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[ThatFire]

Hi there! Great clicky - I was cleaning my office today, and came across a huge pile floppies - I mean the old 5.25" kind...

Way Back Machine, anyone??

Way back when they use to be floppy? I might not be old but I remember those sinful things.

 

[SexyCleric]

Hi there! Great clicky - I was cleaning my office today, and came across a huge pile floppies - I mean the old 5.25" kind...

Way Back Machine, anyone??

Been a while. What was on the floppies?

 

[NothingButTruth]

Been a while. What was on the floppies?

LMAO

Who the hell knows? That would involve digging out my antiques, hoping they still work, and then going through the diskettes - on a computer with 64K of RAM, an 8086 processor, and a green screen monitor that has bad screen burn... LOL

 

[NothingButTruth]

Way back when they use to be floppy? I might not be old but I remember those sinful things.

LMAO!

That machine had to be booted with a DOS disk, and then you had to stick a Word Perfect floppy into the drive to do your word processing. I also used Lotus 123 - remember that?

 

[SheWantsYou]

LMAO!

That machine had to be booted with a DOS disk, and then you had to stick a Word Perfect floppy into the drive to do your word processing. I also used Lotus 123 - remember that?

Oh my gosh! I'm so very new to these boards and stumbled across this one. I remember Lotus 123! Do you by chance remember Gem as well? My fave window/list based os...No one ever remembers Gem...

 

[NothingButTruth]

Oh my gosh! I'm so very new to these boards and stumbled across this one. I remember Lotus 123! Do you by chance remember Gem as well? My fave window/list based os...No one ever remembers Gem...

Uhmm... That was originally for the Atari, wasn't it? I never used it, but I remember seeing the GUI, and thinking it was pretty cool.

Edit to Add: And welcome, by the way. I'm glad you made your way to the nerd thread...

Edit to Add Again: Very nice profile pic, by the way...

 

[Texguy84]

Just finished the single player campaign of Modern Warfare 3. Lots of fun action in the game, but the plot just didn't quite hang together right. Particularly annoying was the fact that characters that had no interaction with each other for most of the game suddenly turn out to be long-time friends who trust each other unquestionably.

On the other hand, the mission with the tank (you know the one if you've played) is an immense amount of fun.

 

[Texguy84]

Oh, and I got into the SWTOR beta. 20 GB download. And I have a 100GB monthly cap that I was already 30GBs through in the past two weeks. >_<

 

[duke1421115]

Oh my gosh! I'm so very new to these boards and stumbled across this one. I remember Lotus 123!

Huh. I actually have the full Lotus Smartsuite on my netbook... somehow.

 

[lil_squirter]

Best nerd pick up line I've heard in a while:

"At absolute zero, you would still move me."

 

[SheWantsYou]

Uhmm... That was originally for the Atari, wasn't it? I never used it, but I remember seeing the GUI, and thinking it was pretty cool.

Edit to Add: And welcome, by the way. I'm glad you made your way to the nerd thread...

Edit to Add Again: Very nice profile pic, by the way...

Thank you for the warm welcome. Not sure about Atari...we were running Gem on an IBM. I'll have to do some research, see if I can figure out it's origins now.

Huh. I actually have the full Lotus Smartsuite on my netbook... somehow.

Really? Seems kind of ridiculous in an awesome way...I'm anti-MS.

 

[ThatFire]

LMAO!

That machine had to be booted with a DOS disk, and then you had to stick a Word Perfect floppy into the drive to do your word processing. I also used Lotus 123 - remember that?

My first computer had one of those big black floppy (don't laugh) drives. Slide it in and click the switch down. Good old 90's.

I don't remember the Lotus. Heard of it though. My first computer was a mac, one piece, screen with tower in one. And tiny. Those were the days.

 

[Texguy84]

First home computer I ever used was a Commodore 64, in the late 1980's.

 

[SpeX125]

I had a marathon viewing session of Stargate Universe last night.
I watched nine episodes in a row,and only stopped because it almost 3:00 AM and I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.

I never bothered with any of the Stargate shows before,because I was so underwhelmed by the movie. I'm diggin' this particular branch of the franchise,though.

 

[SexyCleric]

I had a marathon viewing session of Stargate Universe last night.
I watched nine episodes in a row,and only stopped because it almost 3:00 AM and I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.

I never bothered with any of the Stargate shows before,because I was so underwhelmed by the movie. I'm diggin' this particular branch of the franchise,though.

Universe was good, and cancelled too soon. Give the rest a look too, Spex. SG1 took a season to get moving, but as soon as they stopped trying to Star Trek, they did very well.

 

[NothingButTruth]

My first computer had one of those big black floppy (don't laugh) drives. Slide it in and click the switch down. Good old 90's.

I don't remember the Lotus. Heard of it though. My first computer was a mac, one piece, screen with tower in one. And tiny. Those were the days.

"The Lotus" was Lotus 123, a software package that has now been replaced by MS Excel.

Nice thing about Lotus is that it had this nifty little app called Lotus Notes.

Ah, god - I'm dating myself, aren't I??

 

[NothingButTruth]

Best nerd pick up line I've heard in a while:

"At absolute zero, you would still move me."

But only if you're talking to another nerd. Otherwise, all you'll get for a response is, "Say what??"

 

[NothingButTruth]

My first computer had one of those big black floppy (don't laugh) drives. Slide it in and click the switch down. Good old 90's.

I don't remember the Lotus. Heard of it though. My first computer was a mac, one piece, screen with tower in one. And tiny. Those were the days.

The machine referenced above was the same.

I remember when I got my first HDD. It was a massive 20 MB - no, that is NOT a typo - in size. I remember thinking, "Wow! Look at all the space on this thing!"

 

[NothingButTruth]

I just got a new smart phone - the LG Thrill. 5 megapixel, 4G, dual-core, 3D camera for both still and video with no glasses needed. It's the perfect geek toy - I'm loving it...

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/lg-thrill-4g.jsp?fbid=Uj2cZqqboAd#fbid=Nx_i0yzZv10

 

[Wyldfire]

I'm sort of digging on X-men destiny. So Brotherhood it hurts.

 

[Artfan2]

Calling all nerds...

Anyone have any experience in making animated giffs?

I know some posters have created their own. Don't see a lot of them though. How difficult is it?

 

[NothingButTruth]

Artmaker, it's not difficult. An animated gif is simply a picture made up of multiple layers that are displayed in sequence, much like the stick figure animation you can do on the edge of a notebook.

If you have Photoshop, there are tutorials out there to get you started. I'm not sure if Gimp has the capability to animate, but it should.

 

[Spins]

Quick flyby to wish all you nerds (new and old) a wonderful New Year.

 

[Artfan2]

If you have Photoshop, there are tutorials out there to get you started. I'm not sure if Gimp has the capability to animate, but it should.

Thanks much.

I use Paint Shop Pro mostly and it doesn't do animated gifs. Gimp does, but it won't read avi files, so you have to capture frames with some other software and then bring them into Gimp as layers and animate them.

 

[NothingButTruth]

Thanks much.

I use Paint Shop Pro mostly and it doesn't do animated gifs. Gimp does, but it won't read avi files, so you have to capture frames with some other software and then bring them into Gimp as layers and animate them.

If you can get your hands on one or both - Adobe Premiere and/or Adobe After Effects. Both should offer the ability to capture frames, and both do read .avi files.