You Know You Are Old When

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My hemorrhoids have hemorrhoids.

 

[MossRoad]

My hemorrhoids have hemorrhoids.

That's a double negative.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

That's why I use double "Tucks".

 

[Ken]

You know that you are old (not getting old) when you go to take a whizz and find that your zipper is already down.

Cheers,
Mike

You know that you are getting old When completing. session of Physical Therapy treatment for simply picking up a garden rake and popping the hip joint out. then the chiropractor decided to correct the knee and pelvis bone left leg no longer works like it used to.
Yesterday stepped onto the deck of the lawn mower fell flat on the back and again back is out.
Still, Bull-headed was going to mow. yard
Got close to the spring pond and buried the mower in the mud. then had to walk to the tractor shop remember the key to John Deer is in the house. go to the garage to strip muddy close then into the house and wife is sweeping floor and I'm dripping muddy water. Not a good decision or timing when to enter the house.
Been hiring to have the yard mowed. Maybe I will continue for a month to allow the yard to dry up before attempting again.
it will be cheaper than Getting treatment and being fussed at hearing should have known better
ken

 

[FPGT72]

Remember the early days of "Plug and Pray"? Some of the early win95 compatibility issues were so bad, people were swearing it'd never work. Hey... kinda reminds me of the EV debate, today!

So many of us just wanted to go back to setting IRQ's and DMA's by pin jumpers, since at least you could always make it work, even if crude and clumsy. Of course, they got most of the plug & play kinks worked out after the first year, or so.

I remember when dad bought the first Apple computer for our family in the mid-80's, and he splurged for the "big" 640k memory card, so he could do spreadsheet work at home. The 13-year old me felt so high-tech plugging all the IC's into the empty sockets.

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My first job, working for a computer sales company was to populate AST Six Pac cards. This gave the PC 640k of ram, a serial port, parallel port AND a clock. What more could you ask for.

 

[FPGT72]

Those old tube radios, or at least the ones we had, sounded great with deep, rich tones and a depth hard to describe. I think my love of the component stereos of the 1970's and their 5 ft speakers was just trying to recall the sound of those old tube radios. Oh wait, I'm dating myself...

This is why people that play guitars love tube amps, there is something different about the sounds....and I agree. Stevie Ray Vaughn would power up his amps for 24hrs so the tubes would get up to temp the day before his show. Mine is a smaller tube amp, and it does sound different from the modern digital.

 

[oldballs]

My first job, working for a computer sales company was to populate AST Six Pac cards. This gave the PC 640k of ram, a serial port, parallel port AND a clock. What more could you ask for.

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Guess I really am old.................bc I have no ideawhat you are talking about.

 

[MossRoad]

My first job, working for a computer sales company was to populate AST Six Pac cards. This gave the PC 640k of ram, a serial port, parallel port AND a clock. What more could you ask for.

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Man that brings back memories. (pun intended)

We bought about 500 AST 286 computers at my last job. They were used as terminal emulators. After a short while, and after the warranty, all of the B/W monitors died and it was cheaper to get color monitor replacements, so I had to install about 500 monitor boards in the 286's to accommodate the new monitors.

Later, they upgraded about half of them to AST 386's. Then AST 486's. They still had several hundred 486's at Y2K, so we had to install clock boards that were capable of 4 digit years.

Good times.

 

[MossRoad]

Guess I really am old.................bc I have no ideawhat you are talking about.

AST Research - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[WinterDeere]

Guess I really am old.................bc I have no ideawhat you are talking about.

1980's computer technology. We could talk ENIAC, if you're old enough. My undergraduate computer engineering professor was actually an engineer working on the ENIAC design, when he was young.