Vintage? Does that mean I am vintage??
11-24-21, 07:27 PM
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If you don't think you're old, watch Disney+ this weekend. They're doing that three part documentary on the Beatles "Let It Be". Everything happening there was 52 years ago.
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11-24-21, 09:24 PM
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If ya still have a slide rule in your top drawer and remember how to use it...
You Are Vintage...
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11-25-21, 01:19 AM
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11-25-21, 04:55 AM
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"That's my two cents worth and since two cents is now rounded down to zero cents I can only say that my opinion makes no sense."
Got a good chuckle out of that statement. Consensus is......I am old, not vintage. That is reassuring as I never want to be vintage because as it was said, "Vintage is way better then decrepit, the next phase", and I never ever want to be decrepit, therefore if I am never vintage, I will never be decrepit!
Got a good chuckle out of that statement. Consensus is......I am old, not vintage. That is reassuring as I never want to be vintage because as it was said, "Vintage is way better then decrepit, the next phase", and I never ever want to be decrepit, therefore if I am never vintage, I will never be decrepit!
11-25-21, 05:16 AM
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I looked at my C&V K&E slide rule last summer. Could only remember multiplication and division, the basic log stuff, but the K&E survived longer than the half dozen calculators that followed.
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11-25-21, 10:29 AM
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When your only bike with indexed shifting is a Sturmey-Archer 3-speed.
11-25-21, 10:42 AM
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I actually still have and use my first calculator, purchased around 1972. It doesn’t seem to have forgotten to do basic math.
11-25-21, 11:31 AM
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11-25-21, 01:15 PM
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Anybody remember the original first-person shooter video games that came out years before the 286? Back in 1981, we had a PC without a hard drive and had this game on 5 1/4" floppy. (Play it free below.) It was a huge time suck, but so much fun.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ca...lfenstein_1984
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ca...lfenstein_1984
11-25-21, 01:26 PM
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