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She Turned Me Into A Newt · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

I'm 47, going on 12.

On a side note my father was 60 when I was born. My wife had our first kid when I was 32.

My father was 29 years older than my mother.

I am 12 years older than my wife. When I married her she was the teenage girl that lived next door. No lie.

Wink

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Sir Latch · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject:

Well, I am four years older than my wife... she was 15 when we met and 18 when we got married Razz

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KWSN_hgs · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

ah yes, old as dirt remembers the herman hollerith (sp?) 80 column punch card...

Once wrote an assembler on 'em for a class -- 3000 cards to the box, cards weren't numbered. Nightmare scenario was dropping your box on the way to turn them in for batch processing.

did that.

Michelle: "plenty"-nine is the right phrase for you now!
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Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:33 pm Post subject:

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Grizzly · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:25 am Post subject:

She Turned Me Into A Newt · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:54 am Post subject:

Was it the 4001?

Or maybe the GE-115?

Or maybe the Olivetti Programma 101?

(I'm old too)
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Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:13 am Post subject:

Was it the Oliveti BFC Wink

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Sir Furry Mark · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

Are you sure it was an Olivetti?
I do remember seeing a (broken) P101 that matches some of your description, but given the price you quoted I suspect it was more likely to be an OGE Gamma-115 (rebadged GE-115)

Curiously, the first PCs I had for business were Olivetti M24's - faster and cheaper (at around £5000 Shocked

) than the equivalent IBM PCs.
My sister continued using one of my original systems at home until January 1st 2000, when she unexpectedly had to buy a new system... Rolling Eyes

(How many modern PCs will still be going strong 15 years later?)

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Dagger · Prince Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada

My First computer was a Tandy TRS-80. Had a screen and keyboard attached, and to input programs you either played a cassette tape, or programed the thing yourself with basic.
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Sir Latch · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

Sir Furry Mark · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

Actually, the original TRS-80 usually had a 0.89MHz 6803 processor and 4Kbytes of RAM (later models switched to the 8085 and went up to a stunningly fast 3MHz model with an enormous 72Kbytes of RAM)

Personally I shunned it in favour of a Model B BBC Micro with a 1MHz 6502 processor and 32Kbytes of RAM, sound processor and real colour graphics (up to 640 x 256 resolution!). I used this computer for ten years - adding a second processor card with 4MHz Z80+64Kbytes of RAM and a massive (literally) dual floppy disk unit. I passed it on to my son-in-law, who used it until the graphics died in 1997, by which time it was nearly 15 years old!

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Grizzly · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:01 am Post subject: