You Know You're Old/Young If ... 1

[Ashereng]

I have been reading various comments in the fora which seems to date the poster as "old" or "young" sometimes.

I though maybe there is sufficient interest to compile a list to help the old identify with the young, and the young to identify with the old.

If you are in between, I guess pick a side?

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[KENAT]

I thought the US was going metric inch by inch?

How about remembering the rag and bone man and his horse drawn cart? I remember this, does that make me old?

 

[IRstuff]

We DID go to metric. I do all my range predictions in metric and then convert back to nautical miles to verify compliance to my Navy spec ;-)

Naturally, the Navy spec also lists altitude in ft, which I convert to km in the analysis program.

TTFN

 

[Twoballcane]

Over the weekend I watched War Games forgot the actor”s names, but it was about a kid who unknowingly hacked into NORADs defense computer system called WOPPR. The kid was using dialup by using the phone receiver and putting it onto the modem. Remember those days! I think he was using something bigger than 5 ½ disks to boot up his computer that used green font. I remembered seeing the movie the first time and was at aw at how his stuff was so advanced. Man I feel old…

Tobalcane
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[IRstuff]

You're old because you can't remember the actors' names: Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

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[looslib]

How about a nice game of chess?

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[Twoballcane]

Thanks!

How about "It has come to my conclusion that your defense system sucks!"

Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."

 

[IRstuff]

The WOPR and its blinking lights was very retro for that movie; harkens back to the ship's computer in the SeaView and the Altair 8800 DIY computer that was in Pop Elex.


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