While sorting out the SIM card there were a whole lot of numbers to be entered in the phone (as always – everything is numbers these days, you noticed?). One of the numbers was 8088.
“Nice number” I said to the lad doing the selling. “That was the number of the original IBM CPU in the first desktop computers. I used to know the machine codes for programming it off by heart”
Thought he’d be interested, what with him being wired an’ all.
Instead he gave me the sort of look I used to give, at his age, to old geezers who told me they remembered when cars had crank handles.
“Dozy old dinosaur” I heard him think.
“Bah! Young whippersnapper” I thought.
As I stumped away, wondering what the young people of today are coming to.
No respect.
Hmph.
amazing that the youngster you met wasn’t impressed by your recall of numbers…reminds me of hannah being singularly UNimpressed i could still reel off the logarithm for pi (its 0.4972) even tho not used this since 1970 physics a level !