I remember those little stores when you needed all kinds of crap to get a computer to do anything. One day I heard a lady rant about how her husband talked her into a wood processor. In those days you had to buy a chip to interface the word processor with a printer. There were no software device drivers. She was irate over the fact that in 3 weeks she hadn’t gotten anything done and wanted to beat her sleeping husband with the computer as he wasn’t doing a thing to help, LOL!
Considering the time this was published, it is funny that this is at a Computer Shack. Radios Shack was an early computer pioneer with the TRS computer line. It was continuously poorly engineered and mismanaged. Several employees broke off and formed MicroCenter. Their stores are in very full super grocery store sized buildings. Radio Shacks were in 30×30 mostly empty storefronts with no defined product before they went under.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 5 years ago
All this winking seems one of the many Tourette Syndrome symptoms . And I am experienced . And I’m not a doctor , then …
PoodleGroomer about 5 years ago
Just think what he could do with a 256 processor bitcoin miner.
awgiedawgie Premium Member about 5 years ago
That’s a nasty little twitch you’ve got there, mister. You should get that checked.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 5 years ago
I remember those little stores when you needed all kinds of crap to get a computer to do anything. One day I heard a lady rant about how her husband talked her into a wood processor. In those days you had to buy a chip to interface the word processor with a printer. There were no software device drivers. She was irate over the fact that in 3 weeks she hadn’t gotten anything done and wanted to beat her sleeping husband with the computer as he wasn’t doing a thing to help, LOL!
jrankin1959 about 5 years ago
Know what I mean, know what I mean? Nudge-nudge…
jrankin1959 about 5 years ago
Imagine Mr. B teaching us how to do that back then.
dwdl21 about 5 years ago
Cross channel a capacitor load? lol
Bob Blumenfeld about 5 years ago
Back in the days when they were still known as IBM PCs.
PoodleGroomer about 5 years ago
Considering the time this was published, it is funny that this is at a Computer Shack. Radios Shack was an early computer pioneer with the TRS computer line. It was continuously poorly engineered and mismanaged. Several employees broke off and formed MicroCenter. Their stores are in very full super grocery store sized buildings. Radio Shacks were in 30×30 mostly empty storefronts with no defined product before they went under.
xsintricks about 5 years ago
I wonder if BB drew this after WarGames (1983) came out.
Dragoncat about 5 years ago
Now we know where he gets his ideas…
Sisyphos about 5 years ago
It all seems so very ancient! Wink! Wink!