I'm So Old.....

[sun rise]

Grocery delivery is quite popular in the UK, most of the bigger supermarkets have been doing it for some time, for a price. Not so popular here in France where online shopping then pickup at the store is the thing for bigger supermarkets. Smaller stores will take telephone orders and deliver free to those unable to shop.

My mother got food from two produce trucks that came to our neighborhood because, of course, who needed two cars when women were homemakers and did not need to drive anywhere.

 

[Samael_Khan]

Yea. ;0) The Star trek data pad is now a fulfillment of science fiction.

I honestly think that if God ever had a role to play in religious books then those books would be science fiction.

They have been more prophetic than many things I know of.

 

[sun rise]

I got a bit older by reading all the 7 pages of posts in this thread.

I don't think anyone mentioned politics. I did "like Ike" and just before him we had a President who believed that the "buck" stopped at his desk rather than everywhere else.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I am so old that I remember when trust used to be more than just a word.

 

[Samael_Khan]

I'm so old that I remember being amazed at how easily my kid's Commodore 64 change the colors on the TV screen.





We had to write a program in FORTRAN, punch our own cards, and send the program to a central computer for a grade. Not sure computers could laugh back then, but I'm sure it wanted to when it read my card..

I am so young, that when I received a Commodore 64 it was already ancient. (And the bloody thing didn't even work)

 

[Samael_Khan]

I am so old that I remember when trust used to be more than just a word.

I will just like your quote because it is too close to reality.

 

[sun rise]

I'm so old that "my" first computers were an IBM 1620 and IBM 1401 that a bunch of us got access to in college.

I'm also so old that one of my first programs was a 5 card stud poker game that could be controlled by front panel "sense switches" on the aforementioned 1401.

 

[sun rise]

I will just like your quote because it is too close to reality.

Sigh.

 

[Samael_Khan]

Yeah, my husband and I bought a Pong game! Wish I still had it. Wonder what it would be worth these days.

You can probably get it for free on your computer. I think it might be open source these days.

 

[Samael_Khan]

Remember static at the end of the day on TVs?

And the sign off messages?

I am old enough to remember that!

Buuuut.... I live in South Africa and we are relatively backwards.

 

[exchemist]

I don't think that anyone who used one of those ever had difficulty with powers of ten or logarithms again.

Correct. I was one such. I still have the slide rule that got me all the way through university.

There was one - one - electronic calculator in the Physical Chemistry Lab and it was screwed down. For procedures for which 3 sig figs were not good enough (FTIR spectroscopy was one), we used mechanical calculating machines on which you wound a handle.

For a short while, an "electric calculator" meant a mains-operated calculating machine, with an electric motor to save you winding the handle!

Division was a pain with those things.

 

[Samael_Khan]

I'm so old that I am a 40 year old who was born in 1980, and I struggle to believe it myself.

That sir, is called a mid-life crisis.

I am so young that a midlife crisis will only hit me in ten years time.

 

[Samael_Khan]

All civilized people refer to soda pop as "pop".
Brits do too apparently.

Here in South Africa we call that stuff "cooldrink".

But then again we also call traffic lights "robots" so I dunno how credible we are.

 

[Samael_Khan]

I had Spiderman #1

my grandmother (bless her soul)
thought I was done with it and tossed it out

NOOOO!!! That sucks!

That issue is an investment.

 

[sun rise]

Correct. I was one such. I still have the slide rule that got me all the way through university.

There was one - one - electronic calculator in the Physical Chemistry Lab and it was screwed down. For procedures for which 3 sig figs were not good enough (FTIR spectroscopy was one), we used mechanical calculating machines on which you wound a handle.

For a short while, an "electric calculator" meant a mains-operated calculating machine, with an electric motor to save you winding the handle!

Division was a pain with those things.

Nerd points were scored by having more scales on the slide rule hanging from your belt compared to the other nerd.

 

[exchemist]

Im so old, pens for dipping into the inkwells were bird feathers.

This is turning into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch........

 

[exchemist]

Nerd points were scored by having more scales on the slide rule hanging from your belt compared to the other nerd.

At school, the status-conscious supernerds went in for a sort of tubular telescopic slide rule, with a spiral scale, that was allegedly long enough to give you 4 sig figs. I recall debating whether or not to get a double-sided one, but in the end decided against.

The one I chose is this one, and I have it in my desk at this moment.
http://www.mcmullon.com/icollect/calculators/slide_rulers/thornton.htm

It's gone a bit yellow but still slides smoothly. (as the bishop said to the actress......)

 

[sun rise]

At school, the status-conscious supernerds went in for a sort of tubular telescopic slide rule, with a spiral scale, that was allegedly long enough to give you 4 sig figs. I recall debating whether or not to get a double-sided one, but in the end decided against.

The one I chose is this one, and I have it in my desk at this moment.
http://www.mcmullon.com/icollect/calculators/slide_rulers/thornton.htm

It's gone a bit yellow but still slides smoothly.

I bow low to your winning, oh grand and glorious nerd.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm so old that out country phone line had 9 people. each with a code. Ours was 3 shorts. (all were a combination of shorts and longs) All neighbours could listen in on each other. Occasionally we'd feed false gossip to one ol' biddy, and wait to see how long it was before it got back to us.

We had a "party line" too.

 

[Revoltingest]

Here in South Africa we call that stuff "cooldrink".

But then again we also call traffic lights "robots" so I dunno how credible we are.

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