Gary Lewis Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 I remember when this site was originally created when I was on FTE. Seems like years ago now. Cant recall how many years. Lol. I saved it in my favorites and came back a few weeks ago and saw the forums and all the info and I had to join. I love my style truck. I just feel at home here. Thanks for all the hard work! Thanks, Justin. Comments like that make it all worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Thanks, Justin. Comments like that make it all worth it. Well, after 36ish hours we've had 13 responses. And of those no one has come because of or through posts on Facebook. And that boggles my mind. I'm on 11 different Facebook pages and have been contributing there quite a bit with links to the documentation on this site. That has increased the users viewing the website itself, although not necessarily the forum, but I would have expected some spillover as people poke around on the site and find the forum. Apparently not. So, I'm coming to the conclusion that there are "forum types" and there are "Facebook types", and ne'er the twain shall meet. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baddog8it Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Well, after 36ish hours we've had 13 responses. And of those no one has come because of or through posts on Facebook. And that boggles my mind. I'm on 11 different Facebook pages and have been contributing there quite a bit with links to the documentation on this site. That has increased the users viewing the website itself, although not necessarily the forum, but I would have expected some spillover as people poke around on the site and find the forum. Apparently not. So, I'm coming to the conclusion that there are "forum types" and there are "Facebook types", and ne'er the twain shall meet. What do you think? I agree. I'm one of them - I like the forum, and I avoid facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpin Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Well, after 36ish hours we've had 13 responses. And of those no one has come because of or through posts on Facebook. And that boggles my mind. I'm on 11 different Facebook pages and have been contributing there quite a bit with links to the documentation on this site. That has increased the users viewing the website itself, although not necessarily the forum, but I would have expected some spillover as people poke around on the site and find the forum. Apparently not. So, I'm coming to the conclusion that there are "forum types" and there are "Facebook types", and ne'er the twain shall meet. What do you think? I agree also, I don't get on Facebook much anymore, definitely not for help or research on vehicles. I would think that it would be a good place to find forums like this, however I search for forums and not on Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Well, after 36ish hours we've had 13 responses. And of those no one has come because of or through posts on Facebook. And that boggles my mind. I'm on 11 different Facebook pages and have been contributing there quite a bit with links to the documentation on this site. That has increased the users viewing the website itself, although not necessarily the forum, but I would have expected some spillover as people poke around on the site and find the forum. Apparently not. So, I'm coming to the conclusion that there are "forum types" and there are "Facebook types", and ne'er the twain shall meet. What do you think? I actually are on a number of forums, haven't been on FTE much lately, and am also fairly active on Facebook, also in a number of automotive related forums. The forums I am in are two manufacturers, Ford and Chrysler. There are a number of Facebook groups I am in including two I am an administrator for, 429-460 Big Block Fords and Ford dually trucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 I actually are on a number of forums, haven't been on FTE much lately, and am also fairly active on Facebook, also in a number of automotive related forums. The forums I am in are two manufacturers, Ford and Chrysler. There are a number of Facebook groups I am in including two I am an administrator for, 429-460 Big Block Fords and Ford dually trucks. All Facebook is to me is a big garage sale. I like to look at things for sale. I grew up in the internet days of forums and I guess I just prefer that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 All Facebook is to me is a big garage sale. I like to look at things for sale. I grew up in the internet days of forums and I guess I just prefer that. I grew up when computers took up a room, you addressed them with punch cards and the language was Fortran. Internet, what internet? My first home PC was a Packard-Bell we paid $1100 for, before that my oldest son's father had sent him an Apple IIc and a Gorilla Banana printer. I upgraded that to an Okidata still a tractor feed serial comm system. When my younger son needed to be able to do some on-line research, I bought a Soundblaster card for the Packard-Bell as that was where the modem resided, AOHell at dial-up speeds, even got a second phone line just for the computer. We thought we were big time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 I grew up when computers took up a room, you addressed them with punch cards and the language was Fortran. Internet, what internet? My first home PC was a Packard-Bell we paid $1100 for, before that my oldest son's father had sent him an Apple IIc and a Gorilla Banana printer. I upgraded that to an Okidata still a tractor feed serial comm system. When my younger son needed to be able to do some on-line research, I bought a Soundblaster card for the Packard-Bell as that was where the modem resided, AOHell at dial-up speeds, even got a second phone line just for the computer. We thought we were big time! I, too, grew up when computers took up a room - a BIG room. And, because they were vacuum tube driven they required a support staff that was continually changing out tubes. The first computer I actually used was in 1966 and it was an IBM 1620, which had a memory table for arithmetic. So, when you fired it up the first time each day you had to load the memory table, using punched cards, or it couldn't add 1+1. And, if your program wrote in the memory table you started getting strange answers. Today we have many, MANY times more power in our phones than the room-sized computers back then. As for Facebook, I'm not seeing the benefit of the many truck pages I'm on. Someone asks a question and people post rude answers. Tens if not hundreds of answers, some good but many not. And, profanity seems to be a requirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 I, too, grew up when computers took up a room - a BIG room. And, because they were vacuum tube driven they required a support staff that was continually changing out tubes. The first computer I actually used was in 1966 and it was an IBM 1620, which had a memory table for arithmetic. So, when you fired it up the first time each day you had to load the memory table, using punched cards, or it couldn't add 1+1. And, if your program wrote in the memory table you started getting strange answers. Today we have many, MANY times more power in our phones than the room-sized computers back then. As for Facebook, I'm not seeing the benefit of the many truck pages I'm on. Someone asks a question and people post rude answers. Tens if not hundreds of answers, some good but many not. And, profanity seems to be a requirement. My introduction was also an IBM 1620, it was owned by the Old Dominion College School of Engineering. This was in 1964 and we had to learn Fortran and write a simple program that involved multiple calculation steps. I wrote the engine displacement formula. Then we had to give it several sets of data to solve, retrieve the output (on punch cards) and read them to get the printout of the results. Not super impressive by today's standards, but beat the heck out of a slide rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 My introduction was also an IBM 1620, it was owned by the Old Dominion College School of Engineering. This was in 1964 and we had to learn Fortran and write a simple program that involved multiple calculation steps. I wrote the engine displacement formula. Then we had to give it several sets of data to solve, retrieve the output (on punch cards) and read them to get the printout of the results. Not super impressive by today's standards, but beat the heck out of a slide rule. My intro was in 1965 or 6, and it was in the Kansas State engineering department. Don't remember what our first job was, but we had a printer for output. Funniest thing I saw was a couple of guys that had spent MONTHS programming a chess game. One night while I was in the lab they thought they had it completed, but when they told the computer "checkmate" the computer moved his king off the board. They'd forgotten to program the edges of the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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