older then dirt club

[me the butcher]

hi guys my name is me the butcher real name butch im 51 years old im a senior ego i play on kalt im one of the house leaders the little young farts like picking on me because of my age those young farts aren't even old enough to pee hard on the ground yet. so i thought i'd start the older then dirt club for us older guys to voice our opinons. requierments are you must be 45 years of age or older, please let me know who you are and some things about yourself as for me i like fishing, play kalt i like to play on the allied side, my favorite weopon is the b.a.r., i'm married with three kids a son and two daughters. so guys let me know alittle about yourselves.
and feel free to discuse any topic here.
me the butcher

 

[Starscream]

I'm 17, but I'd like to join the club, because I look like I'm 20. And plus my piss hurts when I do it, so I think I qualify.

 

[Garlik]

Hey Butcher! I certainly qualify. I am also 51 with 3 kids and 1 granddaughter. I have played DOD for what seems like years now. I used to run the clan called TooNs and we played in several leagues, including CAL and SLDL. I enjoy golf, playing pool (I have several trophies to prove it) and backetball. I have recently started playing COD4. I travel close to 50% of the time so my play time is limited. I am trying to start up my own company this year in the software business (I got everything except the financing part.) If that is successful, then my playing time will be even more reduced.
I am still not sure what the real value of the different houses are in this clan. It seems alot more like a membership club than a traditional clan. That is probably both good and bad.
I mostly play Kalt and Donner on eGo servers but there are other maps I enjoy more on other servers.
I don't post very often since the performance on these forums is terrible.
I think having a server that rotates through the standard 3-4 maps with FF ON would be a nice addition.

 

[John 14:6]

Well since I'll only be 43 next month I'll go sit in the corner for a couple years

Just my luck..... Too old to hang out with the young whipper snappers and too young to hang out with the Old Farts......

 

[Redshift]

You're 51....what a light-weight. You may have been around for the invention of the wheel, but I was there when they learned how to make fire.

Gronk the caveman was struck by lightning and we managed get his still smoldering club and worked out the rest.

I'm 53 and there are a few that are older. I work as an information technology business analyst, separated, one kid (28). I have various hobbies, including playing lead guitar and bass in bands.

Been playing DoD since the DoD Classic days.

BTW, a while back I came upon a DoD:S server that was called "Old Farts Club" or something like it. Good bunch of guys.

 

[me the butcher]

thanks for the fire red. these old bones do get cold. happy to meet you us old farts need to stick together. i do theres a lot that are older then me, I hope they come and say hello. Thanks for the post.

Me The Butcher

 

[Kamakize Tommy]

All of you are yougin's I am 55 and was here when they first said this is dirt!

 

[Redshift]

Dang! Oh well, that means you get the old fart prize I guess.

Rocking chair with twin Ithica over & unders under each armrest, including side and rear claymores.

....and of course minigun under the seat and a built-in coffee/beer holder with heating/cooling gizmo.

Sonofagun, if that was legal we'd be able to make a ton of money.

 

[EDITThor]

I have lived since time itself has begun. Last time I checked... that's, 20 Billion Earth years? I'm not entirely sure, I lost count ages ago.

I keep my body age at 18, so I am blend in with the mortals.

 

[Artimus]

There was a time when I was always the youngest guy in the group. Then, time marched on, and the situation reversed. I masked my fears of getting old by referring to myself as "wiser", but really, I just felt like I was getting old.

Now, at 45, I've found a group where I can be the youngest again. Joy, joy, joy!

Married, musician, one beagle, DoD'r from way back and younger than the above wise-men.

 

[GreenMonkey]

I'm not sure if you guys are older than dirt - or older than the rocks which eventually broke down to become dirt.

 

[daMduck]

So where do the mid thirties guys get to hang out? Im older than the vcr. Actually my first vcr looked like a huge top loading tape recorder and weighed 50 pounds.

 

[RompTheChomp -TR-]

I think I am old enough, Im 14 with a niece and a nephew, i have been around since the invention of Tickle Me Elmo and Tumble Time Tigger. Lets see anyone top that

 

[GreenMonkey]

Maybe we could change the club to "i preordered Half Life 1, and my CD was so young it had no cd key and I had to contact sierra to have them fax me a cd key after sending a picture of the jewel case"

But then again, that is a rather long name for a club. Although, it is a true story. best $56 i ever spent.

 

[Scorpion Knight]

Alright,

OK to Qualify here are my top ten reasons.

10.) VHS, and Beta tapes for my VCR

9.) I have 8 track Tapes Nazareth is the only one that works.

8.) I have an Ameritech brick cell phone on my desk. (Doesnt Work)

7.) Used a Bubble printer.

6.) Colledge computer course was to program in DOS.

5.) Pong was the only game available when I was a kid.

4.) Ive used a Tandy computer.

3.) No computers in primary and secondary schooling.

2.) I purchased and used Vinyl records.

1.) Rubiks cube was more fun than Pong.

 

[Garlik]

You need to do better than that Scorp;
10.) You must tell us what year Beta tapes came out.
9.) Still having 8 tracks is not that hard. Most flea markets have them. The real trick is having a car that they can play in.
8.) Any mention of a cell phone should disqualify you.
7.) Using a Bubble printer does not compare to using paper tape or punch cards.
6.) DOS did not exist when I was in college.
5.) Board games were all we had as kids
4.) Please refer to the Tandy as a TSR 80. Did you also use a commadore-64? I have 2 of them and they still work!
3.) Could only use punch cards in college. Did you ever have to carry boxes of them around on a windy day and drop the box? Re-sorting was fun!
2.) Do you still have Vinyl records and a record player? I still have both. And I can remember the first record I bought (Led Zepplin's first album)
1.) What about a pet rock or a mood ring?

 

[Redshift]

Not bad, Scorpion Knight... but to acknowledge and add to Garlick's list:

1 ) I have 13 programming languages under my belt that include, Cobol, Fortran, PL/1, Smalltalk and ADA.

2 ) The first computer I worked on was an IBM 370/135 mainframe with memory of 98K.

3 ) I wrote an inventory system on a keypunch machine that used an entire box of cards (box was about 2 feet long.

4 ) Early in my career, I used operating systems such as MVS/JES2, JES3, VM, and also operating systems for Burroughs, NCR, Honeywell (DPS-6, 8, Xerox, NCR (Century and Criterion), DECSystem-10, Data General....and a bunch more I've forgotten.

5 ) I had the very first hand held calculator that came out, a Sears(?) Digimatic 8. It used 9 volt batteries like water.

6) I owned an Altair computer....the one where Bill Gates added BASIC and started his stint in IT.

7 ) My first home computer was a Sinclair XZ-81 I built from a kit purchased by mail from Gladstone Electronics in Toronto.

8 ) When personal computers did come into the market place, I had a TI 99/4A, Atari 400, 800, XL and XL (still have the XL and XE); as well as the early IBM 8088 computers.

8 ) We actually READ books.

9 ) We didn't have the internet, but we did have Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) run through people's (sysops) own computers. They would call each other using a modem on huge networks, one of which was called FIDO. It took three days to get a reply to a post or email message if you sent it to somebody overseas or a few thousand miles away.
The client side was BBS software such as Maximus.

10) The majority of the people on this or any other forum only read the first few lines of a post and ignore the rest. We read all of it.

11) Last but not least (and we shall never speak of this again), bell bottom pants and shirts with huge pointed collars, open shirts and lots of gold chains were popular - the disco era (yukkkk).

 

[Big Bang (Rookie)]

Well to start with I'm 53 so I guess i qualitfy for this club I bought my Kids atari and a commanador 64 but never played it much My first computer was put together by my brother in law in his basement from parts that he had it was a 286 with a math card that speed it up to as fast as a 386 of course it was DOS and I still know some of the comands. I remember when TV's had tubes in the back and we had 3 channels and I was the first remote control. When My dad hollered I would jump up and change the channel. I also remember Oohing and awhing when I saw the first color TV disney show. No air conditioned home and I live in New Orleans till I was 18. When you was bad in school the teacher would wack you with a paddle and you didn't tell your parents because they would wack you too. So do I qualify?

 

[GreenMonkey]

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10) The majority of the people on this or any other forum only read the first few lines of a post and ignore the rest. We read all of it.
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See, thats why i want a time machine. I belong in those days.

 

[Scorpion Knight]

Yea see I was not a computer guy the best your gonna get from me is Tandy, commodore 64 and the brothers automatic type writer. I dont know the year of the 8 track tapes but I just found another one from the Carpenters 1973 .

All my thesis work was done in laboratory notebooks and on the typewriter. OK Im gonna have to pull out the clincher. I watched Lawrence welk, Hee Haw and ED Sullivan. I did use punch cards but due to a freak accident talking about them brings up PTSD paper cut. My first Vinyl record was REO speed wagon.

Scorp..

P.S. Garlik the mobile phone srry has a Keep on Trucking Sticker on it.