Today, I am celebrating my birthday and yes I am getting old, old.. I plan go out and drink and enjoy with my friends

Have a good one! :D

and what do you consider old?;)

From his profile: October 19th, 1977

Man, I wish I were this old ;)

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/me thawks cperciva upside the head for pointing out that I've made a fool of myself...

Then wishes JosephP a VERY HAPPY NIGHT OUT!!!

:blush:

Originally posted by Deb
/me thawks cperciva upside the head for pointing out that I've made a fool of myself...


Gee, some people are being needlessly violent today. Feeling a little old perhaps? ;)

:spiny: I'll now go back to my hole :stickout

Originally posted by Walter
From his profile: October 19th, 1977

Heck! He's younger than my husband is.... lol by 2 years... :)

He's not even a year older than my brother.

But, Happy B-day anyway!

Sheesh, in 1977 I was doing. . . I was like. . . I was. . . hmm, can't seem to remember.

What was the question?

Originally posted by alchiba
Sheesh, in 1977 I was doing. . . I was like. . . I was. . . hmm, can't seem to remember.


:D

I wasn't even born yet.... LOL

But I feel much older than my age (a toddler will do that to you... especially when you spend 24/7 with him... with no breaks...

Originally posted by rockergrrl

I wasn't even born yet.... LOL


If you can't remember it, does it mean you haven't lived it? In that case I'm 10.

well in '77 I was a three year old. Dont' remember it much but, hey, I was three - it must have been fun :)

Happy Birthday old man!

Greg Moore

Originally posted by akashik
well in '77 I was a three year old. Dont' remember it much but, hey, I was three - it must have been fun :)I feel sorry for you guys who will never be able to appreciate how truly great the original Star Wars was when it first came out.

And I feel sorry for you guys who will never be able to appreciate how truly great the original Zelda and Frogger games were.

You're getting old?

Once I met a guy who was getting younger all the time... :)

You guys really have a way of making me feel ancient.
in 1977 I was graduating high school and had never heard of a PC

hmmmm... Jaws, Star wars........ You're all Puppies ( with the exception of Deb) :D

Zelda and Frogger how about how incredible Asteroids was over Space Invaders and then how Pac-Man blew them away. How about only having to pay a quarter (US) to play these games.

For those of you in the US, being able to remember the bi-cenenial(76). Geez, I have a set of commemorative drinking glasses that I bought that year that are older than most of you.

Yes, I was 13 in '77. All I can remember is being in puberty and how awful it was. By the way, I am not old, I just hurt alot more than I used.

Happy B'Day josephp.

Space Invaders ruled the world. I will never forget the electroshocks it gave me on the beach when I inserted a coin ;-)

Oh well...

Originally posted by eclipsewebs
Zelda and Frogger how about how incredible Asteroids was over Space Invaders and then how Pac-Man blew them away. How about only having to pay a quarter (US) to play these games.

HA! I remember only having to pay a *Canadian* quarter to play those games. Which is now somewhere around 15 cents US I think.

Missed all them by a few short years. To put me in perspective, I remember seeing Return of The Jedi and ET at the cinema, and my favorite video games were Galaga and Zaxxon on those old 'table top' cabinets. There were a few Space Invader machines still around (remember the black and white screen ones with the colored plastic over it to give that color look?)

Were we just young, or was life a litle simpler back then? :)

Greg Moore

Aloha
ahhh so true I remember the lines going way around the old theater ;)

man then you to can relate to the 70's Show
I love that show I laugh as I had soem of thsoe shirts adn stuff the old stripped pants
hehehhehee

how scary ;)


Originally posted by Intelligent Hosting
I feel sorry for you guys who will never be able to appreciate how truly great the original Star Wars was when it first came out.

Aloha
I was class of 81 my junior year I got the bright idea to get a few video games and by my senior year in HS I was quite a happy camper
quarters can ad up very fast
(I did have a run in with the MOB though and had to move some of my games)
but man was fun I had them for like 10 years video arcades ;)
I wish I kept my first game I bought and still a great game
DEFENDER ;)


Originally posted by eclipsewebs
Zelda and Frogger how about how incredible Asteroids was over Space Invaders and then how Pac-Man blew them away. How about only having to pay a quarter (US) to play these games.

For those of you in the US, being able to remember the bi-cenenial(76). Geez, I have a set of commemorative drinking glasses that I bought that year that are older than most of you.

Yes, I was 13 in '77. All I can remember is being in puberty and how awful it was. By the way, I am not old, I just hurt alot more than I used.

Happy B'Day josephp.

Reminiscing is cool. :D ET was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I think it means Drew Barrymore is my soulmate. Anyway one day we got a Tandy 1000 (or the IBM "PC" I don't remember which we got first) and soon I had the "IBM BASIC Command Reference" memorized. I'm almost postive it was Version 1.0. You know, the brownish tan cloth binder and case set? "This page left intentionally blank." :eek: I ought to bring that to my office and put it back on the shelf...

What's this thead about anyway? Oh well. Happy Birthday!

Aloha
so who rememembers taking there 5.25 floppies and a hole punch so you could use the other side of them ???

or recording music on your cassete over som of your computer stuff
hehehehhehee

Originally posted by Honu
5.25 floppies

Hehe, but you are really old if you know 8" floppies!

I remember groups like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Budgie, Santana, Free, Ten Years After, Thin Lizzy....Oh man I'm ancient, better just crawl back to my tomb :)

Nordic

Aloha
sorry I came in at the 5.25 gen floppies ;)

I was so excited when I finally got a IIe the new hot machine ;)

wish I kept my old puters now to have fun with ;(


Originally posted by Walter


Hehe, but you are really old if you know 8" floppies!

Originally posted by Nordic
I remember groups like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Budgie, Santana, Free, Ten Years After, Thin Lizzy....Oh man I'm ancient, better just crawl back to my tomb :)

Nordic

....Uriah Heep, Humble Pie, Mountain, Curved Air (aaah, Sonja Kristina!) ...

If you want a walking stick, I've got a spare!

Originally posted by Honu
Aloha
so who rememembers taking there 5.25 floppies and a hole punch so you could use the other side of them ???

or recording music on your cassete over som of your computer stuff
hehehehhehee

Oh hell yes!
I used them with my c64 disk drive (you could toast bread with it also) wich I upgraded with SPEEDDOS. hehehe, those games loaded fast with the drive in OVERdrive. tick tick tick was the sound it made reading the tracks.

Tape drives you say? Before there was something like "turboload" we (couple of guys, summergames, decathlon, one joystick a day) were waiting 45 minutes just to see a LOAD ERROR in the end :-(

I still have my old computers starting from the Commodore PET and Texas Instruments 99/4A and Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 (my first portable and so ahead in it's time) on too the Sinclair ZX80, ZX Spectrum, Commodore vic 20 and c64. Then There was the revolutionary Amiga 1000 wich really kicked ass at the time. Programs like soundtracker were you could sequence your own samples to make a song with it, well NOISE if you like wich we put on the radio when we were drunk (we had our own radio station). I followed Amiga with the 500, 2000 and 3000 and after that I helped myself (ugradimng every half year or so) with all the NAMELES and CHARACTERLESS pc's till now which nobody will remember and talk about. I will never forget these days wich include hacking the damn thing through the night and going online with my first 1200 baud modem. Thank god USRobotics were ahead with it's 14k4 HST protocol years later when I started my own BBS. The days me and my friend were behind the screen playing all those games till the code was worn out and couldn't afford more new joysticks that month. We preferred the ones with the two red buttons! The rest were just crap. This was all till we discovered the nightlife wich cut back my overall computer time but it was and is allways a big thing in my life.

Looking at the above you can see I was a pretty spoiled kid at the time and I'm not ashamed to tell you that I still am one ;-)

Yes, I dare to say it. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! hehehehe, how corny but I'm sure many here understand what I try to say here.

It's like an episode of Seinfeld I guess...
Oh, you remember the episode with the FROGGER machine?

btw. sorry for all this personal crap.

Oh yeah? Well I remember the French Revolution!

Aloha
OH YEAH well I remember that to but I was to old to be in it !!!!
hehehehehee

Originally posted by Skeptical
Oh yeah? Well I remember the French Revolution!