[Illuyankas]

Hey, look on the bright side - we're among the last generations who know what an actual, physical fight is like. Or, to put it another way - we'll pretty much have free reign in beating the living crap out of younger people who are annoying, or if we're hungover or otherwise pissed off, existent.

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 23 July 2009 - 02:14 PM

[Cougar]

So this made me feel nostalgic enough to post up this, it's a system called PISCES I use at work everyday, originally built in 1978 and now entering it's final year of service, it's a tribute to a bygone era pre-windows where applications weren't intuitive and had to be learned like using a really dull fruit machine, because it's now an amalgam of different systems it doesn't even have common controls from one screen to the next!

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[Obdigore]

You host that on an IBM Iseries, and you are still using the IBM native client for it.

We have one of these at work that I still support.

[Eddie Dean]

Obdigore, on Jul 23 2009, 09:09 AM, said:

Cold Iron, on Jul 23 2009, 07:58 AM, said:

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jul 23 2009, 08:57 PM, said:

I miss the days when blowing on your video game cartridge was all the maintenance you ever needed.

IBLADES OF STEEL is to this day the best hockey video game ever made.

I used to repair old NES consoles, and the main reason for failure was the moisture that go into the connector by being blown on. Spit goes flying in and after 10 years of that, they finially stop working. One time, I was blowing inside my console and my gum flew out to the back of the nintendo, and I had to use peanut butter to get it unstuck. That Nintendo worked better that it ever had before.

Ice Hockey>Blades of steel in every way.

[Obdigore]

BLADES OF STEEL > ALL

And the best game on the SNES is either ROCK AND ROLL RACING or MARIOKART.

[Obdigore]

Here you go, a glorious Unix terminal server.



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[Slow Ben]

I'll take Ice Hockey over Blades of Steel.

This thread is awesome.

[HoosierDaddy]

I'll say that getting lost will never be gone, even with GPS things in the car. I've managed to do so while driving with a GPS. That could just be my terrible direction skill though. I could get lost driving around in a parking lot.

[bwgan]

Nostalgia...huh, it ain't what it used to be...H'I thank you...

Seriously though, I have probably told you this before...but my memory is going so I will tell you again, and you being the polite young things you are will all nod respectfully and snigger when my back is turned.... ... ... ... ... ...what was I saying? Oh yes... I started work in 1984 and when I started there were NO computers in the offices. There was a huge thing in our head office, which processed stuff, but we had to send a written requisition and about two weeks later we would get the information. So, when they actually installed a terminal in OUR office it was a major event...we all went and stood round and stared at it...BUT we weren't allowed to touch it. There was one specially trained member of staff allowed to operate it. If we wanted the information we had to send a written requisition and about two weeks later we would get the information...we were thrilled at the progress we had made!


@HD - I never get lost...I might not always know where I am, but I never get lost.

I remember when my dad brought home our first calculator :Surprise:. My mother was as fond of technology then as she is now...."What on earth do you want one of those things for...God gave you a brain didn't He?" And she can still add things up faster in her head than dad can on the calculator...(I will say I am hopeless at typing...very slow, but I'm fairly quick of the draw with the calculator. )

[Aptorian]

I think for the last year or so I still had my playstation one, it was constantly placed on it's head to make the games work.

I remember our VCR worked well standing on its side. Actually thinking about it, I think we placed it on its side to fix the static on the tape. That's one thing I don't miss, fucking static on tapes when they'd been watched more than ten times.

[Bent]

HoosierDaddy, on Jul 23 2009, 01:01 PM, said:

I'll say that getting lost will never be gone, even with GPS things in the car. I've managed to do so while driving with a GPS. That could just be my terrible direction skill though. I could get lost driving around in a parking lot.

No comment....

Aptorian, on Jul 23 2009, 03:50 PM, said:

I think for the last year or so I still had my playstation one, it was constantly placed on it's head to make the games work.

I remember our VCR worked well standing on its side. Actually thinking about it, I think we placed it on its side to fix the static on the tape. That's one thing I don't miss, fucking static on tapes when they'd been watched more than ten times.

Worn out porn, worst thing ever....

Also, on the nastalgia front, remember when computer games like Oregon Trail, where played on the giant "green screen" monitors?
Also, Duck Hunt, and Captain Power...a controller with a video. Yet the video played and wasn't interactive with the controller at all, yet I was too stupid to tell the difference, and wanted the other videos!

~Did anyone else own the Rambo 2 hour Cartoon movie made by Manga?

I feel old now...damn whipper snappers and there rap music!

[Satan]

Bent, on Jul 23 2009, 09:58 PM, said:

Worn out porn, worst thing ever....

I remember my brothers stash had a buckload of german dubbed porn and american silicon origies, and one classy french one. I used to spend ages trying to calibrate the VCR for the best possible picture, but after years of trusted fapping service the poor film gave out. I think a few years went by where I was confined to the germans and the fake before we finally got that 33.6k modem and the world of perv opened up to me, but I still have fond memories of that french tape.

Also, I used to suck at blowing out the dust of those cartridges. Had a mate who were an expert, though, so whenever it wouldn't load we just handed the thing to him. Somehow he got it right ever damned time. We used to sit infront of that big CRT screen for hours, trying to finish battletoads. That's also something the kids of today will miss out on: the days where when you died (three times), you were dead. Forget about any save games, because you sonny, you're going back to start.

[Mezla PigDog]

bwgan, on Jul 23 2009, 06:27 PM, said:

I remember when my dad brought home our first calculator

I don't know why, but I can't stop laughing at this statement!!

[bwgan]

Because it shows how old I am, and you can revel in your youth...enjoy it whilst you can young one...for it shall not last.

[Aptorian]

Mezla PigDog, on Jul 23 2009, 10:40 PM, said:

bwgan, on Jul 23 2009, 06:27 PM, said:

I remember when my dad brought home our first calculator

I don't know why, but I can't stop laughing at this statement!!

You have to remember that Bwgan is old enough to be the mother of all of us. That calculator was probably the size of a carbattery...

*runs and hides*

[Cougar]

They probably had to take the front window out to get it into the house

[bwgan]

I am not old enough to be mother to ALL of you...I just feel like it...I think I am more like the maiden aunt of the forum....except I'm married...and have children so I'm obviously not.... ....yes well, that's enough of that...


And the funny thing is calculators have actually got bigger . But if you want to talk mobile phones....I had my first in....I think it was 1992, and it really was a housebrick...the battery lasted about an hour and coverage was...um...patchy, but I was TEH biz....and the first person in my office to have one.


Edit: @ Cougar...front windows? We couldn't afford front windows you whippersnapper...get off my...oh, forget it...

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[Cougar]

Huh,at least you had something for me to get off: when I was a boy we could only afford a colourless corner of the void and when we got in from our shift at the mill our father would beat us until we resolved the existential paradox of existence.

[Salt-Man Z]

I'm turning 31, and there's a bunch of stuff on that list I never even experienced. That said, my kids are quite familiar with VHS and audio cassette tapes. They mostly get them from their great-grandma (or as an example, I let them watch my old Transformers tapes) and they're cheap, and it's no big deal if they get busted. Besides which, we've had two DVDs just up and die on us, while our old VCR still works fine. On the other hand, it's a lot easier for kids to learn to use a DVD player than a VCR. (Elizabeth's been running the DVD player on her own since she was a year and a half old.)

Obdigore, on Jul 23 2009, 09:46 AM, said:

You host that on an IBM Iseries, and you are still using the IBM native client for it.

Our transportation system at work is on IBM iSeries, and I absolutely hate it.

[Obdigore]

IBM Iseries equipment ease of use is based Soley on the programmers. Most of em are still coded in COBOL.