November 8, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said: What an anathema! Anathema? Were you declaring it to be an heresy? James David Walley Ryzen 7 7700X, 32 GB, RTX 3080
November 8, 20223 yr 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). CPU: AMD 9800X3D PBO MB +200 CO -25| Motherboard: MSI MAG X870e Tomahawk WiFi | GPU: MSI RTX 5090 Ventus 3X OC | RAM: G.Skill 2x32GB DDR5 6000 cas 30 | M.2 SSDs: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2T, WD Black SN750 M.2 1T | Hard Drive: WD Black HDD 6T 7200 | Optical Drive: LG Bluray writer, internal | Cooling: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO | Case: Fractal Design Focus G | PSU: NZXT C1200 1200W Win 11 Pro 64|HP Reverb G2 revised VR HMD|Asus 25" IPS 2K 60Hz monitor|Saitek X52 Pro & Peddles|TIR 5 (now retired)
November 8, 20223 yr 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. CPU: Core i5-6600K 4 core (3.5GHz) - overclock to 4.3 | RAM: (1066 MHz) 16GB MOBO: ASUS Z170 Pro | GeForce GTX 1070 8GB | MONITOR: 2560 X 1440 2K
November 8, 20223 yr Just starting my final year at Loughborough ( Aero Eng ) following a summer internship at RAE Farnborough. Edited November 8, 20223 yr by mobeans10 Spelling
November 8, 20223 yr 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.
November 8, 20223 yr 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. Bill Casey
November 8, 20223 yr 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. Intel i9-14900K, 64 GB RAM, MB ASUS ROG STRIX 790-E, NVIDIA GTX 4080 Super 16GB, 2 x 2 TB M.2, BE QUIET Pure Power 12 M 1000W, BE QUIET Silent Loop 3 360 AIO, BE QUIET Dark Base Pro 901, 4K-Monitor, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, Thrustmaster TCA Yoke, Streamdeck XL, Thrustmaster T.16000M Joystick, Saitek Rudder Pedals, WINCTRL PAP3, WINCTRL 3M PDC, JetMax 737 home cockpi
November 8, 20223 yr 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.
November 8, 20223 yr Author 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. Processor: Intel i9-13900KF 5.8GHz 24-Core, Graphics Processor: Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6, System Memory: 64GB High Performance DDR5 SDRAM 5600MHz, Operating System: Windows 11 Home Edition, Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX, LGA 1700, CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling, RGB and LCD Display, Chassis Fans: Corsair Low Decibel, Addressable RGB Fans, Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i Fully Modular Ultra-Low-Noise Platinum ATX 1000 Watt, Primary Storage: 2TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, Secondary Storage: 1TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, VR Headset: Meta Quest 2, Primary Display: SONY 4K Bravia 75-inch, 2nd Display: SONY 4K Bravia 43-inch, 3rd Display: Vizio 28-inch, 1920x1080. Controller: Xbox Controller attached to PC via USB.
November 8, 20223 yr Was fulfilling my Air Force service and after that back to the university 😎 Time flies...🤪 Edited November 8, 20223 yr by awf André
November 8, 20223 yr 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, 20223 yr by lwt1971 Len 1980s: Sublogic FS II on C64 ---> 1990s: Flight Unlimited I/II, MSFS 95/98 ---> 2000s/2010s: FS/X, P3D, XP ---> 2020+: MSFS Current system: i9 13900K, RTX 4090, 64GB DDR5 4800 RAM, 4TB NVMe SSD
November 8, 20223 yr 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... MS FS 2020/2024 | 9800X3D | 64GB DDR5 6000mhz | ASUS ROG ASTRAL RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 OC EDITION | Varjo Aero | Navigraph | VATSIM | TPR Pedals | Virpil | Honeycomb | Winwing FCU + EFIS | Behringer X Touch Mini | SPAD.next
November 8, 20223 yr 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.
November 8, 20223 yr 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...
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