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gillsterhill
09-07-2007, 03:13 PM
idk
im in my PC class and just got done with my work and decided to get on and post in the forums cause im bored
so how is everyone doing? :D
PS=my friend carly says "hi"
That's awesome, I remember my old computer class, or at least a class when I had a computer that could be used.
What are you suppose to do in that class, what you learning?
My high-school (and junior high) computer teacher found me on Facebook. How cool is that.
We were the first computer class for our school...Junior high was Apple ][s and high school was on IBM PCs. Turbo Pascal baby. Perhaps a little prolog and assembly. What's C?
They had this old PDP-11 mainframe in the back we played multi-player text games like Trek on.
Ok I'm old, but it was the 80's.
masherscf
09-07-2007, 03:53 PM
Is Carly cute? What am I saying, she's probably a child.
We didn't have internet in my highschool computer lab. We did have a great set of tin cans and string hooked to an Apple II.
Anyhow, you didn't log into the network, you logged into the mainframe.
It was a VAX for us, not a PDP-11. That's pretty old school. Did you learn Fortran IV or Fortran 77?
tokenuser
09-07-2007, 04:10 PM
My high-school (and junior high) computer teacher found me on Facebook. How cool is that.
We were the first computer class for our school...Junior high was Apple ][s and high school was on IBM PCs. Turbo Pascal baby. Perhaps a little prolog and assembly. What's C?
They had this old PDP-11 mainframe in the back we played multi-player text games like Trek on.
Ok I'm old, but it was the 80's.Our university lab for CSC100 was a room of Mac Plus' (dual floppies baby! - no HDD). Man were those floppy discs expensive ...
Since I worked fulltime, getting lab time was a problem, so I bought an Amstrad PC1512 running DOS and a windowed environment (that predted windows). I completed all my assignments using Borland Turbo Pascal (still have the original manual floating around somewhere), dialled into the Unix server, uploaded my code, went to the Mac lab, downloaded the code from the Unix box, and recompiled into MacPascal for submission.
In highschool, we walked across to the university campus and used their lab of Apple //e's for our computer science class. Funny thing is, between 1985 when I finished comuter Studies (years 9 and 10), and when I started my job as a Computer Science Trainee at the local steel plant in 1988, I barely touched a computer.
Ah - the memories.
deegraww
09-07-2007, 04:30 PM
Hey I'm at work on a HP model something or other using a vitural machine used to link to multiple store databases. I really wish I could use my Macbook at work I would get so much more done.
samureye
09-07-2007, 04:56 PM
I did Turbo Pascal as well. By "I" I mean my friend who I copied it from. Man I so can't program it's not funny.
gillsterhill
09-07-2007, 08:04 PM
That's awesome, I remember my old computer class, or at least a class when I had a computer that could be used.
What are you suppose to do in that class, what you learning?
its PC Maintenance, we learn the hardware/software and how to network computers
Is Carly cute? What am I saying, she's probably a child.
ya, shes a child u dirty man lol
nextgenxbox
09-07-2007, 09:32 PM
How do you expect to learn what you already know if you're on the internets? ;)
magunwarrior
09-07-2007, 10:41 PM
its PC Maintenance, we learn the hardware/software and how to network computers
Sounds a bit like the program I'm in, but mine takes up four periods and will get me certified to work on and network computers.
gillsterhill
09-07-2007, 11:46 PM
Sounds a bit like the program I'm in, but mine takes up four periods and will get me certified to work on and network computers.
ya mine is 3 periods long right now, it will be 4 next year
and after the 3 years this course lasts(sophomore-Senior) i can take the A+ Certification test
masherscf
09-07-2007, 11:56 PM
ya mine is 3 periods long right now, it will be 4 next year
and after the 3 years this course lasts(sophomore-Senior) i can take the A+ Certification test
Have you decided what you're doing for a career at 15? Or, are you just interested in earning some cash while you figure that out?
gillsterhill
09-08-2007, 12:00 AM
Have you decided what you're doing for a career at 15? Or, are you just interested in earning some cash while you figure that out?
well i defently(spelling) want a career in computers, i want to program but i cant take that class till next year
masherscf
09-08-2007, 12:02 AM
well i deficiently want a career in computers, i want to program but i cant take that class till next year
I felt the same way when I was your age. Keep you options open. The computer gig is cyclic. However, if you can do something creative with computers, you should do well.
magunwarrior
09-08-2007, 12:04 AM
Wow...we take out A+ and Net+ exams at the end of one year...
But then again, I am going to a technology high school for this part of the day, so that may be it.
gillsterhill
09-08-2007, 12:04 AM
I felt the same way when I was your age. Keep you options open. The computer gig is cyclic. However, if you can do something creative with computers, you should do well.
i love computers, i dont know wat i would do without them lol
Wow...we take out A+ and Net+ exams at the end of one year...
wow, we cover hardware the first year, software second, and then networking the third
masherscf
09-08-2007, 12:11 AM
i love computers, i dont know wat i would do without them lol
Well, so do it. I just found my education moving in other directions. I have no regrets. The main thrust of my research uses computers after all. However, the main focus of my research isn't about computers..at least not directly.
nextgenxbox
09-08-2007, 12:58 AM
well i defently(spelling) want a career in computers, i want to program but i cant take that class till next year
Well we know you won't be an author... ;)
gillsterhill
09-08-2007, 01:01 AM
Well we know you won't be an author... ;)
lol
i was great at spelling till like 5th grade
magunwarrior
09-08-2007, 01:21 AM
Did you perhaps get a computer in the 5th grade? ;)
Maybe you should look at those little red squiggly lines under all of your words :D
gillsterhill
09-08-2007, 01:30 AM
Did you perhaps get a computer in the 5th grade? ;)
Maybe you should look at those little red squiggly lines under all of your words :D
hahaha, my dad said i first started using a computer when i was 3 years old :D
masherscf
09-08-2007, 01:33 AM
hahaha, my dad said i first started using a computer when i was 3 years old :D
I first starting using a computer when you were minus 11.
ariastar
09-08-2007, 03:42 AM
Don't drop out. :)
scoobydiesel
09-08-2007, 07:39 AM
my bcis classes are on dells.... meh...i just got a macbook pro and my one teacher likes to ask me all the questions instead of asking the class o_O, glad i only have 3 classes this semester