You know you've been in the industry a while when... (new OT)

You know a gorilla bannana isn't used for feeding large primates at the Zoo.

I started with a VIC20 in '82, tough I didn't realliy get going properly until a had a BBC-B, where you could insert machine code into interrupt vector tables to (for instance) make real-time clock display on the top of the tele-text screen.
When I was 13 I worked out how to play chords on the guitar by measuring the distances of the frets to the bridge, and working out the harmonic relationships using a BBC BASIC program. (the library in town was closed in the evenings- you have it so easy with the web these days).
I still use copy con Foo.java for 50 line 'spike' examples
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