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Message 717957 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 20:44:38 UTC - in response to Message 717952.  

I'll start by admitting to being a youthful 37 (well, I like to "think" I am young!)


You are still very young in my opinion.


* blush * Thank you :)
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Message 717959 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 20:46:28 UTC - in response to Message 717805.  

Hooray! For once I am above average.

Than I am WAY below average......
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Message 717961 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 20:53:19 UTC - in response to Message 717957.  

I'll start by admitting to being a youthful 37 (well, I like to "think" I am young!)


You are still very young in my opinion.


* blush * Thank you :)


No problem. :)

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Message 717962 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 20:54:14 UTC - in response to Message 717959.  

Hooray! For once I am above average.

Than I am WAY below average......


You are one of the reasons that I am below average, thank you :D
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Message 717976 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 21:21:25 UTC


I'm just 68 year old!

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Message 717989 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 21:43:25 UTC - in response to Message 717784.  

It is often said that you should never ask a woman her age, but, what the Hell.... I'm 50 this year and I must be doing something right, since my partner is 38 this year! I do like the bike, Pappa; I've got a 1978 Suzuki GS750 EN, but my usual mode of transport is one of 3 Honda Legends I own. I have 2 X 2.7s (1 is a 225 bhp manual) and a 3.2 coupe (230 bhp), which are often driven in a 'spirited fashion'. First computer I got to grips with, was a DEC PDP-8. Ah well, getting older is better than the alternative!



I'll be 72 in March.

My first experience with computers was on a DEC PDP-8 also. The 'Classic', with 4096 12 bit words of ferrite core memory, and 'flip chips'.

I have fond memories of toggling in the RIM loader, then reading in the BIN loader, at 10CPS, on the ASR-33 Teletype.

And we had a real front panel, with switches and blinking lights. :-)


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Message 718002 - Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 22:08:29 UTC


Hey, we're getting older. Plus the great expansion in computer hardware, speed, etc.

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Message 718093 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 2:09:58 UTC - in response to Message 717840.  
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I am somewhere between 14 and 54.

closer to 20 I would say.


Thats for sure.
He is a student so in the early twentys.


I'm a student but I'm not in my 20s. [Edit] Nor my teens!
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Message 718112 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 3:26:27 UTC

Trapped in a 48yr old shell, what's inside is a lot younger. It is true, you are only as old as you feel.
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Message 718156 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 5:07:24 UTC

3 months short of 21 blue moons

A Moon Pie for the first correct answer ;-)
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Message 718167 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 5:37:44 UTC - in response to Message 717989.  
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I'll be 72 in March.

My first experience with computers was on a DEC PDP-8 also. The 'Classic', with 4096 12 bit words of ferrite core memory, and 'flip chips'.

I have fond memories of toggling in the RIM loader, then reading in the BIN loader, at 10CPS, on the ASR-33 Teletype.

And we had a real front panel, with switches and blinking lights. :-)


heehee... you have a couple years on me, but if I had a dollar for every time I pushed "Clear/Load/Ready/Execute" on an old Honeywell DPS6 control panel (and tried to remember what the &#$%# all those LED error codes meant)..... my present financial state would be MUCH improved!
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Message 718172 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 6:01:20 UTC - in response to Message 718167.  


I'll be 72 in March.

My first experience with computers was on a DEC PDP-8 also. The 'Classic', with 4096 12 bit words of ferrite core memory, and 'flip chips'.

I have fond memories of toggling in the RIM loader, then reading in the BIN loader, at 10CPS, on the ASR-33 Teletype.

And we had a real front panel, with switches and blinking lights. :-)


heehee... you have a couple years on me, but if I had a dollar for every time I pushed "Clear/Load/Ready/Execute" on an old Honeywell DPS6 control panel (and tried to remember what the &#$%# all those LED error codes meant)..... my present financial state would be MUCH improved!



I remember curling up to take naps between the memory banks, or was it the massive floating point unit, attached to the IBM 360 Model 44 that I cut my FORTRAN teeth on (that was the warmest spot in the computer room).

I, too miss all those blinking lights on the front panel. Now if I could only remember the toggle sequence to clear core. Must have toggled one time too many and cleared my own core. LOL

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Message 718176 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 7:22:09 UTC - in response to Message 718156.  

3 months short of 21 blue moons

A Moon Pie for the first correct answer ;-)


You're 3 months short of 52 then?
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Message 718314 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 12:40:48 UTC - in response to Message 718093.  

I am somewhere between 14 and 54.

closer to 20 I would say.


Thats for sure.
He is a student so in the early twentys.


I'm a student but I'm not in my 20s. [Edit] Nor my teens!


LOL.
I know but i was talking about Henri not you.




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Message 718352 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 14:26:15 UTC - in response to Message 718176.  

3 months short of 21 blue moons

A Moon Pie for the first correct answer ;-)


You're 3 months short of 52 then?


Sorry, no Moon Pie for you today :-(

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Message 718353 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 14:28:41 UTC

60. I will turn 61 next Thursday.
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Message 718358 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 14:43:02 UTC

The old iron box I started my computer life on in early 1972:

http://cid-84ebf451443d965f.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!84EBF451443D965F!108/
I used to be a cruncher like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.
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Message 718410 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 18:34:15 UTC - in response to Message 718355.  

3 months short of 21 blue moons

A Moon Pie for the first correct answer ;-)


You're 3 months short of 52 then?


Sorry, no Moon Pie for you today :-(



I'll try 57 in May. Do I get some Moon pie?


Sorry, no Moon Pie for you today :-( But you can try again tomorrow :-)

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Message 718428 - Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 20:02:45 UTC - in response to Message 718358.  

The old iron box I started my computer life on in early 1972:

http://cid-84ebf451443d965f.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!84EBF451443D965F!108/


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