Seen in Print

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Lovely image - I'll take your word for its efficacy.

It works more effectively if you also get a bottle of water. Imported from Tijuana.

Thanks for the testimonial - I'll file it away...................not.

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Never saw that. And I'm getting old (I hope.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Never saw that. And I'm getting old (I hope.)

Don't remember that either......maybe I'm not old enough?

[HONDO74]

It would depend on when you first got involved with computers. In the early days of Windows it did not shut the computer down like it does now. This screen usually appeared on Win95

[Wolf]

And what does it make you if you got involved with computers BEFORE they
came up with that screen???

The first computers I used were not "self-service"----you had to punch your
programs on IBM "punch" cards and then submit the deck to an operator
who ran that batch whenever there was time available....and then you had to
return to retrieve your deck and printout of the run. Sometimes it took several
iterations to get the program to run and give you the correct (or usable) output.

[webenda]

Same as Wolf. Mid 60's, learned Fortran, wrote code, keyed into a computer that produced Fortran deck of IBM punched cards. Ran Fortran deck through a computer to translate into Machine Code and output IBM punch card deck. Machine code deck then ran computer application. There were no monitors. To find out if code was working you examined either the print out results or the part cut by an NC Machine (mill, drill press, lathe, etc.)

[PRR Man]

little later for me. early 70's learned BASIC in college at the computer lab on a key station connected to the mainframe. frustrating lines of code. got a bit better with Win 3.1. spent most of my time configuring hardware jumpers. felt lucky to have 4MB of RAM

[healey36]

Sounds legit:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And what does it make you if you got involved with computers BEFORE they
came up with that screen???

Really old?

I started out with cards back in the early 70's and had cabinets of cards / programs before moving to a terminal connected to a main frame that was in a room the size of my 1st home.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Sounds legit:

Makes more sense that a lot of nonsense I've been seeing this year - actual cause and effect paired together - rational thought.

Then again. I like buying the bags of grated/shredded cheese at Costco,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Now that I think of it, when I was a boy, and when I had my first apt. as a just-starting-out young man, a block of Parmesan or Cheddar was always in the frig waiting for grating or shredding. I'm not sure when it changed for me, but my hand always goes for the plastic box of grated cheese, nowadays. In fact, up until the 80's and my move away from a neighborhood that had its own iconic Italian deli, I used to buy those big "globes" of Provolone that hung from the rack in a thick twine frame around the cheese above the refrigerated counter . To me, that was the only way to buy good Provolone. Now, sliced in a see-through packet will do. Sort of.

[E7]

And what does it make you if you got involved with computers BEFORE they
came up with that screen???

Ada Lovelace??????

[Wolf]

Well, I'm NOT that old, nor the proper gender to be Ada. Nor would I be mistaken for
Charles Babbage, George Boole, or Herman Hollerith, all of whom predate that computer
screenshot (but still had a definite role in the advent of computers)
Wayne--Great to hear from someone else who started out with Fortran and/or Cobol using
punched card decks in the mid-sixties! When I went back for my IFSM degree,
technology had advanced to the remote-terminals-connected-to-mainframe stage
with almost-instantaneous feedback (or error messages! ).

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Is it true, or just legend, that when President Eisenhower was shown a room-sized computer, his first time seeing such a machine, that he was told he could ask it anything. So, he asked it, "Is there a God?"

The reply came, "There is now." (meaning, that since he asked, that put info in, causing the question to have an answer.)