Get off my lawn...
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Hi, I am working/contracting for a firm where most of the staff is still working from home. There are a lot of younger/graduates around. We had a major power cut on Thursday (build work next door managed to put it out). One of the test PC's on the shop floor died. I was the only technical person who knew what the 'odd' connects in the case were (ISA ports), the funky old version of Windows (2000) there was also whats that port (paraellel). The worst point was 'Win95? Old Skool' :omg: turns out the guy wasn't born until 1999. To all when do you start feeling old not experienced. :confused:
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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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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which many of us used both for music
I still do, well MP3's of tapes... ;P
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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.
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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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](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard\_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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Hi, I am working/contracting for a firm where most of the staff is still working from home. There are a lot of younger/graduates around. We had a major power cut on Thursday (build work next door managed to put it out). One of the test PC's on the shop floor died. I was the only technical person who knew what the 'odd' connects in the case were (ISA ports), the funky old version of Windows (2000) there was also whats that port (paraellel). The worst point was 'Win95? Old Skool' :omg: turns out the guy wasn't born until 1999. To all when do you start feeling old not experienced. :confused:
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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You have a pc yet with ISA ports!!?? Burn it with fire along with whatever peripheral requires it. :-D Hopefully the pointy haired boss doesn't know it stands for Industry Standard Architecture.
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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Hi, I am working/contracting for a firm where most of the staff is still working from home. There are a lot of younger/graduates around. We had a major power cut on Thursday (build work next door managed to put it out). One of the test PC's on the shop floor died. I was the only technical person who knew what the 'odd' connects in the case were (ISA ports), the funky old version of Windows (2000) there was also whats that port (paraellel). The worst point was 'Win95? Old Skool' :omg: turns out the guy wasn't born until 1999. To all when do you start feeling old not experienced. :confused:
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 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.
I remember sticking it on a set PC104's thinking well that ain't gonna work... but it did! :)
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I remember sticking it on a set PC104's thinking well that ain't gonna work... but it did! :)
PC104's were so much fun.
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Great set of delimiters (originating from the teletype days) in that set of characters under 32 ASCII. Proud to be still developing and writing code (mostly C# and T-SQL) at almost 67.