You know you've gotten old when...

[Karlos]

...when you start opening threads about the issue?

[Karlos]

Things like giant green broccoli that glow in the dark... :afro:

It's a broccoli cloud. Like a mushroom cloud, only made of broccoli instead.

[Karlos]

:roflmao:

Seriously! See here...

[Karlos]

... when your first computer ran on less than one MHz.

My first computer was a ZX81 which ran at about 3MHz, if memory serves...

@Karlos: Love that Broccoli cloud! How long do they take to harvest 50 Mt of that vegetable? Boy, I knew cabbage can produce gas but that's just another level!

Obviously, that's highly  refined and enriched Broccoli. Normal computer-repair grade broccoli is perfectly safe.

[Karlos]

My first computer was also a zx81, I still have it too! it might have run at 3mhz but it only had 1k

I got mine second hand from my uncle who'd rehoused it in some 3rd party case that had a proper keyboard. It also had a 16K ram pack which fit inside said case where it was _almost_ protected from the "wobble" problem.

When we got a ZX spectrum to replace it, the first thing that struck me was just how much faster it was despite being being all of 250kHz faster. The reason, of course, was that we used to run the zx81 in "slow" mode for the most part. The flickering display when editing was not conducive to productivity.

Of course, when I started learning z80 assembler, I realised just how slow ZX basic was, period.

[Karlos]

...and memory was a pile of wires strung through a bigger pile of little iron donuts.

Good old core memory, AKA LOLRAM (Little Old Lady Random, not Laugh Out Loud). You know, it wasn't particularly slow, either.