November 7, 20223 yr Not around yet! But I love hearing all of your stories. Edited November 7, 20223 yr by Sonosusto 7800+4090+64ram Just Flight RJ, 146 and F28, Piper Arrows ---A2A Aerostar and Comanche---Black Square Starship, Duke(s), TBM, Bonanza/BaronV2, KingAir---FSReborn FSR500---COWS Da42---FX P180, HJet & VJet---FlySimWare Chancellor and LearJet---FlightSimStudio EMB175 &P2006T---Fenix 320---PMDG DC6, 737(700+900), 777---C22J---Milviz Cessna 310 & Porter---SimWorksStudios Kodiak, PC12, Zenith & RV14---BigRadials Goose---IndiaFoxEcho MB3339+F35.
November 7, 20223 yr I was on my honeymoon in Barbados. Took a Southbound 747 from NYC. The return flight on another 747 was packed with American college students who were being evacuated from Granada following an attempted coupe by rebel forces. Coincidentally, it also was some of the worst turbulence I ever experienced, before or after. I actually had thoughts at the time that it might be a very short marriage... Edited November 7, 20223 yr by overspeed3
November 7, 20223 yr 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. AMD 5800x | Nvidia 3080 (12gb) | 64gb ram
November 7, 20223 yr Probably playing Galaxians on my ZX Spectrum instead of doing my homework. 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
November 7, 20223 yr I was a 6 year old boy living in the Netherlands (still there cause I'm Dutch 😉 My dad was only a couple of weeks away from buying a c64, I think that happened in feb 83. My grandmother died in those weeks so the joy of our new commodore was a little suppressed. Flightsimming was not in the picture yet. Great stories btw 👍
November 7, 20223 yr financing my son and helping him open a computer store selling Commodore 64s Just after the morning parade of the local Returned Servicemans League remembering all those who died during all wars since 11- 11 - 1918
November 7, 20223 yr 4 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? It took me another 4 years to install this flightsimulator on my PC. But once I had it, I never stopped enjoying each new version..... Menno i7-11700, 16GB, 1 TB SSD, 2 TB HDD, RTX 3070, Windows 11, MSFS 2020 DeLuxe, P3D 4.5
November 7, 20223 yr Most probably shatting in my pampers back then 🤣 Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
November 7, 20223 yr I was 16 and living the 80s life : long hair, great music and luckily no cell phones. We saw eachother outside …. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
November 7, 20223 yr In 1982 i was already in the world of simulation fixing with a clothespin a postcard on the fork of the bicycle so that rubbing against the spokes of the wheel simulating the sound (noise) of an engine. Someone remember that game? It was so funny , as smooth as butter without stutters. Edited November 7, 20223 yr by LIML2020
November 7, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, LIML2020 said: In 1982 i was already in the world of simulation fixing with a clothespin a postcard on the fork of the bicycle so that rubbing against the spokes of the wheel simulated the sound (noise) of an engine. Someone remember that game? It was so funny , as smooth as butter without srutters. Nah, I don't recall because I was too busy at Federated and Babbages sneaking drive music apps onto their PC's, so that when customers walked in everyone heard the drive music orchestra, which inevitably ended up frying all their drives. I was a bad kid. When I was 9, I used to switch price tags on the Floppy Disks at the drug stores, because the clerks never knew what the real price was supposed to be, so I'd get 10 floppies for 25 or 50 cents. I got in trouble one day because my parents asked me how did I get the money to buy all those blank floppy disks 🙂 By the time I was 10, I had about 1500 blank floppies as I recall (well some had stuff on them). Edited November 7, 20223 yr by Alpine Scenery AMD 5800x | Nvidia 3080 (12gb) | 64gb ram
November 7, 20223 yr Probably playing Psion Flight Simulator on a ZX Spectrum. Remember Mono lake and Pyramid lake, and CFIT without ever seeing the terrain.
November 7, 20223 yr I vaguely remember those things, mostly remember the name Sinclair. I never played on it as I recall, but I did use an Intellivision. Back in the 80's, you weren't cool unless you owned an Intellivision and an Atari, plus a Laser Disc player. I didn't own a Laser Disc player though. Also, back then all the best technology was only available buying direct from Japan. One of my friends had a console that was like 5 years ahead of everything else, he bought it and several games directly in Japan. Edited November 7, 20223 yr by Alpine Scenery AMD 5800x | Nvidia 3080 (12gb) | 64gb ram
November 7, 20223 yr Ah... somwehere along the 1st year of my journey at Lisbon University, Department of Applied Maths and Computer Science.. Two years before, by october I had been given my 1st (ICAO) GPL 🙂 Edited November 7, 20223 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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