[Official] I'm Old thread, and a thank you

[Captante]

All kidding aside my mom (RIP) actually worked for several years inserting and removing computer "punch-cards".

 

[Charmonium]

A little later but an all time fave



I think they maxed out at 300 baud

 

[Charmonium]

I have a few of those I could put on fleabay but I don't think they accept listing with a negative monetary value.

 

[Captante]

A little later but an all time fave

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I think they maxed out at 300 baud

EXACT unit we had in my Jr High School computer club!

(Greenwich HS had its own IBM mainframe)

 

[Captante]

I have a few of those I could put on fleabay but I don't think they accept listing with a negative monetary value.

Hang onto them .... at some point they WILL increase in value. (especially if they work!)

 

[highland145]

I’ll see you

And raise you

Oh, yeah, got this sweet deal at Boomer's yard sale.

 

[Greenman]

Schneidy, I don't remember...(and my dossiers got degraded in a computer rebuild) didn't you live in Pleasanton/Dublin/San Ramon...then go to college in San Jose?

Interesting coincidence. Pleasanton/Dublin/San Ramon were my old stomping ground, and I ran construction at SJU for a year. I even managed to get thrown off campus and bared from ever returning. Fun times.

 

[BoomerD]

Oh, yeah, got this sweet deal at Boomer's yard sale.

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Now I know who stole my mom's marker.

 

[IronWing]

Now I know who stole my mom's marker.

I didn't know Rosetta was your mom. Wasn't much to look at, but oh, that tongue.

 

[highland145]

Now I know who stole my mom's marker.

Your wife...marked it down to a buck fiddy.

 

[Paratus]

A little later but an all time fave

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I think they maxed out at 300 baud

We had one of those. My mom would dial into Carnegie Mellon to work on her CS degree. Occasionally she’d let me play Colossal Cave or Rogue on the mainframe.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Holy shit, 18 years today for me.