Technology…. Where do you stand?

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[kbraband]

Reading this topic reminded me of a similar old-time technology discussion in these forums. I did a search and found it here: http://wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000379.html

[OuttaHand]

I, too, started with a TRS-80 Level 1 in high school. It even came with the schematic! I browsed electronics catalogs and bout RAM chips to updrade it from 4k to 16k !! That’s K — Not M!! And boy — those cassette tapes. If youdidn’t have the volume on the cassette recorder just right, it was CLOAD all over again!
I jumped up to an off-brand 8080 processor-based machine in about 1987. Had an Amiga 500 for a while too. Very much ahead of the PC’s in graphics & sound at that time.
Now I have 5 PC’s plus a laptop that I can turn on and run. Several more pieces/parts besides. Just got a PDA about a month or two ago. So I’m starting to go paperless.
Basically, if it’s electronic in some way, I probably have it or want it. Powered by batteries? Has LED’s? Makes beeping sounds? Fits in my pocket or on my belt? COOL!!! GIMME!!!

[shrek and fiona]

paper

[EnergySaver]

Strolling through the past would not be complete without checking out this un-official TRS-80 website …
http://skylane.kjsl.com/trs80/index.html

It brings back great memories … specifically 4k of memory and only having 3 error messages, on of which was “Sorry”, which meant you filled all your memory, which didn’t happen often back then. The other thing I forgot, the TRS-80 monitor, was basically a black/white TV without the TV-tuner guts … in fact when I wired 2-wires from my BETA vcr’s rca output to the monitor, you could watch The Brady Bunch on the monitor.

[Ootek]

I used auto-routing on our new GPS for the first time last weekend while hunting Mission Impossible, after having been a Luddite about GPSs in vehicles for a long time. Very cool!

[pharmteam]

We are middle ground in the use of technology. We do download waypoints at times, but not cache pages. Our GPS has a basic mapping which we supplement with a Garmin program for our home area and if we are going on a trip to another area, but mostly we use paper. I also keep notes on the paper of waypoints, flowers, birds, etc types of hides that I might not mention in the log. I decided to print our logs also. And that is what now makes interesting reading. Here are some early stats. Logs printed on 1/1/02 had Cachecows 85, Kbraband 81, Socko 62, badlatitude 32, Sbukosky 15, and us 3. The logs printed 2/24/02-2/25/02 had Kbraband 113, Cachecows 112, Yawningdog 82, Cachew 66, Grousetales 62, Sbukosky 48, pharmteam 29, Jthorson 13.

[Ray]

If you really believe that we are on the cutting edge, please see the mosaic from the Moscow subway station at http://www.dni.ru/news/art/2004/10/27/51798.html
The Mosaic is dated 1954

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