You know your too old when .....

NicColt

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You tell your 17yo nephew you once had a Commodore64 and he says
"I've never heard of that car"

You saddly realize that DOOM does not have OpenGl

Windows 3.1 came on diskettes.

You have the same email since your old bbs days.

When a box of 10 diskettes cost $44 and 10 cd-r now cost $3.00

When you told your wife "yeap once I buy this 386DX it will last 10 years"

When you envied your friends 1024K extended memmory.

You actually had an amber monitor.

 

hans007

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Feb 1, 2000
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man, your 17 year old nephew didnt know what a commodore 64 was? i'm 19 and well us computer geeks know. I had an amber monitor. GLdoom , doom has opengl!
 

Stealth1024

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Aug 9, 2000
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I had a Com. 64 and 128 when I was about 6 or 7. I loved the 128's dual monitor output feature and its BASIC programming language.
 

TheCorm

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Nov 5, 2000
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Well, I'm only 19 but I too had a Commodore 64, I also had the older Plus/4.

Ah, Doom....

Wasn't it bill gates who said all those years ago that systems would never need more than 512K of memory?

The company I work for only exchanged their old hubs with screens available in Grey, Orange or Green coloured for PC's in their customer service centre last December.

A 386 will last 10 years but I doubt your patience or interest with the system will.

 

Killfile

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Nov 9, 1999
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Deep breath:

You remember when you used a stand alone Word Processor and a stand alone Spreadsheet, and couldn't cut and paste between the two.

You remember getting excited about managing to free up more than 600k of your 640k low level memory.

You remember when "Performance Enhancement" meant tweaking your autoexec.bat and config.sys.

You remember when you owned programs that didn't support a mouse.

You remember when XTree Gold was a valid alternative to MS Windows 2.

You remember when you booted into the DOS Command Shell.

You remember when you had to manually copy device drivers from a floppy to your hard drive and add the appropriate line to your config.sys.

You remember when you had to manually copy device drivers from a floppy to your boot floppy and add the appropriate line to your config.sys.

You remember when you didn't need device drivers.

You remember buying the original 8-bit AdLib card, with it's single 3.5mm jack plug and 2 inch long volume knob.

You remember the 3Dfx Voodoo vs. Pyramid 3D debate.

You remember buying an EGA graphics video adaptor.

You remember buying aCGA graphics video adaptor.

You remember buying a text mode only video adaptor.

You remember the cheap Far Eastern Apple-II clones.

You remember the debate about 720k 3.5" floppies vs. 1.2MB 5.25" floppies.

You remember when you could choose between the non-IDE 1x Mitsumi 'drawer' CD-ROM drive, the 1x 'tray' Sony and the 1x 'caddy' Panasonic drive, and that was it.

You remember Sound cards that featured all three interfaces plus IDE.

You remember when software didn't have serial numbers.

You remember when games didn't need the CD in the drive to work.

You remember when games came on multiple floppy disks.

You remember when games came on one floppy disk.

You remember when you envied the guys with 24-pin dot maxtrix printers because you only had a nine-pin.

You remember when you could buy the game on CD with voices and CD music, or the floppy disk version with subtitles and MIDI music.

You remember when portable mass storage meant a 44MB Bernoulli 'Toaster' Drive.

You remember the MCA vs. EISA vs. VESA debate.

You remember MFM hard drives.

You remember when you could have a working PC without any Microsoft Products installed at all.

You remember DR-DOS, OS/2, OS/2 Warp and PC-DOS. (See above.)

You you can hold a conversation on what an "Altair" is without using the words "Abduction", "Greys" or "Anal Probe".

You remember when motherboards didn't come with disk drive controllers or ports build onto them.

You remember the 60Mhz Socket-4 Pentium.

You remember paying your ISP for your subscription, the time you spent online (by the minute) and paying for the cost of the call.

You remember when Mosaic was still a popular browser.

You remember when every CD-ROM drive came bundled with "Day of the Tentecle", "Return to Monkey Island" or "Myst".

You remember CIX. (UK peeps only.)

You remember when being a Compuserve user was fashionable.

You had a copy of the DOS version of PK Zip.

You had a registered copy of the DOS version of PK Zip.

You had a registered copy of the DOS version of PK Zip that you paid for.

You remember when license agreements consisted of a sticker on the disk saying "Piracy is bad, m'kay?"

You remember when Digital was Digital Research.

You remember when Digital was Digital Electronics Corporation.

You remember when Digital was Digital Intergalactic. (Really)

I can think of loads more, but I appear to have developed RSI whilst writing this, so I'm going to stop.



P.S. I still can't believe they didn't call the OpenGL version of Doom "GLoom".
 

hans007

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Feb 1, 2000
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Wow i actually remember most of those. Man i love memmaker..... and i still use the dos version of pkunzip, what if i am in the command prompt. WINME is evil no command prompt. I've been reading pcmag and pcweek since i was 10 (amazingly the only reading material in myhouse as a child) and i remember reading all of those, and being a 10 year old and salivating over a 386sx-16 that cost $3000.
 

Danceswithsquirrels

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I think I was in the 5th grade when my Dad won two contests in one summer. He won an apple IIe and an IBM pc both with the "green screens". I was totally the envy of all my friends. They thought we were rich. I remember the joy of finishing Karateka. : )
 

Bartman39

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You know your to old when...

This was the hot item a Toy

You thought $400 was a killer deal on 16megs of 72pin ram

You find a counter ticket on a 386 for $3900

Your mom tries to put a CD in a 5 1/4 floppy in the 286 she found at a garage sale...

Your 5 & 7 year olds kick your @ss at Soul Caliber

BTW I`m 40 so I know I`m old anyhow...
 

CalebTG

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Hahaha, I'm 17 and I've dealth with most of that, my e-mail has changed for better service, but thats about it

oh, and my monitor had a choice between amber and green

And I still drive that commedore64 -- I mean, it still runs when i want it to
 

andylawcc

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Mar 9, 2000
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remember DOS.... deltree, edit config.sys, Emm386, path=c:\windows, prompt $p$g, doskey, xcopy, .rar,
 

xtreme2k

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haha
bck in the olden days

writing batch files and Multiconfigs

still remember this
menuitem= xxxx x x xx watever crap
 

etech

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Oct 9, 1999
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You remember when you got an IBM AT at work and saying "damn that is fast" as compared to the IBM XT's.(On the XT's you could read the files on the screen as they scrolled past when doing a dir command, on the AT's I had to learn the |more command.)

You remember using Kermit for file transfers.

You remember writing your menu programs in basic and calling the CAD company to get the memory locations so you could use the mouse.

You remember posting signs on the CAD computers telling everyone to backup their files to floppys because the hard drives were getting full and you were going to reformat and reload them.(XT's came with a 10 Meg drive)

You remember renaming format.com because that one idiot just could not get it right and kept reformatting the hard drive instead of his floppy. (Made a format.bat file that formatted the floppy)

You remember the semi-obscene ascii art that everyone was printing out.

You remember loading a program from a casette tape.



#1. You remember playing Adventure the pirate game on the main-frame over lunch.
 

pulse8

Lifer
May 3, 2000
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Wow...all that stuff makes me feel old and I'm only 21...but those were the days...

David
 

andylawcc

Lifer
Mar 9, 2000
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hahaha... it was so cool with the multiple start menu,... omg it was so cool that we get to select the colors....


and remember thoses 5.25 DISK.
I still have box of Maxell.... I am Keeping that!
 

geoff2k

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... you remember the differences between DOS 3.2 and DOS 3.3 on the old Apple II's and how you had to use FID to transfer files between them.

... you remember arcane commands like BLOAD, BRUN, CATALOG, and PR #6.

... you remember that a JSR to $FDED prints the character in the A register to the screen.

Yep. I'm old.
 

Terrapin

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You know your old when

You tell people you saw Jimi Hendrix in concert three times before he died and they don't believe you!

Terrapin
 

Bignate603

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I'm 16 and i remember my first computer... it was considered "portable" because it had the tiny little green screen built into the case along with the rest of it, right next to the dual 5 1/2 drives (my dad was really proud of that, his friends were jealous over that and it's 512k of ram) and it had a handle on it. The screen built into the case finally died and we had to get an external, which i thought was realy cool cause you could change it between green, amber and white.
 

Dulanic

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You know your old when you actually used to know what the hell your PC was doing.
 

wj

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You learn to type on a manual type writter, when I finish high school they had only one electric type writter in my school..



wj
 

filmore crashcart

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Terrapin-
I had a friend that ran away from home when he was 16 to NYC and saw Hendrix when he was "Jimi James and the Blue Flames."
I envy you, I never got to see Hendrix (too young and protected.) My brother did - he was 10 ft away from the stage when he did his guitar burning act. He said it was absolutely terrifying.
 

dkozloski

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You know you're getting old when you remember when you loaded your program with key switches and you read out lights to get your results to the caculation in octal numbers.


You know you're getting old when the great leap forward was from switches and lights to an ASR-33 that had an actual keyboard and teletype printer.


You know you're getting old when your first programming experience was writing an echo program in machine language that when you struck a key on the ASR-33 it would print that character on the printer.


You know you're getting old when you rember when you went from a keyboard to punched paper tape and Baudot code to load programs and data.



You know you're getting old when you remember when a memory card weighed 5 lbs. and was wire finer than a hair strung through teeny, tiny little ferrite doughnuts and cost $20,000 for 16k bits.


you know you're getting old when you remember when memory was magnetostrictive and looked like guitar strings.
 

Syborg1211

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HAHA, I am 16 and I don't remember much of that stuff. Boy do I feel young. Remember when 700 mhz used to be fast?
 
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