Mac 512 was my induction into mousedom.
Remember waking up at my computer table, slumped over the keyboard with my right arrn stretched out holding the mouse.

First scanner was a cartridge that replaced the ink cartridge in my dox matrix printer. Only scanned stuff that could feed thru the printer. Was the same resolution as the printer. And I thought it was so cool.

I ran a program called Ventura Publisher for desktop publishing. It ran in the operating system of Gem, invented by a team that had worked for Xerox (PARC) and the inventor of the mouse, and the graphic interface. Gem was from some guys that left Xerox, and took what they had learned. Of course both Mac and Microsoft went to see demos on the stuff Xerox was doing and their mouths feel open. Microsoft made a mad dash to beat Mac to the market with Windows and released Windows that was full of bugs, and slow, but it did hit the market before Macintosh. Of course Mac had Steve Jobs and better design crew.

I got into computers in the early 80s first with a Commodore Vic 20 than the Commodore 64. The C-64 got me into modems at 300 Baud, and I got online with Compuserve in 1983 and bought a pair of jeans. Then I got my first Compuserve bill, and dropped that and found the bulletin boards. I even ran a BBS for PCA for several years for the newsletter editors.

Happy Hump Day!

Funny how that means something different if you are a Camel versus a Dog.

Uh, think you need to recheck. Mac was released in 1984, Windows 1.0 was release in 1985.
Apple provided Microsoft the code for MacOS so Microsoft could code Word, Multiplan (later called Excel, and File (was a simple database that died) to be released when the Mac was in 1984. Windows 1.0 was a GUI extension for DOS. MacOS was a complete operating system. Apple actually got permission from Xerox to use the window based interface using the mouse, and ethernet (which Apple called Appletalk) from Xerox-Parks because Xerox thought it had nothing to do with copiers.

Used various computers since 1976 and our HS's terminal access to the school systems main frame. My brother got an AppleII in 1977 and I used it and later one at work. Did not get my own computer until 1984. Got an Appleiic because it did color and the new Mac did not. It was also easier to program using Applesoft Basic, and Microsoft's Assembly Language Compiler for AppleII. The language for the first macs was Pascal.

In 1986 switched over to a mac because it did WYSIWYG for typesetting and could just take my pagemaker file to the typesetters, and get a layed out page of type, no more cut and paste on the drawing board. There was also an emulator that I could run all my AppleII software on the mac.

Morning all. I think I wasted all the good weather in Ireland. We according to the talking heads could be looking at the wettest July on record.

Yeah, this fourth I didn't hear any "it's too dry so be careful shooting off fireworks burn alerts."

We had them but then the rain came.

The Amiga had color (thousands, not four), a context button on the mouse instead of a single button, WYSIWYG documents, proper preemptive multitasking, and you didn't have to swap disks a few dozen times to get anything done. Was good at ray tracing, though far from live, live video and you could get a toaster for it when the 2000 came out. The weirdest thing I ever used was a "scanner" that was a set of filters you put in front of a video camera connected to the computer. Full color scans but it took three passes, one for each color filter.

They were used in films like Jurassic Park and TV shows like SeaQuest. Too bad it was such a poorly run company.

Stijn!!
 

Yea, the Amega has lots going for it. Our first computer at work was a 6 MHz IMB AT. It had 2 meg of ram and a 32 meg hard drive. It had one amber monitor and a second monitor with a 16.7 million color display to show the graphic. We designed 35 mm slides with a program called Zenograpgics. We out put them to a 35 mm slide. Any hotel or conference center on the planet had a slide projector. That was a very profitable setup for the company. The instructions were pitiful, and I had to teach the graphic artist computer basics. Funny part was every time the computer beeped with an error she would apologize to the computer. She finally quit, and I took over and got a cut of those profits.

That was in 1986.

Funny, we have more on the L1/L2 cache than the old computers had total RAM.

Yea, I am still amazed how far computers have come. My cell phone has 128 Gig of memory. With some of the computers and software we have we can have the software can do distributed computing to dole out pieces of the data, one computer churns on nothing but that one piece and then gets done, and is assigned the next piece and we can add as many computers as we can afford to buy. Of course each CPU has to pay for a seat, so it gets expensive fast. But for a big project, let it eat!

My current video card has 16 Gig of memory on board.

Yep, that was where I first met Glen. Using the slide service at the photo lab.

that explains a lot.

I just finished updating my GPS to the current maps. I got curious and looked up the trips I have taken. A total mileage of 24,334 miles so far. The couple we are going to go see in Big Pine key are 1,744 miles from my house. This is gonaa be for sure a 5,000 mile or so trip.

I always like to enter the addresses of the hotel I am going to be at, and the destinations of places I know I am going to go to.

I hate when 5hits not done right and I get to fix it. :mad:

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That white wire going in with the red ones does look like it has some red tape on the end. My houses all have just black and white with uninsulated ground.

Do have a wall switch that has wires, but doesn't seem to go to anything.

An old ceiling fan was there and I’m putting up a new one. At some point, some knob has installed a three wire fan controller and needed to run an additional wire to the switch/controller. Not only did they run that wire on the wrong side of the joist, they then proceeded to patch the hole that they had made bigger with silicone rather than plaster.

Does Oz use the 220 volts for households like much of Europe and UK?

Thought maybe my extra switch went to the living room light/ceiling fan. It is in on the wall in the same electrical box as the living room light/fan. But when I replaced the fan there was only one set of wires. The fan we liked best did not have a remote, dern it. So have to use the pull chains. Maybe the extra switch turns something on/off at a neighbors?

Was going to put in a wider attic door in my garage ceiling and found all the kitchen wiring was running on the other side of the joist I needed to remove and use that space for the wider door. Not enought slack to make room for the door. Had already opened the box so donated the wider door to habitat for humanities. Some friends of mine ended up buying that door from the habitats store. Ended up installing a newer door that the frame was thinner making the hole a little bigger, but not as big as a wider door would have provided.