Is it bad I'm feeling old?

[Bri w]

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]

Originally Posted by keith_d

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.n.../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]

Originally Posted by Bri w

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]

Originally Posted by keith_d

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.n.../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...

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

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.

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

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

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

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...

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