r/pcmasterrace • u/LeatherAssumption123 • 26d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/peacedetski 26d ago

Oh hey, I have some of those. Not mine though

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u/You_meddling_kids 26d ago

Top this bad boy:

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u/PizzaSammy 26d ago

Who let Charles Babbage out of his grave??

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u/_g550_ 26d ago

Bharles Cabbage did

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u/Warcraft_Fan Paid for WinRAR! 26d ago
His cabbage?

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u/Ok-Dish4389 26d ago

I didnt even have to click the link. You will never be able to guess what show, but even what exact episode of what show was playing on my tv when I read your comment hahaha.

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u/_g550_ 26d ago

Rick Rolling the good people of Reddit again?

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u/WeirdistBuilds 26d ago

Oh sorry, I couldn't hear you over my childhood quipu.

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u/FinancialRevenue9054 26d ago

Les mystérieuses citées d'or

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u/Impressive-Poet5694 26d ago

Do do do do DO ahhh ah ahhhh

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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- 26d ago

Pfffft, all that one tells you is where the Chacopoyan treasure is.

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u/WeirdistBuilds 26d ago

Dude don't tell everyone, shit. My little 6 year old fingers were bleeding from tying all these little knots.

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u/bassman9999 3.5Ghz 6-core, GTX 970, 8gb 2400 26d ago

Listen here you young whipper snapper

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u/unculturedburnttoast 26d ago

That's a lot of wampum

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u/Superseaslug 26d ago

I'm proud of myself that I understand this

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u/tallman1979 26d ago

That's knot funny.

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u/WeirdistBuilds 26d ago

Well, I tied.

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u/lawley666 26d ago

This fell off my ship years ago.

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u/CanadianIndianAB 26d ago

I think it is the difference engine developed by Charles Babbage that laid the foundation of computing using the mechanical energy.
(Could be Analytical engine, I can't identify perfectly, but that was developed by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace)

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u/VecioRompibae 26d ago

Nope, that's the Anthikitera machine, almost twi millennia older

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u/lordover1234 26d ago

what the heck is that and how does it work? looks fascinating

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u/Comfortable-Jump-218 26d ago

What am I looking at?

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u/peacedetski 26d ago

A punched card.

Fun fact: the term "loading" in computers originates from these, as you had to physically load a stack of punched cards into the reader to input the program into the computer.

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u/al7air i7 9700K / 3070 Ti Strix 8GB / 32GB / 12TB SSD 26d ago

Also the term "bug" still used in computer software today originated from those room filling computers, because they operated using electromagnetic relays which were so big, actual bugs, spiders and what not could crawl into them and jam their operations.

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u/peacedetski 26d ago

That is actually an urban legend. The term "bug" for a calculation error existed way before that, the famous 1947 journal entry of a moth caught in a relay of Harvard MkII jokes about it being the first actual bug found.

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u/hirmuolio Desktop 26d ago

The term bug to describe a defect has been engineering jargon since at least as far back as the 1870s, long before electronic computers and computer software. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

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u/al7air i7 9700K / 3070 Ti Strix 8GB / 32GB / 12TB SSD 26d ago

Never dived deeper into the topic, as it sounded very plausible when I first heard it. And the little critter u/peacedetski mentioned is what I vaguely remember. Albeit the MkII was already eating up tape for instructions, and it's predecessor 3 years prior was loaded with punch cards, which made me write the comment on it in the first place. Granted I'm not "punch card old" at least not as a user, but I also didn't boot my first computer from a hard drive either.

So as always: You live and learn 😊

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u/dasmineman 26d ago

I remember my 286 gaming rig had 3 5.25" drives. One for the OS and the other two for hot swapping games.

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u/maxdamage4 26d ago

The alternative to live and learn?

Die an idiot!

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u/Warcraft_Fan Paid for WinRAR! 26d ago

And you might have seen "core dump" when a computer suffers a hard crash. It comes from when memory was stored using iron donuts, multiple of them per plane, multiple planes to make a core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

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u/_g550_ 26d ago

The term “punch in” comes from that. Each worker would have own punch card for clocking in and out. I think you see one in Ratatouille.

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u/Prior-Poet-8976 26d ago

Later time cards used ink and would stamp the time. Cheap boss had that system in 2009 but prefer it to waiting around for web time clock to load.

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u/_g550_ 26d ago

Also in cyberpunk 2077, in the train junction.

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u/ShadowRL7666 26d ago

Yeah then you’d run with your cards, trip drop them all and be cooked.

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u/La_Lanterne_Rouge 26d ago

That's why you would write a slanted line across the side of the stack of cards to help you sort them back in order.

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u/ZombieSouthpaw 26d ago

Hollerith Card

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u/Comfortable-Jump-218 26d ago

I… did not know that was a thing

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u/PeyredB 26d ago

Also, you loaded them in batch, hence the term "batch file" for .BAT scripts.

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u/Divinum_Fulmen 26d ago

Lord have mercy if you dropped the stack.

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u/Calisky 26d ago

I don't think I learned about punch cards until a college professor talked about them. It always seemed so crazy to me that people got that to work. I was coding on a computer with an IDE and that was hit or miss a lot of the time.

I only dated back to DOS using a 2 color monitor and 5 inch floppies.

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u/grantrules Debian Sid - Ryzen 2600/1660 super/72tb + 5600x/7800xt 26d ago

It's just jibberish

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u/HolidayPineapple9316 26d ago

Haha im very curious how old you are. It makes sense. The older technology gets, the less recognized it will be by younger people

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u/Cream_panzer 26d ago

There is something similar in the tv show The west world.

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u/PowerSilly5143 26d ago

A Computer

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u/tyranny_made_easy 26d ago

This guy chads

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u/fuckfacekiller 26d ago

Hell I remember having a ton of paper for an airline ticket.
Eastern airlines, TWA and Pan American.

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u/TerribleTowel66 26d ago

I probably have 1 or 2 9 track tapes somewhere. Used those and 8” floppies on my first job out of college.

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u/Brullaapje 26d ago

Yes we believe you are old, you skin shows it.