You know you're old-school when, for example, ...

[UglyCasanova]

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[bbhaag]

You have fond memories of messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat

I remember messing around in the config.sys one night to try and get Wing Commander II to load into himem so I could play it on my 386SX. I failed and needless to say I spent many nights after that poring through a Norton book called DOS 5.0 or something similar.
good times....good times :thumbsup:

 

[Gillbot]

When you stayed up so late this came on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=205GjxSNwds

I was thinking more along the lines of the Benny Hill Show.

 

[KillerBee]

You could tune up your car by changing points and condenser

 

[Exterous]

That's what the kids were for.....making them get up and change the channel.

Well, considering I was the kid you win this round old man

 

[SithSolo1]

We should switch to rotary dial cell phones, nip that texting while driving in the bud lickety-split.

 

[IronWing]

I still have one of these. I don't know why but I do.

 

[KlokWyze]

Waiting for the next Duke Nukem to come out.

 

[IronWing]

Waiting for the next Duke Nukem to come out.

That seems like a half life ago.

 

[El Guaraguao]

calling 411 from a payphone (back when it cost a quarter to make a call) to ask what time it was.

 

[Drako]

It seems like only yesterday when I stepped into the local telegraph station. :\

 

[thebestMAX]

You remember when vibrators were used in car AM radios instead of the bedroom.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Manually tuning in channels on the VCR so I could record something.

 

[Mixolydian]

When printers were extremely slow.

When you could never spend more than 20 minutes on the internet or download files because someone in the house had to use the phone.