Old guy driving

[IdaBish]

Heh, 50 here with MY on order. I’ll go grab my juice box

Grab me one too, would ya?!

 

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I am 56, but my dad got his M3 at 87.

get him the Y performance upgrade for this bday !

 

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I’m 69 and way more tech savvy than my kids who are in their 30s. Still come to Dad for tech advice, but they are pretty much up to date. “Dad can we have a ride in your new car” ?

I broke down and let each of my kids drive around the box --- but didn't pair their phones and hid the physical key

 

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I'm 77, had a dozen muscle cars, Vettes, Pantera, etc. This is a game changer. Giggle, new Mustang would not give up, I beat him 3 times. Last time I noticed he dropped off. Next I saw was cop on motorcycle, he pulled along side. Motioned for me to roll window down. He hollowed "slow down". I flashed a V at him and smiled. He drove off. I beat a 488 Ferrari , he finally caught me at 121 mph.
I just watched a video on my car, dang, it does alot I haven't tried. But, never buying gas, etc,, etc, is really cool at 161k miles.
I have a truck on order, when it arrives, I will give S to my grand daughter. That will be a fun day.

I made my youngest order a truck -- to money motivate him.

 

[rxlawdude]

I broke down and let each of my kids drive around the box --- but didn't pair their phones and hid the physical key

I hope it was a big enough box.

 

[Dennisis]

Grab me one too, would ya?!

Hey, you can't say that without offering up your age, whippersnapper!

 

[totoro722]

When I was in medical school we had a Wang 4 function calculator in each lab room. We had to be careful with them because each was $1200. That was high tech!

 

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I hope it was a big enough box.

old guys don't care about typos

 

[same]

When I was in medical school we had a Wang 4 function calculator in each lab room. We had to be careful with them because each was $1200. That was high tech!

we had a PDP-11 for the entire computer class to do our class labs.....which was better than the punch cards.

 

[EVortex]

we had a PDP-11 for the entire computer class to do our class labs.....which was better than the punch cards.

Had a PDP-11/70 at our community college. Learned basic on it - UI was through a teletype console. That was a long time ago.

 

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Had a PDP-11/70 at our community college. Learned basic on it - UI was through a teletype console. That was a long time ago.

likely 1981

 

[EVortex]

likely 1981

Sounds about right.

 

[rxlawdude]

Ah, when user IDs were PPNs: 70365,1327 (Compuserve, circa 1985)

I loved DEC minis, the first computer I used in high school via 110 baud KSR-33 teletype with punch tape. The other one we could access was Xerox Data Systems, but I don't know what system that was running.

 

[same]

Ah, when user IDs were PPNs: 70365,1327 (Compuserve, circa 1985)

I loved DEC minis, the first computer I used in high school via 110 baud KSR-33 teletype with punch tape. The other one we could access was Xerox Data Systems, but I don't know what system that was running.

I used a DEC 20 as my first real college computer. OS was Tops20. Our labs were in Pascal (and then some LISP). I helped my IE wife do her Fortran engineering labs and she still owes me. Today's it is all Python, Go or language du jour.

 

[MY2Ski]

I took the first Digital Data Acquisition class offered at UC Davis on a PDP8 in 1980. This was much better than having to take all of your punch cards to another building to a card reader. The engineering building did not even have direct (card reader) access to "The Computer" (only one computer on campus).

 

[TechnoMage]

We had an on-campus CDC, and teletypes to the state timeshare my first year, and got a PDP with 16 crt terminals my second year. We even got a S100 PC my last year 1979.

 

[Puma2020]

Wow, takes me back... PDP-11, punched cards, ...
I also did paper tape
I wanted a Mini-Vax as my first home computer. Way too expensive.
A few years went by and I finally got my first home computer... An Amiga 2000. Put in 4 MB of RAM (that was expensive), 40 MB hard drive on the SCSI bus. It had MIDI sound, a full multi tasking OS. I stress tested it with 23 graphical programs all running at once. Very slowly but all running.

 

[rxlawdude]

Wow, takes me back... PDP-11, punched cards, ...
I also did paper tape
I wanted a Mini-Vax as my first home computer. Way too expensive.
A few years went by and I finally got my first home computer... An Amiga 2000. Put in 4 MB of RAM (that was expensive), 40 MB hard drive on the SCSI bus. It had MIDI sound, a full multi tasking OS. I stress tested it with 23 graphical programs all running at once. Very slowly but all running.

I had a good friend who went the Amiga route around the time I moved to PC. The Amiga, in retrospect, was way ahead of its time.

 

[LasVegas2019]

agreed I don't use it much (pretty much shelter in place)....and I read you need to be super careful when closing and use two hands on opposite sides of the middle.

I use my frunk at least twice a week. For me it seems to hold groceries much better than the rear where they fly all over the place.

 

[rxlawdude]

I use my frunk at least twice a week. For me it seems to hold groceries much better than the rear where they fly all over the place.

Come Thanksgiving, the frunk is handy for transporting that 30lb cooked turkey.