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# I'm geeky enough to understand this joke but
nowhere near geeky enough to be able to use Octal or Hexadecimal in any practical application. I only understand this becuase I did Computer Programming way back when PCs were the new thing and only one student had rich enough parents to be able to buy a PC AT all this was pre-pentium. I don't want to say more as it makes me feel old :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:36, archived)
# PC AT eh?
In our day it was a Z80b.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:50, archived)
# BBC Micro in my day
Z80's were the new fangled stuff
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:52, archived)
# Thinking Engine number 1 in my day
/unmasks himself as Charlie Babbage
(a man called donkey has been away for too long, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:53, archived)
# hehe I'm glad people are older than me but I doubt it
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:55, archived)
# You don't look a day over 30*


*unashamed pandering
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:06, archived)
# Thank you :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:09, archived)
# You should be honoured
I normally only talk to cats.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:17, archived)
# haha
question is do they talk back?
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:21, archived)
# Only when they feel like it
Aloof Bastards !
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:40, archived)
# I love cats and yet they don't love anybody
except when they want something they know precisely how to manipulate humans.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:44, archived)
# As an Apprentice in 1978
Our offices had Commodore PETs with an integral monitor and separate Bloody Big Floppy drives.

I built a Sinclair ZX80 from a kit in 1980 (?) - It didn't work so I sent it back and got a pre-built and working one as a replacement.
To the best of my knowledge - no-one ever managed to get a home built one to work.

I am 47.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:33, archived)
# You are older than me then but only by 4 years
This makes me happy :D

We ought to start a B3ta Derby & Joan club :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:38, archived)
# Can I be
Joan ?
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:48, archived)
# You can be whatever you want to be :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:50, archived)
# Oh !
In that case I'll be a Multi-Millionaire Sex God then.

*Awaits Transformation*




*Senses Disappointment Looming*
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:59, archived)
# a Multi-Millionaire Sex God named Joan
if you want to be a sex godess called Joan you can take over from Joan Collins although I thinks she may well be less of a sex godess and less of a millionaire than before.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 20:14, archived)
# Transforming into a Laydeee
Would be a step too far !
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 21:18, archived)
# I'm so old my first computer drawing
was done in BASIC using punch cards - about 2000 cards to do a simple CAD plot...
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 21:16, archived)
# I remember we had a tour of a university
to show us a punch card machine in action it looked dated even in 1984
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 21:22, archived)
# When I graduated in '77 punch cards were still expected to be used for at least 10 more years.
We had an industrial design project to improve the punch card reader, a prize was offered by a local manufacturer (fishing for cheap design ideas, I think.)

When I worked in a Silicon Valley design consulting office (after graduation) I had a lot of projects with computer peripherals that would be obsolete in months after they were made - difficult to keep ahead of the game!
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 22:08, archived)