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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[HgTX]

Oh, wow, I'd forgotten about edlin! Used that, too.

Hg

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[IRstuff]

Yep, edlin was, I think, also on CPM80, as was Turbo Pascal 1.0 (really sweet); it only took up a whopping 35 KB of memory, leaving nearly 20 KB for programs, yeah!! Whole thing ran on a 4 MHz Z80 with 64 KB RAM and 2 floppies (smoking!!). Morrow Computers, unfortunately, didn't last past the second generation of PCs.

btw, CPM80 was the predecessor of CPM86, which was the predecessor of DOS.

TTFN

 

[ziggi]

I can see the future of retirement homes now, gummy old nerds arguing about COBOL and Amstrads hehehe. Maybe even engaging in an all night Zork fest .

 

[IRstuff]

Zork! that's so new-fangled. The D&D'ers at school didn't use computers to play.

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[11echo]

OH LORD ...I must be REALLY old, I had a 4 track tape player in my GTO!! *G* (Wish I had it now!!!) ...Mark

 

[MadMango]

I can recall playing Ultima on a TRS-80 Model III. ASCII art and all.

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[ctopher]

You know you're young when you're the 166th reply to this thread and hanging in there ...

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[berkshire]

Anybody remember a game called "Whumpus" A rooms game played in basic, in which a troll lived with a big stick with which to Whump you if you lost.
I remember this on one of the first IBM PCs. Middle to late 70's I think. If you do remember, you can only be in one camp and it aint young.

 

[ziggi]

IRstuff,
I remember playing DnD, and I ain't old...just didn't get laid much in high school....I'm sure it wasn't b/c of the DnD.....no....couldn't be that.....

 

[IRstuff]

Chris,

I think that all it means is that nothings has changed in 30 yrs; nerds still don't have life ;-)

TTFN

 

[ctopher]

my life ...

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[looslib]

Berkshire,

Could not have been in the 70's as the IBM PC didn't exist prior to 1981.

Yes, PC's as we used to know them are only 25 years old!


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[IRstuff]

XERO 820 was not a PC:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=15

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[bioengr82]

You're young when all of your presidential election choices have consisted of W and another guy.

 

[bioengr82]

....so far I'm 0 for 2

 

[looslib]

No but it still entered the market in 1981 according to the link you posted.

The Apple ][ entered the market in 1977.



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[Ashereng]

edlin, vi, VMS, PC, that is all pretty new.

I remember VM/CMS on an IBM S360 (which took up an entire basement of the building) and using IBM's state of the art PROFS (that is a text editor) to do my resume in university. Oh, the S360 was the top of the line mainframe back then.

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[ewh]

I remember when using a microwave in a snack area was the coolist thing since sliced bread. Big and bulky, and the food really didn't taste very good, but the novelty was huge.

 

[pso311]

About as young as I can remember, I was writing DOS code to make my friend's Commodore 64 run the game Double Dragon and Spy Hunter. Then came the Nintendo. Ten yard fight, Excitebike, and Duck Hunt were staples.

I was born the last year the Steelers won the Superbowl...guess that puts me on the short side of this conversation.

 

[Ashereng]

Your old if your record player runs 33,45 and 78 rpm.

Your even older if you still have 78 rpm records.

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