True or False?
 

True or False:

Everything on the site changed from red to blue.

False.

...but most parts did.

Well, not everything changed so I'm going with false.

But there is a whole bunch of blue stuff now.

The site is sad.

Almost tricked you guys...

and just making sure my new laptop's screen didnt go out already

I'm going in for cataract surgery in a couple weeks........seriously I thought it was just me!

Ya I thought it was just me too.. I miss the red.. :(

Dammit people, make up your minds!

At the meet tonight, MikeK was bitching that the red sucked so much that he was actually running the awful default vBulletin color scheme.

So, I swapped out the red for blue via my iPhone during dinner. :lol: All the red icons are a little "off"... but so far I don't hate the blue.

WRB!

I just got confused. I guess you never know how much you appreciate something until it's gone... Ha

Well, I'm actually thinking about making both the red and blue themes available... I just need to find the time to swap the colors for all the red icons into blue ones... but I have a ton of work to do that I actually get paid to do so it might not be until this weekend.

Until then, feel free to enjoy the haywire mixmatch of colors! :lol:

I think purple would look hot.

That must be why you always want me to wear it when we hang out

Blue take over and the Red is fighting back..

I'm just screwing with it in between compiles.

STI Pink? :)

Oh man, Scott must be on a roll.

Between reading a thread, clicking reply and typing up my reply and submitting it, I'm pretty sure I saw 3 different styles.

Gradient -> Save For Web -> Upload -> Repeat

Okay!

SECCS Blue is now available in the User CP -> Edit Options -> Forum Skin (down at the very bottom). It's the same as red, except it's blue!

Screw all this crap. I want a windows 7 theme. Make EVERYTHING transparent.

FF#1001010110010210120141234823440123491304

There's a quick key for that. Press Alt+F4.

Your 1995 computer treachery does not work on me Scott.

Dammit!

...can I loan you a 1.44MB boot disk perhaps?

cd\

The first computer I worked on (IBM5520) used 8" disks in a disk cartridge, so I'm sorry, but the first time I saw a 3.5" disk, I said "How Cute!".

It's unbelievable what they fit on a micro SD 'card' now, that I swap on my cellphone. :eek:

Well... I do need a coaster for my JOOSE.

I had a job back in the 90's testing A/D converters used on BART train brakes. The testing software was on 8" floppy disks... not sure what computer system is was on... but I swear you could hear the individual bits being read. "THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!"

my family didn't own a PC until 97 ? and i got hired into an internet company in 98

What's a floppy? :P :P /Sarcasm

Thanks for the new option Scott.

I'm not in love with the neon green "highlight" but I can deal. Since I go to this forum all the time I don't really need any highlights at all, just "bolded" bumped threads is enough.

Mine was the first graduating engineering class at Virginia Tech ( '88 ) to be required to own their own PC's. Great leading-edge idea at the time. But the school made disastrous recommendations for the PC:
- IBM "Turbo" I think 4.5MHz "suitcase" version with like an 8" built-in monitor (monochrome).
- About 1/10 the RAM needed
- NO HARD DRIVE!
- Math coprocessor was only recommended later
- 5-1/4" floppy was only non-RAM data storage
- No recommendation for a mouse.
- DOS 3.2 based I think. No Windows yet.
- This was like $2k+ back then!

Imagine trying to run a DOS-based CAD program off the floppies (plural) (no hard drive) with no math coprocessor, insufficient RAM for even Word Perfect, and no mouse. Did I mention an 8" monitor?

I was fortunate in that I transferred into the program, and based on advise got instead an IBM clone for half the price, more RAM, a $100 math coprocessor, a HUGE 14" monitor, and later a $125 ball mouse. Still no hard drive though.

</old guy>

I tried, but even as a CAD guy who learned on amazingly awesome 100mhz machines in 1996 using DOS-based R12 and R14, my brain cannot compute this.

You children are so funny. :) I bet most have never seen what I first used, a teletype with round keys. I think attached to an early PDP 11???

I missed using paper tape and card readers by a matter of months. Cassettes tapes were state of the art. :)

The first system I administered in I think 1980 was an IMSAI that you had flip the switches on the front to set the firmware start location and hit the start switch. I think the one I worked on had 16K RAM for 4 dumb terminals.

Check out the rocking specs.

Announced: August 1975
How many: Around 20,000
Price: US $931 assembled
US $599 as a kit
CPU: Intel 8080A, 2.0 MHz
RAM: 64K max
Display: front panel LEDs
Controls: front panel switches
Expansion: card-cage w/ S-100 bus
Storage: optional cassette or
floppy drive
OS: CP/M, BASIC
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/imsai8080-left.jpg

Oh yeah? Well I still have my Dad's slide rule. :P

I owned a slide rule at one point in my life, but don't remember why or how to use one.

I was waiting for an abacus comment.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus

Do I look Asian? :)

When Dee told her brother a couple years ago that I go to "local Subaru meets", he said, "So... he hangs out with a bunch of asians?"

#Dean on

On my first computer, I had to poke holes in 36" cardboard sheets and feed them into a slot where a trained gecko interpreted them and would do simple arithmetic. He was right 70% of the time.

#Dean off

Whoa, shiny buttons.

Is That where the word 'geek' came from? Since he also had a 70% success rate spelling his own name.