You know you're old when ...

[r159]

In 1991 during one of my uni courses we had to come up with a product and put a presentation together using an overhead projector (remember those...plastic foils and everything!) my idea was a hand held device using gps, it had different flash cartridges for regions/cities... could be used on foot, car bike etc. with a moving map points of interest route guidance etc. Size equivalent to PDAs which were becoming popular at the time.

I got slaughtered...

I’d love to take a satnav or even better a smart phone and stick it...

[Stan the Bat]

DB4DM said:

Using a callbox with Button A and Button B

Had forgotten that.

[Mr Tidy]

You remember your dad wiring up a 2 pin socket under the dashboard to power a parking light that sat on top of the driver's door window!

[Tango13]

IpcmcI said:

Cold said:

When you watch Top Gun and are reminded that today the F14s are as old as Spitfires were when the film was first released.

That, wow!

There are probably more airworthy Spitfires than F-14s too.

[ninja-lewis]

Tango13 said:

IpcmcI said:

Cold said:

When you watch Top Gun and are reminded that today the F14s are as old as Spitfires were when the film was first released.

That, wow!

There are probably more airworthy Spitfires than F-14s too.

About twice as many Spitfires. Wikipedia says 54 airworthy (plus a few Seafires) vs 26 Tomcats left in Iran, which probably aren't all airworthy these days.

[davhill]

Mr Tidy said:

You remember your dad wiring up a 2 pin socket under the dashboard to power a parking light that sat on top of the driver's door window!

I remember Dad putting these...




To replace these...



On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

[Jonmx]

r159 said:

In 1991 during one of my uni courses we had to come up with a product and put a presentation together using an overhead projector (remember those...plastic foils and everything!) my idea was a hand held device using gps, it had different flash cartridges for regions/cities... could be used on foot, car bike etc. with a moving map points of interest route guidance etc. Size equivalent to PDAs which were becoming popular at the time.

I got slaughtered...

I’d love to take a satnav or even better a smart phone and stick it...

I had a touch screen Motorola phone at university around 2000/1 which had a basic GPS capability. People around me were still using Nokia 3310 and if they were really cool, a Sony Ericsson with a colour screen. I had endless abuse and piss taking despite my insistence that it would be the future! Alas, I never owned a Psion though, that was the peak cool gadget in my latter school days. Definitely a sign of age.

[bigothunter]

When your son reaches 40

[ben5575]

Watching American Beauty again and realising you're older than Kevin Spacey in it.

[Sticks.]

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

1. When you look at this and think it's gorgeous

2. You know that E reg/67 was when the registrations changed from January to August.

Is it yours?

[bigothunter]

Sticks. said:

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

1. When you look at this and think it's gorgeous

2. You know that E reg/67 was when the registrations changed from January to August.

Is it yours?

AV8 van with longitudinal 848cc engine. Believe AV8 was the only application for this unique engine. I really am a sad old git

[steviegunn]

r159 said:

In 1991 during one of my uni courses we had to come up with a product and put a presentation together using an overhead projector (remember those...plastic foils and everything!) my idea was a hand held device using gps, it had different flash cartridges for regions/cities... could be used on foot, car bike etc. with a moving map points of interest route guidance etc. Size equivalent to PDAs which were becoming popular at the time.

I got slaughtered...

I’d love to take a satnav or even better a smart phone and stick it...

In 1991 I was in my first full time job out of Uni working for a company that provided Differential GPS services for marine survey around the world (differential was an additional radio based correction to GPS positions because back at that time the civilian code had an built in error of up to 100m, only the military positions were very accurate, in fact at that time there were only certain times each day when you'd have at least 3 satellites visible to triangulate a position, the antennas were the size of Pizza boxes and many receivers were 19" rack mount). By 1993 I was developing software that could overlay real time GPS data on raster and vector maps using a GIS, by 1995 we had developed portable solutions that could be mounted in boats, lorries and cars but that was using brick computers separate colour LCD screens and a lot of wiring, a modern mobile would have blown me away back then.

[Morningside]

bigothunter said:

Sticks. said:

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

1. When you look at this and think it's gorgeous

2. You know that E reg/67 was when the registrations changed from January to August.

Is it yours?

AV8 van with longitudinal 848cc engine. Believe AV8 was the only application for this unique engine. I really am a sad old git

Vague memory, I'm sure they had a little white light at the back of the side lights to show they were working?

[Cotty]

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

I had an Austin A30 with the semaphore indicators, it was a 1954 year. Its the only car I have ownes that I could crank start.

The grey one above is an A35 with the indicators on the wings and painted grill.

[Laurel Green]

When you click on this thread to see if you had previously contributed to it.

[Dr Jekyll]

Sticks. said:

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

1. When you look at this and think it's gorgeous

2. You know that E reg/67 was when the registrations changed from January to August.

Is it yours?

When you look at it and think 'It can't be that old, it has a year letter after the numbers'.

[silverfoxcc]

Morningside said:

bigothunter said:

Sticks. said:

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

1. When you look at this and think it's gorgeous

2. You know that E reg/67 was when the registrations changed from January to August.

Is it yours?

AV8 van with longitudinal 848cc engine. Believe AV8 was the only application for this unique engine. I really am a sad old git

Vague memory, I'm sure they had a little white light at the back of the side lights to show they were working?

Sort of. They were red and white. amnd usd to clip onto the drivers window

The red was to show to the rear and the white to the front, which was, IIRC back in the 50s, mandatory to show parking lights on unlit roads

Also despitewah te the great and the good think it is still legal to drive in 30mph limit roads or roads with lighting, using sidelights only*
In fact that rule should be mandatory as vision is a lot better as you are niot subjectto being blinded every fourseconds by oncoming traffic
and there is a pedestrain numpty in black 30ft in front of you

• check out any of the British B films in Talking Pictures channel

Stories are mostly crap but there is lovely street furniture and car of that era esp some of the 'sports cars' thay used
Also there is a batch of Wolseley 6/90 that they use in The Edgar Wallace films and Scotland Yard and the Edgar Lustgarten series
Same old regs keep cropping up!

Oh and if you get into the Scotland Yard series watch out for Inspector Duggan. He racked up quitea few airmiles!!!

Edited by silverfoxcc on Monday 8th March 15:20

[BT Summers]

You remember a paragraph from Hunter Thompsons 1967 book on Hells Angels but you cannot remember what you had for tea yesterday.

(Happened today)

[bigothunter]

Morningside said:

bigothunter said:

Sticks. said:

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

1. When you look at this and think it's gorgeous

2. You know that E reg/67 was when the registrations changed from January to August.

Is it yours?

AV8 van with longitudinal 848cc engine. Believe AV8 was the only application for this unique engine. I really am a sad old git

Vague memory, I'm sure they had a little white light at the back of the side lights to show they were working?

No they are just in chrome torpedo housings (as photo below). There's a screw at the back (torpedo nose) so you can take them apart. Other cars such as Jaguar Mk1 & Mk2 had similar front side lights which may have a little white light/lens at the back.

[bigothunter]

Cotty said:

davhill said:

On an early one of these...



Gawd, I's ancient.

I had an Austin A30 with the semaphore indicators, it was a 1954 year. Its the only car I have ownes that I could crank start.

The grey one above is an A35 with the indicators on the wings and painted grill.

But it still has the A30 saloon roof front gutter rail which was also common to all A30 and A35 vans. This gutter rail was deleted on A35 saloons only.

Proof I'm really old