I remember the days when you stored your files on an external cassette drive before they invented floppys.
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I’ve actually programmed with punch cards.
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You’re not the only one. I’ve booted mainframes off card decks, also network devices. Cards were it
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Makes me really appreciate the dev environments we have now.
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I’m too young for cards but I do work on a system which inherits much of that legacy into modern day programs. I’ve heard horror stories of when someone drops their card stack 
I was in a programming course 9-5 back in the day, and there was a night class who left our room with garbage and old food which we had to clean up.
They would leave their punch decks. We would swap cards between decks in retaliation.
Oh to be young.
There was a switch on the keypunch to number the cards which was a lifesaver.
My first work laptop weighted 28lbs and had a monochrome orange screen. I actually was able to install Windows 1.0 on it, which was pointless cause there was nothing useful to do on it once you did, lol.
I used to have to put that thing around the country on planes, back and forth from home to job sites carrying it in a snowstorm, uphill, both ways.
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You know you’re old when…………….
Damn, forgot what I was gonna say…….
Keep On Humpin’!!…….
Lanny
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Quick trademark that before @Barney sees 
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You’ve got all trademarks, Lanny. Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing!
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Damnit!! Were those pesky kids running over the fresh grass seed you just put down?
One of the things that made me feel ancient was going to a transport museum and seeing a large number of vehicles that i had driven.
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Listening to the Kirk Hammett interview on Beato’s channel and you realize that one of the first albums you ever bought with the money you’d saved from your paper round is 40 years old!
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I had one of those. Saved my paper round money for it and was dead proud of it, then had a pushbike accident which ripped it off and shredded it (still have the scars) not long afterwards.
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You know you’re old when you can remember a new single on the radio from the Beatles
Yeah, but what exciting memories of a world that was on the same wavelength of creativity. Hearing a new Beatles release randomly pop up on the AM radio was electric. It was spontaneous and ubiquitous.
When you go to the hardware store (in my case Lowes), and after checking out you try to put the purchase receipt that the checkout gal handed you in the front pocket of your blue Carhartt tee shirt only to realize at that very instant that you put your gahdamn tee shirt on backwards when you dressed yourself in the morning… No Sh1t…
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Remembering when you had to pull out that big fat DOS book to get the command lines to do simple things like copying files from one 5 1/4 floppy to another.
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