01-01-2012, 12:30 AM | #46 |
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I work with an 84 year old 5 days a week who "mans" the counciling hot line. She says "You youngens are in the prime of your life. Enjoy them while they last because in the blink of an eye they'll be gone." All her friends and past husbands have all gone to the "moon", as she puts it.
Speaking of electronic items. She remembers when they got electricity. |
01-01-2012, 02:02 AM | #47 |
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Actually, I used the 026 in University. Then I went to work for DEC and got introduced to paper tapes. When I taught the PDP-8 Programming course, we would start loading the Focal interpreter with the ASR-33 teletype reader and then go out to lunch because it took at least 20 minutes to load. The High-Speed reader was a great advance, but the DF32 disk with 32000 word capacity was sheer heaven.
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01-01-2012, 10:53 AM | #48 |
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01-01-2012, 12:52 PM | #49 |
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You know you are getting older when you have another birthday. Seems obvious but it was my 51st birthday this Christmas and I lay there in bed before getting up and just thought, "Wow, that is a lot of birthdays."
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01-01-2012, 09:04 PM | #50 |
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You know you're getting old when you don't like adding another year to your age on your birthday.
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01-01-2012, 09:15 PM | #51 | |
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What about Visicalc? Programming in Basic? The first time you used a mouse! |
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01-01-2012, 11:00 PM | #52 |
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I remember Basic well. I wrote an entire database program in Basic...and it was so beautiful. I...[sniff]...miss Basic.
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01-01-2012, 11:13 PM | #53 |
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Forewarning- I'm an 80's child
You know you're getting older when... sometimes you had to blow in your video game cartriges to get them to work words like "rad" and "tubular" were a regular part of your vocabulary you used to devour Choose Your Own Adventure books you actually wore things like stirrup pants, jelly shoes, and hypercolor shirts I could go on and on and on... |
01-02-2012, 09:36 PM | #54 |
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You know you're getting old if you learned typing on typewriter.
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01-03-2012, 01:37 AM | #55 |
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you remember when the History Channel had programming about history, the Learning Channel had educational programs instead of reality shows appealing to every sexual fetish out there from fat brides to tattoos to kiddie por...i mean child beauty pageants and X-Men 2 wasn't considered an American Movie Classic.
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01-03-2012, 07:30 AM | #56 |
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01-03-2012, 08:18 AM | #57 |
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01-03-2012, 09:28 AM | #58 |
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^Lol.
The first PC I programmed on was the SuperPet. I remember having to reset the PDP-11 in the computer labs at University. |
01-03-2012, 09:39 AM | #59 |
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01-03-2012, 12:41 PM | #60 |
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You know you're getting old if you still mail your utilities bill.
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