How old/young are you (to all)?

Thanks everyone! Thanks for the cake Jan ... I ate it all by myself and zero calories!

@JVC...thanks guy! Sorry to hear about your receiver; that's a real bummer. My friends know I'm a pack-rat and sometimes offer me their old stuff if they upgrade ... if I know of a receiver, I'll let you know; perhaps it could hold you over until you get a new one. No, I haven't gotten any new equipment; I've spent way too much on new equipment already. The Harmony is great ... I was able to clear half a dozen different remotes from the end table next to my favorite chair; I should have bought one ages ago. Let me know how you make out rgarding your receiver.

 

To Gerry1, Congrats on 55! Keep on rocken' brother. I'll be 59 in July. Think young; stay young. What else can you do...LOL.

 

I will be turning 15 tomorrow!

 

i,m 22 and a big spiderman fan if any of you really care

 

now i know what to buy you for your birthday Dragondog

 

lol yep
you know out of all the spiderman stuff the one main thing i dont have is a suit hint hint

ps. not a cheapy

lol

 

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18 years, 236 day old?

Real answer = 1 day older

Do yourself a favor, don't wish your life away...

{;o)

 

18 years, 361 days old. Can you guess how old I'll be on Saturday?

 

i turned 17 on 28th april. now i can learn to drive!

 

Well, saturday, but the 5th May! This thread's been dormant for a while!

 

Thanks, and happy birthday for tomorrow!

 

It looks like I'm one of the oldies here.

I'm 63, will be 64 in July. I was programming computers in the 60s.

MW

 

17...i feel so young compared to some of you guys in here.

 

Not of course that any of us three are!
To be honest, I'm surprised how many people there are here in our age group.

 

Lethal_B,

Lets not be picking on the old guys! Between Marilyn (NWitch) and I there's 105 years! LOL!!! I'll be 63 next month!

You young guys are lucky! My first real computer was an Atari ST 512, I bought in 1985 with a color 13" monitor for $499. Serial dot matrix printer from Microline was about $300! It was based on the same chip the Mac used and was sort of the poor mans mac only with color! I bought my first CD-Rom for it at a whopping $499 and my first external 20MB hard drive for $299! When I built my first x86 PC, it was an Intel 386, a fast 33 MHz (the first ones were 16MHz). Then I replaced that with the "Super Fast" AMD 40MHz! That first PC cost over $1500 just to build!

There used to be a ton of jumpers on the motherboard where you set the speed, multiplier and CPU type (Intel, Cyrix or AMD). There was no auto detect anything. Anything you installed, you really had to install, and then write Autoexec.bat and config.sys files to make everything work. Now some 247 (and counting) computers later there is no real hard work. If you made a mistake with the jumpers back then you broke the "Cardinal Rule"! Never let the smoke escape! LOL!! If you selected the wrong voltage, you let the smoke out. New CPU time, as there was no shut-down and re-set! Everything was manual. Memory was a blazing 66MHz! You even had to put the parameters in for the hard drive manually. There was no auto-detect when I first started with PCs.

Just remember, if it wasn't for us old enthusiasts who kept computing going as a very expensive hobby, none of us would be here enjoying this forum today! A lot has changed in 22 years!

Clock On,
theone

 

Only 105? I have a feeling a couple of decades are unaccounted for, but I'm not here to remind anyone of their age. Not sure I'd have the courage to tinker with PCs back then, it all sounds a bit risky!