Quote - Besides, you can't truly say you've built a computer system until you've had to sit down and configure the jumpers, interrupts, and the address rockers on each.. Showing your age their Dale - and i'm showing mine by knowing and doing that stuff :)

Meh.

I got my right knee replaced on the 7th of this month; I'm kinda feeling my tender 55 years atm (I know that's early. I also have 34 years, 6 days a week at Kroger to blame it on. That was also the 4th surgery I've had in the past 6 months. Arthroscopy on said right knee, a radical prostatectomy to deal with prostate cancer, a left arm ulnar nerve translocation to regain some fine motor control of my dominant hand; damaged the nerve channel supporting my weight on my elbows....and then finally the replacement. This has been exhausting, I must say.....).

Besides, I'm proud of it. I can't claim to have been on the net since ARPA, but I by ghu have been since the days of GEnie. 600 baud modems, command lines, all the fun of downloading UUE files and decoding them, never knowing if they contained the claimed image or something far less legal, booting your comp from the game disk to keep things running better, batch files, emm 386..... I still have my DOS 5 and win 3.1 disks in an envelope somewhere in the office. No hardware to run it on, but still..... ;P