• Re: Old dudes

    From Avon@21:1/101 to Accession on Friday, March 01, 2024 14:35:42
    On 29 Feb 2024 at 06:37p, Accession pondered and said...

    Unfortunately, I'm considered an 'old head' these days. Although, I can brag that I once had an apprentice named Avon, and he is still around.
    I'd argue that he didn't turn out all that bad, either. :)


    Well I still have some hair left.... does that count. TMI :) ??

    In many respects quite a few of us are ahem 'older' heads now .. cassette tapes, VHS va Beta Max, Color TV, Boom Boxes, Casio digital watches and calculator games, Space Shuttle LED gameboy ?? games.. Speak N Spell (not the album ;-)) ... Fido in the 90s, dial up, dial up SLIP accounts to Unix logins, toll calls.. of the toll of toll calls... War Games (movie)... Whiz Kids TV show from 80s.... and on it goes... :)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Avon on Thursday, February 29, 2024 19:46:18
    On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 20:35:42 +1300, Avon -> Accession wrote:

    Well I still have some hair left.... does that count. TMI :) ??

    Yeah, TMI. :)

    In many respects quite a few of us are ahem 'older' heads now ..
    cassette tapes, VHS va Beta Max, Color TV, Boom Boxes, Casio digital watches and calculator games, Space Shuttle LED gameboy ?? games..
    Speak N Spell (not the album ;-)) ... Fido in the 90s, dial up, dial up SLIP accounts to Unix logins, toll calls.. of the toll of toll calls...
    War Games (movie)... Whiz Kids TV show from 80s.... and on it goes... :)

    Jeez, you ARE old!

    Just kidding, pretty sure I can check off just about all of the above as
    well.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Accession on Friday, March 01, 2024 17:30:05
    On 29 Feb 2024 at 07:46p, Accession pondered and said...

    Jeez, you ARE old!

    Yes the smooth lines of this font belie the truth :)

    Just kidding, pretty sure I can check off just about all of the above as well.

    ..as will a few others of us... righto, will drop this thread now, I'm off topic too unless I talk about history of Mystic etc.. :)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Avon on Friday, March 01, 2024 18:25:58
    On 01 Mar 2024, Avon said the following...

    Well I still have some hair left.... does that count. TMI :) ??

    In many respects quite a few of us are ahem 'older' heads now ..
    cassette tapes, VHS va Beta Max, Color TV, Boom Boxes, Casio digital watches and calculator games, Space Shuttle LED gameboy ?? games..
    Speak N Spell (not the album ;-)) ... Fido in the 90s, dial up, dial up SLIP accounts to Unix logins, toll calls.. of the toll of toll calls... War Games (movie)... Whiz Kids TV show from 80s.... and on it goes... :)


    God, I am old!! I lived through all of that, including Buster Brown shoes (Not sure if they were available on the other side of the world)... Oh and don't forget the little 6oz I think milk containers at school!

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  • From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to Bucko on Friday, March 01, 2024 19:09:51

    Well I still have some hair left.... does that count. TMI :) ??

    In many respects quite a few of us are ahem 'older' heads now .. cassette tapes, VHS va Beta Max, Color TV, Boom Boxes, Casio digital watches and calculator games, Space Shuttle LED gameboy ?? games.. Speak N Spell (not the album ;-)) ... Fido in the 90s, dial up, dial SLIP accounts to Unix logins, toll calls.. of the toll of toll calls. War Games (movie)... Whiz Kids TV show from 80s.... and on it goes...


    God, I am old!! I lived through all of that, including Buster Brown
    shoes (Not sure if they were available on the other side of the
    world)... Oh and don't forget the little 6oz I think milk containers at school!

    My high school still had teletypes in the computer lab and punch tape in the print shop.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Avon on Friday, March 01, 2024 19:30:50
    On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 23:30:04 +1300, Avon -> Accession wrote:

    ..as will a few others of us... righto, will drop this thread now, I'm
    off topic too unless I talk about history of Mystic etc.. :)

    Mystic is about as old as dirt, too! :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Geri Atricks on Friday, March 01, 2024 20:18:40
    ....
    God, I am old!! I lived through all of that, including Buster Brown shoes (Not sure if they were available on the other side of the world)... Oh and don't forget the little 6oz I think milk containers a

    school!

    My high school still had teletypes in the computer lab and punch tape in the print shop.

    We must be of the same vintage! I learned to program (basic) on a teletype
    and paper tapes.

    ogg
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Bucko on Saturday, March 02, 2024 19:50:54
    On 01 Mar 2024 at 06:25p, Bucko pondered and said...

    God, I am old!! I lived through all of that, including Buster Brown
    shoes (Not sure if they were available on the other side of the
    world)... Oh and don't forget the little 6oz I think milk containers at school!

    Welcome to the club, here in NZ we didn't get the 6oz milk containers but I do recall after school drinks at home with milk and a flavoring called Quic. There was chocolate, banana and strawberry flavors.

    I may shift this thread over to FSX_GEN now. so will cross pot it there.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Geri Atricks on Saturday, March 02, 2024 08:42:00
    Geri Atricks wrote to Bucko <=-

    My high school still had teletypes in the computer lab and punch tape
    in the print shop.

    (handle checks out)

    My high school had Commodore CBMs, like a Pet but with a real keyboard,
    80 columns and 32K of memory. The professor brought in a small WANG
    computer that read punched cards for data entry and had us all use it.
    We didn't understand why, he just asked us to trust him, we'd
    understand.

    So, technically, I started out programming with punch cards. :)




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  • From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to ogg on Saturday, March 02, 2024 13:29:33
    We must be of the same vintage! I learned to program (basic) on a
    teletype and paper tapes.

    DOB: 04 FEB 1968

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  • From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, March 02, 2024 13:35:34
    My high school had Commodore CBMs, like a Pet but with a real keyboard,
    80 columns and 32K of memory. The professor brought in a small WANG computer that read punched cards for data entry and had us all use it.
    We didn't understand why, he just asked us to trust him, we'd
    understand.

    <Snickers like a 10 year old> you said Wang! :) :P :D


    Heaven forbid that you drop those cards and they get out of order. :)
    Our lab had 2 teletypes and 2 CBM's. I learned COMOL on the CBM's. To this day I sill like the old commodore dual floppy unit, because it did a bit copy, so you could copy a floppy for any OS/Computer. Had to use it to make backups of the install disks for the few XT's that we had in the offices.

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Geri Atricks on Saturday, March 02, 2024 14:03:22
    On 02 Mar 2024, Geri Atricks said the following...

    We must be of the same vintage! I learned to program (basic) on a teletype and paper tapes.

    DOB: 04 FEB 1968

    I'm a 1956.

    ogg
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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Geri Atricks on Saturday, March 02, 2024 14:06:15
    Heaven forbid that you drop those cards and they get out of order. :)

    I saw a senior (in college) do that to a full box late one night. I thought he was going to break down and cry.

    ogg
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Accession on Sunday, March 03, 2024 21:23:52
    On 01 Mar 2024 at 07:30p, Accession pondered and said...

    Mystic is about as old as dirt, too! :)

    True dat.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, March 03, 2024 21:26:21
    On 02 Mar 2024 at 08:42a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    My high school had Commodore CBMs, like a Pet but with a real keyboard,
    80 columns and 32K of memory. The professor brought in a small WANG computer that read punched cards for data entry and had us all use it.
    We didn't understand why, he just asked us to trust him, we'd
    understand.

    So, technically, I started out programming with punch cards. :)

    First PC at school a TRS-80, then Apple 2e and a Dick Smith System 80. <-- all of these prepared me for using a PC in the 2000s installing Mystic. (see how I brought it back on topic ;-)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to ogg on Sunday, March 03, 2024 21:27:02
    On 02 Mar 2024 at 02:03p, ogg pondered and said...


    DOB: 04 FEB 1968

    I'm a 1956.

    I'm somewhere in between, so a semi old dude :)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to ogg on Sunday, March 03, 2024 11:11:38
    Heaven forbid that you drop those cards and they get out of order. :)

    I saw a senior (in college) do that to a full box late one night. I thought he was going to break down and cry.

    Wouldn't have blamed him or shamed him one bit. In fact, I would probably be right there on the floor with him in moral support and pain.

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