Where were you on November 11, 1982?

[JDWalley 354]

6 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said:

What an anathema!

Anathema?  Were you declaring it to be an heresy?

[TheFamilyMan 286]

Living in a dorm at CSU Chico while in the thick of my Computer Science undergraduate degree.  Heck, at that time I thought that having a full screen editor on an ascii terminal was living the high life; having a personal computer was a luxury well beyond my means though I had a few friends that did.  Dang, those seemed so impressive (and given the tech at that time, they were).

[Mike S KPDX 598]

Working as a life guard at Ceasar's Palace Las Vegas on the weekends (full time summer) and an architectural firm in the city.  Just got my own apartment, two girlfriends, plenty of money,  I would be starting college in about a year - good times.

[mobeans10 200]

Just starting my final year at Loughborough ( Aero Eng ) following a summer internship at RAE Farnborough.

Edited November 8, 2022 by mobeans10
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[mikegrr 109]

Playing with Wordstar probably on my new IBM PC, at work with an  Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz and 16KB of Ram with a 51/4 floppy disk and MS-dos. Was it version 1.1? Lotus 123 didn't come out till January 26, 1983 I think. At some point I upgraded to an AT with 256K and a color monitor. I flew hundreds of patterns at Meigs  buzzed the Sears Tower as I went past.

[airservices 133]

Trying to make a living out of flying or should say surviving

[BillC 135]

11 Nov 1982 - observing the silence for Remembrance Day of course! We'd lost soldiers, sailors and airmen that year thanks to Argentina and the Falklands so Remembrance Day was more notable than usual. 

Also 2 months into my new career which would occupy me for the next 40 years.

[PTI139 135]

I was soldier („Panzergrenadier“) in the Bundeswehr (military service 15 month) in Northeim, Germany. I did not yet know anything about computers or PC games.

[Baptista 52]

preparing the soil in the maintenance of the coffee plantation, rural area, helping my wife to take care of our firstborn. Also cleaning National recorder head to be able to read the software via cassette tape (TDK). Hardware a Sinclair Z80 with a Philco Black and White 9 inch TV. Good times. Currently even better, with this work of art, FS2020.

[David Mills 4,774]

I'm currently 63 years-old, and I've lived in this same house in Huntington, West Virginia for 63 years. I was brought home from the hospital to the bedroom where I currently sleep. In November of 1982, however, I was spending the month in Florida.

[virtualstuff 773]

Was fulfilling my Air Force service and after that back to the university 😎 Time flies...🤪

Edited November 8, 2022 by awf

[lwt1971 7,586]

Just now a tweet from MS/Asobo.. then vs now, the nostalgia is on point. Looking forward to getting the feels on the new Meigs Field coming in the 40th anniv release 🙂

Edited November 8, 2022 by lwt1971

[Rene_Feijen 128]

At school probably. Computers were big things in big buildings for science nerds I thought. A class member who was the best at math sent computer cards with holes to a center far away to get it run an program on a mainframe or so...

[neil0311 366]

On 11/6/2022 at 9:34 PM, David Mills said:

Where were you -- and what were you doing -- on November 11, 1982, the day Microsoft Flight Simulator was first introduced 40 years ago?

Probably sitting in a college class, if we didn’t have the day off for Veterans Day here in the US. 

[dobee51 349]

I was working for a bank and had bought a Commodore 64. I was so taken with my new toy, especially the 1541 disk drive that I enrolled in a correspondence course in Microcomputer Technology and went to work repairing computers. I buy a new computer every couple of years, and the first program I get is usually the flight simulator. Most of the time it's the MS flight sim, but there have been a few notable others...