well as different protocols like mms, tcs, and others while working on over 50 websites.  Then I worked for T-Mobile on their web team and learned all about cell phones as well as emerging web technologies and development methodologies such as AngularJS and Agile. 

 

Now I work at another company's web team that is growing in leaps and bounds. Still learning every day.

 

Bought a lot of computers along the way.  Been a fun ride, and it's not over yet.  Technology is ever-changing (just found Bluetooth light bulbs on Amazon yesterday - WHY????).

 

While the promise of a paperless office has never really reached fruition, many other technologies and breakthroughs have come along that none of could ever imagine way back when.  Looking forward to the future!

 

 

 

[Mobasser]

When I recently got my new cellphone, the kid showed me some wristwatches that were both cellphones and small computers. The tech has grown immensely. I never thought Id see the day. A wristwatch phone? Straight out of an old James Bond movie.

[Jig Man]

2 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

When I recently got my new cellphone, the kid showed me some wristwatches that were both cellphones and small computers. The tech has grown immensely. I never thought Id see the day. A wristwatch phone? Straight out of an old James Bond movie.

Didn’t Dick Tracy have one?

[A-Jay]

4 hours ago, Jig Man said:

Didn’t Dick Tracy have one?

Maxwell Smart had a shoe phone ~ 

A-Jay

[Chris Catignani]

Im a total technophobic. Network engineer and C# dev. ASP/MVC MSSql...and on and on. I love messing with Arduino and ESP32 devices...but firstly...it fishing.

[12poundbass]

17 hours ago, CrankFate said:

We had computers in my junior high, but all we did was play Oregon trail probably once or twice a month for about an hour

I loved Oregon Trail! Hunting the Buffalo was always fun. Lol

 

I believe I beat it once, but usually I died of starvation, some sort of disease, or a group of Indians took me out. ?

[flyfisher]

On 12/22/2021 at 1:11 PM, Mike L said:

If wasn’t for my younger grandkids I’d still have a rotary phone!

 

 

 

 

Mike

you still have a land line phone?  wow

[MN Fisher]

11 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

you still have a land line phone?  wow

Some of us are a little slow to change over. Even though I've had a cell since 1995, we finally 'cut the cord' at home last year.

[Mike L]

25 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

you still have a land line phone?  wow

I did until my grandkids came along!

?

 

Mike

[Spankey]

Mo I’m right there with you’59/‘77. I’m no computer wiz. I hate it and despise it. To me it’s just a tool no different than my 3/4” drive set or my multimeter on a day to day basis. I’m in heavy industrial equipment repair, a lot of parts locating and various tech support stuff. I could be a lot better on it than I am but I choose not to be any better than I am. I’m not gonna live and die by it. I can surf it for what I need, e-mail whomever, make work related charts. Don’t sweat it. The more you use it the better you’ll get. Same with the phone. I prefer to have a decent phone really because I use it for work related pics. They truly speak 1000 words. In a few months I’m pulling the plug on this work BS. I had enough. Don’t care if I have a computer or cell anymore. We’ll that’s not true I’ll need something to stay on here with you guys and to order from TW. 

[GreenPig]

On 12/22/2021 at 1:14 PM, Mobasser said:

A- Jay, the local junior college near me offers a free course in computer training. I'm thinking about taking the course after new year. They're trying to help crusty old bass dudes like me to get with it. Like you, my wife is much better at it than me. She helps me out, when I get stuck, which is often.

Do it. My grandmother went to a couple free computer courses several years ago at our local college and it really helped her out. 

[MN Fisher]

2 hours ago, Chris Catignani said:

Im a total technophobic.

I think you mean 'techno-phile'

 

A technophobe would be afraid of the new technology...that's just one step up from a luddite.

[flyfisher]

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

I did until my grandkids came along!

?

 

Mike

 

2 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Some of us are a little slow to change over. Even though I've had a cell since 1995, we finally 'cut the cord' at home last year.

I am a bicentennial baby and when I moved from VA to El Paso in 2000, I went with cell only and have been that way ever since.  I did have to keep a land line for DSL internet back then but I don't think I even had a phone number to go along with it.