[MassWholeBimmer]

When...... The song "Let's get drunk and screw" has more meaning as "Let's get drunk and fall asleep"

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by Esteban

... PS - but I do remember the movie “Fun with Dick and Jane,” though.

Which version G, R or XXX?

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

Which version G, R or XXX?

I remember two, one with Jane Fonda and one with Jim Carrey. There’s a third?

That must be the XXX.

[Esteban]

^ Looks like I missed out on possibly the most entertaining one.

[TTV8M]

Originally Posted by NealfromNZ

Was just having a tech discussion at work. Teaching some old concepts to some younger infotech network engineers.

Was taking about implementing something called “Internet Protocol version 4” in the late 80s. ….. around that time some people were saying it would never take of.

Funny thing the internet has become 😀

I still have a machine that has a program that only communicates via IPX/SPX and Novell netware client. History, but what for.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I don’t remember the Dick and Jane books either. And I’m about 10 years older than you, I think.

PS - but I do remember the movie “Fun with Dick and Jane,” though.

I think Dick and Jane was a few years before you time, young man.

[NealfromNZ]

Originally Posted by TTV8M

I still have a machine that has a program that only communicates via IPX/SPX and Novell netware client. History, but what for.

Best of the 80s 😀.

Was reading a Doc on the Most bus as used pre 2003 -2018 on many BMWs I think you’d appreciate the networking on that, kinda Token ring mixed with a bit of Ethernet and small MTUs .Some ISO as well over late 90s fibre transport ( 25 Mbps rather than 34 Mbps though )

These days building networks with multiple 100 Gbit wavelengths over Dense fibre. Yet remember telephone acoustic couplers ( 120 baud )

Feeling old… time for a cuppa and a nap.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by NealfromNZ

Best of the 80s 😀.

Was reading a Doc on the Most bus as used pre 2003 -2018 on many BMWs I think you’d appreciate the networking on that, kinda Token ring mixed with a bit of Ethernet and small MTUs .Some ISO as well over late 90s fibre transport ( 25 Mbps rather than 34 Mbps though )

These days building networks with multiple 100 Gbit wavelengths over Dense fibre. Yet remember telephone acoustic couplers ( 120 baud )

Feeling old… time for a cuppa and a nap.

I'm so old that I have no f....n idea of what you just said. I did understand the nap bit though, and now I need one.

[3798j]

you might be old if you can recall nuclear attack concerns and the recommended actions...

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I think Dick and Jane was a few years before you time, young man.

No, I was going to school when they were being used. Either my school didn't use them or I just don't remember them.

I'm thinking the latter

For nearly 40 years, from 1930 through about 1970, more than 85 million American schoolchildren learned to read using the Dick and Jane readers that were part of a series published by the Scott Foresman Company.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/e...sman%20Company.

[3798j]

It's Star Trek Day...the first broadcast episode "The Man Trap" aired 57 years ago today...(September 8, 1966).

[Boomer 2019]

The date on the IBM letter 10/24/1962 shows that it was written right smack in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis 10/16 - 10/28 1962. With the possible exception of today, the craziest and scariest time in this country. Nikita, Fidel and JFK were engaged in a game of Quien es Mas Macho with the whole damn country in a near panic thinking that the missile's were going to fly at any moment. Bomb shelters were going in everywhere. Thank God we never needed them. Actually they were pointless anyway in a large metropolitan area as the only logical action would have been to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Ruskie nukes in those days were crazy powerful.

I live in Miami and all of a sudden there was so much Army rolling into the area that it looked like a second D Day minus the ships. The rural area south of us all the way down into the Keys was turned into dozens of Nike missile bases all pointed south at Cuba. If you even drove down into the area you were descended upon by very surly soldiers with no sense of humor. A couple of friends and I were once held in detention and threatened for a couple of hours before they turned us over to the local LEO's. They turned us loose and told us to stay on the main roads, and away from the bases, or the next time they would let the Army keep us.

Crazy days.

[M_Six]

Finished up my OSUT (One Station Unit Training) at Ft. Knox 46 years ago today. I was never again in such good physical condition. That was one hell of a summer. While the rest of my high school class was enjoying their "senior summer," I was crawling around in the red mud of Ft. Knox. Seems like a century ago.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Finished up my OSUT (One Station Unit Training) at Ft. Knox 46 years ago today. I was never again in such good physical condition...

When I joined the Navy 48 years, I was 5'7" - 135lb wet. 11 weeks and 5,000+ push-ups later (just could not keep my mouth shut...) I was 145lb.

24 years later when I retired (1999), I was 155lb but by 2021 I had ballooned to 175lb and that was the trigger.

Started snowshoeing for an hour every day in the Winter and biked for an hour 6 days a week during the Summer and it took me back to 155 but according to my last medical I'm down to 5"6"...

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by 3798j

you might be old if you can recall nuclear attack concerns and the recommended actions...

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

The date on the IBM letter 10/24/1962 shows that it was written right smack in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis 10/16 - 10/28 1962. With the possible exception of today, the craziest and scariest time in this country. Nikita, Fidel and JFK were engaged in a game of Quien es Mas Macho with the whole damn country in a near panic thinking that the missile's were going to fly at any moment. Bomb shelters were going in everywhere. Thank God we never needed them. Actually they were pointless anyway in a large metropolitan area as the only logical action would have been to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Ruskie nukes in those days were crazy powerful.

I live in Miami and all of a sudden there was so much Army rolling into the area that it looked like a second D Day minus the ships. The rural area south of us all the way down into the Keys was turned into dozens of Nike missile bases all pointed south at Cuba. If you even drove down into the area you were descended upon by very surly soldiers with no sense of humor. A couple of friends and I were once held in detention and threatened for a couple of hours before they turned us over to the local LEO's. They turned us loose and told us to stay on the main roads, and away from the bases, or the next time they would let the Army keep us.

Crazy days.

Donald Fagen - "New Frontier" (1982):

Yes we're gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
It's just a dugout that my dad built
In case the reds decide to push the button down
We've got provisions and lots of beer
The key word is survival on the new frontier
Introduce me to that big blonde
She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
She's got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo, that much is clear
She's got the right dynamic for the new frontier
Well I can't wait till I move to the city
Till I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
Do you have a steady boyfriend
Cause honey I've been watching you
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier
Well I can't wait till I move to the city
Till I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
Let's pretend that it's the real thing
And stay together all night long
And when I really get to know you
We'll open up the doors and climb into the dawn
Confess your passion, your secret fear
Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier

[Boomer 2019]

An excellent choice of music for the new frontier. People would be shocked to know just how many times we came within minutes of "The Big One" over the years of the Cold War. I myself was personally involved in one incident in April of 1969 that literally came within minutes of execution by the U.S., and was called off only by a phone call by President Nixon. Weapons were loaded; targets were assigned; aircraft were turned up and ready for launch. USS Enterprise CVAN 65 (she will always be my boat, may she rest in peace). The point is that it has been blind luck over the years that has kept any one of dozens or possibly hundreds of such "incidents" from escalating, and launching all of us into the New Frontier.

As for the "Dan". They have always been one of my top favorite groups over the years. Incredible innovation in the blending of Rock; Pop and Jazz, and the lyrics.. amazing. Mostly written by Donald Fagen, but he and Walter Becker (RIP) had a special skill in finding just the right sidemen, and using them in just the right places to create musical masterpieces. I have every one of their albums, both as Steely Dan, and later as Fagen solos, and listen to them frequently. In fact only last night I was re watching their live concert in NYC recorded in 2000 for probably the fiftieth time. Their music always picks me up when I reach the ragged edge.

[vreihen16]

...when you automatically assume that when working with 12V DC wiring, it is a given that the red wire is always positive and the black wire is always negative.

Every 12V DC automotive accessory that I've handled recently has a black wire as positive, and a white wire as negative. What the frack!?!?!?

[MassWholeBimmer]

...when using a magnifying glass and a head lamp and you still can't thread the needle. (Just happened... needed to sew on a missing button).

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by MassWholeBimmer

...when using a magnifying glass and a head lamp and you still can't thread the needle. (Just happened... needed to sew on a missing button).

Seeing the eye of the needle is one thing. Holding your hand still enough to thread it is another.

[dscabra]

You know you're old when you think you're still 40; then your wife takes a picture of some 58-year-old fart resting instead of paddling the kayak.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by MassWholeBimmer

...when using a magnifying glass and a head lamp and you still can't thread the needle. (Just happened... needed to sew on a missing button).

First position your phone in a steady hands-free position and subsequently use the zoom function or even 'magnifier'. Maybe that helps.

For some quick basic magnifying stuff: apart from the regular zoom function, most mobile phones feature a pre-installed app called "Magnifier". Strong zoom in + features a torch/flashlight and the possibility to photograph.

Plenty of magnifier apps for all phones exist.

Helps to show a closer look, also if eyesight ain't good. But, true, still requires a bit of a steady hand and patience to thread the needle.

Trivia. A friend of mine was on holiday in Brazil. On a Sunday late afternoon he had his return flight to Europe. So he went for a final morning swim in the ocean ...but lost his glasses in the sea. Search to no avail. Given his very bad eyesight that was kind of a problem as he had not brought spare glasses and doesn't wear lenses. And optician shops were apparently closed that Sunday. So he used the camera of his mobile phone as a substitute for his lost glasses for the journey back to Europe and bought a power bank at the airport to ensure not running out of phone battery. All went fine.

[Boomer 2019]

Phones with lights, zoom, and magnifiers? What are these things of which you speak? Mine makes and receives phone calls and texts. Then I fold it up and put it in my pocket. Have I been missing something?