State of the Age.

[ellenmillion]

Norway's newest command is 'gentle!' and it's working pretty well. He's figured out (mostly) that he's supposed to take the steps one at a time and not bolt when told that. His leg is much, much better, but we're going to enforce a few more days of as much rest as we can make him take. He looks so sad when he's on a down-stay and there are Interesting Things happening. Especially when Velcro jumps around and races past him to rub it in.

My beloved gaming group was very empathic about my age woes last night. (Except Brad, who teased that they don't stop carding until you look at least 37. *mimes a knife in the heart* No cookies for Brad.) Anyway, I'm sure it was just a statement of respect for my great wisdom.

To prove how young I am, I'm posting a picture of the first computer I remember being used in our house. That's a tape drive, that black boxy bit off to the left. This was before floppies. Oh, wait... do you young sprouts even remember floppies???

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

From the ancient heights of not-quite-31, I remember the floppy!

[eregyrn.livejournal.com]

:P

Okay, no, I never worked on a Commodore. But when I was *in college* the web DIDN'T EXIST YET (*Mosaic* was several years away, for god's sake!), so don't even start with me.

[heykatie.livejournal.com]

I'm 26 and I remember floppies well. :)

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

Ha, you're practically a spring chicken next to old ladies like me! (or something....because if you're old, i'm older...)

[shoka.livejournal.com]

You aren't that old. That PET has a keyboard. Old is when you remember the callouses on your knuckles from entering code w/ toggle switches. And storing things on paper tape. And punch cards. And the one true floppy, the 8 inch. None of those stiff 5.25" or 3.5" ones.

The good old days.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Heehee!

My dad still has the bill for the Apple IIe he bought from Radioshack. It was $2000!

[calcamp.livejournal.com]

I remember floppies, as well as tape drives, though I didn't mess with them much.

My big intro to computers was trying to run CAD on a dual-floppy machine back before they came with hard drives (I could out-draft that clunker by hand on the drawing board, and even won a bet by proving it). My first "real" computer, and the first one I viewed with anything but scorn, had a whopping 8 meg hard-drive - straight to the big time for me.

'Course I'm almost a decade older than you, so that probably doesn't help much with the feeling old thing. ;)

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Of course I remember floppies, you goose. ;) I remember them when they were still actually floppy!

I also remember programming silly things in LOGO on school C64s and, when using a relative's computer, the newfound oddity of loading a program from a cassette tape (I didn't have a computer at home and only used cassettes for music).

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

LOGO!!! OMG, I remember LOGO. It was the best part of GT.

[puffbird.livejournal.com]

We never had a personal computer with a tape drive, but we did have a tape drive that we used with our Atari 400, on which I learned how to program in BASIC. :)

The first PC we had was a dual-floppy Compaq Portable that my dad brought home from work to use sometimes... you could fold the keyboard up and take the computer with you if you needed to. :) I used it to type up school assignments when I was in third grade.

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

My first computer was a Tandy. I had a separate tape recorder that I "saved" stuff on. And I really had no idea how to do anything but draw simple items, make vector like things, and draw random numbers (my dad made me "draw" lottery numbers all the time....thinking an archaic computer could outwit a sophisticated lottery one. :P)

Oh, and a small color (9"?) tv was my monitor. How ghetto was that? ;P

And I still have a 5.25" floppy from high school. Has stupid stuff and a few papers on it. Not that I can access it. LMAO

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

LOL, I not only remember floppies, I remember working off computers where the OS was on one floppy and you saved your work to another. No hard drive at all! LOL! Also, the floppies were bigger too! I never worked off a computer with tape drive though....they were around of course, since I am about 48, but I didn't touch a computer until the early 1980's and a lot of them had the 5.25 floppy drives then. I think it was an Apple II I used at college.

[piotrov.livejournal.com]

Ah memories! Heh, our first family computer was a very advanced Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple II+/E clone). I used that for all of my gaming and homework needs until my older brother got himself a Mac and passed his old Tandy to us.

I spent so much time "online" on that Tandy - on the old Prodigy service. :D And I remember being amazed by the 30 Meg (!) hard drive on my brother's Mac.

Oh, and my dad also had a portable computer he could take with him on business - an Osbourne 1. :)

I remember tape drives, but thankfully never needed to use them....

[rendergirl.livejournal.com]

I can SO understand your age woes. I can't even comprehend that I'm 43 now, I swear I still feel 16, and I KNOW everyone always says that. My neice is a few years younger than you, and she was called a "cougar" at school. She couldn't believe it. Don't let it get you down. You're still young...really, you are. You're only old to babies. LOL

Poor puppy... of course the cat has to rub it in!! And I was telling Deni the other day about my friends that have interesting pet names, and I mentioned Velcro, that's such a cute name!!

[shellstar-art.livejournal.com]

I remember floppies.. I still have a box of them somewhere with old Uni assignments on them. And old old computers, and LOGO and vectors and the internet being nothing but green text. It would crack my current Uni mates up to here that, most of them are somewhere between 19 and 22.... make me feel ancient by saying stuff like "I was in high school when Harry Potter came out." and not remembering much from the 80s and looking at me funny when I say mobiles didn't exist (as a mainstream thing) when Jamie and I started dating....

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

**chuckle**

I got to play Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on my friend's Commodore 64 or an old Amiga; and Wizardry on my dad's Apple IIe. And he was a sysadmin at a coomunity college around then, and my sister and I sent secret messages with the old punch cards. I remember the main frame room -- aisles and aisles and air conditioning...

Heh. Having the wireless router with it is just delightful.

[laffingkat.livejournal.com]

Wow, the first computer I used was a PET just like that, so yeah, I remember tape drives as well as floppies. :) My first home computer was an early Amiga though, several years later.