How old are users on the site

[pbehn]

Zuse made the first Turing- complete computer in 1941. That was even before Turing knew what complete was.
If one is not too picky, Charles Babbage designed the first Turing complete machine in 1837, so that would be the first computer. Unfortunately it was not build until 1991.

Thats why I mentioned "in service", there were jet engines in the air in 1941.

 

[Buz101]

Old enough to forget where the bodies are buried, young enough to at least remember to bury them.

 

[Viking1066]

57.

 

[Kalakan]

Just remember, growing old is compulsory but acting your age is optional.
My wonderful wife says I'm the biggest kid she knows and she is always right.
My late father told me on my wedding day the 2 rules for a happy marriage are, rule 1 your wife is always right, rule 2 when your wife is wrong, refer to rule 1
I am just coming up to my 66th birthday and I have been making models since I was 7, my grandma gave me my first kit, Airfix's Spitfire Mk IX in the plastic bag.
By the time it was finished there was more glue than plastic.

Just remembered what my grandfather told me in several times after arguing with grandma... " if your wife orders you to jump from the window, just pray that you are in the ground floor.......".

BTW just turned 56...... and based on the experience of my fellow modelers and to the wisdom of my grandfather, not married yet....

 

[Viking1066]

57.

My students always ask me how old I am, I say "How old do you think I am?" lol. They say in my 40s, I say "Right". My other answer is 'Old enough to know you better get to work".

 

[Venomstick121]

It was this "old people" generation who invented the internet.

These are the same people who know how to speed dial a rotary telephone, drive a column-shift manual transmission (as well as a floor stick), read an analog clock and would not consider eating laundry detergent "pods".

My family calls me an old person in a young body, I can do all of those things, i grew up in an older house with a rotary, my car is column shift, and I use a smart watch with an analog clock. No, I do not eat laundry detergent.

 

[GrauGeist]

my car is column shift

You have a "three on the tree"?

Not very common these days, what car do you have?

 

[SaparotRob]

BTW just turned 56...... and based on the experience of my fellow modelers and to the wisdom of my grandfather, not married yet....

A bachelor is a man who didn't make the same mistake once.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

A bachelor is a man who didn't make the same mistake once.

A man happily married for life is a man who did his homework first…

 

[Venomstick121]

A man happily married for life is a man who did his homework first…

I agree with this more than the previous response

 

[SaparotRob]

.... No, I do not eat laundry detergent.

It is difficult to find it properly prepared.

 

[Venomstick121]

You have a "three on the tree"?

Not very common these days, what car do you have?

86' ford f-100, could be worth something if it wasnt for the fact that the gas tank is held up with a ratchet strap, or the fact that there is a million dents in it. It was my grandpas who used to be a private contractor.

 

[WARSPITER]

86' ford f-100, could be worth something if it wasnt for the fact that the gas tank is held up with a ratchet strap, or the fact that there is a million dents in it. It was my grandpas who used to be a private contractor.

Sell it as colonial style. Works here in Australia - e.g. 1962 Kombi in a chook yard for over twenty years and full of you know
what - $26,000.

 

[Venomstick121]

Sell it as colonial style. Works here in Australia - e.g. 1962 Kombi in a chook yard for over twenty years and full of you know
what - $26,000.

I couldnt let it go, means to much to me.

 

[SaparotRob]

I understand that.

 

[SaparotRob]

A man happily married for life is a man who did his homework first…

I couldn't find the Cliff Notes.

 

[special ed]

My family calls me an old person in a young body, I can do all of those things, i grew up in an older house with a rotary, my car is column shift, and I use a smart watch with an analog clock. No, I do not eat laundry detergent.

Can you read & write in cursive? If so, your education is complete. As a bonus, be able to read Roman numerals.

 

[SaparotRob]

Full disclosure: "Cursive writing" did not mean what I thought it did.

 

[GrauGeist]

Can you read & write in cursive? If so, your education is complete. As a bonus, be able to read Roman numerals.

Agree C%

It is kind of rare to see Roman Numerals being used in MMXXIV, too.

 

[special ed]

I had to stop and decode in a recent "Then and Now". I got 1863.