I guess I'm officially OLD

Somebody just referred to a software tool (GIT) released in 2005 as old.  I used a predecessor (SCCS) in the late 70's that was released in '72 and still considered it fresh when I moved on to its successor (RCS) in the mid-80s.
 
<sigh>  - LOL

I still feel 29 (in my head) except when I crouch and then I try to get up.

I'm officially MOLD.
 
I've been left out too long.

I still remember paying $540 for a 10 MB hard drive.
(Though that seems expensive for 2009...)

How about IBM's PLI language that tried to combine Fortran with COBOL?

craigb
I still remember paying $540 for a 10 MB hard drive.
(Though that seems expensive for 2009...)

hehe ... I don't remember how much it cost, but I do remember the 'I'll never fill it up' joy I was experiencing when I replaced the second DSDD 5-1/4 floppy in my Kaypro 16 with a 10M hard drive.  Add MM CP/M and it was heaven!
 
Meanwhile at work, the UNIVAC had 4 x 4K banks of honest to goodness core memory ... real ferrite donuts.  ROM was called 'non-destructive readout' because a state change was required to generate current (or not) for determining whether a bit was a '1' or a '0'.
 
No ... that's not right.  Kaypro came a few years later when it was DEC PDP at work.  I remember thinking that DEC would end up ruling the world.

BobF
I remember thinking that DEC would end up ruling the world.

I worked on DEC machines starting back when I was a 19-year old hacker consulting to a defense contractor. Unfortunately, 20 years later, what I was considered an "expert" in, was bought and thrown away by Intel and Oracle. 12 years after that and I still can't convince larger companies that I know enough to be employed.
 
Yay. 

Age is just a number.......you're as old as you look.

I still have Netware 3.11 at work... 

Y2K....  that was the end of the world wasn't?  Is there a patch for it now?

I tried telling my kids about my early days in IT. You'd think I was regaling them with tales of life among the dinosaurs. 
 
"...There I was, in the middle of installing the upgrade, when the drive snapped the 9-track tape. I was stuck without an operating system and no way to restart the upgrade. IBM sent over another set of tapes, but they were 1600 tapes instead of 6250's, so I had 16 tapes instead of 4."
"Is that when you invented fire?"
"No, that was earlier. Also, I told you I didn't invent it? You're thinking of my cousin, Uh."
"Did IBM send your tape-thingies by Pteranodon?"
"No, that's how we delivered pizza."
"Why didn't you just download it?
"We didn't have the Internet."
"Was that because a T-Rex had eaten your cable guy?"
"We didn't have technology back then. We had 3 TV channels (well, 4 if you count PBS and no one did), and the TV was a 12 inch black and white one with rabbit ear antennae you had to twist and contort for 10 minutes to get a snowy picture. You had to go into town to the arcade to play a video game. There were no computers, XBoxes, Internet, or cell phones."
(Screams of Terror)

Dave Modisette

bapu
I still feel 29 (in my head) except when I crouch and then I try to get up.

Yeah.   Months ago, I bought a roll of speaker wire so that I could move the power amp for my passive studio monitors.  It means that I must get behind the productiom desk and squat while I hook everything up.
 
The full roll is still sitting on the Futon behind me as I type this.

Dave, the best part is that roll of wire will still be there next year.  
 
This is also known as SOS-Save Our Squats club.

OK anyone remember when you could get a job sitting in an air conditioned room waiting for someone to call and ask you to swap a couple of these so he could run his program?

Oh the fun I used to have replacing the default commands on unsuspecting coworkers... 
 
One thing I am NOT old enough to remember was having to take a duster into the computer room to wipe out the moths that were attracted to and killed by the bright vacuum tubes (this is where the term "debugging" originally came from.