...adding Without that day, we probably would not be here doing our thing in Flight Simulation today/.../It was the day that the personal computer was first sold to the public Well, in August 1981 I was playing FS1 and another sim the name of which have slipped from my aging mind with my 48 K Apple ][. I switched long ago to the PC world but, hey guys, flightsimming preexisted to the PC :-hah :-lol !

I wasn't born yet. ;-) Jeff

Neither was I. :)

And another for just a twinkle in the eye :)

Well at work I was 2 years working as a computer operator on a DEC PDP 11/70 Mini Computer! At home I was playing on my Commodore PET 2001 with a whooping 32K Mem (Upgraded from the original 8K Mem), a Chicklet keyboard and a cassette player. I did add a floppy drive at one point. Why I didn't go for the Apple at that time I'm still knocking my head over. It was vastly superior to the PET then. At the time I was saving up for my first car, so I couldn't afford the original PC so my first one was a IBM PC jr. I ran MSFS 1.0 and 2.0 on that. All told over the years, I had 11 PC's (That I can remember, may have been more!) plus the PET and a Commodore 64. Edit: Just remembered 2 more for a total of 13 PC's all Intel. (I never could bring myself to go AMD, but I'm seriously thiking about it for my next system!!)

Antigua (TAPA) with a sailboat!!!And hair on top of my head.Now I have a job in Dallas :-(

Got married on the 8th and was on the Island of Jersey on the 12th.25 years later was in Jersey on the 8th and had a party on the 12th ;-)At this party someone (the wife) had the bright idea of making the wedding album available for everyone to "have a good laugh at!!??!!"Well they did...and I was one of them especially when I saw how much hair I had then (not a lot now but hey! I don't give a ....)*:-* This was an unashamed "Congratulations" plug to me and "she who must be obeyed" Thanks for listening!:-wave

Crawling around in napies :(

Some of you are very young!!I was only 8 years old, but at least I can remember U.S. President Carter!Rhett

In August 1981, I was still in two halves.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

I had just graduated high school and the computer on my desk would have taken up a whole room.D. Fisher

I was living breathing and doing motorcycle road racing.Tom,You wish :-) LOL

I was studying Ancient and Medieval History at Manchester University.Very useful stuff..;-) Ian

>I was studying Ancient and Medieval History at Manchester>University.>>Very useful stuff..;-) >>IanSounds like my kind of scholar.I was also in diapers, but already planning out camera angles and dramatic scenes.

>Antigua (TAPA) with a sailboat!!!>>And hair on top of my head.>>Now I have a job in Dallas :-(>Lets see, I was 10 and the most important thing in my life were my matchbox cars and the Dukes of Hazzard. Almost as good as being on a sailboat in Antigua. Now, I still have hair but I don't have a job.Frankly, I think both of us got the short end of the stick.;)