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Post by gumbo on Dec 31, 2015 4:52:00 GMT -5
...about 3 1/2 hours to go Down Here and counting! Make I take this non-derailing moment to wish All here a very happy and productive coming year  ..and thanks to Everyone who inhabits this wonderful place! Cheers, g-f-b |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 6:54:40 GMT -5
Likewise Gumbo! I wish everybody all the best. Not only should we wish the best for all people in the world, I know especially that the ppl in this place deserve it totally.
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Post by sumgai on Dec 31, 2015 12:51:32 GMT -5
Well, I was gonna start my own topic, but then I saw this and said to myself "Ah, it's time for some payback!". g-f-b, here's a derailment for ya!  Tomorrow (in real time, not upside-down time) is not my birthday. That's just for purposes of messing with ProBoards' collective mind. IMSO (in my strong opinion), nobody on the innerwebs needs to know my birthday, period. And for those who came late to the party (that would be anybody who's not yet a member of AARP), the original IBM PC had to be booted from either a floppy or a tape drive. (YES! Look at the back of one such, and you'll find two identical connectors, ancient-style 5-pin DIN jobbies. Nope, only one was for the keyboard, the other was for a tape drive, trust me.  ) That last was a prelude to the fact that there was no persistent memory from boot to boot, thus you had to enter the Date and Time, every time you booted the machine. And germane to my point, every time you did this, the earliest date the machine would recognize was January 1, 1980. Here we are, nearly 45 years later, and two generations of meat-space participants have grown up not having to go through any such nonsense, which renders all this an insider's joke. There you have it, the rest of the story.  But be that as it may, Happy New year to everyone, Nutz or otherwise! sumgai |
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 31, 2015 22:04:44 GMT -5
Yes, happy new year people.
e&oe...
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Post by gumbo on Dec 31, 2015 23:09:17 GMT -5
Sorry to break your bubble sg, but I figured that you WERE older than that when you started talking about GR30s all those years ago... (insert further derailment here) |
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Post by haydukej on Jan 4, 2016 14:23:59 GMT -5
Partially paging Mr. Paul Harvey.
EDIT: Happy new year to you all.
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) That last was a prelude to the fact that there was no persistent memory from boot to boot, thus you had to enter the Date and Time, every time you booted the machine. And germane to my point, every time you did this, the earliest date the machine would recognize was January 1, 1980. Here we are, nearly 45 years later, and two generations of meat-space participants have grown up not having to go through any such nonsense, which renders all this an insider's joke.
