When I Was Your Age ...

[turbo_nick]

I pitty the kids of today... *beep*, I was born in 1980 and my childhood consisted of riding around on my BMX, or whatever other bike I had, playing in sand, or with toy cars in dirt, watching Smurfs, Fraggle Rock the ORIGINAL Transformers! Bah! Kids don't know how to play anymore! All they do is watch bloody TV!

[aniken]

have you actually seen some of the crappy cartoons kids get these days?

I mean "funky cops" - what the *beep* is that?!?!

dragonballz ?

give me smurfs anyday!!

Go Smurfs Go Smurfs.

And whatever happened to Marty the Monster, or even The Harry and Ralph Show? Where do kids go today to get that sort of quality - Dorothy the F'ing Dinosaur?? I think not!

All hail Papa Smurf!!!

[edge]

No VCR's, No DVD and if you wanted petrol (only super) or smokes after 6pm there where only one or two places to go..

Seat belts only existed in some cars, cops could only pull you over for drink driving for another reason (like lights out etc), 3 speed auto and 4 speed manual the norm.

But no wars, no Iraq issues, the world was a lot more at peace. No aids, happy people, a carefree lifestyle.

For all the improvements in todays society, I wish my kids could have grown up when I did. It wasn't as comfortable as life today but it sure was free and easy..........

[saleen]

Lol, my first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with a whopping 16k RAM and a tape drive. I think my mouse pad has more power than that bloody thing.

[richdave]

Lol, my first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with a whopping 16k RAM and a tape drive. I think my mouse pad has more power than that bloody thing.

Man you had the FANCY one...mine only had 4K.

[richdave]

You kids today have got it too easy You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!

1984.....I remember that.

I was a 3rd year apprentice, working 7:30 - 4:00 for a measly $131 per week. Catching a bus and a train, then walking 1km to work....hanging out for my 18th birthday so I could get my licence....

[Cam]

Well when I was a kid....

My first computer was an Atari Compumate that had 16K of memory - at leat that is what the box said. It actually had 2K of RAM and 14K ROM (in case someone doesnt understand the different - the RAM is the bit used by user programs, ROM is not normally mentioned in specs).

It was an ordinary Atari games console (the original one) with a "computer" add on we bought later.

The add on had a keyboard that went over the top of the atari (remember it had a larege front) and it had an interface that plugged into the games carteridge slot and two cables with jpystick connections to plug into the joystick ports.

Man that thing made the Turbo look slow

I outgrew the RAM in about 2 weeks so we bought a Sinclair Spectrum Z80 with 16Kb RAM and a tape drive.

I outgrew the RAM on that in a few weeks/months so we upgraded to a massive 48Kb RAM (now were talking!!!)

[by out grew the RAM I mean the BASIC programs I was writing would no longer load into memory]

[CJF077]

haha .. remember the brick mobile phones too? I remember when i was doing a business management diploma this guy in our class had a phillips brick phone. Damn it was big.. and i think his dad paid like $3500 for it or something.

I also remember when i was younger my uncle had one of the first car phones. This massive thing on a cable. And i recall the phone calls were like $1.50 for 30 seconds or something. Something ridiculous.

[Falchoon]

And I recall the phone calls were like $1.50 for 30 seconds or something. Something ridiculous.

I think that's what Vodfone chrge me on my current mobile...

[Raptor]

1984......................in 1984 I was earning my own wage and had moved out of mum & dad place a few years ago. None of this living at home doing SFA well into your 20's or 30's.

Now when I was ....................