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Question To the older members of AD
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3. November 2006 @ 10:18 |
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Yeah gerry, did you set your sundial back one hora last week. I forgot.
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gerry1
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3. November 2006 @ 10:33 |
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LOL! Reminds me of when I was in france some thirty years ago. I grew up in Quebec which speaks a much older french. If one stays away from the dialect's mispronounciations, the french is exactly the same but it's a much older french. We had no trouble understanding each other but every now and again, I would come out with some ancient turn of a phrase which would stop them dead in their tracks but they loved it...rather like having dinner with an english speaking person who suddenly utters a sentence in Elizabethan English right out of shakespear.
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3. November 2006 @ 13:32 |
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I see that Lexz has got the boot, permanently, no more betting guys :( such a shame I was about to get into the action as well ;)
@Gerry1 funny you should speak of France, I am going next year :) with two of my buddies, was planning on going to Japan but it is too expensive, so I will be going 2008.
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb BluRay.
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3. November 2006 @ 17:48 |
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i was reading the thread, hopefully im old. 17. well ive been coming to aD for 4 years and i got into computer when i was 8, playing with the old 5 and a quarter inch floppy games. w00t
oh, and i couple posts back there was a question about old farts are guys so what are girls, i think there called cougers.
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7. November 2006 @ 05:50 |
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I first got involved with computers back in the early 80's when I was working for the Army in Germany. The first computer the agency got was called a "GRID", and we only had 1. The first pc I ever bought was the old Commodore 64. Buought it at Toys-r-Us on one of my trips from Germany back to the Pentagon. BTW, I really qualify as an "old fart" -- I'm 63.
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7. November 2006 @ 06:09 |
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now this is a old fart,
I have been wondering about my penis
A man in his sixties goes to the Doctor. The Dr. checks him out and tells him everything is fine. The Doctor asked if he had any questions. The man stated he did. "I have been wondering about my penis. When I was 17 and it was hard I could not bend it." When I was in my 40's and it was hard I could bend it a little bit." Now that I am in my 60's and it gets hard I can bend the hell out of it." Doc tell me am I getting stronger
What's in Your Ear
There were two old fellows who were chatting. Suddenly one of them asked, "What in the world is that sticking out of your right ear?" The other, with a puzzled look, said, "I don't know", and reached up pulling out the object, then exclaimed, "My word, a suppository!" Then he slapped his forehead and excitedly declared, "Now I know what I did with my hearing aid."
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dgreen333
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8. November 2006 @ 07:09 |
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In 1974 I had a friend taking a BASIC/APL course at the local college and told me I should look into it. I took the course and was hooked...back then we bought time on a mainframe at TCU. We had a terminal with a keyboard and greenbar paper, no monitor...it was real time, you typed, it responded. In 1975 I went to work for Pier One Imports in the coporate office IT center. In 1978 I bought my first computer, an Apple II+!! Monochrome graphics, no lower case, 48K of RAM, a 1MHZ CPU, dual 180K floppies and a 300bps modem. Total cost - $3500...
I was hooked again...I wrote a relational database system for an oil landman in 1979, and another for a video rental in 1980. Today I am a consultant with my own computer services business and design websites. Computers were the only job I ever tried that I couldn't do in my sleep.
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Ozjohn
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8. November 2006 @ 11:14 |
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I think the answer was easy for me, I started when the internet was first introduced to Australia with an LC 475 Mac, nobody knew a thing about them so I had to teach myself.I then converted to PC's and have 5 PC's on a wireless network of which I have built 3 of them
Heinz57 Computer
2.4Gig AMD
Gigabyte 2004 RZ Board
512 DDR Ram
100 Gig HD
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8. November 2006 @ 12:06 |
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@tsquare43
good to see you around, been a while. Seen any of those Red DVDs lately. God I thought I was old; you got me by 3 years. LOL
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gerry1
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8. November 2006 @ 12:31 |
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LMAO Ireland! You have no idea how appropriate your penis subject is! On my way home from work, I ran into yet another group protesting something .. a regular occurance here and usually goes hand in hand with whatever group is having a convention. I usually pay no attention but given the heavy rain, I had to admire their dedication. They were protesting
CIRCUMCISION!! They were carring signs reading "Stop genital mutilation". Initially, I thought they were speaking of this "female circumcision" of certain muslim groups recently in the news but no, they were speaking about out newborn boys.
I was just a bit surprised that they could get so many to stand in the rain over such a subject. Hell, giving a newborn's peanut a date with the axeman is a fine welcome into the world, but I didn't realize it was such a hot subject!
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8. November 2006 @ 15:50 |
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My first comp was a commodore vic 20, it was pretty much just good for playing games like pong. Sticks and dots.
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8. November 2006 @ 16:25 |
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haha, yeah. I remember having a commodore, not really alive when Having one. so i can be concidered a REALLY young fart. but i have used one :-D. yeah. The good old Floppy B: s.... ahh.. yeah...
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geburuh
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17. December 2006 @ 10:18 |
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I owned my own Construction Co. for 36 years.
In 1993 I finally decided it was time to let some-one-else pay the bills. My new boss gave me a machine-possibly older than me & said"learn how to use it" My kids showed me what it was all about.
Finally I stole a windows computer from a man that left the Co.
I have owned 6 new computers since ( at home ) Been retired 7 years & I love it.
ps: I was in college in mid 1950's-grandpa was from Cork
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17. December 2006 @ 13:36 |
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I don't think I qualify for being an older person, not nearly, but I guess I qualify for an older member of aD. What got me into computers was when I got my Sega 10 years ago or so, then my playstation and I guess it built from there, I got my PC about 4 years ago and what I have learnt in that time, has been quite a bit. I remember what brought me to the site, and that was when I couldn't run the original Halo for PC, haha.
-Mike
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