Old Enough To Remember?

[ST1100Y]

... the prequel to Breaking Bad...

 

[ST1100Y]

A gen-Z spotting my email address...

"WOW! How did you manage to get your full name into that?!"

Well, when email was invented, I was there...

 

[ST1100Y]

... indeed... and kept through work-life till present day...
(while gen-Z and later maintain a +60% absenteeism from work rate...)

 

[Firstpeke]

Back in the mid 90's (that's 1990's...) I worked for a small IT company as a technical sales guy....

We invited a company called Pipex to come and tell us about this new "internet" technology..... we then set about selling dial up packages to clients and negotiating with some companies for WAN setups over ISDN leased lines at what now are pedestrian data speeds.... (128Kbps)

A years dial up was £210 (not $) and that was at dial up speeds which we would now laugh at!

I remember getting my first personal broadband connection for my new business in 2004 or 2005 and it was at 1Mbps... which was quite frankly astonishing compared to my previous thirty something Kbps dial up.... still over copper though.....

How did I ever work in the late 90's for a USA based parent company head office dialling up Winchester, Virginia from Cheshire in the UK on a 28,800bps dial up and worked over a Citrix remote session!

Progress was astonishing!

 

[ST1100Y]

.... we then set about selling dial up packages to clients and negotiating with some companies for WAN setups over ISDN leased lines at what now are pedestrian data speeds.... (128Kbps)

pfffff... posh...

RJ11 dial-up modem on landline... theoretically about 24Kbps... depending on how much static was on the line...

Fun times and HTML email was a big boo-boo...

 

[WNCST1300]

First job out of college in 1987 had me using one of these IBM “portable” computers.

 

[bdalameda]

First job out of college in 1987 had me using one of these IBM “portable” computers.

I had a Kaypro Computer

 

[STripper]

I had the Compaq...

 

[ST1100Y]

... once upon a time...



Philips Videowriter...

 

[ST1100Y]

... about Nana's Neurolizer...

 

[ST1100Y]

... the peak in automotive climate control...
Three knobs, two buttons, zero input delay...

 

[Andrew Shadow]

... the peak in automotive climate control...
Three knobs, two buttons, zero input delay...

And more control over what the system does. Newer automated climate controls do what the programing instructs it to do, which isn't always what I want it to do.

 

[ST1100Y]

... I'd rather held the flashlight...

 

[motornut]

Little does anybody except dad know, there is no 10mm wrench in there. That is remnants of all the sets Dad bought because they were cheap and he could take the 10mm wrench out to replace the ones he lost

 

[St-Gerard]

Not me , Dad always had North American Cars.

 

[Ron]

OK, how about a 9/16" then?

If you don't get the humor from a joke or cartoon in seconds, it won't be funny after an explanation.

He's from Austria, hence the metric comment.

I have 3 cars made in North America (specifically the US), and all 3 are metric.

 

[STripper]

I had a 1986 F250 that was made in Canada. It was both SAE and metric.

 

[St-Gerard]

OK, how about a 9/16" then?

If you don't get the humor from a joke or cartoon in seconds, it won't be funny after an explanation.

He's from Austria, hence the metric comment.

I have 3 cars made in North America (specifically the US), and all 3 are metric.

9/16 or 1/2 inch would be appropriate

 

[St-Gerard]

I had a 1986 F250 that was made in Canada. It was both SAE and metric.

Everything from the early 80' s was cursed with Metric and SAE , except Japanese cars and Bikes.

 

[ST1100Y]

If you don't get the humor from a joke or cartoon in seconds, it won't be funny after an explanation.

Yeah... like Drax, way too literal... and nothing goes over his head, as his reflexes are too fast...