How old are you?

[jharris2]

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.

OK, so I'll reveal the nerdy side of my past. :nerd:

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.

 

[dcampen]

had other machines that booted the operating system from a cassette.

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.

 

[ToyotaDoodz]

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:

 

[sharp4runr]

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:

You had CANS??!!!!! We used coconuts in the Philippines and Guam!

 

[ToyotaDoodz]

Didn't the coconut milk get your ears wet?

 

[iFORCE]

LOL. coconuts were used elsewhere on the body....

 

[jharris2]

You had CANS??!!!!! We used coconuts in the Philippines and Guam!

And the data had to go uphill both ways, right?

 

[TOMCAT69]

Newbie to the boards. 35 years old (feels more like 50 though)

Can anybody tell me how to get a picture on as an icon here?

 

[Gryphon]

35 this year.

I echo the feel older tho, started working full time at 12...who ever heard of child labor laws? I was a child and I labored!

Oh man, the reminicing is great! Pong, how about Atari! I remember when the Commedore64 was THE platform and the Apple IIE was a powerhouse! I love the line from Short Circut: somehting about "I put a 500 megabyte hard drive in there, he'll NEVER fill that up!"

Tomcat69: At the top of the page, there is a link for "user cp". Click on this and you will find a place to select and avitar. In there you can upload a pic to use. Just be sure it is small enough in kb's. Usually a .jpg image sized to about 3x4 inches works fine. If you need more help, just PM me.

 

[slowginjoe]

So far it looks like a pretty smooth bell shape curve from the youngest to the oldest, except for the 35-39 year olds, a little dip in that area. C'mon you middle-aged guys, forget about that porsche already!

 

[ZOSO Runner]

I turn 35 and my T4R turns 1 in less than 2 weeks. You guys remember Intellevision, that game rocked!! I even had the Intelli-voice modulator. B-52 bomber...."Bombs away!!!" Countelss hours playing baseball and football. "Yer-out" How about H.R. Puff and Stuff, and Sigmound the sea monster. Now that was one psychelic show, I recently saw it on the Boomerang network, and it really freaked me out, how could they put that show on the air? I guess it's now worse than the Teletubbies - can you guess I have kids now?

 

[24runners]

I'm 28...but I'll be 19 in January cuz I dont wanna grow up...I'm a Toys R Us kid

 

[Luxury]

So far it looks like a pretty smooth bell shape curve from the youngest to the oldest, except for the 35-39 year olds, a little dip in that area. C'mon you middle-aged guys, forget about that porsche already!

Yeah, very bell-shaped. If I had divided the 40's category in half I bet 35-39 years old wouldn't appear as a dip. Guess I should have done that instead of having the category: "I don't want to say!".

 

[ToyotaDoodz]

Plus a lot of people did not vote. Come on all you "lurkers", you can vote and still be anonymous.

 

[MDT4RNR]

How old Am I?

Talking about age, this thread is getting old and stale, the last post was in 03/05

JK.. I hope to revive some interest on it..

I am 31 going on 40 (lack of excersise)

Dax

 

[cpayne5]

23

 

[srpage]

I'm 53

 

[lajones29]

39, but that changes in 2006. :lmao:

 

[kinnakeettom]

Old enough to remember when petrified wood were live trees.
58 and still counting.

 

[LS1JAY]

35 yrs old. I still feel like 18 though at times.