John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Who sadly proved not to be immortal...
How do you know you're getting old...
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John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Senescence begins
And middle-age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends.
Ogden Nash.
Never going to happen to me, all my "descendants" have been acquired by marriage.
And middle-age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends.
Ogden Nash.
Never going to happen to me, all my "descendants" have been acquired by marriage.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
I went to pick my lad up from after school rugby. he was about eight, so I'd have been fifty six. We had to go into the school as they wouldn't allow the children out after normal school closing time. I walked down the corridor and a lad shouted Matt, your granddad's here. Matt walked around the corner, saw me and said that's not my granddad! Oh, I am sorry, the lad said, your great granddad. (He was the only kid picked up on a 1900cc Yam, though.)
So when does 'old' begin? I'll be 73 soon and sometimes I feel much older and sometimes, in my head, I think I'm 40 again until my body reminds me that I'm not!
G.
G.
My first venture into what could be called personal computers was an Acorn Atom, a precursor to the BBC computer. It came with 2 kb of memory. That's right, two kilobytes.
This was a slight handicap, especially as the machine used most of it for the display and work area. This left half a kilobyte of program space for the user but, if you're canny, you can do a fair bit in 512 bytes.
You could upgrade to a maximum of 12 kb, each kilobyte consisting of a pair of 512 bytes integrated circuit components which would set you back £3 per pair in 1981.
If you think about it, at that price per kilobyte, a 16Gb USB stick would cost you £50,331,648.
This was a slight handicap, especially as the machine used most of it for the display and work area. This left half a kilobyte of program space for the user but, if you're canny, you can do a fair bit in 512 bytes.
You could upgrade to a maximum of 12 kb, each kilobyte consisting of a pair of 512 bytes integrated circuit components which would set you back £3 per pair in 1981.
If you think about it, at that price per kilobyte, a 16Gb USB stick would cost you £50,331,648.
My son's maths master was a bit of a know all - I was always tempted to send the boy to school with my slide rule and five figure log tables and ask to be shown how to use them.
I've covid atm and after having double pneumonia twice in the past my lungs are feeling every day of sixty eight.
I've covid atm and after having double pneumonia twice in the past my lungs are feeling every day of sixty eight.
Henniep
Established Member
Talking to yourself has alway been a sign of getting on. Answering yourself is confirmation of a steep down hill in the mental race .. but when you ask yourself to repeat what you just said ... well!!!
alexalexander
Established Member
The first computers I worked on occupied a large room and we had punch cards to input programs and data. Then we had magnetic tape..... whoopy! It was several years before terminals and keyboards appeared, let alone laptops. Now I am feeling old.......
Best wishes for it to clear quickly and leave no evidence that it was there other than capable antibodies and t cells to ward off the next round.
Best of luck. Stay in bed and sleep through it.
Artie might be in later to tell you you don't have covid.
The first time I had pneumonia I was working part time at the market. I went back to work and a sweet old lady asked if I was feeling better and said you know the best thing about pneumonia? When you get it again you'll know exactly what you've got.
Twelve months later to the week (my daughter's birthday) I got it again. I rang the GP. What can I do for you, Mr. P? I've got pneumonia, doc. What makes you think that? I've had pneumonia before. Come in right away, you've got pneumonia, he said. I told him what the old lady said, and he said unfortunately she was right.
I'm about three days into this, and if this is as bad as it gets I'll be lucky.
Twelve months later to the week (my daughter's birthday) I got it again. I rang the GP. What can I do for you, Mr. P? I've got pneumonia, doc. What makes you think that? I've had pneumonia before. Come in right away, you've got pneumonia, he said. I told him what the old lady said, and he said unfortunately she was right.
I'm about three days into this, and if this is as bad as it gets I'll be lucky.
Someone mentioned breaking wind earlier.
This comment really isn't fit for public, but I think I've learned around 40 that suddenly the idea of covert breaking wind outside (where nobody will notice) suddenly cannot be trusted.
I hear there's a point beyond this where you get old enough not to care that someone will notice. I'm far from there, but a little miffed that at 45, I now must suffer the full cost of manners.
Conversion rate in the old days (not caught, etc) was probably 99%. I think the fraction has flipped to be a photographic negative now.
Like a pitcher who has lost his control.
This comment really isn't fit for public, but I think I've learned around 40 that suddenly the idea of covert breaking wind outside (where nobody will notice) suddenly cannot be trusted.
I hear there's a point beyond this where you get old enough not to care that someone will notice. I'm far from there, but a little miffed that at 45, I now must suffer the full cost of manners.
Conversion rate in the old days (not caught, etc) was probably 99%. I think the fraction has flipped to be a photographic negative now.
Like a pitcher who has lost his control.
pe2dave
Established Member
Marty Feldman (very early member!)
HamsterJam
Let’s take it apart to see what’s inside….
I recall coxing a Burroughs TC500 to life complete with paper tape. Much time spent reeling it back up when it dumped itself in a pile on the floor
It predated me but was donated to our school at the end of its useful life. At that time BBC micros were the new kid on the block. *FX etc etc
sorslibertas
Member
Bought your first house?! What is this sorcery of which you speak?
as I said the original sketch.On the computer side of things, I remember the first Analog one being installed into the offices of Ove Arup's in Fitzroy Street, (1966 or thereabouts) a crane was needed to get it into the building through a full height window opening, I worked in the B.E.D. (Building and Engineering Design department).
Tris
What am I doing here?
Growing up in a time when being on the spectrum meant waiting 15 minutes for a game to load
I only used to eat the rest and play bits as I wasn't bothered about work .
