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^ I've past father's noises getting up and now onto my grandfather's noises.... Oh manaja
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skipshot12 wrote: »^ I've past father's noises getting up and now onto my grandfather's noises.... Oh manaja
It's Italian = "mannaggia"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr. -
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^ Yup...
Along with his oopah when he went to sit down. -
You know you are getting old when you posses wisdom such as this....
An Italian Mother -
Mrs. Ravioli comes to visit her son Anthony for dinner. He lives with a female roommate, Maria.
During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Anthony's roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Anthony and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, Anthony volunteered, 'I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Maria and I are just roommates.'
About a week later, Maria came to Anthony saying, 'Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver sugar bowl. You don't suppose she took it, do you?' Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure.' So he sat down and wrote an email:
Dear Mama,
I'm not saying that you 'did' take the sugar bowl from my house; I'm not saying that you 'did not' take it. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.
Love, Anthony
Several days later, Anthony received a response email from his Mama which read:
Dear Son,
I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Maria, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her “OWN bed”, she would have found the sugar bowl by now.
Love, Mama
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
And how many siblings does Anthony have??
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"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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Protect ou seniors....hmmm
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Protect ou seniors....hmmm
We need to protect the University of Oklahoma students who are in their final year.
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To a friend:
You know you are getting old when your birthday is on June 18."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
When you recall writing a computer program on punch cards that would then be run on a computer so large it was housed in a room the size of a small gym and your instructor said one day everyone will be walking around with a computer in their pocket....and thinking I'll never live to be that old!Yep, my name really is Bob.
Parasound HCA1500A(indoor sound) and HCA1000(outdoor sound), Dynaco PAS4, Denon DP1200 w/Shure V15 Type V and Jico SAS stylus, Marantz UD7007, Polk L600, Rythmik L12 sub. -
You have lived BEYOND that day....LOL. (so have I)
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
When you recall writing a computer program on punch cards that would then be run on a computer so large it was housed in a room the size of a small gym and your instructor said one day everyone will be walking around with a computer in their pocket....and thinking I'll never live to be that old!
Punched the data input cards using Fortran. For business classes in college. Waited patiently in another building for the printed out results, to finish my feasibility projects. -
aprazer402 wrote: »Punched the data input cards using Fortran. For business classes in college. Waited patiently in another building for the printed out results, to finish my feasibility projects.
In college I had to wait 1 to 12 hours for an operator to run my COBOL 101 job, then go halfway across campus for the printout to see if it ran without error. Wash, rinse, repeat.
(Printouts at night, when I was usually coding, were slipped halfway under the door to the mainframe room(s). Apparently whowhatever was in there could only be let out during the next shift change, if ever. Perhaps a SWAT team was involved. I never witnessed it.)Expect that there will be bumps in the road. Choose to not let them rattle you.
Polk - Monitor 10As, SDA 2Bs, LSi9s, White RTi4s, S4s, M3s, various centers.
Boston - CR7, CR6s, CR4s.
Subs - M&K V4, M&K VX-7B, JBL SUB150P, Jamo Sub 250, and others.
Thompson Adventures, Inc. -
Perhaps they're still in there.... Apparently whowhatever was in there could only be let out during the next shift change, if ever. Perhaps a SWAT team was involved. I never witnessed it.)
https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=6cKhCfkZ_IXpZQ8t
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Or this type.
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Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
--Mark Twain.
“If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright -
Wow....I wondered if anybody would know what I was talking about. Machine Language, Cobol and Fortran were what I cut my teeth on. Lugging hundreds of punch cards around in shoe boxes, what a hoot!
I guess I should have said.... you know you are old if you know what I'm talking about Yep, my name really is Bob.
Parasound HCA1500A(indoor sound) and HCA1000(outdoor sound), Dynaco PAS4, Denon DP1200 w/Shure V15 Type V and Jico SAS stylus, Marantz UD7007, Polk L600, Rythmik L12 sub. -
Think "batch" processing."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
after punch cards.... it was ,8,1 that stands out for me
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after punch cards.... it was ,8,1 that stands out for me
I'm from the punch card era (and paper tape, which probably means I should be carbon dated) - but what do you mean by 8.1? -
8 data bits, one stop bit?
I remember FORTRAN had rules about which column to start a line of code, but I don't remember any more what that was? Maybe column 5?
Unfortunately, old also can mean forgetful.
PS I think I still have an RS-232 breakout box around here someplace.
(from back in the days when one often had to MacGyver one's own serial cable configuration for any given pairing of a 'pute and a peripheral)
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,8,1 is from the days of Commodore 64 and 128.
In order to boot the floppy disk we had to type something like load (*),8,1 then hit return
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In about 1986 I bought a Televideo 950 (dumb terminal) used for $50.00.
I paired it with a DAK 1200 baud modem and a used IBM serial printer.
I used it to access the MLS at home. Cat's pajama's!
Talk about having to learn how to use the Televideo with no manual, no internet, lots of
dip switches.... But as a determined 30 yo, I finally made it work very well.
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I can't say that... because in those days I understood all of that "tech"!aprazer402 wrote: »
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Glad that tech era is over.
Nowadays, I am a babe in the woods.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Nowadays, I am a babe.
Call me? -
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You haven't seen me flailing at some modern configuration issue in Windows...
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FORTRAN on a DEC pdp-8 in college. Then nothing until some work with FORTH on Sun SPARC stuff. Bleagh.
Got smart & became a sysadmin instead.
Learned just enough perl & python to be dangerous.
Retired with a winning record ;-)
https://youtu.be/cuYQ4qUEfEI
