I just saw someone's profile say that they "grew up with #RaspberryPi" and now I feel so old.

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@DrHyde grew up with tape decks

[drhyde@fosstodon.org]

@dysfun I've even built my own paper tape reader.

[udob@chaos.social]

@DrHyde pre-pre C64...

[pndc@social.treehouse.systems]

@DrHyde We're so old we remember #RaspberryPi before they went full bootlicker.

[crankyoldbugger@fosstodon.org]

@DrHyde grew up with a pencil and paper. And we were grateful!

[drhyde@fosstodon.org]

@crankyoldbugger when I first made a 6502 make stupid mistakes far faster than I could make stupid mistakes myself, that was a glorious day! In retrospect when I switched from making computers make fun mistakes to trying to make them not make boring mistakes, that was when it all went wrong and I humbly apologise to everyone.

[spartan_1986@infosec.exchange]

@DrHyde

[crankyoldbugger@fosstodon.org]

@DrHyde oh, I made stupid mistake last week when I was running some hydro wires in the basement. It was around the third time I got shocked that I started to suspect something....

[stfn@fedi.stfn.pl]

@DrHyde raised by wild Raspberry Pis

[dave@europhiles.uk]

@DrHyde
My first experience of using a computer was at school, where they had a Teletype terminal connecting via a 300 baud modem (using an acoustic coupler) to a DEC-10 computer at the Open University.

For those of you who don't understand any of that, I suggest you feed it into ChatGPT

[dave@europhiles.uk]

@DrHyde
I just tried it, asking how old Gemini thought the poster (me) was. It suggested 60-63. That's alarmingly accurate. Claude was slightly less specific, but suggested (even more alarmingly) that the confident way I'd described the technology suggested that I went on to have a career in computing, which was common for people exposed to that technology at the time.

[gjoel@mstdn.dk]

@dave @DrHyde

We had something like that at home. First experience though was when I was a toddler and we got a Commodore 64. At one point my dad spent the equivalent of $15 downloading a manual for something from a British BBS.

[allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@DrHyde when I was growing up, I had to boot my raspberry pi uphill AND poweroff uphill!