Today is DEC 20

[yesthattom]

Do something 36 times.

(if you get this joke, you are a nerd and old)

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Well, I thought I knew enough to figure it out, but not if it's 36 rather than 32.

[penk.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECSYSTEM-20

I'm old, and I'm a geek. Alas.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

The DEC-20 was a 36-bit machine. Yes, 36.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Yeah, DEC occurred to me, but I thought I thought better of that ans went with assembly decrement.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Who are you calling old, youngster!

[bruhinb.livejournal.com]

Damned straight! Tom isn't even old enough to get that joke on his own... if he hadn't witnessed us dredging these stores out of our core memories.

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Word!

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least I've lived long enough to get old. :P

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Word up!

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Dammit, that webbob beat me to it.

[moose]

do you know about twenex.org?

[sexykneesocks.livejournal.com]

funny
in that the fundraiser i ran last night, on 12/20 had a 36 dollar minimum cover.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

I miss Chip and Dale, my beloved sources of TOPS-20, and they've been gone almost twenty years. (sigh)

[lilbjorn.livejournal.com]

I actually got that. Never worked on a DEC 20, but I did write code for its predecessor, a DEC 10. I guess that makes me older than old.