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15 or below
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16-19
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20-24
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35-39
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40s
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50s
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I don't want to say!
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12-29-2004, 05:15 AM
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at 44 I am in the "older group"
Still...I get up twice a week at 5am for a dawn surf before many of my younger counterparts have rolled over for the second time in the night.
Yes, I might have less hair, a bigger gut and a slower reaction time but I make up for all of that with the feeling that I am still able to do whatever I did in my 20's (well except pick up chicks, which the wife sort of frowns on )
While I love the bands of the 60's and 70's, current rock bands still get time on my audio - I love my music loud:rocker:
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12-29-2004, 05:46 PM
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getting older every year...
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Lol... you're one of those. :-P
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12-29-2004, 11:09 PM
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Figured this thread needed some movement... hope it helps you older guys
Sorry couldn't resist. I'm prepared for the retribution flaming...
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12-30-2004, 12:17 AM
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Figured this thread needed some movement... hope it helps you older guys
Sorry couldn't resist. I'm prepared for the retribution flaming...
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What's the fun in that if you're expecting it?? Just remember, old age and cunning is better than youth and enthusiasm....
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Anyone else want to chime in with a vote? The distribution seems to be changing a lot as we get more votes.......so lets get some more so this can be a more accurate representation. Right now, out of 66 votes, the age groups 25-29 and 30-34 are leading the pack with 15 each.
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Anyone else want to chime in with a vote? The distribution seems to be changing a lot as we get more votes.......so lets get some more so this can be a more accurate representation. Right now, out of 66 votes, the age groups 25-29 and 30-34 are leading the pack with 15 each.
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Next December I will cross over to the other side and make the 30-34 group one stronger.
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01-13-2005, 12:36 PM
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Can't let such a great thread die.
If you were a child of the 70's and earlier, then you can certainly remember . . . . .
We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets,
and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. We used wooden clothes pins to hold playing cards to our banana seat bike frame so our spokes would make cool noises going down the road. Some of us had 3 speed hub "English racers."
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
no one actually died from this. The bottles were usually 6.5 oz Cokes in green glass bottles.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes; no video
games at all, no channels on cable, no video tape movies, no Surround-Sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and there
were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms,
and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the
door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little league had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
I think I'm going to go run through the office with scissors now.
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We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes; no video
games at all, no channels on cable, no video tape movies, no Surround-Sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
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Remember when Pong first came out and how amazed we were with it??
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Remember when Pong first came out and how amazed we were with it??
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what do you mean 'were' ? Some of us are still fascinated...
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Remember when Pong first came out and how amazed we were with it??
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And learning Fortran on those danged punched cards and hating syntax errors and what it took to fix them (punch a new card and recompile) and graduating one year and the school purchasing a new CRT terminal system the very next year. Arrrrgggg.
I wrote a tick tack toe program in Fortran. It worked great. Took 7 sheets to print it. I've still got it somewhere and it's on green lined computer paper. No floppies back then. We're talking 1978.
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And learning Fortran on those danged punched cards and hating syntax errors and what it took to fix them (punch a new card and recompile) and graduating one year and the school purchasing a new CRT terminal system the very next year. Arrrrgggg.
I wrote a tick tack toe program in Fortran. It worked great. Took 7 sheets to print it. I've still got it somewhere and it's on green lined computer paper. No floppies back then. We're talking 1978.
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OK, so I'll reveal the nerdy side of my past.
Understand about the late 70's. The Imsai 8080 and Altair 8800 both had switches on the front so you could program on the bare metal.
We learned Fortran, Cobol, and S/370 Assembler on cards.... had other machines that booted the operating system from a cassette. Wrote a program to have the old TRS80 voice synthesizer give the Gettysburg address (phonetic programming was a kick). And learned how to break into the Star Trek game to boost your energy levels enough to blast Klingons with phasers from several galaxies away.
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Well, I've got you beat there. I worked with machines where you used the front panel switches to load the paper tape reader driver so that you could then read the next part of the bootstrap sequence from paper tape. My first modem was a 300 bps device where you fitted the telephone handset to rubber cups on the modem.
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Heck we used to transmit data between two coffee cans connected by string. Short range but very reliable.
Waxed string worked better than plain. :ccol:
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Heck we used to transmit data between two coffee cans connected by string. Short range but very reliable.
Waxed string worked better than plain. :ccol:
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You had CANS??!!!!! We used coconuts in the Philippines and Guam!
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Didn't the coconut milk get your ears wet?
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