Jamail Jones Facebook Status

[GOMU1104]

Back in my day the facebook was only for college students with a college email address.

How about when not every college had access to facebook...

I went to a UW Hyphen school my freshman year, and could not get on Facebook because my school wasnt listed.

[damuts222]

 Yea but now on Facebook your parents can get on it, I think it is kind of weird. Regardless it is kind of weird that you look at his facebook status and certain things about facebook have allowed people to pretty much keep tabs on others.

  Is he truly your friend??

[GOO]

Well on my TRS80 by radioshack I got the upgrade to 16k of memory I think. The reloading and saving to cassette tapes was risky at best. Those were the days. Man was I living large with a full 16k of memory.

[MUEng92]

Well on my TRS80 by radioshack I got the upgrade to 16k of memory I think. The reloading and saving to cassette tapes was risky at best. Those were the days. Man was I living large with a full 16k of memory.

My best friend's dad owned a Radio Shack so he had one of those.  I can't even remember what we did on those computers besides writing 3-4 line programs to type your name over and over to fill the screen.

[MR.HAYWARD]

The "word processsssors" at the old library were pretty sweet.

[mu-rara]

When I was a student we were all jazzed because we had a terminal connected to a DEC mini computer.

UWM had to submit punch cards to run a program.

We all had to take a semester of FORTRAN.

Last year at MU we had a PC lab

[mu_hilltopper]

I used to be pretty good at FORTRAN .. then got hooked on Pascal .. my career took me toward COBOL and RPG.

[groove]

It's already creepy enough that these people feel the need to be online "friends" with high school students.

Yeah, I only track the potential female student-athletes who may have their eye on marquette. Those 17 year old girls out there are interesting to follow on facebook.

[Clam Crowder]

if u wanna rely solely on facebook to see what our recruits are thinking you will see that Aaron Bown is still in the MU network.

[Skatastrophy]

I used to be pretty good at FORTRAN .. then got hooked on Pascal .. my career took me toward COBOL and RPG.

Man... there aren't many AS400 programmers around (that I've run into in the past 5 years, anyway).

We learned FORTRAN IV at MU in a programming languages class, but it was for historical purposes only   I'm a tad younger so I started on True BASIC and made the jump from that straight to Java (while developing plenty of DOOM levels in between :p). 

[larrym]

Yes.

It says so on pg 52 of the manual written by internet creator Al Gore.

My first exposure to the internet and world wide web came in 1993.  I attended a seminar at UW-Madison about it.  The book that came with the seminar was authored by Al Gore.  If only Tipper and her PMRC buddies knew what the internet was going to make available to their children, maybe history would have been different.

[Jay Bee]

Wow, there are some big time geeks on here.

Nothing beat a 1200 bps WWIV BBS.  Amazing how things have changed. 

[ErickJD08]

Are you kidding, I remember Commodore 64's with cassette tape drives.  When we got an external 5-1/4" floppy drive I thought it couldn't get any better!

I had Transformers the game for that system and it was literally impossible to beat.

[mu_hilltopper]

Man... there aren't many AS400 programmers around (that I've run into in the past 5 years, anyway).

Sure there are.   Dozens of AS400 shops in the Milwaukee area.  It's a minority, sure.  But there's probably 1000 IT workers in the field near here.

Wow, there are some big time geeks on here.

Nothing beat a 1200 bps WWIV BBS.  Amazing how things have changed. 

1200 bps?  Surely you jest.  That's like 4x faster than my trusty 300 baud modem.  I mean, after the 110 baud accoustic coupler, there's no way bytes could fly faster than 1200.

[Fullodds]

I think now I understand the unnecessary excitment of the "Marquette Mammories" photo and thread. 

[Boone]

+infinity!

[JWags85]

How about when not every college had access to facebook...

I went to a UW Hyphen school my freshman year, and could not get on Facebook because my school wasnt listed.

I remember thinking Facebook was pretty damn stupid when I first heard about it.  I only got on because my gf at the time insisted on me joining so as to put up our relationship status.  That was in the fall.  By that spring, it exploded and every new person you would meet would add you as a friend. 

Now, post college, I still use it frequently as its a good way to keep in touch with friends from college and HS.  However, i miss the days when it was just college based.  The first downfall was opening it up to HS and then everyone (unless you were grandfathered in by college usage) and then the explosion of applications, damn those things are annoying.  I hardly recognize it anymore.

[NavinRJohnson]

I think now I understand the unnecessary excitment of the "Marquette Mammories" photo and thread. 

This board never disappoints. Well done.

[muball]

I remember the mini computer phase and Dec going under, a tape drive board for the GE CT scanner was 18" by 24"   which is larger then a server board today. Writing the original software for TYME ATM so numerous banks  could share transactions. Point of interest I believe it was a first in the US were Banks shared an ATM system. Additionally TYME stood for Take Your Money Everywhere and I guess took quite a few meetings for execs to come up with the name.

[larrym]

I remember the mini computer phase and Dec going under, a tape drive board for the GE CT scanner was 18" by 24"   which is larger then a server board today. Writing the original software for TYME ATM so numerous banks  could share transactions. Point of interest I believe it was a first in the US were Banks shared an ATM system. Additionally TYME stood for Take Your Money Everywhere and I guess took quite a few meetings for execs to come up with the name.

That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

[Sir Lawrence]

That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

I was kicked out of a casino in the Bahamas for asking where the "Tyme" machine was.  They thought I was off my rocker. 

[Hards Alumni]

That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

ATM Machine is redundant.

[GOO]

That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

One blank look from a clerk when you ask for the Time machine, and you learn quickly that other parts of the country didn't/don't  have TYME machines.

[AZWarrior]

Its from the Department of needless redundancy department.  

[GOO]

I think now I understand the unnecessary excitment of the "Marquette Mammories" photo and thread. 

This is almost up there with "thanks for keeping me abreast of the situation..." or some similar comment you made.  Two, posts of the year.
Man, I hope Jamail Jones doesn't read this thread.  He won't know what we are talking about and will think he is coming to a land of geeks.   But, all he has to know is that there is a lot of $$ in IT (too bad I'm not an IT guy).