You know you're old when...

bobowar135 · 05-06-2020, 05:57 AM

Once upon a time sit-coms were actually funny lol

Murf993 · 05-06-2020, 06:28 AM

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Oh the humanity!!

I think I just about wet myself with the "hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement"....

cmyx6go · 05-06-2020, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Rmtt

LOL....I loved Les Nessman's commentary while it was all happening. Can't remember laughing so hard!

You and me both. I laughed so hard I cried.

mc-m3 · 05-07-2020, 01:18 AM

mid week night skiing for $7 (Stevens Pass)

mc-m3 · 05-07-2020, 01:23 AM

when engines were measured in cubic inches. My mom drove a Buick with a 430 cu in motor (yeah 7.0 L). You know the car has too much power when your mom was always lighting them up by accident.

jimbobiggens · 05-07-2020, 01:33 AM

Anybody remember Elvira selling computers? With a chainsaw?

jimbobiggens · 05-07-2020, 01:35 AM

Or the Honeywell dragon?

jimbobiggens · 05-07-2020, 01:39 AM

Answering ads off a matchbook cover? Ads to learn computer programming, no less.

jimbobiggens · 05-07-2020, 01:43 AM

Captain Kirk selling computers

E93Beast · 05-07-2020, 01:50 AM

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i was going to go all gilligan on this....beat me to it....i mean who wouldn't want a spin with jennifer but bailey quarters.....omg. And then there was mary ann in those little farm dresses.....i still have impure thoughts.

I think they had snickers bars back then...and if they did i'd eat the peanuts out of her snickers....might be the rum talking.

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Murf993 · 05-07-2020, 05:41 AM

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Anybody remember Elvira selling computers? With a chainsaw?

I remember watching her show Mistress of the Dark when I was in College in LA, my room mate and I would drink beer and eat pizza and put Elivira on.

vreihen16 · 05-07-2020, 09:28 AM

Happy 75th anniversary of V-E Day!

It seems like just yesterday.

Get off my lawn, kid!!!!!

King Rudi · 05-07-2020, 10:10 AM

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Captain Kirk selling computers

This was my first computer....cassette drive and all. We had it plugged up to a B&W VHF/UHF TV.

Murf993 · 05-07-2020, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Now_Rudi

This was my first computer....cassette drive and all. We had it plugged up to a B&W VHF/UHF TV.

I have one of these in my basement....box and all.

King Rudi · 05-07-2020, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Murf993

I have one of these in my basement....box and all.

Is that the Timex Sinclair 1000?

TeinBMW · 05-07-2020, 10:21 AM

When you roll out of your car cause its too old.

Murf993 · 05-07-2020, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Now_Rudi

Is that the Timex Sinclair 1000?

it is

King Rudi · 05-07-2020, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Murf993

it is

1982-84 I'm thinking. A buddy of mine in the same neighborhood had one.

UncleWede · 05-07-2020, 11:06 AM

Programming 8080-8086 assembly language for an R3 test set for the Navy QF-4 drones, among other targets. Often times the other drones would be launched pointed at teh range, and when they hit the target area would never wake up and run their scenario. Choppers had to chase them down until they ran out of fuel and then haul them back to Mugu.

jimbobiggens · 05-07-2020, 11:12 AM

I remember dad coming home from work with a car full of those cartridge hard drive discs. I think that is what he called them, anyway, they would hold 33mb of data and were as big as an lp record, and were gold plated. You would individually stack them in the order you wanted into the cartridge, then lower the cartridge into the hard drive machine. I think the cartridge would hold six of those discs. We used to throw them off the deck and shoot them with a shotgun.

Here is another blast from the past, I'm glad prices have come down.

UncleWede · 05-07-2020, 12:54 PM

At one point I had a video of Bill Gates saying "Nobody will ever need more than 16 KB of RAM to run their computer

jamesinaz · 05-07-2020, 08:06 PM

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At one point I had a video of Bill Gates saying "Nobody will ever need more than 16 KB of RAM to run their computer

Didn't the CEO of IBM once say computers were nice and there are a few uses for them but the world only needs about 5 or 6 of them?

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