You know you're old when...

[JJ 911SC]

Your First Computer had these Buttons...

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

Your First Computer had these Buttons...

...when your first computer had *these* buttons.....





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[M_Six]

^^^^Heh, heh...."microcomputer."

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...when your first computer had *these* buttons.....

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When my "computer" looked like this ...

[Dpc2u]

What my first calculator looked like.

[dscabra]

When your house only had one "screen" (not counting the ones on the non-Microsoft windows) and it looked like a piece of furniture.

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

What my first calculator looked like.

Are you sure it wouldn't look more like this (jar and special sauce, not included)?

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by TKDbilly

Are you sure it wouldn't look more like this (jar and special sauce, not included)?

Abby someone.

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Abby someone.

MF

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

Kukla Fran & Ollie I can recall at a very young age, but it aired mostly before my time.

Reminded me of Shari Lewis and Lambchop.

[Esteban]

Remember these guys? Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smith.

[flybigjet]

Originally Posted by dscabra

When your house only had one "screen" (not counting the ones on the non-Microsoft windows) and it looked like a piece of furniture.

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Heh-- my buddy had one of these old TV's in college (which was a notoriously dry campus). It was well-known in the dorm that his TV didn't work, which was the perfect setup to hide something in plain sight. He removed the top and reinstalled it with hinges, ripped out the electronics, and cut the glass tube all the way around so the only thing left was the actual screen itself.

Then he put a blender inside, ran the cord out where the TV power cord would have been, and put a ton of booze bottles inside the TV cabinet. When the RA's came to bust him for having alcohol in his room, they went *nuts* trying to figure out where he'd hidden the booze, mixers and glasses. They knew he was drinking in his room (which was a huge thing considering the school's alcohol policy) and spent literally *hours* trying to figure it out over the course of the school year. To my knowledge, none of the RA's ever cracked the code, even after several years of effort.

I thought it was pure, unadulterated genius, in a Wyle E. Coyote sort of way.

R.

[Esteban]

Let's not forget everyone's favorite:

[F87source]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

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omg I used to bend the super thin spoons we had prying these open.

[DrFerry]

Reverse Polish Notation.....
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[Tommy-G]

Originally Posted by flybigjet

Heh-- my buddy had one of these old TV's in college (which was a notoriously dry campus). It was well-known in the dorm that his TV didn't work, which was the perfect setup to hide something in plain sight. He removed the top and reinstalled it with hinges, ripped out the electronics, and cut the glass tube all the way around so the only thing left was the actual screen itself.

Then he put a blender inside, ran the cord out where the TV power cord would have been, and put a ton of booze bottles inside the TV cabinet. When the RA's came to bust him for having alcohol in his room, they went *nuts* trying to figure out where he'd hidden the booze, mixers and glasses. They knew he was drinking in his room (which was a huge thing considering the school's alcohol policy) and spent literally *hours* trying to figure it out over the course of the school year. To my knowledge, none of the RA's ever cracked the code, even after several years of effort.

I thought it was pure, unadulterated genius, in a Wyle E. Coyote sort of way.

R.

Thats genius....belongs in a museum

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

Reverse Polish Notation.....
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I still use my 15C and my 41CV I used in engineering school. Best built and fast. We would have an RPN versus "=" race in my school to perform a complex math equation. RPN won every time.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by flybigjet

When the RA's came to bust him for having alcohol in his room, they went *nuts* trying to figure out where he'd hidden the booze, mixers and glasses. They knew he was drinking in his room (which was a huge thing considering the school's alcohol policy) and spent literally *hours* trying to figure it out over the course of the school year. To my knowledge, none of the RA's ever cracked the code, even after several years of effort.

Get off my lawn, kid...unless you went to Brigham Young University in which case I'll let this transgression slide.

You aren't old unless you went to college when the drinking age was 18, and many campuses had actual bars on their grounds.....

[flybigjet]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Get off my lawn, kid...unless you went to Brigham Young University in which case I'll let this transgression slide.

You aren't old unless you went to college when the drinking age was 18, and many campuses had actual bars on their grounds.....

Lutheran university in WA State, 1984-1988.

No alcohol on campus, you had to live in the dorms until you were 21, and there were visitation rules regarding boys/girls on the male/female wings of the dorms.

As I recall, I broke all three of those rules my first night there.

R.

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Let's not forget everyone's favorite:

Or another favorite ...

[Gregrobin]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Let's not forget everyone's favorite:

Funny, I forgot about the creepy rabbit. Used to watch this every morning before catching the bus to school.

[KevinC]

When your first co-worker/mentor from your first full-time job rolls into town for a visit (and possibly to relocate to the area), and you haven't seen him in almost 40 years. Starting working together when I was 18, in 1976. I'm now 64 and he's 69. He arrives this afternoon, gonna be fun!