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Klippoklondike		2013-04-04 12:18:47 PM

Paul Allen looks younger in the newer photo

/farking beards how do they work?

Radak		2013-04-04 01:03:08 PM

Bill Gates, like Steve Jobs, actually seems a lot cooler in retirement.

Weidbrewer		2013-04-04 01:28:07 PM

That's a pretty half-assed attempt at recreating a photo....they didn't even pretend to stand/sit in the same poses or arrange the computers the same way. Good day, sir!

theurge14		2013-04-04 01:38:47 PM

Bill totally looks like my dad now, even down to the Eddie Bauer-ish fleece.

He probably went through a Snapple drinking phase too.

Tricky Chicken		2013-04-04 01:40:47 PM

page is farked for me

Farking Canuck		2013-04-04 01:45:15 PM

Weidbrewer: That's a pretty half-assed attempt at recreating a photo....they didn't even pretend to stand/sit in the same poses or arrange the computers the same way. Good day, sir!

I agree ... even if you are being sarcastic. I don't care about their poses that much. But they went to all that trouble to gather these ancient computers and then they don't bother spending 5 minutes to stage them and frame the picture the same?

Hell ... if they just shot wider they could have cropped it to be closer to the original.

BonesJackson		2013-04-04 01:49:06 PM

K, Bill. This one next:

i.imgur.com

czetie		2013-04-04 01:52:08 PM

I'm embarrassed to admit how many of those machines I programmed for.

Wholesale Ass		2013-04-04 01:53:16 PM

Did they recreate it using Windows 8? I'm not going to look at it if they did because I hate Windows 8.

Thumbs up if you agree!

/totes
//cray cray

MrCheeks		2013-04-04 01:58:09 PM

The subtle off yellow coloring, the position of them both...Oh my God... it doesn't have a watermark...

DB		2013-04-04 02:18:59 PM

I remember Paul Allen looking differently in the 80's.

media.screened.com

/can't tell them apart

metallion		2013-04-04 02:19:04 PM

czetie: I'm embarrassed to admit how many of those machines I programmed for.

Me too... I'm too damn old for my own good...

red5ish		2013-04-04 02:25:39 PM

theurge14: He probably went through a Snapple drinking phase too.

Good lord, is there a Snapple drinking phase? Having a prostate exam isn't bad enough, there's a Snapple drinking phase?

Getting old sucks.
img543.imageshack.us

cartersdad		2013-04-04 02:35:57 PM

actually went to that museum before it was a real museum. Kind of cool in the back of a computer shop. Took about 5 minutes to walk through back then.

CSB

GameSprocket		2013-04-04 02:38:37 PM

Radak: Bill Gates, like Steve Jobs, actually seems a lot cooler in retirement.

Nice.

stuhayes2010		2013-04-04 02:49:02 PM

Great redo this one.

CBob		2013-04-04 02:53:36 PM

not clue what it looked like...crappy popup survey sites get closed.

Candygram4Mongo		2013-04-04 02:58:56 PM

Yeah, yeah, never mind those dorks... Is that a COMMODORE PET????

Jim DiGriz		2013-04-04 03:11:42 PM

Candygram4Mongo: Is that a COMMODORE PET????

I read that in the voice of the creepy guy on the Oddities commercial who asks "Is that a STRAIGHT JACKET?????"

Weidbrewer		2013-04-04 03:13:20 PM

Farking Canuck: I agree ... even if you are being sarcastic.

I was being sarcastic, but that doesn't mean I wasn't being truthful.

Yeah - the pic just seems to be a "Okay, we'll get in the same room for a few minutes for your stupid picture if you'll stop bothering us..."

DjangoStonereaver		2013-04-04 03:25:19 PM

Radak: Bill Gates~~, like Steve Jobs~~, actually seems a lot cooler in retirement.

FTFY, Garcon fanatique de pomme.

theurge14		2013-04-04 03:32:37 PM

red5ish: theurge14: He probably went through a Snapple drinking phase too.

Good lord, is there a Snapple drinking phase? Having a prostate exam isn't bad enough, there's a Snapple drinking phase?

Getting old sucks.

It's one of the first phases from what I can tell. You'll know it's coming soon when you begin to realize your warddrobe hasn't changed in over 10 years. And I don't mean just your style, I mean literally all the shirts and pants and shoes and jackets and hats you are wearing are all at least 10 years old.

Radak		2013-04-04 03:40:48 PM

DjangoStonereaver: Radak: Bill Gates~~, like Steve Jobs,~~ actually seems a lot cooler in retirement.

FTFY, Garcon fanatique de pomme.

You think I'm an Apple fanboi because I think Steve Jobs is cooler six feet under? I'll smoke some of what you're having.

KJUW89		2013-04-04 03:55:47 PM

stuhayes2010: [codinghorror.typepad.com image 434x342]
Great redo this one.

This.

gingerjet		2013-04-04 04:01:50 PM

stuhayes2010: [codinghorror.typepad.com image 434x342]
Great redo this one.

www.mymac.cc

theurge14		2013-04-04 04:05:19 PM

gingerjet: stuhayes2010: [codinghorror.typepad.com image 434x342]
Great redo this one.

[www.mymac.cc image 348x498]

That ginger guy turned into an old woman.

tgambitg		2013-04-04 04:13:48 PM

Great, can we now get a picture of Allen and Gates tying a boat anchor to Ballmer's feet and dropping both the anchor and him into the Mariana Trench?

gingerjet		2013-04-04 04:14:12 PM

theurge14: gingerjet: stuhayes2010: [codinghorror.typepad.com image 434x342]
Great redo this one.

[www.mymac.cc image 348x498]

That ginger guy turned into an old woman.

Some of us age better than others.

Rwa2play		2013-04-04 04:34:46 PM

Weidbrewer: That's a pretty half-assed attempt at recreating a photo....they didn't even pretend to stand/sit in the same poses or arrange the computers the same way. Good day, sir!

They should've posed next to today's PCs/all in ones as a testament to how the PCs evolved from the massive clunkers that they were in the 80s to the sleeker machines that they are now.

poot_rootbeer		2013-04-04 05:17:08 PM

From front left:
Bill Gates, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lady Unabomber, Charles Manson
Fez, Bob Odenkirk (as Andy Samberg), Walter Becker, Walter Becker
Your Dad In The '70s, Your Uncle In The '70s, Young Michael McDonald

chocolate covered poop		2013-04-04 05:39:55 PM

I thought that in the 1980's Paul Allen was part of that whole Yale thing. You know, closet homosexual, did alot of cocaine, that Yale thing

DjangoStonereaver		2013-04-04 06:27:26 PM

Radak: DjangoStonereaver: Radak: Bill Gates, like Steve Jobs, actually seems a lot cooler in retirement.

FTFY, Garcon fanatique de pomme.

You think I'm an Apple fanboi because I think Steve Jobs is cooler six feet under? I'll smoke some of what you're having.

I totally missed your implication.

So, you're not an Apple fanboi, you're just sick.

I guess I can deal with that better.

etherknot		2013-04-04 06:29:40 PM

Do this one next!

cdn.madamenoire.com

/I kid. Good fun industry battles in the 80's.

groppet		2013-04-04 06:31:27 PM

I remember using that type on Pet machine in elementary school. It was in the math lab. They had another version with an even smaller screen and it was made from a solid ton of metal at least. Off my lawn!

WillyChase		2013-04-04 07:04:11 PM

poot_rootbeer: From front left:
Bill Gates, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lady Unabomber, Charles Manson
Fez, Bob Odenkirk (as Andy Samberg), Walter Becker, Walter Becker
Your Dad In The '70s, Your Uncle In The '70s, Young Michael McDonald

That guy.... does actually look like my dad in the 70s

steveGswine		2013-04-04 09:18:52 PM

Candygram4Mongo: Yeah, yeah, never mind those dorks... Is that a COMMODORE PET????

That is indeed a Personal Electronic Transactor, model 2001, looks like.

I'm guessing there's eight entire kilobytes of random access memory in that forty-pound chunk of radio frequency interference shielding.

Good times.

FOR I = 1 TO 2 STEP 0: PRINT "PETS ARE COOL": NEXT

thegrievingmole		2013-04-04 10:06:06 PM

etherknot: Do this one next!

/I kid. Good fun industry battles in the 80's.

But... but the card says 1977

CrackpipeCardozo		2013-04-05 12:38:45 AM

DB: I remember Paul Allen looking differently in the 80's.

[media.screened.com image 850x564]

/can't tell them apart

Is that a raincoat?

czetie		2013-04-05 08:25:16 AM

steveGswine: Candygram4Mongo: Yeah, yeah, never mind those dorks... Is that a COMMODORE PET????

That is indeed a Personal Electronic Transactor, model 2001, looks like.

I'm guessing there's eight entire kilobytes of random access memory in that forty-pound chunk of radio frequency interference shielding.

Good times.

FOR I = 1 TO 2 STEP 0: PRINT "PETS ARE COOL": NEXT

CSB: first IT paycheck I ever pulled down was for a contract programming job on a PET. Local company needed an application to calculate and print export tariffs for shipments. The managing director was friends with the dad of a kid I was at school with (or something) and so they lent me the equipment and paid me to write the thing for them.

My application was, of course, complete crap. Oh, it worked fine for a couple of weeks, but as the database of products and tariffs got bigger, the program got exponentially slower, mainly due to the pants-on-head-bad insertion sort algorithm I had crafted. By that time, fortunately, I had disappeared off to college. They ended up paying somebody who actually had a clue to rewrite it for them.

/Ah, good times.