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Where were you on November 11, 1982?

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Doing whatever two year olds do 😀

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6 hours ago, Alpine Scenery said:

I was logged into a BBS arguing in ASCII, that MS FS 1.0 was not as good as Sub-Logic's original FS1 version on the Apple II.
 

Hmm... I wonder if we argued with each other?

5 hours ago, GSalden said:

I was 16 and living the 80s life : long hair, great music and luckily no cell phones. 
We saw eachother outside ….

Sounds exactly like the life I had here in the US. That's kind of funny.

1 hour ago, dihedral said:

Was actively flying the Sublogic flight sim on a Tandy TRS80 Model III - had been for about a year ± at that point iirc. Can't stress enough that in those days, it was just incredible to be able to be at home and "transport" oneself into a simulated realm of flight. Been at it ever since... 

That's exactly what I was doing at the computer lab in school. We had six Apple IIs, and four TRS 80s. I was hanging out with one of my friends after school playing flight Sim on a TRS-80 at the time when another friend walked in and told us that Microsoft had just released a new version. I can still hear the incessant clicking of the engine. LOL

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I was 13yo and the only computer geek in my school (using those 'amazing' TRS-80s - hehehe).  Still two years away from my introduction into flight simulation (Sublogic Flight Simulator II on the C64).

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10 hours ago, 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?

My parents were getting married the very same day! So I was at least an idea back then. Now everything makes sense😁

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Since it was a Thursday I was probably in Kindergarten until the afternoon and then at home playing in my room. 😉

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I was 46 years old on my 80286 Packard Bell, with 8Kb of ram and a 5-1/4" floppy drive, computer that I bought from Sears.  I couldn't believe that I could actually fly an airplane on my computer.

I was thinking then that it would be great if in the future,  I could actually see what was on the ground below me.

The future is now.

Roy

Edit:  Now that I remember my first computer was a Tandy TRS80.

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57 minutes ago, regis9 said:

Doing whatever two year olds do 😀

things didn't really change, did they? at least for some here every now and then 😉 

serious, back in 82 I was in 5th grade, a friend had a C64 and I was so jealous. Took me another 4 years to get an old TI with hundreds of BASIC code lines to be typed in manually. And another 5 years to get hold on FS4 running on an old (back then quite modern) amber screen PC I got for university but which I primarily used for flightsimming instead of doing my studies...

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The first Pentiums (75 and up) were like the first "real PC's", everything before it was like a glorified calculator more than a PC.

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Still serving in HM armed Forces [Royal Corps of Signals] and probably within a church recognising those who had "gone before", it was remembrance day.  Evenings probably helping son/daughter with their homework [TRS 80/BBC Computer] or working on my own SWTP Motorola 6800 Home Built computer.  Ah memories there 🙂 BR

M.

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Very Best Wishes,

Dr T. Maurice Murphy

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