Extinction

[JakeL]

My first CAD/CAM... Mastercam 2021, back then MGS looked a lot different, and unified didn't exist 

Sidenote, I know what a floppy disk is, but I've never seen one in real life. 

[MIL-TFP-41]

I guess this picture ages me a bit. Also says a lot about not throwing shit out.



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[jstell]

I actually have an unopened box with ten or a dozen 5-1/4" floppies, in the top of a closet behind an Apple IIc (~1987?) with 12" green screen, that still worked the last time it was plugged in.  Of course, I think that's been 20 years now too.  Has 128K of RAM - double the earlier Apple II.  The IIe had 128K as well.  The IIc is the "portable" and you could get a 24-line flat-screen LCD so you didn't have to lug that heavy old monitor, deeper than it was wide and bolted to a steel base.  The computer/keyboard unit even has a handle on the back that doubled as a flip-down stand, to get some air under it and prop the keyboard angle to you.

[Zoffen]

It would be kinda fun to install an older version like this on an older platform and find all the things that are the EXCACT SAME in Mcam2026....

[Jeff]

I know what a floppy disk is, but I've never seen one in real life

Have you ever had the pleasure of using dial-up internet?

[JakeL]

Have you ever had the pleasure of using dial-up internet?

Dial-up like on the phone? Never heard of that. My parents have a rotary phone, that's fun to play with.

Couple years ago I was coaching 12u baseball. I said something about a typewriter, only 1 kid know what that was.

[Jeff]

Dial-up like on the phone?

lol yes.
Using a 56k modem if you were lucky early on and only getting speeds like 48,800kps.
Before that 28,800 modems were your best bet.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Have you ever had the pleasure of using dial-up internet?

In 2005 my Dad changed to dial-up for the summer as a major punishment for my brother and I doing poorly in school IIRC. It was awful.

It was the only option out at the cottage, so we were familiar. But at home we'd had rock solid internet since I was a wee lad of 4 using the computer, so ~1994. Not sure what the availability of DSL/Cable was for us at that time, but us kids certainly never worried about tying up the phone line or got hollered at for being online.

[gcode]

Have you ever had the pleasure of using dial-up internet?

I once had to download a 1 meg update to Falcon 2.0, a fighter aircraft game I played way back in the day.
I never got it done.
We had dial up internet ( I forget the speed)
and
a teenage daughter in the house.
It was about a 12 hour download and I never managed to get a 12 hour time slot where she didn't call out
or somebody didn't call in.
Either case would break the connection.
I finally gave up.

[Jeff]

Dial-up was the worst.
Stealing songs with Napster and Limewire took forever.
Hours just to get a single song, and you hoped you ended up getting what you wanted.

[Brad St]

It would be kinda fun to install an older version like this on an older platform and find all the things that are the EXCACT SAME in Mcam2026....

I have my seat of mastercam version 9 design lite installed on my windows 10 laptop =)

The hardest thing I fight is not having the same cursor options and hotkeys. I used to have all the map keys dialed into memory and the shortcuts but they have changed slightly over the years and especially how you use them.

[JakeL]

It was about a 12 hour download and I never managed to get a 12 hour time slot where she didn't call out
or somebody didn't call in.
Either case would break the connection.
I finally gave up.

Wait... you had to stay ON THE PHONE to maintain internet connection??? That sounds terrible

[neurosis]

Wait... you had to stay ON THE PHONE to maintain internet connection??? That sounds terrible

I had two phone lines. One strictly for internet. Cell phones were almost non-existent until the late 90's / early 2000's. Unless you had $$$$$$ 

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Wait... you had to stay ON THE PHONE to maintain internet connection??? That sounds terrible

I've got a wild one for you that I've only heard about from older gov't employees, to bring everything together in one: Teletype machines. It was a typewriter that you put the receiver of a phone onto and it called out to send a message you typed or received a call from another telephone that would type out a message on your machine. Wild stuff, pre-printer fax machine.

[jstell]

I had an old Radio Shack (Tandy) computer, the TRS-80.  Plugged it into a 13" black and white TV thru the VHF/UHF (antenna) adapter.  To store or retrieve programs, you used a portable cassette player/recorder.  And it howled like a fax machine when outputting data to the tape.
Here's an example:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/retrocomputers/posts/24564143693188847/