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    Try this in the Hudson River Gorge.......

    Alex Gray, Scott Daley, and Eli Mack river surf the Lunch Counter Rapids at the Snake River in Wyoming, July 2009.


    Hawk
    "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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    great video! it is nice to see you old timers know your way around a computer and the internet.
    High Peaks: 14/46
    NPT 2011

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Buckshot View Post
      great video! it is nice to see you old timers know your way around a computer and the internet.
      Sonny, I BUILT my first computer, an Altair with a tty instead of a monitor. it had 8k of memory and no disk drive.

      My first venture online was with a 32 baud modem. There was no compression and no error checking. Ward Christiansen hadn't invented Xmodem protocol yet (he did so in 1977).

      There was no ms-dos, we used CPM and everything was text based.

      In order to transfer an Executable file (.exe or .bin) it had to be converted into ascii and then converted back on the receiving end.

      It took a lot more intelligence and a lot more work then.

      Hell, might be a few things I could teach the kids!!

      Hawk
      "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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      • #4
        Hawk, you might have something to teach the young folks, but they ain't listening!

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          Have to get back to the old IPad.

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            A friend took these photos during the Spring melt; late March 2007.
            The River... Mohawk.




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            Last edited by serotonin; 07-01-2011, 05:59 PM.

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