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Same for me. I'll be 68 in May.
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Every time I go to QA ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 2-Oct-21 10:11am.
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You have a pc yet with ISA ports!!??
Burn it with fire along with whatever peripheral requires it.
Hopefully the pointy haired boss doesn't know it stands for Industry Standard Architecture.
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The PC with ISA ports is used to interface to some temperature & pressure chambers...
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My old company still sells them. And they build a double sided custom board, one side PCI, the other side ISA, for backwards compatibility.
I surprised my coworkers when I recognized the ISA bus - I started very very young.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The first time I walked into my local Cub Scout Pack as a district representative and realized the guy standing before me to register his son had been in my son's den.
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When you realise that:
- You not only know what 6502, 6809, 8080, 8085, 8086, (and many others) are, but you've written assembly-language code for each of them.
- The IBM 360 is younger than you are.
... - (for some of us) ENIAC is younger than they are
Is there someone here who was born before the Mark I?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Born 1945. Didn't see a computer until 1953 though.
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I started to feel old when realized one of the newcomers don't even recognize a 1.44 FD...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Have you been 3D printing models of the save icon again?
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Yes . . . at some point I told a young co-worker that that "Save" icon was an image of a 3.25" floppy disk, something I correctly guessed he had never seen in real life.
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Back when my wife and I started dating in 2007 her kids (11 and 9) were amazed by 5-1/4" floppies. I then showed them the 8" diskettes. They hadn't even seen cassette tapes, which many of us used both for music and for computers.
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Quote: which many of us used both for music
I still do, well MP3's of tapes... 
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In General:
When walking by a school some kids threw a ball above the fence and then told me:
"Excuse me, sir, would you mind to give us the ball?" (sir, but not in the UK "noble" meaning)
At work:
Having solved an overflow problem, explaining the new what happened by using the Y2K as example and seeing their "what the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) is he talking about?" face
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: "Excuse me, sir, would you mind to give us the ball?" (sir, but not in the UK "noble" meaning)
I would just assume that these were properly raised kids, unlike many of the louts you see on the streets these days.
Nelek wrote: Having solved an overflow problem, explaining the new what happened by using the Y2K
That is so last millennium... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I would just assume that these were properly raised kids, unlike many of the louts you see on the streets these days.
They were... but still... to be called "sir" for the very first time was an eye-opener.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Today they miss out on all the fun things, like:
- A requirement to be proficient in Morse as part of your job application, (I failed that part).
- Being zapped while fixing a faulty drop shutter on a magi board.
- Burning one's fingers swapping out failed valves.
- ASCII images stored as rolls of punch tape. ooh la la
- Submitting your computing assignment in a large box of carefully ordered punch cards, and get it back two months later with a failed mark due to a hanging tag.
- Having to book an international call and use 256baud modem with acoustic coupler to connect to a text only bulletin-board.
- Search using Archie, Jughead or Veronica. Then there was Gopher, which was just the bee's knees.
- The extravagance of buying the memory chips to upgrade your video card from 256Kb to 1Mb, even though you only have a monochrome green screen.
I must admit C# or Python are much more fun than punch cards and the Intel Tiger Lake is a little bit more responsive that the MSC-4.
Not old just experienced
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I'm amazed at the number of responsible adults I know now, who were born the year I graduated high school.
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Equally I find it shocking the number of 'irresponsible' idots, I went to colledge with who now have responcible jobs & kids.
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I still have a commendation on a course page at my University because I was the only person capable of setting up a DosBox environment for MASM, including editing config.sys and autoexec.bat for the environment set up.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I kind of miss working on the older systems, everything was so much simpler back then. I did really love win2000, it was fairly limited compared to today but it sure did run well on limited machines and had a small footprint.
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I remember sticking it on a set PC104's thinking well that ain't gonna work... but it did!
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PC104's were so much fun.
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