Old Nerds Club (all welcome) with poll

[jboydgolfer]

You talking the Re-made series from 2009 or the 80's Original (1984 )
Ps the Original was Better

Of course the original, I hadn't even know they made a remake

When I was in the 20s I used to have expensive RC cars and all that, sold them after a few years, then went working a lot and saved up a sum of money and went traveling.
I regret I didn't take more photos of my awesome stuff I had back then, a 1/5 scale and other cars.
Really wished I had a smartphone that could take photos back then!!

Edit: It's not mine but it's similar 1/5 I had, Franz Groschl:

Edit: Now computers are my hobby, I don't have the money to buy such expensive RC cars anymore.... In the future? Well I don't know yet..

Looks a lot like a four tech. I had quite the collection Before a next girlfriend of mine decided they weren't mine when we broke up. God I miss those

 

[dorsetknob]

I had quite the collection Before a next girlfriend of mine decided they weren't mine when we broke up. God I miss those

start a drone collection next ex wife/girlfriend that trys to claim them you can remotely reclaim/shitbomb her
Oh i should not give you idea's

 

[MrGenius]

anyone remember that show called "V" i loved that show... the eating of the rats

It gave me nightmares. And an alien phobia that took my entire childhood to grow out of.

 

[jboydgolfer]

It gave me nightmares. And an alien phobia that took my entire childhood to grow out of.

when I was older than I care to admit but still young, I would get scared to death when Lou Ferrigno would come out when David banner changed into the Hulk

 

[Tomgang]

Not sure if i can call me old in age of 32, but i feel old at times when i looking back at things like back then i whas at shcool or the first computer i had.

But people at times call me an old angry nerd, that hates when youngsters talk like they know every thing but what they say is utter false crap.

My first pc if you can call it that whas a used commadore 64 back then you used casettes to load games back in the days as a kid. Else first real pc where a macintos performa cant remember model number (dementia you know, maybe i am getting old).

Well you know what the smart poeple say: live young, die old.

 

[OneCool]

Booooo!!!! I pictured old nerds poll dancing in here!!!

This is click bait!!!

 

[XiGMAKiD]

With so many old people here makes me wonder if I'm gonna be lucky enough to experience old age

My first PC got Pentium 4 631 inside which also my first overclocked CPU, got it to 3.33GHz using crappy Asus motherboard with VIA chipset powered by crappy bundled PSU

Fast forward here I am still using Q9450 in 2017

 

[Bluescreendeath]

I didn't realize there was such a diverse age range here. I'm one of the younger folks here. The first computer I used at home was my parent's Pentium 3 laptop running windows 98 or ME. My first own computer was a prebuilt Dell with a Pentium 4 with a whopping 1GB of RAM. Paid $800 for it and it couldn't even play Counterstike because I didn't realize computers needed graphics card.

 

[jaggerwild]

I'll be 54 in a few months, but unlike most of the 50+ here I have not been with computers as long. My first(that I built)was an AMD K55 CPU, my first I had was a Pentium(single core)about 2002. I have no formal training, but I started working as a Slot tech in 02. After loosing my pay check one day to a rival casino, as i walked out and realized what I could have done with the $2,500 I had just tossed into thin air I decided id find a hobby and waste my money on it instead. I went him found an Asus socket 478 and assembled my first computer. Joined the EVGA forums and was hooked. I didn't need much help as Slot machine's are just expensive computer's, think I joined TPU with in a couple years. I've probably worked on almost half the machine's in the USA, some nights id be alone with 3500 slots to baby sit. But truth be told Id work for free, just to interact with the people and all the machine's. Then come home, like I never left work.
It's been hard to get a decent job lately, and I some how feel too old for casino's, as even the employee's are playing games(just with people). I have been very lucky though, I went from(Ballys Gaming)horse tracks in NY to Lake Tahoe NV, to the PA Tax office's, to poodunk Mississippi to working for Konami in LV NV. Not sure what the future holds, but Im sure I'll land on my feet with something pertaining to computers. I love the challenge of everyone else has given up on it, then I walk up to it and now it works.
Cheers All here's to another half century of I can't believe they pay me to do this.

 

[basco]

getting 44 this year.
Jason King: Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it passes.

 

[the54thvoid]

It's quite funny, imaging who you're having a 'discussion' with on TPU as I erroneously assume everyone is young.
But i guess the best thing about that is we're all very much younger in our heads than bodies. Especially some of the older duffers

 

[Toothless]

Man all of y'all making me feel like the strange child on the forums with me being just 21.

Gonna have to call some of you grandpa.

 

[qubit]

Not nerdy at all here. No no, I deny everything!

 

[BiggieShady]

I'll be 38 soon ... my first build was using AMD 486 DX40 back in 1994. ... I was 15 at the time and I bought it with my own savings from a part-time job I had back then. It was worthless in a year and a half, and now it's priceless

 

[Hugis]

46 in May , been through so many computers/consoles but if i remember correctly it was a Vic-20 that started the ball rolling so to speak(1981/82).
I had kinda guessed quite a few of you guys were "mature" lol

 

[P4-630]

So it seems most "Nerds" visiting TPU are between 30 and 40 years old sofar...

 

[Basard]

Looks like I broke a tie between 31-35 and 36-40!

I've got about 19 years experience as a nerd. My first real system was a 180Mhz Pentium Pro.

 

[Caring1]

I turned 54 almost a week ago, and i've been tinkering as long as I can remember, on cars, T.V's, radios, computers, basically anything I could get my hands on to pull apart.

 

[dorsetknob]

But i guess the best thing about that is we're all very much younger in our heads than bodies. Especially some of the older duffers

There is a saying
"Your as old as the woman you want to feel up"
Beware if she is 16 you might get arrested

 

[Ebo]

51 here, still just a young guy

 

[INSTG8R]

41. First "PC" was the venerable old C64 and well just never stopped. I don't game as much as I used too but that doesn't seem to stop me from buying games. Almost 400 on my Steam, 50 on Origin 25 on Uplay and prolly a dozen on GoG. Got my ME Andromeda and Prey ordered and currently enjoying Wildlands

 

[Bow]

50 enough said

 

[RCoon]

I've always found TPU to be less of a cesspit than many other tech related forums, because I ran under the (apparently correct) assumption the average age of our members was quite high. I don't believe any of our senior mods are under the age of 40, adding a second degree of truth to the title

The older your get the nerdier you become, mainly because you care less and less how people respond to your hobbies.

At the unfortunate stage where I have tremors in my wrists, so not so hot in FPS games. Conveniently Warframe has a flamethrower.

 

[Pete1burn]

I'll be 40 in November. First computer I actually played with was an Apple II, but I had an old C64 of my own as a hand me down from one of my dad's Air Force buddies.

Being a dad and husband I don't get to game as much as I used to, but I still love having nice hardware and I play whenever I can. Currently playing Battlefield 1, and rediscovering Homeworld 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire, and anxiously awaiting ME:A

 

[Tatty_Two]

51 here, still just a young guy

The wall hits you at 55 and it hurts!