You know your getting older when.......

Sailchaser · 02-16-2009, 10:33 AM

when a memory chip for a computer was a stack of punch cards 8 inches high to spell your name

Pete · 02-16-2009, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailchaser

when a memory chip for a computer was a stack of punch cards 8 inches high to spell your name

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

acarr · 02-16-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

and I was just going to mention the 5.25 floppy disk with no hard drive

Whee · 02-16-2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

Why do I suddenly have the urge to eat an Everlasting Gobstoppper?

CBI_2 · 02-16-2009, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailchaser

when a memory chip for a computer was a stack of punch cards 8 inches high to spell your name

I used to repair punch card readers.

ca21455 · 02-16-2009, 01:53 PM

Your favorite TV program is Antiques Roadshow.

You go to the workshop to get a tool and have to return to figure out what tool you were going to get.

You were married before the new employees at work were born.

Skywalker · 02-17-2009, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by CBI_2

I used to repair punch card readers.

Very similar to your vaporators in most respects...

CBI_2 · 02-17-2009, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Skywalker

Very similar to your vaporators in most respects...

I had this dream I heard "I am your father" from some tall dark scary guy with a breathing problem,

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