How many obsolete skills do you know?

[rudder]

Obsolete skills

I still boot with a floppy occassionally, but its been at least 9 years since I messed with rabbit ears on a TV.

 

[Ns1]

-changing the ribbon a typewrite

we actually have 2 of these at the office, used regularly

-credit card imprinter

the gold's gym by work uses this

 

[overst33r]

discipline children

 

[outofloop]

Programming in Logo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...rogramming_language%29

 

[lozina]

Calculating THAC0

I need to do this at my job to determine if I hit my boss who is wearing full plate mail armor with my vorpal sword +10

 

[Capt Caveman]

I used to be awesome with Lotus 1-2-3.

 

[funkymatt]

we were booting from floppies here to do testing. I implemented PXE booting and cut boot time 2/3

 

[StageLeft]

I've not floppy booted in probably 3-5 years now, thank God. I used to hate it.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

booting with floppies? Do you still pump your foot when operating your cotton gin?

 

[mundane]

Tweaking the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to squeeze out the couple of extra kb base memory for games

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: mundane
Tweaking the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to squeeze out the couple of extra kb base memory for games

what games do you still play that you need to do that ??

 

[MiniDoom]

bicsi certified cat 3 cable installer.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
booting with floppies? Do you still pump your foot when operating your cotton gin?

i lol'ed

 

[Fritzo]

OMG- I can do 3/4 of the stuff on that list, and I'm not that old!

 

[EGGO]

Abacus

 

[ryan256]

Programming in FORTRAN

 

[legoman666]

apparently knowing the definition of obsolete is obsolete also.

 

[CPA]

ahahaha, we still use AS400 here at my company. In fact, we are scrapping SAP implementation and will "enhance" our AS400 system.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: lozina
Calculating THAC0

I need to do this at my job to determine if I hit my boss who is wearing full plate mail armor with my vorpal sword +10

I hope like hell I'm not the only other person in this thread that knows how to do that.

 

[jandrews]

they say as400 is obselete but it is far from it, there is big bucks in as400 especially knowing how to code and/or the ability to convert data from as400 systems.

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: mundane
Tweaking the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to squeeze out the couple of extra kb base memory for games

what games do you still play that you need to do that ??

I was following the thread topic "How many obsolete skills do you know?", not quite with the spirit of "Which skills you currently use are considered obsolete?".

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: CPA
ahahaha, we still use AS400 here at my company. In fact, we are scrapping SAP implementation and will "enhance" our AS400 system.

Holy shit are you kidding me? One of our biggest clients uses that program!

Wait, you're not our biggest client are you? FFS, I always wondered why it took you so long to get documents to us, it's because you're neffing at work!


n/m, you're in texas.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
booting with floppies? Do you still pump your foot when operating your cotton gin?

i built a comp 2 weeks ago C2D 8400 8800GT.... and it has a floppy drive in it

 

[Electric Amish]

I can do many, many things on that list.

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: mundane

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: mundane
Tweaking the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to squeeze out the couple of extra kb base memory for games

what games do you still play that you need to do that ??

I was following the thread topic "How many obsolete skills do you know?", not quite with the spirit of "Which skills you currently use are considered obsolete?".

yeah but, you still remember how to do that? I mean I had to do that alot playing games like Master of Magic and Master of Orion but if I had to do it again right now I'd be totally lost. If you still remember how to do that then you got some damn good RAM in your head.