48 and feeling great

Petrolhead · 27-04-2013, 08:38 AM

Whoooo.... Hoooo.... I survived another one

AU1XLS · 27-04-2013, 08:46 AM

I take you mean birthday ? Happy birthday if so

GMACK24 · 27-04-2013, 09:16 AM

Happy Birthday 10 years behind ya Mate
Celebrated my 38 this year.

Happy B Day again !

Cheers !!!!!

mik · 27-04-2013, 10:04 AM

Happy birthday bloke, now a good time to peruse the paper for death notices for any one you knew..................... haha , I out lived that bugger!!!
Have a good day.

NickyN · 27-04-2013, 01:59 PM

Have a happy and safe one!

LG17 · 27-04-2013, 02:03 PM

Bloody kids!

Have a great day!

XBROO · 27-04-2013, 02:07 PM

Yeah mate have a good one, I turned 40 a few months back, so I'm a few moons behind you.

**hawkgirl** · 27-04-2013, 02:58 PM

happy birthday, I turned 44 on Thursday! getting older is crap though..

Moby Vic · 27-04-2013, 03:03 PM

Older and wiser. I'll hit 48 in September.

**GasoLane** · 27-04-2013, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by LG17

Bloody kids!

Have a great day!

I'll second that !

**Papa Smurf** · 27-04-2013, 08:01 PM

Yes, what a hide being ONLY 48. I remember that age about 12 years ago.

Happy Birthday though.

superyob · 27-04-2013, 08:01 PM

49 and still refuse to believe that the 70s have finished... there are scary things waiting in the 80s...

XBROO · 27-04-2013, 09:37 PM

We aren't kids, you all are just old and shouldn't even know how to use a computer.

Madaya · 27-04-2013, 11:02 PM

Happy Birthday mate

Yeah, I remember 48, it was a good year. 49 was when I got my first pair of reading glasses. Just hit the big Five O, still enjoying it.
I sure that I'm only half way, there is so much I still want to do down here.
Many, many more for you all.

LG17 · 27-04-2013, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by XBROO

We aren't kids, you all are just old and shouldn't even know how to use a computer.

Our kids taught us so we wouldn't feel isolated and lonely in our old age.

...and also so they wouldn't have to visit as much!

Madaya · 27-04-2013, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by XBROO

We aren't kids, you all are just old and shouldn't even know how to use a computer.

Err, I think it was my generation and older that invented the PC, mobile, wireless, TV, satellites (and atom bombs), so watch ya manners young'un

XBROO · 28-04-2013, 08:31 AM

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Err, I think it was my generation and older that invented the PC, mobile, wireless, TV, satellites (and atom bombs), so watch ya manners young'un

I like the atom bomb thrown in there, but when you were grown up the closest you came to a PC at school, was a typewriter with painted keys.

Iggypoppin' · 29-04-2013, 05:31 AM

I feel old at exactly half your age OP!

**Papa Smurf** · 29-04-2013, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by XBROO

I like the atom bomb thrown in there, but when you were grown up the closest you came to a PC at school, was a typewriter with painted keys.

Never had such a thing when I was at school, PC's were at least 20 years away. We only had Pin Ball machines.

XBROO · 29-04-2013, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Papa Smurf

Never had such a thing when I was at school, PC's were at least 20 years away. We only had Pin Ball machines.

Used to love it when my older brothers used to take me to the corner shop, for some hot chips with tommy sauce and a game of pinnies. And share a 1 litre coke from a glass bottle, only to cash it in again when empty for another game of pinnies.

Madaya · 29-04-2013, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by XBROO

I like the atom bomb thrown in there, but when you were grown up the closest you came to a PC at school, was a typewriter with painted keys.

Close, but not quite. Maybe it was my Dad's mob that invented the A Bomb, I'm not that old, but my high school was amongst the first in WA to get hold of a second hand, Digital (DEC) PDP 11 computer, sometime around 1977. It supported several terminals. Was running twin hard drives, one which carried the guts of machine code (DB0 if I remember) and DB1 general duties.

This beast, as big as a wardrobe, sat in its own air conditioned room. It supported 'Basic Programming Language'. Students had their own personal login (hmm, trying to remember mine

). Even back then, raw as we were, there where attempts at hacking, trying to break into fellow students accounts by guess or by trick, even attempts to break into the account of the teacher who ran the show.

I programmed a few games that where popular with fellow nerds, hell, though I'm pretty lame these days, I guess I was amongst the first of the nerds. All black and white on the terminal, but interactive stuff.

Now, all I do is sit in front of my lap top, look, type and respond, not really understanding the I/O of what's happening.

Things were different, way back then.