You know you've gotten old when...

[guest7146]

...you can have an adult conversation with a person who wasn't even born  when Commodore (the real Commodore, I mean) were still about.

This happened to me just the other day, and I instantly realised I'd finally crossed the threshold of youth.

AH.

[Karlos]

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

[guest7146]

Indeed.  But I suppose I can take comfort in the knowledge that I'm not completely past it until I start losing my mind and believing in strange irrational things.  Things like giant green broccoli that glow in the dark... :afro:

[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.

[guest7146]

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

:roflmao:

[Karlos]

:roflmao:

Seriously! See here...

[Zac67]

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

@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!

[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.

[bloodline]

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

[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.

[Amiga_Nut]

...When your nephew has no knowledge of the games you liked as a kid and now HIS Playstation1 and Sega Megadrive are considered 'retro' too

My first computer was a VIC-20, nice enough but it was swiftly swapped at full retail value trade-in 3 months later for a C64 that just came out. Both ran at 1mhz, but had radically different abilities. Still if it weren't for the C64 BASIC and sprites I would never have learned how to do binary maths in my head as a kid haha.

[JimS]

... when you can remember programming on punch cards...  and memory was a pile of wires strung through a bigger pile of little iron donuts.

[tone007]

... when you can remember programming on punch cards...  and memory was a pile of wires strung through a bigger pile of little iron donuts.

Sounds like about 60.

[tone007]

I won't feel old until they stop carding me for alcohol and tobacco products, and the 20something bartender chicks stop looking disappointed when they notice my wedding ring.

[ElPolloDiabl]

You remember carrying a laptop would leave you in a sweat.