Official « Old Geezers » thread

[MaximillianGT]

...and one of these----->

I have this! My aunt worked for the Atari.

 

[DD60]

Yep, 0 points. Officially an Old Geezer.

 

[Jackster]

 

[316lad]

Nil pointe pour moi, aussi.
Merd. Je suis knackered.

 

[xray7]

Technical question, on

i had a hacked modem where i could run 313K over dialup , the 56k was actually a hardware restriction

WITCHCRAFT!!!

 

[Eldonsimon]

Oh man, you can add another on there. Lived through the VHS and Betamax war

Yep and I even remember the Ice Cream wars….

 

[fnfalguy]

I remeber getting permission from the principal to bring my gun into school to metal shop to weld the trigger .... now who is old ?

I remember my physics teacher in HS setup an experiment in the class. Shot a .22 into a wooden block hanging from a string and the subject was on momentum and subsequently energy lost due to friction.

As I'm typing this out, I was this days old when I realized he just wanted to shoot a gun in front of the class.

 

[Got20Mate]

I remember my physics teacher in HS setup an experiment in the class. Shot a .22 into a wooden block hanging from a string and the subject was on momentum and subsequently energy lost due to friction.

As I'm trying this out, I was this days old when I realized he just wanted to shoot a gun in front of the class.

As a Brit, that is a wild story

 

[Yellowsubmarine]

One day my buddy got something called a "Macintosh"- blew the doors off of everything before it. Using technology stolen from Xerox, The screen used something called an "icon" instead of a bunch of letters and numbers to represent a folder.

It was mind boggling at the time.

I remember some of the rich kids with these 'Macintosh' computers. It was almost like a secret society at the time..

Before my first Mac in 2000 there was the trusty Pentium 233 mmx which was a rocket, and before that was the reappropriated from my high schools' trash Compaq 386.

And the little gem that started it all off for me was this beauty, Sinclair Spectrum +3 with 128k ram in 1987 for a whopping £249. Fill your boots..

 

[Mkempes]

Zero points, if you count other VHS rental since Blockbuster did not exists in my country.

Grew up with this ...


My dad had a subscription to National Geographic and I used to cut out the watch ads and stick them on the wall of my room. So I have been addicted to watches since I was a kid. And thanks to RWI, I can make some dreams come true on the cheap

 

[heska]

Well 0, but I’m not that old !
I’m not that old, right?

 

[heska]

@Karbon74 and the french bonus:
21.used a Minitel

 

[asusundevils1971]

Is that a 80's sex toy being advertised as a wink wink video game controller

Well 0, but I’m not that old !
I’m not that old, right?

Nahhh you are not old but you were around when the Pyramid Of Khufu was being bult.

 

[Mkempes]

Is that a 80's sex toy being advertised as a wink wink video game controller

You only had a VC20, so I'll forgive you. If you'd had a C64, you wouldn't be asking the question.

 

[Karbon74]

@Karbon74 and the french bonus:
21.used a Minitel

The Minitel was just awesome when you think of it.
We had ecommerce, digital betting and pr0n chats before Internet even existed

 

[Got20Mate]

I've just had flashbacks of my Commodore 64 Atari with the game and the egg guy, Dizzy? wow

 

[asusundevils1971]

If you'd had a C64, you wouldn't be asking the question.

If I had a C64 the world would have been my oyster and I would have been the CEO of a fortune 500 company BUT I'm here talking and buying replica watches with us old geezers reminiscing about the past.

Thanks Karbon74 for making us feel old you sneaky little Pika...

 

[daytona4me]

I guess I'm old then. I've done all those.

I got “0” as well. Regarding #1: anyone remember calling a number to get the exact time?

Oh yeah, did that many of times! 234-1212 for me

 

[CF_Stan]

Alright you old bastards. I scored 1 as I never owned an encyclopaedia but my parents did. I used to use them for homework sometimes.

My Dad was great, he’d always try and get the cheapest option and then sell it to me as the best. 1st computer was a Dragon32, it was so unpopular and had hardly anyone making software/games for it. I remember some of the games that I could get had to be loaded via a cassette recorder, you’d sit there praying it would eventually load. Half the time it would crash and you’d be doing your best not to smash the thing. School had BBC micro’s, loved playing Chucky Egg on them.

Continuing this trend we got a Betamax as it was superior tech to VHS (and he got a deal). Again going to the video store (not Blockbuster) there was a tiny section in the corner for Beta tapes, you were almost embarrassed to walk over there. The VHS section looked all shiny with the newest releases. Good times.

 

[daytona4me]

How many of you have talked on a party line? I imagine only about 25% of those who responded in this thread have done so.