When you remember 8 inch floppy disks.
Salem 5,231 Posting Sage
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
when you remember the 75 rpm music records -- or any records at all (I have not seen any for several years now).
Or when you remember MS-DOS version 1.0 and MS-Windows version 1.0.
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
when you remember the 75 rpm music records -- or any records at all (I have not seen any for several years now).
1.0.
Was reading in local news paper about people buying vinyl records again then spending up to $10,000 US on turn tables and sound system.
you know you're old when most of the aircraft you saw had propellers
MosaicFuneral 812 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
when you remember the 75 rpm music records -- or any records at all (I have not seen any for several years now).
Actually, I see those all the time. I was just playing some records I had bought, the other day.
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
when your uncle regularly played his hand crank Edison Gramophone, it had tubular records not flat disc and you knew the words to some of the songs. Later---
WaltP 2,905 Posting Sage w/ dash of thyme Team Colleague
... if you remember using data cards and/or paper tape.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
... if you remember using data cards and/or paper tape.
Yes -- I used paper tape on teletype machines in the 1960s.
If you remember computers that had vacuum tubes.
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
You remember when rabbit ears and a piece of tin foil was a high performance TV antenna. Later---
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
When you remember that the records are 78rpm
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
When you remember that the records are 78rpm
And the weekly hits were one sided cardboard with a hard coating on the sound side, they were sort of brownish orange. Later---
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
One for you bread boarders Simpson PSM4A vom or ac powered tube type vom, Mine still work. Later---
GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster
More likely, if you actually willingly listened to Ummagumma, you probably don't remember the whole year or decade.
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving with a Pict
Careful With That Axe Eugene
tiger86 16 Posting Pro
When you reformatted Windows 3.1 when you were 5.
WaltP 2,905 Posting Sage w/ dash of thyme Team Colleague
You remember what happened when the lady on the radio yelled
"Don't open that closet, McGee!"
tiger86 16 Posting Pro
You remember what happened when the lady on the radio yelled
"Don't open that closet, McGee!"
Huh???
WaltP commented: Youngster! +0
kimdecena 0 Newbie Poster
When you start off your sentences with, "back in the day..." lol
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
Rochester
Yes Mr Benny
Be reasonable
Your reasonable, or My reasonable Mr BennyWell !!
and,, The MaxWell
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
When ~S.O.S~ called everyone Mr. <UserName Here> That drove us all crazy, and he eventually dropped the Mr.. :)
Nick Evan commented: I remember that :D +0
BestJewSinceJC 700 Posting Maven
Don't be too upset by it, Mr. Ancient, sir.
diafol
...you no longer find the 'older woman' attractive...'coz the only older women now have false teeth and double prolapses. Ouch!
vmanes 1,165 Posting Virtuoso
You know you are old when you read all these "you know you are old when" posts and think, "What are these young whippersnappers talking about?"
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
When your reaction to 99% of these posts is Been there done that and remember some of it. Later---
dawn.visp 0 Junior Poster in Training
Your old when you don't remember what you had eaten last night.. :D
MosaicFuneral 812 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
When you have a slide ruler in your pocket. Which I have.
"You have/are/using/used technology that's obsolete," doesn't signify your age; it is a fallacy.
WaltP 2,905 Posting Sage w/ dash of thyme Team Colleague
You know you are old when you read all these "you know you are old when" posts and think, "What are these young whippersnappers talking about?"
Or when something is 'remembered' as old and you think "that's old? I thought that was just a couple years ago!" -- and it was from the 80's
diafol
When you have a slide ruler in your pocket. Which I have.
"You have/are/using/used technology that's obsolete," doesn't signify your age; it is a fallacy.
Ha ha ha phallus-y. Like it, like it.
MosaicFuneral commented: perv :D +0
WaltP 2,905 Posting Sage w/ dash of thyme Team Colleague
"You have/are/using/used technology that's obsolete," doesn't signify your age; it is a fallacy.
True. You've obviously been to the C/C++ forums lately. :icon_twisted:
Ha ha ha phallus-y. Like it, like it.
Don't be such a d.... No, don't go there... :icon_wink:
Biker920 0 Posting Whiz in Training Featured Poster
When you have a slide ruler in your pocket. Which I have.
No it's when you look at it and try to remember why you put it there, Mine is in top drawer of work desk. And it ain't obsolete. Later---
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