You Know Your Are Old When...

[threegee]

...you read an explanation like this in a BBC news item:
 

Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.

 

And the system remained in widespread use up to around the turn of the century

 

Not MSDOS computers please note.  Maybe I will be around long enough to read this:

 

The British Broadcasting Corporation was popular until around the turn of the century.

 

Declining journalistic standards, a terminal left-wing liberal bias, wet-behind-the-ears intake, and the continual promotion of an American mega-corporation's vastly overpriced technology over the superior technology used by more than 80% of their audiences, ensured its total demise early in the new century.

 

Just kidding!

 

Has anyone seen anything in print which made them seem old?

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

Mmmmmm - memories - your post makes me think back and feel just as old as I felt yesterday.

1975 - ICL 1900s - fixed discs - can't remeber if they were FD80s or 800s

1980 - ICL 2900 - Exchangeable Discs - EDS200s

My first PC - 1995 - ICL M40 - YES an amazing 40 Mb of store - cost £1,400+! = Lemmings - Kings Quest; Space Quest - Blox etc. No mouse, everything moved via the keyboard.

Can't find that article you read on Disk Operating systems.

[threegee]

LOL I rather hoped that someone would steer the thread away from computer talk!

 

It's in the article about The Game of Thrones guy.  He doesn't like spelling correctors, and still uses Wordstar on an old disk operating system (sic) machine, apparently.  I'd have imagined someone would have ported it to 'doze, or there are emulators which can run the old Wordstar codebase at many times the speed.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502

 

Anyway, has anyone seen my flares?  This retro thing could easily catch on.

[threegee]

Yup, you could have bet money on it!

 

 

I wonder what a current generation BBC journo would make of CP/M?

[Malcolm Robinson]

When you can get down on your knees but you need you need to think about getting back up again.  

[John Fox (foxy)]

I've removed the photo because at the time it was taken I was trying to grow a moustache and it looked like I had been hit on the top lip with a wet skippy rope, Gave it up as a bad job and still cannot manage

 

 

            

[keith lockey]

When you get out the bath and look for the pumice stone for the corn on your foot.

 

OR

 

When you go out for the day and say..."I better put a jacket on in case it gets cool later on."

 

I haven't got to the second stage yet.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Foxy.......

 

They reckon you were a horny little devil!   

[Keith Scantlebury]

I'll always be 21, fit and healthy with the physique of a racing snake.  

[keith lockey]

I'll always be 21, fit and healthy with the physique of a racing snake.  

 

Racing snake!!!

 

Is this your pit-stop team, Keith?

 

[Keith Scantlebury]

yup

[threegee]

You know you are old when... your jaw drops watching this: 

 

...or... when it's hard to remember how we used to send our text messages.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

 

Has anyone seen anything in print which made them seem old?

Can't remember this happening before - Credit card statement for this month = Outstanding Balance £0.00 = too old!!