Older than 50? 60? 70? Years

Just wanted to see how many folks are in these age brackets. :D

I am pushing past 70. :music_whistling:

Lazduc

I just want to say WOW!

I wish I`ll fly sims at 70! (Can`t imagine how they will look in 2046!)

Soon to turn 67 :music_whistling:

I'm 58 years old, flight simming since the days of Falcon AT ...

... so I can fully apreciate what a wonderful product we do have with DCS, that's why I try to show my support by buying almost every module that they've produced :)

Just hit 65. Janes Fighters Anthology started it for me..It had Multiplayer and appealed to me because I would be flying with and against humans ..WOW! Ummm on Dial-Up....LOL!

Thats where I met my squadmates. Four of us still fly together after 19-20 years. The difference from where we started to what we have know is pretty amazing and makes me appreciate ED for making it happen.

<S> To ED, you guys are my heros!

An actual age poll could be revealing. Im thinking the avg age is the older set.

My Dad was a WWII Vet. He was Navy in the South Pacific. Saw action at Okinawa with Kamakazis hitting his ship.

Uncles were Navy, Army and USAAF and saw action in Burma, Italy, France and Germany.

57 here, and my first flight sims were on a C-64, but during the time of some of the great ones of the late 80/early 90s, life kept me too busy to really delve into them properly, though I did own quite a few I never really got a good grasp of any of them, unfortunately. Returned to flight simming when I retired in 2010 and rediscovered it.

It sure was a lot cheaper in the old days, with just a keyboard and very basic joystick.

It certainly has changed.

Btw, there should be a poll floating around on just this subject, though I am too lazy search for it, and I think the average age ended up in the 40's.

In that range, but well to the left for now. :-)

Turned 64 two days ago. Started out with F15 Strike Eagle on an Atari ( you'll never need more that 8 k of ram) computer.

Will be 75 in Feb.

My first flight sim was this:

My father is not a member on these forums but he just turned 60 and has been flying DCS for a few years now. He had a PPL in the 1980's and like many, started flight simming on a Commodore 64. I have him to thank for my love and great interest in aviation. I am 37 by the way.

Great stories....keep em commin. Way back...I purchased a TRS-80. The first program (on tape cassette ) was FS-1. Wire frame.. 41 years I have had a computer and flight sim software. I still have all the software and the computers. Imsai, Tandy 6000, Amiga, Apple, Commodore, well over 80 systems. Cant remember all the names. lol. And of course my new systems....and probably over 200 Flight sim software titles.

Its ironic, I read here about members wanting such and such models of their particular interest.....I have software that already models everything (almost) coming. Course most are not "Study Sim" types but still they are a kick to fly. I also have over 100 Radio controlled aircraft simulators. Every plane on DCS I have a RC aircraft sim.

Speaking of RC...I just finished the T-50 Pakfa. Also have the FW190, Me-109, Su-35, Mig-29 and the F-22. These guys weigh in over 6-8 lbs and use ducted fans. 40k to 60rpm..60,000 rpm, 10 blades...sound like the real thing. Next jet I am getting is the Mig-21.

Clear Skys..Happy Holidays

Lazduc

Great stories....keep em commin. Way back...I purchased a TRS-80. The first program (on tape cassette ) was FS-1. Wire frame.. 41 years I have had a computer and flight sim software. I still have all the software and the computers. Imsai, Tandy 6000, Amiga, Apple, Commodore, well over 80 systems. Cant remember all the names. lol. And of course my new systems....and probably over 200 Flight sim software titles.

 

Its ironic, I read here about members wanting such and such models of their particular interest.....I have software that already models everything (almost) coming. Course most are not "Study Sim" types but still they are a kick to fly. I also have over 100 Radio controlled aircraft simulators. Every plane on DCS I have a RC aircraft sim.

 

Speaking of RC...I just finished the T-50 Pakfa. Also have the FW190, Me-109, Su-35, Mig-29 and the F-22. These guys weigh in over 6-8 lbs and use ducted fans. 40k to 60rpm..60,000 rpm, 10 blades...sound like the real thing. Next jet I am getting is the Mig-21.

Clear Skys..Happy Holidays

Lazduc

My parents got this, and I tinkered around. http://www.oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html

When I moved out, I got this.

http://oldcomputers.net/tano-dragon.html

Man, in the day, this was computing at it's finest! :thumbup:;)

I'm a young 'un - just 56

52 here ☺

Almost 58. My first flight sim was on the Atari st. Mig 29 super fulcrum.

67 here. Started with VC20 and Blue Max.

60!

Started out with a apple IIc and flight sims. 1986. I remember the sky was blue, the ground was green and the aircraft was wire frame!

Spend HOURS learning to dog fight.

I also spent way too much time with Microsoft CFS2. Still have this on the pc and do fly it sometimes. With all the mods available for CFS2 the folder has grown to 15 gb! Still great fun to fly.

I am STILL good at crashing on deck during carrier "landings":D

Boy, have we come a long way!

Fun to reminisce but I am forever spoiled by DCS.

Hawkeye

ps: I still own a rocket ship apple IIgs With every hardware upgrade you could buy for it. Still boots and runs fine after all these years.

What a great machine! Speeds along at a blazing 4 mhz!:D

Okay somewhat youngish 57.

I got into Terminal Velocity, but Whoa the Huey is AWESOME.

I'm just out the age range on this thread......49 here, but feel more like 20 on the VA server! (AO now I think it's called).

I started with "Spitfire 40" on an Amstrad CPC 464 back in 1986! This Friday coming I will have gone full circle on the Spitfire when our latest and greatest is released :D

wow so many uncles here :D

i am 36 and everybody is saying that why are you playing games at this age. now i am happy that my simmer uncles are also playing. i wish i will be playing at your ages too

salute

Hmm....Where are all of you when I'm in the servers? All I ever see there are 14-20 year old lunatics who only fly the F15. Sometimes I get so aggravated that I just don't go on line. I'll be starting up and some kid will careen into me as he's trying to do a supersonic flyover to show all of us his skills.

So I guess I just answered my own question. With age comes common sense I suppose. I'm only 52.

Those 'kids' online is why I don't play any game in MP. I have been frustrated too many times by the antics that go on regardless of what the game is.

In terms of DCS, I rarely have/had the time to dedicate to a good MP mission.

These stories are great. Lots of fun reading them and looking forward to them. Kills the time waiting for you know what. By the way I have a TI99-4A.. with the huge floppy drive/serial/sound add-on. I have a number of Apple computers.

What was the strangest computer you ever came across? I'll bet some of you older gentlemen have come across systems that are almost unknown except for a few. Let me start out....see if you ever heard of an EXO system? One more that comes to mind....is yes the MindSet computer.

What have you seen??

Lazduc

Although I haven't been a flight simmer for decades I've been video-gaming since the dawn of video games. Took a while to remember the name and find a pic but this is where it started for me. The Telstar arcade! Think it was taken off the market for burning image into TV screens after a few months use. I remember the cartridges had this wierd pungent smell to them. Probably made of asbestos and plutonium or some other hazardous material back then.