Age...Can you admit it?

I never get older than 29. I've had quite a few 29th birthdays, though.

Before Sl, I never did any online stuff. The first time someone asked me A/S/L I had no idea what they were talking about. I still lay dumb when asked, it's fun to see the reactions.

Talking about technology, and BBS's and the like....

I still remember being told it was impossible to make a Commodore 64 have a date function on it, like the DOS one.

I decided it was NOT impossible.

So I set out to create one.

I did. Used the two TOD (Time Of Day) clocks built into the computer to make PRINT TI$ more reliable (on my particular system it regularly lost as much as full minute per day if left on constantly, through the normal routine) as well as a count-up (or even count-down) timer to keep track of how long it's been since event X happened or how long until event Y.

Also put in a command to actually tell the computer what the date was, and it would even go so far as to accurately determine what day of the week it was, including properly accounting for leap years, as long as the date you gave it was no earlier than my RL birthdate (have to have some benchmark, in order to properly account for differences in leap centuries I'd read about - an explanation that 2000 was a leap year, but 2100 won't be, why they did this I'm not sure - so I used that as mine).

Also when I took a class in Pascal on the IBM, all the systems were running DOS, and I kept printing out the programs I'd written using conditional compiling ("if this is true, include this section of code, but if it's false, include this other section of code instead" that had error messages in the printouts, because Borland's lister.pas program they included with Turbo Pascal didn't properly account for the commands used in conditional compiling, and thought I was including other program files that didn't exist. So I fixed that problem (gotta love the idea of having access to the original code for things like that) since the first time I turned in a printout with the error messages, I was docked a point for it. I argued the point and explained WHY there was an error, and got that point back, bringing it up to a perfect 10. Then I set out to eliminate the problem altogether, by changing lister.pas. The instructor actually sent my revisions off to Borland, and from that day forward they were included in lister.pas with every new version of Turbo Pascal they sold.

Long-winded post I suppose, but yeah, I'm admitting I'm an old geek.

/me 19 >

Oh, yes, about being asked online... usually I don't mind telling my age IF the other person's been talking to me already. When we're already chatting, and it doesn't seem rude, I respond truthfully.

The years are like the falling drops of rain, too numerous to count and pointless to try

When I was still fairly new I used to get asked for sex a lot and it still kind of surprises me how persistent some of those guys were even after I told them I'm a happily married grandmother in rl... Maybe I was wrong in thinking that they were more likely to be young.

/me smiles... I knew I could depend on you for a touch of perspective

old farts rule...


yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


(I'm off to find me a 19 year old....or a 45 year old who pretends to be 19 )

Me neither, and I can NOT wait!

Just to say "I'm old! GIMME A DISCOUNT!!"
To complain about my hips, my health, how things didnt used to be like this, driving around with a turn signal on, wearing a fedora with a feather in it, annoying younger folks with "when I was your age...", and my most favorite..... becoming a dirty old man instead of a pervert.

Wings, the band? Or Red Wings?


Baaaand on the run.... band on the run....

Jet! with the wind in your hair of a thousand laces.
Climb on the back and we'll
Go for a ride in the sky.
And jet, i thought the major
Was a lady suffragette.
Jet! jet!!

so not fair..i was gettin it when i was in my 20's..
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oh mah age is:timeless.

I feel sorry for the 56-yr-olds, who can't vote in any category. Well, that's just the kind of guy I am, sensitive and considerate. Yet someone on another thread called me insensitive, can you believe it?

I hope you lighten up a bit by the time you reach your Mother's current age. Chances are good, fortunately.

To be is to do.

Haha, young turk.

Some of us old farts remember DOS fondly as an amazing new thing, far superior in so many ways to the RT-11 and OS-8 we were familiar with. I mean, you didn't even have to do a Sysgen! And just think, 640K of memory.

OS-8 was way cool. It had 3 bits to store the year, covering the entire range of 1960 to 1968. And it ran on the first computer to sell for as little as US$10,000, which even fit on a desktop. 4K memory, expandable to 32K, woot! (12-bit words). Ach, don't get me started!

LOL....really you only need to feel sorry for the 56 year olds with a birthday today....after all, tomorrow they will be 56 and 1/365ths, which I believe is older than 56

It is quite possible I am calling you unable to read also, especially as I didn't even say that. Still a good anecdote, is a good anecdote, even if wrong

Last time I visited my RL mom this past year.... She was in Daisy Dukes, a tube top, and had Skynard CRANKED in her truck... More power to her! XD

24

Paul McCartney?!?!?

I was in The Free Dove one day and some noobie guy IM'd me with the age question. I ignored him until he said, "I'm 24." I told him I was old enough to be his mother (figuring that would scare him off). Noooo...next comment was that he loved older women because they were more "experimented" (he later told me he lived in Spain and I "hope" he meant "experienced." Then he said he'd like for me to teach him English...private lessons.

Gah!!! I should have tp'd out on first incoming IM.

I actually left a corporation where I was in outside sales to join one of the managers, who had also left to purchase a franchise that sold the first IBM Personal Computers, as one of his sales staff.

Those PC's ran 128K memory and with a second party green or amber monitor (remember those?)...the selling price was $12,500.

Out of curiosity, what computer ran OS-8? The first OS I learned on was C/PM, I think. (Temporary memory loss setting in...lol.)

I used to get the A/S/L a lot on a game I used to play, I always used to answer "70, Male, my mother's basement". Worked every time.