OT: Palerider's New Avatar!?!?!?

[jnk...]

Back when I first joined the forum almost everyone was using some sort of monkey avatar...they had come about doing that after some rather heated discussion about bananas curing sleep apnea or along those lines. I don't know that I ever saw the very first discussion that started the mass change to monkeys or I have forgotten it if I saw it.
Was quite funny to see all the monkeys of various shapes and sizes. Mine was a picture of a howling monkey....in a big scream.
Someone new to the forum would come here and ask how come almost everyone was a monkey.....I think they must have thought they had stumbled upon a zoo forum instead of a cpap forum.

I don't think I ever qualified for monkeydom, as -SWS explained it:

Only a small percentage of aspiring overachievers actually make it through monkey-business boot camp to attain that coveted status of cpaptalk monkey-business specialist.-- viewtopic/t41470/OT-Monkeying-Around.ht ... 15#p364446

[Dog Slobber]

That's right CPAPneans, it's once again time for the much anticipated palerider avatar election *.

Please select one, from the following avatar candidates:

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* VETO! Vote Early, Vote Often. Contest closes midnight (EST) March 31st, 2019. Members of ApneaBoard not eligible for voting.

[palerider]

One wonders where palerider gets all his energy...


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but, but, but....i've always heard it said that there was no rest for the wicked!

I'm not wicked... I'm just drawn that way.

oh VERY good, sir! i believe you win the internet for the day.

Uh oh, I don't have anywhere to put it.

[jnk...]

It's probably time to give the whole thing back to Mr. Gore anyway.

[poppi2]

One wonders where palerider gets all his energy...


Palerider On His Break.jpg

but, but, but....i've always heard it said that there was no rest for the wicked!

I'm not wicked... I'm just drawn that way.

oh VERY good, sir! i believe you win the internet for the day.

Uh oh, I don't have anywhere to put it.

The internet doesn’t weigh anything! And is only about the size of a breadbox.

[zonker]

The internet doesn’t weigh anything! And is only about the size of a breadbox.

yeah, i have a copy of it around here somewhere on a 3.5" disk....

[babydinosnoreless]

What' a 3.5" disk?!?!?! It that a CD???

Omg I am so old.

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[babydinosnoreless]

I did too my first computer.

[palerider]

Well, since we're doing 'my first computer'...



Not a great pic,.. the keyboard was built into the tabletop... and that white box under the table on the right wasn't the computer... it was a minicomputer that was used to diagnose the main computer... which was that wall in the background.

Here's a pic of another one:

[chunkyfrog]

I did too my first computer.

Hubby still has his--but the first one was a Heathkit that he BUILT.

[palerider]

Well, since we're doing 'my first computer'...



Not a great pic,.. the keyboard was built into the tabletop... and that white box under the table on the right wasn't the computer... it was a minicomputer that was used to diagnose the main computer... which was that wall in the background.

Here's a pic of another one:

That computer was just a dream when I was in my computer class in SF!!!

Fortran anyone???

PL/I, Assembler, Cobol...

[poppi2]

Grinning Devil

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[babydinosnoreless]

I did too my first computer.

WOW!!!!

I hate to show you what I used in my high school computer class...

You had computers in high school ?

We had trs-80's my senior year.

[babydinosnoreless]

Well, since we're doing 'my first computer'...



Not a great pic,.. the keyboard was built into the tabletop... and that white box under the table on the right wasn't the computer... it was a minicomputer that was used to diagnose the main computer... which was that wall in the background.

Here's a pic of another one:

My father in law ran computers like that.

[palerider]

My first operations job was on one of these things:


Just the cabinet on the right though, the one I ran had a stand alone tape drive.

I like the HP3000 III machine, cuz I could get a pretty good idea how much longer the jobs were going to run based on the way the address lights were flashing on the front "do I have time for a break before I have to do something else? *glances at blinkin lights* yup..."