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2y ago

How old are you?

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This old.
- "Coaxial mouse old" isn't a thing, gramps. I hate to tell you, but the senility's kicking in...
  
  It was to hook up cable TV to a TV that only had UHF/VHF.
- devil horns
- I was just thinking this the other day. I also remember that you had to open the mouse to clean it because the little internal rollers got tangled in grossness.
  
  And the balls in the mice at school would get thrown around the room/lost/stolen until the computer teachers glued them shut so you couldn't clean the rollers and it was almost impossible to use them
- You were doing what with mouse balls?! Why would you even have those near your computer? even older dust
I feel attacked
- Apparently some of us are older than even the corpse....no mouse gang here.
I'm no-keyboard-and-mouse-connector-at-all-because-keyboard-is-built-into-the-computer-and-mice-aren't-a-thing old.
8088 represent. 640kb should be enough for everyone.
- DND was the best 8088 game. Fucking Telengard was my jam. I miss u kaypro 👁️💧
- 640kb, what are you a millionaire?
- Motorola gang
“Press play on tape”
DIN-5 was a dope connector. No bent pins, stuck in there sturdy, you could rotate it until you got it with no guessing, no wimpy cable breaking off.
- Still is! I rock many DIN-5 cables in my home studio for MIDI. You’re not joking when you say “you could rotate it until you got it with no guessing”, I have to do that every damn time.
Bottom picture isn't even that old
- RS-422 is from 1975
  
  RS-232 was what PCs used and its from 1960.
  
  ... :(
I had to put my HDD in park position manually.
This meme is already outdated, we have USB c now.
I don’t think I’m on the chart. First computer was a RadioShack TRS-80. 4 kb of RAM, but I upgraded to a blazing 8 kb. Yee-haw! No floppy discs: my programs were saved on cassette tape using a cassette recorder connected to the computer. Those were the days.
- You had a TRASH-80?!? Amazing. I only got to play star trek on one at school.
- Yah, and we had to wipe out the ram to load the program back in from the tape. And sometimes the volume wasn't set perfectly in the cassette player, so you lost all your work.
  Good times?
Rude
- I feel attacked
... Parallel port ...
My age exceeds that of the universe!
- So am I. Remember this?
  
  https://i.imgur.com/mp396Joh.jpg
  
  Interlnk was free. Lost a chapter of my wife's book somewhere along the hallway when trusting it over a long serial cable.
ZX81 owner checking in. No mouse and Bearley a keyboard. What did I win
- Social Security
  
  Awsome. Never had that before
- A tape CRC error :'(
My first system was an Altair 8800.
For input it used physical switches on the front panel.
And until I got expansions for it, it didn't even have any ports on the back.
Trust me people who use multiple monitors LOVE the VGA cable because it's +1 monitor on what usually would be only 1 HDMI slot, maybe 2 if you were lucky.
- That’s serial not VGA right?
  
  Correct.
Let's be real, usb-a is ancient now.
Kids these days... 🙄
- "Your computer came with a detachable keyboard?"
  
  I love my C128D!
this meme and the fashion world at large agree that I am a decrepit hag at 30 years old
Vic20 - C64 - Atari 2600 - Amiga 500 - 286 ... I actually don't even remember but it has a shitton of cores.
- I just printed off this year's greeting cards via printshop via c64 emulator VICE.
  Go me.
  
  Hah, that brings back memories.
- 52 here. Same?
  
  If you mean age, I'm in my 40s,.
  
  That's a lot of cores.
Older. The C64 was my second computer. Or the third, if I count in the one I built myself, too.
- That 1351 mouse could be adapted to run either serial or ps2. Which diapers do you prefer nowadays?
Din & DE9 gang represent
- Than you for actually calling it DE9!
  A DB9 would have been 9 pins in a shell the size of a DB25 port!
  
  Plus, DB9 is a car.
I’m 8-track tape in my first car old.
Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 here.
- That bottom one is the C64 joystick port...
  
  That's a serial port, son.
Radio Shack TRS 80 was my OG.
- Ha my days spent retyping hundreds of lines of code from a brick of a book that came with it to end up spitting out errors!
  Those damn , and . Got confused a lot.
  I had no tape backup or floppy drive so lost everything at power down.
  Loads of fun tho !
what if we go back to a time before there were ports for keyboards. a la atari 800
- We're highlanders, apparently. I guess we make the zombies look young.
- Membrane keyboards were the devil's invention.
glances at MX518 on Max Payne mousepad
Fuck.
Damn you kids and your newfangled RS232 connectors.
I am 50 (going on 29) and remember connections other than these in devices like the Commodore 64.
- That 5 pin DIN was on the older C64s for the AV port. I had a newer one as well and they switched to an 8 pin variant. C64s also used similar DIN connectors for the power supply and disk drive.
Um Young kid is actually USB-C now and it's a mobile device 😆
Our family's first computer was an Acer Anyware, 386 with a greyscale display. We had a serial trackball for it.
I'm off the bottom of the chart.
Member when you edited your himem.sys and autoexec.bat to play your game?
Ahhh, the good ol' days playing Wumpus - "I smell a Wumpus!" - or "Adventure" - "It is dark. You may be eaten by a grue." Went through rolls of paper in the old teletype.
I remember my school getting our first PCs in the library around the time the Columbia went up the first time. We thought the future was then. Little did we know...

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