[3.0L]

Originally Posted by dogbone

......when you worked in tv production and video was edited on videotape because there was no such thing as computer-based video editing from a hard drive......

... and the stage crew turned the AC on and watched the "circuit breakers" pop.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

There was time time, back in the 1900s, when I had a scratchy video of Bill Gates saying no computer would EVER need more than 16K of RAM.

It was 640K, IIRC. The original IBM PC's 8088 CPU could only address 1024K of memory, and they used quite a bit of that address space at the top of the range for the BIOS, having the BASIC interpreter in ROM, and the CGA video RAM. What was left was 640K...and getting there required filling every motherboard socket and expansion slot if my aging brain is still working properly.....

[vreihen16]

...when you fall down in public, and people rush to help you and not laugh at you!

I had a meeting on the second floor of our town hall last night, and the elevator was out of order. I slowly climbed the stairs. When I got to the second-to-last stair on the climb, my legs started feeling funny. (Not unusual for oxygen depravation from weak ticker and blood flow.) After a 30 second pause, I successfully climbed those last two steps...and promptly dropped to the floor as both of my knees buckled out from under me! The crowd that gathered to see the spectacle helped me get back on my feet after a short rest break, and I'm none the worse for wear if you don't count a lump on one of my knees and a bruised ego as I realize that I'm now old.....

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...when you fall down in public, and people rush to help you and not laugh at you!

I had a meeting on the second floor of our town hall last night, and the elevator was out of order. I slowly climbed the stairs. When I got to the second-to-last stair on the climb, my legs started feeling funny. (Not unusual for oxygen depravation from weak ticker and blood flow.) After a 30 second pause, I successfully climbed those last two steps...and promptly dropped to the floor as both of my knees buckled out from under me! The crowd that gathered to see the spectacle helped me get back on my feet after a short rest break, and I'm none the worse for wear if you don't count a lump on one of my knees and a bruised ego as I realize that I'm now old.....

WTF, 3rd world problem. Your heli is supposed to drop you on the TOP of the building

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

WTF, 3rd world problem. Your heli is supposed to drop you on the TOP of the building

In our town? The helicopter would fall through what's left of the town hall roof! The roof probably isn't in much better shape than the elevator, the whole building having last been renovated during the Nixon administration.

Heck, the building is almost old enough to tell us to get off of *its* lawn!!!!!

[andrewmr]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

I think the first office I bought PCs for got 10MB hard drives in them.
Me, being the "Data Systems Manager", got a 20MB drive!
They got green screens, I got a cool orange screen.

Murf

You got a screen?????

[Lady Jane]

When they started putting USB inputs instead of CD players.


Attachment 2518745 Get off my friggin lawn.

[kscarrol]

CD players?!?! You know what to do!

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

CD players?!?! You know what to do!

Be careful not to close it, will dent the can and possibly spill the soda.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by andrewmr

You got a screen?????

You had a QWERTY keyboard? Exit my lawn, please.....






.

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by andrewmr

You got a screen?????

Where is the punch card reader?

[andrewmr]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

Where is the punch card reader?

I started on a IBM 360 model 40. We had trays of cards to run jobs, the console wasn't even touched.

We'd mount tapes, disk packs, and then run a deck of cards and away it went.

[Lady Jane]

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[wcr3d]

Change grandpa to an 8 track and it would be better.

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

Change grandpa to an 8 track and it would be better.

I instantly thought the same.

[bobowar135]

Originally Posted by 335dlci

Uhh because the dealer is actually a storefront aka dispensary like a Starbucks or your local McDonald's. Im old enough to say i have been working on bmws since before e90s came out

Or the Silvio's pizza shop on Watland Street lol.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

I instantly thought the same.

Yeah, vinyl is still cool. Doesn't mean grandpa can't be cool too.

[vreihen16]

This one hurts. Last fall, I had a hankering for potato pancakes, mostly because I'm not allowed to have them. I went to my web search engine du jour, to see if any restaurant in the area had them on the menu. One chain restaurant known for their breakfasts *did* have them, but only on the 55+ seniors menu. Darn my luck!

Here's why it hurts. Four months later, it just occurred to me today that I am over 55, and could ethically have ordered them from the 55+ senior menu! D'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the benefit of other young old farts reading this, among the restaurant chains in our area with special 55+ menus are Dennys, IHOP, and Perkins. A quick web search will yield a surprising list of other casual and fast food restaurants that, while they don't have special 55+ menus, give 10% or more discounts to the 55+ crowd.

You know you're old when...you are actually thinking about going to Arby's right now just to see if you can score the 10% discount they offer for 55+ seniors. You're REALLY old if you're actually mapping a route to the west coast just because Jack-in-the-Box offers 20% discounts for 55+ seniors.

Get off my lawn, kid...and take that two feet of snow with you.....

[mc-m3]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

Change grandpa to an 8 track and it would be better.

according to our pal google, cassette tape was invented '63 and the 8 track in '64

[M_Six]

I once had a young lady at a restaurant ask if I wanted their senior discount. I was mid-50s at the time. I asked how old you had to be. She said 65. D'oh!!

[wcr3d]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

according to our pal google, cassette tape was invented '63 and the 8 track in '64

Invented and widely used are two different things.
Ask any other old fart in here which they owned first.
And speaking of 55, anyone remember when THAT was retirement age?

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

And speaking of 55, anyone remember when THAT was retirement age?

Still is the minimum for some. I know folks who started out in the university retirement system as grad students in their early 20's and then retired with 30 years service at 55. They were pulling in really nice pensions and were able to go back to their old jobs part-time to earn even more.