You have 10 seconds to prove you're 40 or older

You have 10 seconds to prove you're 40 or older.

>Do not bend, fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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We got 2,4,5,9,11, and 30 on UHF. On cloudy night I could get 8 too.

I used to spend hours gently positioning the UHF dial between stations to pick up taxis, police cars, beepers, and the tower at the airport. It was more fun than a crystal radio.

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Third-party 5081. 0.007" thick and the same size as an 1880s US dollar bill.
Punched on an IBM 026 or printing 029.
Not verified.
I have my own card gauge.

Do you remember when payphones went up from two dimes to a quarter?

First year I studied computer science, first semester we used electric adding machines. Second semester were IBM alphanumeric keypunch machines. I still remember using the metal tip of a protractor to do a manual sort on the punchcards.

I'm not

kek
We got 2,4,6,7,9,12 and 31 on UHF
Nights I could get 40 which was a 24/7 home shopping channel.

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Fucking 300 baud modem bitch! BBS life

>not taking the whole thing apart to wire together an ungodly contraption that mostly spews noise

pleb

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hah my NES was connected with this exact adaptor

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I can beat that. My first modem was a 110 baud teletype machine, complete with rubber acoustic couplers for the bakelite telephone receiver. It didn't even have a monitor, just a printer. I used to call up the university mainframe to play Maze of the Minotaur. If I wanted to use a different program, I'd have to call the computer science department and ask them to please change the reel.

my first phone was in a leather duffle bag

Meh. I was a Fido-Net node operator.

Ever go to any Fido meet-and-greets?

I got a Commodore 64 when I was 4

My first computer. Prior to this I used a PET at school.
My brother and I pooled our money and bought a disk drive for this and played Zork.

My first program was in FORTRAN.

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good luck beating this: the first pres I remember was Eisenhower. Martin Luther King is a real person to me. The first time I saw color TV I actually got a boner. So fuck you faggots. /b was never good but America was.

Forgot to mention, ya'll know these guys as AOL.com now

Yep, bought a box of these and used scissors to cut another notch to make the other side writable.

I always used a single-hole punch. Turned a 160K disk into a 320K

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And this was all before security cams so all my tech gear was shoplifted.

I had a friend in highschool I bought all my computer supplies from at 25% retail. The only stipulation was that it had to fit under a shirt.

Remember watching first foot hitting moon surface.

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Our family acquired our first television for this.

Does anyone else remember when your neighbourhood always had a repair shop, a cobbler, a tailor, and a butcher? Do you remember when the store kept a notebook at the cash register where they'd make a note on your family's tab whenever your parents sent you to pick up a pack of smokes, and everyone would go by on payday to pay off their tab (after waiting half an hour at the bank to cash their cheque)?

Lies you scum there was no moon landing that was staged you faggot

I remember when they were one dime. Newspapers were a quarter.

When I was finally old enough to buy smokes, they had just gone up to $1.50. People were pitching a fit. They were pitching a fit over gas prices, too. It was $1.13/gal...

why are there 40 year olds on Sup Forums

don't you graduate to better boards?

I graduated from high school before moot was born

Remember not being allowed outside because of possible radiation from Chernobyl. Also had a big day at school the every classroom had a TV in it to watch a teacher go to space. That did the goes as well as I think it could have though

No. We browse Sup Forums and laugh at all of the cringy little faggots drooling over chicks with dicks... fuck. You fags even drool over guys with dicks. I swear, this entire decade has gone straight into penis lust.

I remember that. Our teacher was one of the ones that was on the list to be chosen. We all cried when Challenger exploded.

This.

Get off our lawn, ya little faggot. Get a job, hippie, and a haircut.

hey.. got one for you.. google this "instwatch monthly giveaway". thank me later :D :D :D

I was in the Army when that happened.

On 9/11 I remember exactly where I was, because I had gone down to the computer shop to pick up my computer, which had been in for repairs. Every computer was watching a different news station feed, and the first thing they said as I walked in the door was, "A plane hit the World Trade Center!"

I was baffled why everyone was so excited. I kept trying to get my computer back. Then a second plane hit and everyone lost their minds. It took me 30 god damned minutes to get my computer back, and only after asking them whether the plane had hit the back of their fucking store and, if not, what was preventing them from getting my fucking computer.

I was in a hotel room in Greenville, SC. I was getting ready for work. I was working for a large Burger King franchise at the time, and they had me going to different stores that they owned to help train managers. I remember that being the slowest lunch shift I'd ever seen on a weekday. It's like the whole world stopped and gasped. I think we all know now that it wasn't Iraq... but I think we pretend that it wasn't an inside job because we don't want to believe that our own government could do that sort of thing... The sorts of things that ruthless, blood-thirsty dictators did.

Fortran, what are you, NASA?

I was housesitting for my father who was on vacation on the Cook islands, he flew out on pretty much the last aircraft allowed, landed in LA and had to rent a car from there.

my dad gave me this computer when I was 7. it was top of the line at the time.
>TRS 80

The Trash 80. I loved mine. Mostly used it for Frogger,

It took me about 15 minutes (sometimes longer) to load a game on my Commodore 64.

We played CleanUp every chance we got.

I remember this modem

epyx joystick. respect

the smell comes right back every time

You can use a paper pack of matches to clean and set points.

Written on punch cards for a (literally) Rocket Scientist.

I would spend most of my lunch loading a game via tape player, play for 5 mins and then rush to my next class.

QED

Get off the phone kid. We're expecting a call.

taping over the LEDs on the computer and modem to keep it dialed in all night long to download

I remember using E tickets at Disneyland

I remember going on America Sings (loved it as a kid).

I remember a knight in the Haunted mansion that used to grab people and scare the shit out of them.

>my proof
That's actually the upgraded Commodore 64 case, after they introduced the Commodore 128.

Commodore 64 (old case) was my first computer. My older brother had a Vic 20 with a tape drive.

Hi Mr Logan, my name is Michael. Can I please speak to Jenny?

HA. I remember doing that as well. I had a Vic 20 with a tape drive.

Racing Destruction set was my favorite game on the Commodore 64

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Radical idea Jenny, Breakfast Club sounds like it will be an ace movie. I will meet you outside the cinema at 6pm. See you then. Have a good week.

Dad I'm off the phone now!

i remember being in primary school and the whole school sitting down in the assembly hall to watch Princess Anne marry Cptn Mark Phillips, my family being Socialist and completely Anti-Royal i had no fuckin clue who either was.

Got a rubber keyed spectrum 48k when I was 10 or 11. Was working on 9/11. I've got 2 kids in double figure ages and I didn't have the 1st til I was 30. I was over 40 when I discovered b I think, fappening fag. You guys keep me young, even if it's shaking my head over traps and fb fap threads.

I had Major Matt Mason, and my GI Joe was about 10 inches tall.

Fuuuu we had a party line, you pick up the phone and someone you did not even know was having an imtimate conversation.

pic related

Dad says we have to go on two dollar Tuesday.

I forgot the pic!

We had rolls of yellow paper tape instead of punch cards. How big a roll of tape you carried around was a status thing.

Yeah, can still smell it...

Did you ever use a telecopier, with a mimeo-like rotating drum, you plugged a phone handset into it and sent copies of a document to somebody with another machine plugged into his phone. An electric spark from a needle in the receiving machine made a burn mark in a white clay-based coating on the paper to reproduce, more or less, the writing on the original. Took about 2-3 minutes a page.

McDLT was my favorite hamburger.

Hot side was hot, cool side was cool thanks to Styrofoam.

I miss those days when you would use styrofoam to get your food and when you got home your food was still hot. Now the paper shit they wrap the stuff in is fucking cold 30 seconds later.

Palabra jot, palabra jot

Me too. I also remember being in the car with my Dad, listening on the radio as they landed, racing for home hoping to get there in time to see the landing coverage. Dad would help me follow what was gong on by pointing out "They're about as high as that building now... now about as high as that phone pole..."

when I was a kid...
TV used to really suck. a lot.

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Excuse me miss. How do you pronounce this word? N-A-C-H-O-S.

OK so what is it?

Eeewww bit sure about thart. Maybe I'll try it next time. Tonight I'll have the shrimp cocktail to start and then the Steak Diane.

I know its a bit pricey but I don't mind paying $5 for the steaks here. They're good quality

Now Michael tell us about that Jenny girl. We should have her parents over for dinner next week. Need to meet them and make sure they're nice people.

McDonald's never was and still isn't good. Styrofoam or not.

What I miss is the cartoons those days, not the food. Transformers, GI Joe, Thunder Cats, Ewoks.

I worked in a campaign electing the governor of our state, ran the whole thing on Trash-80s, and thought we were the absolute shit. And we were, that was cutting edge shit at the time. I remember when we got the first external hard drive attachment for them .. no more keeping our donor list on dozens of floppies...

> Styrofoam

Omg, I totally forgot about that. Styrofoam was great. And you are right it kept the burgers in shape and hot!

I saw the first broadcast of MTV

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Hey Ive been waiting half an hour for you to show up. Where have you been? I told you to meet me in the food court my the escalators at 3. Its 3:30. Didnt you hear the message over the loudspeaker? You have to be more responsible. Turn around, pull your pants down I'm going to have to give your ass a whooping in front of all these people. Excuse me sheriff, can you please hold my bags while I smack my son.

I built my first computer

1975 i was 6 then and the worlds first computer was released. MITS Altair 8800

Video killed the radio star

I bought this my freshman year of high school.....I'm about to sell it on eBay

Can't remember the last time I saw a kid being spanked in public. Used to see it happen every other day in the 70s. Sometimes random people would walk up and tell the kid off for disobeying their parents.

My computer..... 1200 baud was fast as fuck.

I hate niggers. Segregation was a godsend

Witnessed and remembered...

976 numbers

Tunnels of Doom on my TI/994A
Almost flunked Thermo playing this...

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>>NES
>>No Atari 2600
Get on my level son

hunt the wumpus

Boomers need to be gassed

>1975 i was 6 then and the worlds first computer was released.
>1975 the worlds first computer was released.
>1975 worlds first computer