A true sign of getting old? - Page 3

semi-pro waster · 03-10-2009, 00:32

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Originally Posted by Mark

I've still got one. Last switched on about 10 years ago so no idea if it still works.

So, who wants to break it?

Break it? Those things will outlast us all. I've had mates try to destroy old IBM PS/2s and despite flicking the power switch on and off a couple of hundred times they still switch on as if nothing has happened.

Grandad · 03-10-2009, 01:22

IT anyone remember the RML 350z ?

and what is metalwork without a BASTARD file ?

Mark · 03-10-2009, 10:45

I suspect you mean 380Z, and yes, I certainly do. Now those were built solid - metal case and two hulking great handles on the front.

I did my first bit of serious assembly language programming (still as a pupil) on one of those. Physics lab had one, and had bought an interface to plug in to it for taking measurements. Trouble was it either didn't come with any software or the software was crap slow, so I wrote an interface - in assembler - between it and the BASIC interpreter those machines were supplied with.

Streeteh · 03-10-2009, 12:09

I've recently found employment in a school (network maintenance, it's basic as hell but it pays over £22k which seems to be the best i could hope for as a graduate from an average uni with no real work experience). When i was pottering around a class a couple of weeks back a teacher mentioned that time when a guy started a campaign to make Jedi a real religion via the census. One of the children put their hand up and asked:

'Miss, what's a Jedi?'

At which point i exclaimed rather dramatically. Turns out out of that class of 25 year 7s, only one of them had seen a star wars movie and it was one of the new ones, not even the classics.

I felt so old.

Fayshun · 03-10-2009, 12:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grandad

and what is metalwork without a BASTARD file ?

And tittering over the grease nipples on the metalwork lathe.

Von Smallhausen · 03-10-2009, 15:32

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Originally Posted by Fayshun

We had BBC Model B's.
I am definately turning into my dad too, was driving up to Lom's mums t'other month when we drove past a girl obviously on her way to a night out, short skirt, low cut top, heels, the lot. My first thought was "She'll catch her death of cold going out like that."

Lies ......

Your first thought was * w*** **** ** **** ** *o** ***** ** *** *r** *** **** **** ***** ***s.

Words starred for family forum reasons.

We called it CDT, Craft, Design and Technology and had Archnimedes computers.

For a project I designed an angled mirror to be used for checking explosives under vehicles and doubled as a looking up skirts thingy. This was before I joined the police and became less respectable.

I also made a gadget that bleeped when the bath was at a certain level using a pressure switch from a washing machine.

I could do it then but I really couldn't now. I have forgotten all that stuff now.

Chuckles · 04-10-2009, 00:09

A real sign on growing old is interviewing people that were born in the 1990's

Darrin · 04-10-2009, 01:25

I think the biggest sign I'm growing old is seeing a hot, young coed dressed to kill out shopping and seeing her mum and thinking the mum is hot!!

Jingo · 04-10-2009, 14:17

I find it disturbing that I have some posessions older than my girlfriend's little brother!

I find it hillarious that my uncle probably has socks older than my girlfriend's little brother

Fayshun · 04-10-2009, 15:43

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Originally Posted by Jingo

I find it hillarious that my uncle probably has socks older than my girlfriend's little brother

I did say to someone the other day "Listen son, I've got socks older than you, and they still work!"

03-10-2009, 12:09	#24
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03-10-2009, 01:22	#22
Grandad Old Git Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,016	IT anyone remember the RML 350z ? and what is metalwork without a BASTARD file ?

03-10-2009, 10:45	#23
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I suspect you mean 380Z, and yes, I certainly do. Now those were built solid - metal case and two hulking great handles on the front. I did my first bit of serious assembly language programming (still as a pupil) on one of those. Physics lab had one, and had bought an interface to plug in to it for taking measurements. Trouble was it either didn't come with any software or the software was crap slow, so I wrote an interface - in assembler - between it and the BASIC interpreter those machines were supplied with.