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12 outdated tech terms
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hehe, I just forwarded this to our IT guy...
Good rule of thumb - if kids don't know what it means, it's outdated.Posted 2 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
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Annie, "dual floppies" has so many ways it can go wrong! LOL
Posted 2 years ago by mollycat71 #
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Dual-floppy's, hehe - I remember those!
I was going thru stuff, my shredder working overtime (I really don't need paystubs from 1988) and found a big floppy - the ones that are the size of 78 records. There's another one, try asking a kid what a 78 is.Posted 2 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
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WINDOWS 3.1-THUD
Posted 2 years ago by tinafishfrombirthplaceofElvis #
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LOL 2BP!! I still have working install disks for MS DOS 6.2.
Posted 2 years ago by Crazycatman - CA #
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LOL - I'm also feeling really old! I was in IT before any of these terms even existed! Like Joan, I've been going through stuff and shredding overtime, and I encountered some of those big old floppy disks that had old tax return data on them. I finally decided I could go ahead and shred them, since I have no way whatsoever to get to the data on them anyway!
Posted 2 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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OMG - Windows 3.1! MSDOS 6.2????? Nooooooooo!
Posted 2 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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I remember when I first started in IT we used punch card machines to create our programs!! A mainframe would fill up a whole room and data was kept on huge rolling drum storage which took up it's own room...lol, the dark ages. It wasn't until 1993 when our office had one shared PC running Windows 3.1, the rest of us used terminals that were hooked to a mainframe 1000 miles away. Fast forward to now, and all that stuff is probably in a museum somewhere for sure! My 50+ brain struggles to keep up... They say if the auto industry progressed at the rate of the technology industry, we could all buy a Mercedes for $2.50.
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I'm with you, Annie--I started as a computer programmer, before there was any such thing as "software", using RPG and Fortran (yes, I AM tht old!).
Posted 2 years ago by Sheba's Mom in Raleigh, NC #
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OMG! WTF? Why is text-messaging even known as such when there's no real text (just a jumble of garbled abbreviations that make no sense to a person for whom English is not a first or even a primary language)? I hate IM; I type every single word out painfully, to the obvious chagrin of those with whom I converse. Then these same folk think I am horribly stupid when I can't read their secret code and I have to ask them to redo the message in longhand so a normal person can understand it, and they get PO'd. I may not be a genius, but at least give me a fighting chance in an electronic conversation.
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LOL @ Sheba's Mom!! I remember Fortran, it was part of our programmer training in the USAF. Never used RPG though, I was a COBOL programmer, it was the most "English" like language at the time - it just seemed easier. Lucky for me, I didn't stay in programming all that long, it was never my strong suit...moved into business analyst/proj manager but I "speak geek" every day with the best of them! I can totally sympathize with Vicki, the English language has been totally taken over by acronyms, etc in our electronic world. I must admit I use a lot of them too, IM is the preferred communication method where I work. My original goal was to be an English teacher, still not sure how I wound up in IT but it pays the bills. Reading books is what I do for fun...
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