Positive and negative wires to battery from trailer?

You guys think that junk impresses me? THIS was my first computer. https://research.archives.gov/id/6462015

PXLated said:

Ya but, we bought ours:-)

We bought hers too.

You know, we may still have one of those around where I work.

LOL. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair - 16k, "the most memory you'd ever need" and written in BASIC. Next was the IBM PC jr (infrared kb one 5.25" drive, b&w tv as monitor), then an IBM "luggable" - 40 lbs of amber screen and replaced one of the double-sided 5.25" floppy drives and I put a 20 mg hd in it (remember the "double-sided" floppy scam? Just a notch). Dad wouldn't let me have a 300 baud modem for the first IBM PC he bought (he worked at IBM for 34 yrs). He was afraid I'd get into too much trouble. As it was, I was able to break every TSR script his buddies wrote (had to write down the keystrokes though). Programming was much more efficient back then compared to the sloppy stuff I encounter daily. Alas, a stroll down geek-memory lane!

I am still called to break software programs at work. It's a gift/curse. 

Man, and I thought I was old :-)

@TerryV6, me too - Boxes of cards with a diagonal marker stripe across the tops of the cards in case (heaven forbid) you dropped the box. Fortran IV.

I really do appreciate how yous make me feel young

Photomom said:

As long as we are trotting out our old hardware, this is my first computer that wasn't purchased by the U.S. taxpayers. I built it from a schematic in a 1976 Popular Electronics magazine. I was living in England at the time and many of the components at the Radio Shack store in Oxford were manufactured in Russia. I felt terribly guilty about buying them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC_ELF

Very cool photomom..!   And you are the geocacher too?   Wow...  I guess we are all a little older than 50...

Way to think...  My brother thinks I should act my age...   Of course I've stopped wreak and ice diving.... 

At least we are not yet in them again.... 

I think I'm regressing. I went from road and intense mountain biking to Harleys, mor powah and eyeing the open road. I wish I had time to ship my bike to Sugarcreek, OH while I get some factory work done on the T@Bitha so I could ride around there. My dream is to have a winch-lift ramp system (there's a couple that will fit my medium-sized truck), but need to get with a welder to shore up the steel bed for the winches. *sigh*