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Today they miss out on all the fun things, like:
- A requirement to be proficient in Morse as part of your job application, (I failed that part).
- Being zapped while fixing a faulty drop shutter on a magi board.
- Burning one's fingers swapping out failed valves.
- ASCII images stored as rolls of punch tape. ooh la la
- Submitting your computing assignment in a large box of carefully ordered punch cards, and get it back two months later with a failed mark due to a hanging tag.
- Having to book an international call and use 256baud modem with acoustic coupler to connect to a text only bulletin-board.
- Search using Archie, Jughead or Veronica. Then there was Gopher, which was just the bee's knees.
- The extravagance of buying the memory chips to upgrade your video card from 256Kb to 1Mb, even though you only have a monochrome green screen.
I must admit C# or Python are much more fun than punch cards and the Intel Tiger Lake is a little bit more responsive that the MSC-4.
Not old just experienced 
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I'm amazed at the number of responsible adults I know now, who were born the year I graduated high school.
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Equally I find it shocking the number of 'irresponsible' idots, I went to colledge with who now have responcible jobs & kids.
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I still have a commendation on a course page at my University because I was the only person capable of setting up a DosBox environment for MASM, including editing config.sys and autoexec.bat for the environment set up.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I kind of miss working on the older systems, everything was so much simpler back then. I did really love win2000, it was fairly limited compared to today but it sure did run well on limited machines and had a small footprint.
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I remember sticking it on a set PC104's thinking well that ain't gonna work... but it did! 
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PC104's were so much fun.
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Sometimes, just sometimes, my local supermarket has something really good. This time a bottle cought my eye. It was among countless bottles of wine, but its darker golden color made it stand out. That's not the usual grape juice!
MEAD!
And really good mead, not too sweet. The sort that gives you want to sail to Ireland and do some plundering and maybe burning down a village or two. If that stuff was good enough for the old gods, it sure is good enough for me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I hate to break it to you but.... The old gods don't shop at the supermarket! 
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you got me! 
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No, they didn't. It was a little more complicated.[^] Something about murderous dwarves and giants.
Quote: The dwarves explained to the gods that Kvasir had suffocated in intelligence.
How long has it been since this explanation became unbelievable?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I see you are well informed! 
I guess short of murdering some very hard to find giants, supermarket might do in the meantime....
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They don't even sell that stuff at liquor stores over here.
Need to get mine at specific (fantasy) festivals or order online 
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My wife's a beekeeper and makes the stuff by the gallon; the garage is full. Apparently its pretty good (it's won in competitions) but neither of us are too keen on mead AND neither of us can drink more than a thimbleful of alcohol anyway (doesn't go well with heart medication). Great for Christmas presents though!
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DerekT-P wrote: Great for Christmas presents though!
You'd think, but it's not popular over here!
I've brought a bottle to work a couple of times, so we could have a little Friday afternoon mead tasting (most people here never even tasted mead), but I don't think I've ever heard someone say they liked it.
Maybe because they're expecting wine, which it isn't, maybe because it's sweeter than they think, but no one liked it.
I don't mind, more for me! Cheers!
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Our local grocery only stocks mead during the months when there is a festival in the area. They run a “must go” sale when the festival ends.
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CodeWraith wrote: cought
I see you've already hit the bottle.
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Ewe cot that two? Gud I!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Yes, I sometimes find a bottle of ice wine, hopefully from the Michigan peninsula. Slightly costly, but a fine dessert wine.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Not the same without TOTD
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Not even 48 hours, and already I get complaints? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not even 48 hours, and already I get complaints?
That's the way it works. Do something nice and for free, and now everyone expects it, for free.
I'm always amused when I write a utility, mainly to make my job easier, that I wrote off hours (because I also love programming and learning new things and making my life easier and I don't really care that this wasn't on company time and some pieces have become articles) and now everyone is using these utilities (they're actually web pages that do useful things) and I get these "oh, can you add this feature" requests.
So...is your break from TotD over?
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Yes, but Windows is all yours, have fun ...
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