Am I the world's oldest TE owner?

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Catchlight

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I replaced my '98 SR5 a few months ago with a 2011 Trail Edition to use for daily trips up our ski mountain in winter, for logging road travel to camp spots and boat launches, and for some trips we've been planning to the American Southwest and Canadian Prairies
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It was a bit of a bucket-list purchase (if not now, when?) since I'll turn 70 in December. Just wondering if any of my fellow senior citizens are indulging in what some might consider age-inappropriate behaviour by driving TEs, and how that's going.
 
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I guess it depends upon how you look at your age.

I add my numbers to get my true age. So instead of 53, I'm only 8 years old. So if you add your numbers together, you are in your adolscent years and thinking about getting a license (15). But soon you will be only a 7 year old (7+0) Now go out and have some fun but please be home before the street lights come on. :party:

Why grow up, you only die.
 
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I am a spry almost 50! Well, almost 50 but not too spry as I broke some ribs while mountain biking 3+ weeks ago. Well, the bike did not break the ribs the rocks that were on the ground broke them. Anyhow, I know lots of guys between 50-80 and some of them drive 4Runners and Jeeps and those are the ones still riding and skiiing. My 83 YO friend uses his Jeep to cart around his Honda Trail-90 and the Jeep only takes him to the trail head! He told me his Honda is a '79 model and compared to him is just getting broken in!
 
I'm a 7yo trapped in a 57yo body who's lucky enuf to drive a 2010 black TE! "Old" is just a state of mind until your body reminds you otherwise! Don't let that stop you from keep on trucking!
 
Well catchlight, you got me by 1 year exactly.... and I've never been accused of age-appropriate behaviour. Oh but, ahhhh retirement!!!
 
And when I finally reach that stage in life when the end is near, I hope to fall asleep quietly and die with dignity, just like my elderly uncle did and not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car !
 
1engineer said:
I have been on it since it was NSFNET. First college programming class was with punchcards. Last programming class was C++. A lot happened in those 4 1/2 years regarding the change of technology.
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Wow, I briefly remember punchcards in the 1970's but it was many more then 4.5 years before I took a C-class in programming. There was a lot of Cobol and Assembler that I was involved with for about 20 years before C, let alone C+ or C++.
 
rickwol said:
Wow, I briefly remember punchcards in the 1970's but it was many more then 4.5 years before I took a C-class in programming. There was a lot of Cobol and Assembler that I was involved with for about 20 years before C, let alone C+ or C++.
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History - (In 1983, the name of the language was changed from C with Classes to C++ (++ being the increment operator in C). New features were added including virtual functions, function name and operator overloading, references, constants, user-controlled free-store memory control, improved type checking, and BCPL style single-line comments with two forward slashes (//). In 1985, the first edition of The C++ Programming Language was released, providing an important reference to the language, since there was not yet an official standard.[9] Release 2.0 of C++ came in 1989 and the updated second edition of The C++ Programming Language was released in 1991.)

I started with the 2nd edition.

Accessing a mainframe in the early '80's for Fortran was still via punch cards. We were using PC's for basic in my first year. So, first year in 1984 - Punch cards with Fortran. Last year in 1989 - C++ second edition. I know, it boggled my mind then too haha.
 
1engineer said:
History - I started with the 2nd edition.

Accessing a mainframe in the early '80's for Fortran was still via punch cards. We were using PC's for basic in my first year. So, first year in 1984 - Punch cards with Fortran. Last year in 1989 - C++ second edition. I know, it boggled my mind then too haha.
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Right. Jobs running on the mainframe via punchcards written in fortran via JCL. I was involved with the development of one of IBM's older mainframe OS's. First VS1 and later MVS. Both written strictly in Assembler code (able to manipulate at the bit level). I didn't see any of the mainframe routines rewritten in C until the 90's and since there was no comp science curriculum when I was in college, trying to bone up on C was a major pain.
 
rickwol said:
Right. Jobs running on the mainframe via punchcards written in fortran via JCL. I was involved with the development of one of IBM's older mainframe OS's. First VS1 and later MVS. Both written strictly in Assembler code (able to manipulate at the bit level).
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Assembler language was my favorite. It was like an old Jeep CJ without power steering or brakes, a 4 banger with a manual tranny and a torn up vinyl seat. It could get you there no matter what if you knew your sh!t.

At least that's how I recall it from 1988... I am a young 41 BTW.:beer:
 
Antman said:
Assembler language was my favorite. It was like an old Jeep CJ without power steering or brakes, a 4 banger with a manual tranny and a torn up vinyl seat. It could get you there no matter what if you knew your sh!t.

At least that's how I recall it from 1988... I am a young 41 BTW.:beer:
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Yeah, right! :violin:
 
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