You know you're old when...

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

Wish I could make it even that long.

3:00am during the week....4:30am on weekends if I'm lucky....but only because I stayed up later the night before.

I woke at 9:30 today. Was nice

I only ever set an alarm if I have an early start. I usually wake about 7 or 8, and that's good enough for me to start work. Even if I sleep in, I work late so I'm not watching the clock.

[sygazelle]

I know I'm old because I finally no longer have a craving for a manual transmission. I drove stick most of my life. Even when the 8 speed ZFs came in a changed the game, I still hated not having a stick around, even though performance and efficiency leans toward the AT.


The craving is gone. I must be old.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by GenXer

I remember this like it was yesterday.

I remember this like it was yesterday.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I remember this like it was yesterday.

The instructions when I went in for an amateur radio license upgrade test a few years ago said that test-takers could use slide rules or basic non-scientific calculators, so I dug out my slide rule and used it. The older farts proctoring the test were whispering among themselves in approval, and the younger folks in the room were probably dumbfounded seeing someone actually use the *analog* scientific calculator that put men on the moon.....

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

The instructions when I went in for an amateur radio license upgrade test a few years ago said that test-takers could use slide rules or basic non-scientific calculators, so I dug out my slide rule and used it. The older farts proctoring the test were whispering among themselves in approval, and the younger folks in the room were probably dumbfounded seeing someone actually use the *analog* scientific calculator that put men on the moon.....

Bastard.

Learned how to use one in 1979 at an engineering summer program that I was too young to be in. I forgot all about them.

Let me double down now:
We used to walk around with the T-squares in our back packs with the T over our heads like some nerd bastard sword. SMFH.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD

Now you can get rapey and they wont see it coming

Ooooo...great idea. I could even run for president!

[pennsiveguy]

I can remember back in the late '70s torture-testing TI calculators by having them calculate the value of 69! (69 factorial, so 1x2x3x4...x69). It was the largest calculation that a 10-digit calculator would do. I recall it taking several seconds on the first ones that were capable of doing it. Later on, they got faster. I can remember the first graphing calculators getting lots of "ooos" and "ahhhs."

[floridaorange]

Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD

Or know wtf it is

Or don't know what "wtf" means

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by e84fan

you grow ear hair long enough to pluck with your fingers ... and you do it in public ... and don't care.

Yeah, the term "ear muff" has taken on a new meaning for me in the last 10 years or so.

[Dpc2u]

I can relate to all of these.....

[cmyx6go]

When you were born, your parents took you home from the hospital in a box. On the box the hospital wrote your name, DOB, weight and height in inches. My grandmother kept the boxes under her bed and used them for storage.

[floridaorange]

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by floridaorange

Get off my lawn!

[jamesinaz]

Originally Posted by GenXer

I got it brand new for my 14th birthday. I even got a 1200 baud modem with it.

Oh my GOD. 1200 baud? AWESOME SOCKS.

[jamesinaz]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

The instructions when I went in for an amateur radio license upgrade test a few years ago said that test-takers could use slide rules or basic non-scientific calculators, so I dug out my slide rule and used it. The older farts proctoring the test were whispering among themselves in approval, and the younger folks in the room were probably dumbfounded seeing someone actually use the *analog* scientific calculator that put men on the moon.....

I got one around here somewhere. And I have absolutely no idea if I could still figure out how to use it.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

I can remember back in the late '70s torture-testing TI calculators by having them calculate the value of 69! (69 factorial, so 1x2x3x4...x69). It was the largest calculation that a 10-digit calculator would do. I recall it taking several seconds on the first ones that were capable of doing it. Later on, they got faster. I can remember the first graphing calculators getting lots of "ooos" and "ahhhs."

Originally Posted by jamesinaz

I got one around here somewhere. And I have absolutely no idea if I could still figure out how to use it.

We still have my dads first TI from 1974 when they worked on their PhDs. It weighed about a pound and had the crazy red LEDs. When the buttons were pressed they would click softly. I think it cost about $400 in 1974 dollars.

[jamesinaz]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

We still have my dads first TI from 1974 when they worked on their PhDs. It weighed about a pound and had the crazy red LEDs. When the buttons were pressed they would click softly. I think it cost about $400 in 1974 dollars.

I was in technical school at the time and Ti calculators were allowed in the second semester. First semester slide rules were mandatory. I of course didn't have the funds and finished the entire course on a slide rule. Oh the envy I had of the guys who had one.

[UncleWede]

Superkalafragilisticexpialidocious on a plastic record with a crank on the side

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

Because #disneysungalongathome on Sunday night

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

I can remember back in the late '70s torture-testing TI calculators by having them calculate the value of 69! (69 factorial, so 1x2x3x4...x69). It was the largest calculation that a 10-digit calculator would do. I recall it taking several seconds on the first ones that were capable of doing it. Later on, they got faster. I can remember the first graphing calculators getting lots of "ooos" and "ahhhs."

I totally get it. I bought a TI calculator because it had a factorial key and a square root key. It was great for finite math and statistics. They cost a fortune at the time but totally worth it.

I think this makes us old.

[M_Six]

In our high school the "computer lab" consisted of two huge terminals that looked like typewriter/dot-matrix-printer combos that were connected to the mainframe over in the other high school in town. You could feed a tape through to program it, or you could write your own program. We thought we were so cool because we could get it to spit out x, x-squared, square root of x, and x-cubed. Ah, small victories. I miss them.

[dmatre]

Learned programming (FORTRAN, COBOL, etc)
in HS using punch cards. Computer was actually across the state at a state university.

Two rules:
- don't drop the stack of punch cards
- don't program so that the software gets into a loop. If you did, the teacher had to call the university and have them restart the computer - wrecking the projects of every other HS and college student running their projects at the time. Only happened once that I know of, and wasn't me in the hot seat.

[Murf993]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Superkalafragilisticexpialidocious on a plastic record with a crank on the side

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

Because #disneysungalongathome on Sunday night

Sunday night dinner on the TV trays watching the Wonderful World of Disney. Usually pot roast, but on occasion dad would insist on Swanson TV dinner, I thought they were pretty good but could never figure out what the "gasoline on water" colour was on the roast beef.