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If you ... you might be an old geek. (Everyone join in)

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  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2011-04-30 06:25
    localroger wrote: »
    I spent the bit left over on a HP11C. I was quite upset when that calculator finally died after close to 20 years that HP no longer made it or anything remotely similar.

    I too have a still function HP11C. After I read this I did a bit of websurfing. If you are real geek, do NOT go here http://www.hpmuseum.org/ I was lost for hours!

    P.S. I have an HP42S - which now seems to be a hot item...
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2011-04-30 06:28
    OK yall mignt want to take this http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html

    Its Funny

    Whit, I Just looked .... * gets sucked in *
    Peter
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2011-04-30 11:21
    Clusso99:
    When referring to the data storage media Disc is the only it is spelled. Has this changed? no one told me.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2011-04-30 16:42
    oldPGMguy,

    "...all your test equipment have vacuum tubes" ... I still have my VTVM IM-28 if that counts and it still works!

    For all of you youngsters ... VTVM - Vacuum Tube Volt Meter

    If you've ever scanned the "Quick Links - Who's on-line" immediately after you've made a post in the Parallax forum, you just might be a geek! ... but we love you anyway. :-)
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-04-30 18:01
    Beau Schwabe (Parallax) wrote: »
    If you've ever scanned the "Quick Links - Who's on-line" immediately after you've made a post in the Parallax forum, you just might be a geek! ... but we love you anyway. :-)

    LOL I do that sometimes.
    Also, If you have your 26-digit hexadecimal WEP-128 network key memorized and use it for almost all your passwords, you just might be a geek. :-)
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2011-04-30 18:24
    @Microcontrolled: If you have any 26 digit hex number memorized, you are certainly a geek but you most certainly aren't an OLD geek! Trust me on that one.....10 digit phone numbers are a challenge past a certain age!!

    Sincerely,

    An OLD geek!
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2011-04-30 19:19
    Yes most of us due have rather long HEX numbers mesmerized (usually the bootloader WOM code for some computer).
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-04-30 20:42
    Us old timers have found ways to remember those hex keys as well...

    There are a bunch of words (sorta) which can be created with HEX ABCDEF :)

    OBC
  • CannibalRoboticsCannibalRobotics Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-01 19:30
    HollyMinkowski wrote: »
    WoW!
    6502 asm looks like it would be pretty simple to use
    but programming in asm at 11 is really something special!
    You were a geek prodigy :-)

    @Holly & @beau
    Do either of you remember an ASM training program called "The Visible 6502".
  • CannibalRoboticsCannibalRobotics Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-01 19:37
    Whit wrote: »
    I too have a still function HP11C.
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    Mine still works and sits right by the scope - I use it all the time.
  • SeariderSearider Posts: 290
    edited 2011-05-01 20:18
    You were in the Slide rule club in school (even if it was the last year that they had a slide rule club)
    Knew how to get free long distance from a pay phone (Hypothetically speaking)
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2011-05-02 01:01
    I still have my slide rules :) One is a Faber Castelle. Calculators had not been invented then (well the portable ones without vacuum tubes).

    Apple changed the spelling to Disk. I finally got used to it :(
  • AImanAIman Posts: 531
    edited 2011-05-02 14:15
    Ah, yes. The pride of extending memory to 64K. The joy of hooking up an external fan to a computer so it would run longer without crashing...
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2011-05-03 02:40
    Searider wrote: »
    You used Compuserve so much that you still remember your CSID 71170,???? and you had to use one of the applications that would minimize 2 hours of reading and writing post to 120 seconds of connect time because CIS charged $40+ per hour to connect.

    Note: I guess I fail because I can not longer remember the entire CSID :(

    I remember my old CompuServe ID was 74065,1654!!
  • icepuckicepuck Posts: 466
    edited 2011-05-03 07:23
    How 'bout using the blue ice packs to keep a ZX81 running all day long with out it crashing from the heat:) Once the pack warmed up I'd run to the freezer and grab another pack and swap, just so I could keep playing games....
    -dan
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2011-07-11 23:08
    This isn't exactly on the same track as many posts, but sorta makes sense since many geeks faithfully follow the rovers:

    You might be a geek if the farewell letter for the Spirit choked you up. Watching her for years made me feel like I was losing a niece or cousin.........
  • John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
    edited 2011-07-12 04:45
    My first computer is a 486 with a single-speed CD-ROM and a 16-bit soundcard.

    I grew up with cassettes and 5 1/4 floppy disks also.

    Started having an interest in electronics when I was 11, and that time I read the electronic stuff in the Life Sciences textbook.

    And, learned C++ at the age of 14. I know I may be a bit too old for that, many people started learning programming at the age of 10 and below.
  • Mike DenchMike Dench Posts: 13
    edited 2011-07-12 05:10
    I am an old geek - just turned 64 on the 10th - and I'm proud of it!
  • YoshtiYoshti Posts: 108
    edited 2011-07-12 05:22
    Hi all,
    Ho Smile, I'm in the same group...
    Remember my Timex sinclair, bought the 16k pack, SuperCalc unit, and a thermal printer.
    Worked on punch card, with the CP/M. Crash the main frame many times with the RANDOMIZE command.
    Then the big upgrade was a PDP 11/24 and a 11/44.
    Programmed a Helicopter sim on a VIC-20 ...
    Ho my, these were the days...

    OOpsss starting to show my age here! darnnnnnnnn!

    LMAO!
    Cheers
    Yosh
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-07-12 07:34
    WBA Consulting wrote: »
    You might be a geek if the farewell letter for the Spirit choked you up. Watching her for years made me feel like I was losing a niece or cousin.........

    I'm not crying darn it, it's dust in my eye, yeah that's it, dust.

    C.W.
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