Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for March 06, 2016

Somehow, I remember those days.

When I was a kid I had to wait twenty years for a computer I could turn on.

@Tony“When were you a kid?”More like when haven’t I been?

Uh oh….Do I have to stop???

Born in ’65 does that make me the kid around here? Well, that would explain my sense of humor.

@TonyBorn in 1954

Early 40s and continuing.

born in 1951 and going on 4th childhood.

Allow me formally introduce myself.Hello. My name is Pete Pan. You killed my father. Prepare to die..Oops! Sorry, I combined two stories. My bad.

I was a kid if the 50s, early Television, sitting outside in summer eating watermelon, running barefoot, etc.

I had 5 children in the 50’s. First in Dec. 1950 and last in Jan. 1959. Clearly watched 1 channel on a borrowed black and white. but the kids ran and played barefoot a whole lot.

I was born in the early 40s. Had to toe the line when I was growing up, but boy, am I making up for it now!

@TonyBorn in the early ‘90s, but I’m most certainly still a kid. And I never plan on changing.

I remember when Eisenhower was president.

@Tony“When were you a kid?”.Our TV didn’t have a screen.

I was a kid back in the fifties . . . and now my wife says I grew up to be an old goat.

We didn’t have computers when I was a kid. Though they were around, we didn’t have a color TV either.

QOTD #2: My first computer was the old TI-99/4. Had to plug it into the TV, and write the code line by line to play a game.

@Tony“When were you a kid?”.Back in the ’50’s, but now that I’m approaching old fartage I’m looking forward to my second childhood.

I hear many of my age range (mid-Boomer; ’56) tell of how they had to cross the room to change channels. I had no such problem – we only got one.

And we had air raid sirens & duck & cover – and low-level bomber training out of Wright-Patt on a daily basis.Yes, my dreams stilll regularly feature mushroom clouds on the horizon…………………

I hear many of my age range (mid-Boomer; ’56) tell of how they had to cross the room to change channels. I had no such problem – we only got one.

And we had air raid sirens & duck & cover – and low-level bomber training out of Wright-Patt on a daily basis.Yes, my dreams stilll regularly feature mushroom clouds on the horizon…………………

1790’s. Or was it the 1690’s? I don’t know, it was so long ago I can’t keep the centuries straight anymore.

Always been the front, but I do remember when you had to reach under the desk to turn the tower on, and then the screen itself.

My computers had the power switch in back, but I left it on and controlled the power with a switch box that had switches on the front, and outlets in back. I could turn things on one at a time, or use the master switch to do them all at once. Now, I have an iMac, with the switch in back, but where I can just reach out and find it by touch. I rarely turn anything off any more.

Front or back?Of the computer?

Well, gosh, front, of course.I mean, it’s a laptop.If I sit in back of it, I can’t even reach the keyboard.

@Tony

“When were you a kid?”

Well, I was a war baby, so what do you think?

Oh, the big one!

Joking aside (yeah, like that’s possible)…A good friend back in 386 through early early Pentium/K6-2 days always used his never-finished computer backwards, and advised me to do the same, though I didn’t.

There was nothing in the nominal front except the disk drive, which he put in a separate case and set on top, facing backwards… if he even had the computer pushed back into its case…and that way, he had all the ports and cards facing him, and the power switch.

Took computer makers a decade to start to catch up.

Born December 1953. Floor radio, to black and white TV to color TV. No computers, had land line phone, party line too! Roller skates with keys, let’s see, what else?

We had one of the first tvs in Los Angeles. It came on at 5pm. First the test pattern, then Time for Beany, Hopalong Cassidy and then I had to go to bed. My parents thought any other programming was too “adult” for me.Remember playing Pong on the early computers? We thought that was so cool.

I was born at the tail end of the baby boom (1958). One of my earliest memories is watching the aftermath of the assassination of JFK.