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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    aprazer402 wrote: »
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    Glad that tech era is over.
    I can't say that... because in those days I understood all of that "tech"! :#:blush:
    Nowadays, I am a babe in the woods. :(

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  • Viking64
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Nowadays, I am a babe.

    Call me?
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  • aprazer402
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    @mhardy6647

    Nowadays, I am a babe in the woods.

    Don't kid yourself, you're a smart one.
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  • mhardy6647
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    You haven't seen me flailing at some modern configuration issue in Windows... :#
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  • ken brydson
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  • tonyp063
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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 ;-)
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  • OleBoot
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    Willow wrote: »
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    Willow wrote: »
    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?

    ,8,1 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

    By the time PCs were coming into mainstream business use, I was leaving my mainframe tech roles and veering/lurching into management. Always thought my timing probably sucked as folks I knew in tech roles in the PC world always seemed to be having a whole hell of a lot more fun than I ever did on the big iron kit.
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  • OleBoot
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    Chanced upon this......seems appropriate for this thread,


    https://youtu.be/q-gpM-KfVng
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  • CGTIII
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    "Basic Computer Terms (1976)"
    That was almost the total content of the first computer course I took in 1980, except for the program we had to write on punch cards. I said then it was so boring that I'd never deal with computers again.
    I've now been in computers professionally for 38 years. Turns out there was more to it. LOL
    Expect that there will be bumps in the road. Choose to not let them rattle you.

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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    JCL = Job Control Language
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • sucks2beme
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    Getting the mail. It's either medicare advantage, retirement homes
    or replacement windows.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • DaveHo
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    sucks2beme wrote: »
    Getting the mail. It's either medicare advantage, retirement homes
    or replacement windows.

    Last year, had a Anderson salesman show up 3 months after having all windows replaced. Yeah, walk away, dude.
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  • sucks2beme
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    How many times a week do you get invitations to free dinner
    to listen to a sales pitch? That happens every week now too.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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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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  • skipshot12
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    ^ Bahahahaaaaa
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  • treitz3
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    That's a great song! Randy Travis...

    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. ~
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  • agingboomer
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
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    The LP at bottom left is Branford Marsalis: Trio Jeepy. Old dude has great taste.

    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    You know you are really OLD when you are 114 years OLD and it takes a car to kill you!

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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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  • Tony M
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    Post of the year. ;) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    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
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  • sucks2beme
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    motorstereo wrote: »
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    Around Dallas, that is about 6 months. Whole towns pop up when you're not looking.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • skipshot12
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    And they wonder why we're having so many floods recently.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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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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  • muncybob
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    I know I'm (getting) old when I read yet another thread about another piece of my early years has just died :( ...and all too often I'm older than they were.
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    You know you're getting old when........your girlfriend tells her son she's dating an "older" man and he jokingly asks, "older??? What is he like 65?" and he's hit the nail on the head :D
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  • ken brydson
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