Computer terms you don't hear anymore

[rynochop]

Commodore 64

No other personal computer system has sold more units, to this day.

A childhood friend had one back in the I guess early, mid 80s. We played this baseball game where you had to put in a cassette tape, go play outside for an hour or so for it to load, then play this game that we thought was awesome.

Anyone have an Amiga? That was like a supercomputer

 

[Reverend Conehead]

My biggest disappointment with computing was the demise of WordStar. I used it for years after it was already obsolete. Today, I still program some of its commands into LibreOffice Writer, which I now use.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Just recently = "Paint"

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

They're now "app developers".

Yup...It's all buzz words, acronyms and semantics.

Apps are not new.

Everything was/is an "application" for the most part. Shortened to "app".

You used to type command lines and press enter to open an application.
Then wonder windows 95 made it so you could bypasss command lines and just "click" to open and application.
Now, mobile made it download app famous.

"It's all the same... only the names will change" - Bon Jovik

 

[morasp]

BIOS basic input/output system
Batch job
Monostable Multivibrator (One Shot)
DEC VT220 terminal

 

[YosemiteSam]

Dot Matrix printer

These are actually still prevalent in many companies, especially ones that extensively use reports. (also referred to as line printers or Line matrix printers) Most aren't the small ones you saw at home though.

Many are big bar (or green bar) paper like Printronix printers.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Hanging chads.

This is a political reference, BAN HIM!

 

[YosemiteSam]

BIOS basic input/output system
Batch job
Monostable Multivibrator (One Shot)
DEC VT220 terminal

heh Dec Alpha, Tru64, Solaris (and Sun Microsystems), Compaq, Gateway, Silicone Graphics, baud (well, you do with routers and other communications devices, just not for Internet / BBS comms anymore) Same with serial (RS232 or DB9) ports, parallel (or LPT) ports, PS/2 (though I just bought a PS/2 keyboard for a morse code keyer) token ring, AGP ports, ISA slots, and SIMM memory modules.

 

[Ranching]

This is a political reference, BAN HIM!

I meant to say nads, damn spellcheck

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Kaypro, Osbourne, Leading Edge.

And how could I forget?: DR-DOS. I used it for a while. It was a cool alternative OS to MS-DOS (aka Messy DOS).

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

A childhood friend had one back in the I guess early, mid 80s. We played this baseball game where you had to put in a cassette tape, go play outside for an hour or so for it to load, then play this game that we thought was awesome.

Anyone have an Amiga? That was like a supercomputer

I used to play On-Field Football on that game. It was rudimentary and wonky, but I got many hours of enjoyment from that game.

 

[JoeKing]

It's not like today's terminology is all that... after all, "the cloud" is not a magical place to store data up in the sky, it's just someone else's computer.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

It's not like today's terminology is all that... after all, "the cloud" is not a magical place to store data up in the sky, it's just someone else's computer.

I'm disappointed. I thought God was keeping all my files safe.

 

[Reality]

I'm disappointed. I thought God was keeping all my files safe.

Every time it rains, you lose a few bytes of your data