View Full Version : Is it bad I'm feeling old?
Jamesy D
02-10-10, 05:35 PM
Well... I'm 17 (almost 18, egads) and I've realised that I have the capacity to feel old. Two guys came into the shop today, looking for helmets because they were about to do their CBT's and get 50cc scoots.
I made a mention of our website, and the fact that our catalogue is available on online, but if they had dial up forget it - it'd take too long to load.
One of them looked at me blankly and asked "What's dial up?"
I immediately felt about forty years older than I should...
beabert
02-10-10, 05:41 PM
Im suprised you know what it is at 17! Not seen it myself for 5 years. Thanks, now i feel old.
Milky Bar Kid
02-10-10, 05:41 PM
LOL! Dial-up! Does anyone actually still have dial-up???
BBadger
02-10-10, 06:12 PM
I remember dial up...and im only 19, time to trade in the sv for a mobility scooter it seems.
andrewsmith
02-10-10, 06:52 PM
cheers mate
I do feel old and I remember having dial up. I'm 23 and 18 i can't remember :p
Specialone
02-10-10, 07:00 PM
Dial up, i remember when the phones had a dial on the front you had to 'dial up' to call somebody, let alone internet.
Or when the pinnacle of home games systems consisted of a white bar going up and down on the screen batting a square dot back and forth, radical eh ;)
Well I'm only 21, and I easily remember dial-up...I only got the broadband in about 2001 or so.
andrewsmith
02-10-10, 07:06 PM
Special one
you remember the orignal Mobile phones?
http://markdroberts.com/images/cell-phone-old-big-4.jpg
punyXpress
02-10-10, 07:56 PM
Well, the HG sizing chart isn't available to me !
" There was an error processing a page. Invalid ColorSpace " Someone will be an invalid at that rate. Reckon I'll get the operator to connect me to them, YOUNG MAN.
metalmonkey
02-10-10, 08:01 PM
Well... I'm 17 (almost 18, egads) and I've realised that I have the capacity to feel old. Two guys came into the shop today, looking for helmets because they were about to do their CBT's and get 50cc scoots.
I made a mention of our website, and the fact that our catalogue is available on online, but if they had dial up forget it - it'd take too long to load.
One of them looked at me blankly and asked "What's dial up?"
I immediately felt about forty years older than I should...
Was it something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDw75mUl6c&feature=related
minimorecambe
02-10-10, 08:14 PM
Yes it is bad! Be young forever! :D
Specialone
02-10-10, 08:15 PM
Special one
you remember the orignal Mobile phones?
http://markdroberts.com/images/cell-phone-old-big-4.jpg
Yep around mid 80's iirc, my sisters boyfriend at the time had one and what a Cnut he was.
Atari coming out in the 70's made more of an impact IMO .
Try actually being old!!!!!!!!!
Dial up,pah!!!!! Do you remember when the internet hadn't been invented??????
Yep, but its getting foggy due to the alzeimers :)
fizzwheel
02-10-10, 08:19 PM
Try actually being old!!!!!!!!!
Dial up,pah!!!!! Do you remember when the internet hadn't been invented??????
Not far off. 1200 Baud Modem, text only bulletin board, compuserve, 5.25" floppy disks. Jumpers for goal posts, isnt it, umh umh...
Jayneflakes
02-10-10, 08:35 PM
Had to have a chat with my Step Son today about his poor behavior and the following consequences of it. Then it struck me, when the feck did I grow up? I still laugh at fart jokes and I like to create mayhem, at least I thought that I did. :(
Getting old sucks. :(
Jamesy D
02-10-10, 08:49 PM
Not far off. 1200 Baud Modem, text only bulletin board, compuserve, 5.25" floppy disks. Jumpers for goal posts, isnt it, umh umh...
Ah yes, these days we've moved upmarket to using rucksacks as goalpoasts and pictures on our bulletin boards. I do remember floppy discs though...and having to move 200MB worth of data from my grandfather's computer to ours on them...
This thread has made me giggle. :smt038
punyXpress
02-10-10, 10:46 PM
If your on about floppies, 8" RULES!
I remember dial up and i feel old as well and im only 19, seem to have the bones of a 90 year old what with my bad back and knees...
Computers? I remember looking up customer details on microfiche.
You never had to switch it off and back on - just change the bulb occasionally.
Jamesy D
02-10-10, 11:03 PM
Computers? I remember looking up customer details on microfiche.
What do tiny cod have to do with anything?
BIGSTEVE
02-10-10, 11:17 PM
5.25 floppies, dial up, sopwith and yahtzee on the amstrad, telephones with a proper round dial and a 4 digit phone number, those were the days!
i was going to say 'go find yourself a nice young thing to squeeze' but in your case i dont thing that would be a good idea.
keith_d
03-10-10, 06:17 AM
Naah, that's not old. Old is when you remember computer memory being a bunch of little ferrite rings, and your Teletype (http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/terminals/teletype.html) going chugga-chugga-chugga all day long.
I doubt there's many folks who remember booting a computer by entering the start address of the ROM with a set of switches on the front panel either.
Keith (definitely feeling old!)
Bluefish
03-10-10, 09:24 AM
ill raise you the 8 track, lol.
kaivalagi
03-10-10, 09:26 AM
Naah, that's not old. Old is when you remember computer memory being a bunch of little ferrite rings, and your Teletype (http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/terminals/teletype.html) going chugga-chugga-chugga all day long.
I doubt there's many folks who remember booting a computer by entering the start address of the ROM with a set of switches on the front panel either.
Got me there Keith_d, I was gonna mention my BBC Model B with a whopping 64K of RAM and a 5.25" disk drive but...I'm feeling quite young again :p
I did learn Cobol in my first job and had the "old timers" telling me about loading programs via punch cards once...
17yrs old...I wish! Jamesy D, be grateful you have all your youth ahead of you...I'm 35 now and pretty much double your age, trust me comparing yourself to a 16yr old may seem like worlds apart but wait until you're my age and you see young whipper snappers like you are now! :lol:
Specialone
03-10-10, 09:26 AM
Your old if you remember Texan bars ;)
kaivalagi
03-10-10, 09:44 AM
Your old if you remember Texan bars ;)
You've started me off on a youtube rampage...had to post this: SKZj2S5lm3c
And when I was a bit older than 3!:
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see 1:11 :lol:
Specialone
03-10-10, 09:59 AM
No way, i remember 99% of them, i really want a texan bar right now :)
And chew it reeeeaaaal slow .
I remember press button A, press button B phoneboxes.
And the early computer was called a Filofax
Only rich people had colour TV. I used to go walk the dog along a street in Eltham, south London, called North Park. Guess some south Londoners will know it. There were two big houses where they deliberately left the curtains back so the world could see their TV.
tigersaw
04-10-10, 08:02 AM
Naah, that's not old. Old is when you remember computer memory being a bunch of little ferrite rings, and your Teletype (http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/terminals/teletype.html) going chugga-chugga-chugga all day long.
I doubt there's many folks who remember booting a computer by entering the start address of the ROM with a set of switches on the front panel either.
Keith (definitely feeling old!)
The first computer I used was a PDP8/L - 4k ferrite memory and a punch tape rim loader, followed by a high speed tape loader that spat yards of punched tape across the room when it had a paddy.
There was a disk drive in London I could access using a 300 baud accoustic modem.
tigersaw
04-10-10, 08:05 AM
I remember press button A, press button B phoneboxes.
And the early computer was called a Filofax
Yes, you had to load 4 pennies in before you could start, dial your number, wait for answer, then A to connect or B to get your coins back. A right pain.
Luckypants
04-10-10, 08:49 AM
Naah, that's not old. Old is when you remember computer memory being a bunch of little ferrite rings, and your Teletype (http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/terminals/teletype.html) going chugga-chugga-chugga all day long.
I doubt there's many folks who remember booting a computer by entering the start address of the ROM with a set of switches on the front panel either.
Keith (definitely feeling old!)
Been there, done that. Ahh the days of writing your own drivers for TTY8...
I did learn Cobol in my first job and had the "old timers" telling me about loading programs via punch cards once...
Remember that too! What fun if the operator dropped the IPL (Initial Progam Load) deck during a 'boot' (using a modern term the young 'uns will understand here) sequence... 5200 card pick-up!
I'll be a grandad soon but I don't feel old; older maybe, but not old.
metalangel
04-10-10, 09:18 AM
I feel old sometimes, 'only' 30 but I think how much stuff has gone before.
For geek stuff, my school had Commodore PETs and C64s, turning over the disk four times per loading screen was bad, loading from a tape was worse.
I don't remember a lot of the PC stuff as it never interested in BUT i do remember getting extra marks for printed OHP's in Uni. Powerpoint was not heard off and research meant actually going out and doing the work either observatiobn or looking at books not sitting in front of a PC.
Notes in lectures were handwriting or dictaphone as opposed to speech recognition
and the computer lab was 3 classrooms for the whole uni as opposed to hot hubs where you now plug your lap top in. I look so out of place at Uni these days
startrek.steve
04-10-10, 10:46 AM
Yer all a load of brats!!
I remember Bulletin Boards!!!
none of the new-fangled Internet stuff!!
Fido Rocks!
Steve (Multi-tasking in the 80's on my Amiga)
well at least your first games consols wasnt one of these
Linky (http://80stoyshop.com/images/SegaMegadrive.jpg)
And count your lucky starts that tomorrow (05/10) your not 25.
When i was a lad.... we stripped down and rebuilt the PC from the case up into :
Linky (http://sperone.free.fr/images/extraz/PICS/legopc.jpg)
infact, i think in my box of PC spare parts i still have a working dial-up modem for anyone feeling nostalgic and wants to run up a £300 phone bill whilst watching a 5minute film on you tube...
Specialone
04-10-10, 04:29 PM
Mega drives were like ps3's to us compared to what we grew up with lol, btw i thought they come out in the early 90's not 80's :confused:
my first games console was an atari 2600. it had tank command, breakout and tennis.
Greenman
04-10-10, 06:49 PM
I'm 63 er what was the question again?
First computer I ever had was a ZX Spectrum. To load a game you had to connect your tape recorder to it, wait half an hour and if you were very very lucky and finally got the game to load you got to play Jet Set Willy (http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21666/Jet-set-willy.html) State of the art game playing of the era.
Specialone
04-10-10, 07:52 PM
First computer I ever had was a ZX Spectrum. To load a game you had to connect your tape recorder to it, wait half an hour and if you were very very lucky and finally got the game to load you got to play Jet Set Willy (http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21666/Jet-set-willy.html) State of the art game playing of the era.
I had one of these, the first batch of this type was the ZX81 with rubber keys, then the 64k which i had with seperate tape player, the 128k had built in tape players.
I hated it when a big game would take 10 mins to load then crash at the last minute.
I liked bomb jack and the track and field one (cant remember the name).
I also played sabotuer a lot also.
Good times :)
Amplimator
04-10-10, 07:58 PM
What!?!?
No-one had a commodore vic-20? Spending a few hours typing in jargon to change cursor colour. Oh and Spikey harold FTW! :rolleyes:
punyXpress
04-10-10, 08:38 PM
Lightweights the lot of you ( and youngsters )
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/NEC_APC.jpg
You'd never call this mutha a lightweight, and all the lights went out when you switched it on !
Having met puny, I was half expecting that picture to be ENIAC :p
minimorecambe
04-10-10, 09:20 PM
My first computer was an Amega
my first use of a computer (http://www.cs.cuw.edu/museum/CommodorePet2001.html) back in 1978... my dads company computer which was home based..
http://www.cs.cuw.edu/museum/images/Commodore_PET2001.jpg
my my, times have changed :0)
Lightweights the lot of you ( and youngsters )
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/NEC_APC.jpg
You'd never call this mutha a lightweight, and all the lights went out when you switched it on !
Bigger photo Required please !
tigersaw
04-10-10, 10:55 PM
This was the first computer I used:
http://forums.sv650.org/picture.php?albumid=97&pictureid=4921
It was used to do some complex maths called Allard's and Koshmieder basically to work out the visibility in foggy conditions.
It went wrong a lot and took a lot of looking after. Not only that, it cost a mint. Like several years wages.
I still have all the manuals, but we binned it in the end, someone kept the core store as a paperweight.
What!?!?
No-one had a commodore vic-20? Spending a few hours typing in jargon to change cursor colour. Oh and Spikey harold FTW! :rolleyes:
Ahhh the VIC20 the forst computer I had that wasn't a broken hand me down.
The only game I remember was called "The Count" and was a text based adventure game.
I also remember getting a game which wasn't on tape, disc or cartridge. It was a book of code, you copy the code from the book into the computer and actually program the game yourself!!!
punyXpress
05-10-10, 09:09 AM
You going blind too, Richie ?
It really was that big.
Hoo :smt026
metalangel
05-10-10, 09:43 AM
It was a book of code, you copy the code from the book into the computer and actually program the game yourself!!!
And then you get the program wrong and it doesn't work. Or you alter it to give yourself more lives, and put some swears into the text.
This carried on well into the 90s. Remember Gorilla and Snake, those two QBasic games despised by computer teachers? Some truly inspired rewordings were to be found in my high school, including Snake becoming 'The Adventures of Pumaman' with a huge, detailed backstory on the menu screen and apology that the in-game graphics didn't do justice to Pumaman and the villains.
Another (more offensive) Snake into 'F*ggots', the snakes became 'Julian' and 'Lance', the death messages were 'Lance c*ms first' and 'Julian gets soft', with Game Over becoming 'you got AIDS'.
Someone else hacked Gorilla to let you throw dozens of bananas. And one kid broke into the code for an AUTOCAD machine and changed all the menus to make it a Gandhi version, 'AutoGandhiCAD', with the rest of the text in pidgin English.
LOL no-one at my school was that clever.
andrewsmith
05-10-10, 11:00 AM
metal ave heard about the auto cad 1.
Its actually not hard to break auto desk codes we had heavily modded versions at wrk.
It did help make the computer expire along with the overclockin that did wen a gt bored 1 day :p
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