I feel old now..

[draggar]

Me: Yeah, when I was a kid we had an Atari 2600.

Receptionist: So did I!

Me: (Knowing she is younger): Must have been one of the last generation ones or a 5200?

Receptionist: No, one of the first ones, it was my mom's when she was a kid!

 

[VirtualT]

I had some of the first programmable calculators, man you could get those things to do some tricky stuff, i used to love hacking them into doing things they wern't supposed to do

super nerd aye

 

[draggar]

*lol* A graphing calculator? I loved those, I had a game on mine, the teachers never new nor did they suspect.

Although, the best calculator I ever bought (and still use) was $20.

 

[VirtualT]

*lol* A graphing calculator? I loved those, I had a game on mine, the teachers never new nor did they suspect.

Although, the best calculator I ever bought (and still use) was $20.

yeah scientific calculators circa 1980-83, I had one that could do basic functions and loops, very advanced for their time

yeah I remember those calculators with games, it was the best it got in those days for portable gaming consoles lol as long as the games didn't make too loud clicking sound was a sure fire giveaway in class

 

[Anthony Ng]

You know you're old when your peers start talking about health; and then you pick up every Atari, Namco, and Capcom compilation games for Playstation 2 for your youngest brother.

 

[jasdon11]

Me: Yeah, when I was a kid we had an Atari 2600.

Receptionist: So did I!

Me: (Knowing she is younger): Must have been one of the last generation ones or a 5200?

Receptionist: No, one of the first ones, it was my mom's when she was a kid!

It show's how old you are when you're trying to chat up the receptionist with lines about a godamn Atari...!!! :lol:

Get back to work Ed!

 

[draggar]

It show's how old you are when you're trying to chat up the receptionist with lines about a godamn Atari...!!! :lol:

Get back to work Ed!

:lol::lol:

She never saw "A Christmas Story".

 

[BELLC1]

I had some of the first programmable calculators, man you could get those things to do some tricky stuff, i used to love hacking them into doing things they wern't supposed to do super nerd aye

And if you did such things, people automatically assumed you were a Trekkie, too! Go figure.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

I just show them my mini bank statement, and they look at you
differently after that. muahahahah

 

[Seraphim]

I remember when I used to play Atari 2600 baseball, and the ball would occasionally get stuck in mid air, halfway through an important game. Man, that was frustrating! :lol:

I was just looking at a screenshot of the graphics, WOW! I seem to remember it looking way cooler.

 

[draggar]

I remember when I used to play Atari 2600 baseball, and the ball would occasionally get stuck in mid air, halfway through an important game. Man, that was frustrating! :lol:

I was just looking at a screenshot of the graphics, WOW! I seem to remember it looking way cooler.

Or football, when you ru past everyone 20 yards own the field they are there (teleportation?)

 

[cursal]

She never saw "A Christmas Story".

That's practically criminal.

How does that happen? That's still plays multiple times during the holidays.

"ah, ya shoot ya eye out kid"

 

[Theo]

I went to my first "Computer show" in 1977. The "computers" were mostly Xerox copiers and LED calculators. There was one mainframe though. I had fun punching random numbers on the calculators and photocopying black and white 1,000 drachmas bills to give to my friends

 

[DomainMagnate]

Acroplex, man.. you're old

 

[Theo]

I think I'm a year younger than Adam

 

[draggar]

I didn't know you two were that old, and here I am thinking I'm one of the old guys.

 

[randomo]

Man, I remember the first time that a kid brought a calculator into my school [not graphing, just simple arithmetic]. This was in the mid-'70s, and everybody was like, "Whoa, look at Mister Technology!"

Long after that, I became a middle-school math teacher, & had to teach kids how to use TI-83 programmable calculators. (And yes, some of them were playing games during class, and yes, I knew that ... it's hilarious how many students think that teachers are basically blind and stupid.)

 

[Commerce]

I didn't know you two were that old, and here I am thinking I'm one of the old guys.

No there are a fair number of dinosaurs here at DNF (me included).

The first computer I got my hands on was an HP2000F TSB system back around the mid 1970s - well actually it was really just a 10 baud teletype terminal to the computer, (the actual system was located at another High School). Kids today will never know the fun of paper type dot wars.

FWIW, I still have an old Commodore 64 somewhere around here.

-Commerce

 

[dadster]

Hell, my first computer was a hammer and chisel - everything was set in stone in those days - white out wasnt around yet!

 

[randomo]

FWIW, I still have an old Commodore 64 somewhere around here.

-Commerce

"old" - are you kidding me? Our first computer was a Commodore PET; the 64 came later & seemed very modern in comparison.

The PET used a tape drive for storage and had 8K of RAM. It's amazing how much programming you could do in that much memory space; today's PC's come with hundreds of thousands of times as much RAM, and programmers still seem to have trouble fitting everything into it!