Life Time only 50 years

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big_b

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Just bought a lifetime FCT & it's only valid for 50yrs.
Thats still good value @ $2 per year .I'm not complaining
As I'm 55 now that should just about see me out.:D
But if some of the younger members buy one the may need two lifetime tickets:'( to keep the downloads gowing after Trainz version 2059:udrool::eek:

Dave
 
Dave,
Look forward to hearing from you in person in 2059 when your FCT is coming up for renewal.. Please send me a PM & remind me that my own personal FCT is also coming up for renewal as well... by that time I might be only playing with half a bag of marbles... :hehe:
Cheers, Mac...
 
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:hehe: That's not fair, my intention is to reach the more-than-a-century age. Am I going to be given a second life by Auran-Whoeverownsthecompanythen?

The Methuselah side of Alberte :wave:
 
Better than the lotteries where the ad says, "Win $XX Million a Year for Life!" then you read the little print on the back and "Life" = 20 years. Lotteries expect you to die sooner!:eek:
 
I won a life membership to a club in a raffle once. The club closed down 5 months later. Butterflies live about that long I think.

Life imprisonment in Australia used to be 25 years. I think it's now 18 months.

On a brighter note, the young ones here probably won't even remember that the PC as we know it didn't even exist 25 years ago. The first PC's that came out in late 1984 had 64kb to 128 kb of RAM and two 360kb floppies. If you were lucky or rich enough to own a hard disk, 10 megabytes was the max. Monitors produced 4 colours, Red, Blue, Green and video cards gave you a choice of graphics and low resolution text or high resolution text only, but not both.

Apple's, Atari's and Comodore Amiga's were far more advanced, but all fell victim to the corporate giant IBM.

Having said all that, I reckon in another 25 years the download station won't be necessary. You'll just ask your computer to create a train game and it will. You'll then ask it to produce some locomotives, rolling stock and houses and it will. The game won't be like it is today, it will be a real-life experience with you in the driver's cab of an almost perfect locomotive looking at perfect scenery, possibly in equally perfect 3D. And it will all be happening on a screen as big as your lounge room wall.

But don't let that stop you from purchasing a lifetime FCT, because in 25 years the smallest coin in your pocket will be $100, and that may buy you a loaf of bread provided you have 50 more in the same pocket.
 
Hey Dave,

That's a great deal. No remember not to let it lapse when it expires! ;)

@Johnk -

Your early computer wan't much different than mine. I worked for Visual and purchased their V-1050 CP/M machine. It came with a really nice KeyTronics keyboard, 128k of system RAM, which was bank-switched because the Z-80 could only handle 64k, 32k video RAM, 2 floppy drives, and 9" display. It came "bundled" with software... WordStar, Z-80 Assembler, DR-Graph, Multiplan, and some system software.

Later on I got one of their early IBM compatibles called the Commuter. Since I worked for field service, I upgraded my unit to 512k, and enabled both serial ports (required a special PAL chip). This unit came with no hard disk either, but you could plug in an IBM PC expansion box where a hard drive could be loaded. It ran MS-DOS 2.11

John
 
Hi John, Like yourself I kicked of with CP/M way back in '82. I was appointed a Kaypro dealer in Melbourne in 1983 and my first real machine was a Kaypro 84 with 2 360kb floppies. I purchased a 1 meg Ram Card from the States so I could load 3 floppies into Ram if I wished. Kaypro came with a box full of software including Perfect Write, Perfect Calc, Wordstar, dBII and a host of other stuff. At $3,500 a pop I only had to sell three a week to make a very good living. In those days there was enough profit in it to give decent after sales service and still live a decent lifestyle.

Kaypro PC's had a system that should have been picked up by others. The area taken up by today's mother boards was a huge bus board. The mother board was a long card like any other card that could be pulled out and replaced with something more powerful in ten seconds without destroying the rest of the computer. It was highly successful and many of my clients upgraded from 128 to 256 without having to throw everything away.

Them were the days!
 
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Ahh!!.......... Multiplan,.......... I still prefer it, to Excel.
The BBC was the best computer.................It was the first to play the king of all games...........!...ELITE...!...........
 
Them were the days!
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They sure were the days!

Visiual's V-1050 came out in the 1982-84 date range and was capable of reading Kaypro floppy disks. When I started to get more into comuters, from a system standpoint, I purchased a pile of software including DBII. All I had to do was put in the V-1050 system disk and it would convert the disk in the B: drive. The price was around the same as the Kaypro and other models at the same time. I of course got it deeply discounted as an employee.

This was back when working in the computer industry actually gave people a decent living. It's sadly no longer the case. I have now exited the high tech industry for good, or as long as I am capable of. On September 1st, I'm going to university as a music major, which is what I wanted in the first place 30 years ago!

It'll be lean pickings for awhle, but I can deal. There are no jobs out there anyway that pay a decent salary so what's the difference between living on unemployment and being a student, or making $10.00 which is what the companies want to play these days.

The other thing too is health insurance, which I need very badly. I have Parkinson's Disease and require many $100's a month for medication. I'm skipping my medication until my school insurance kicks in. Right now I have no health insurance throught unemployment because it won't kick in for 6 weeks. By the time that kicks in, I"ll be in school and have their insurance. I tried for the mandatory state plan, but that costs 60% of my monthly income so I don't gain anything. The lovely politicians and insurance companies have this plan based on last year's income when I of course made a lot more money.

Sorry to go off subject, but the old days were a time when I learned a lot about computers, and I realized that a lot could be done with so little. :)

John
 
When they say "Lifetime" they may be equating the term to 2.25x the life prison sentence given here in the US, i.e. Squeaky Frome just released after 20 years.
 
Hey John,

I wish you well. Computer nerd to Music Major, what a change. Most of the important medications in OZ are on the Free List, which means you only pay $20, even if the retail price is five bucks. If you're on a pension like me, it's $5 per script. One of my scripts normally costs $250 a month so I can't complain.
Good luck.

John
 
Johnk said:
Apple's, Atari's and Comodore Amiga's were far more advanced, but all fell victim to the corporate giant IBM.
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Atari and Amiga fell victim to the corporate giants Microsoft and Intel rather than IBM. Apple, I would imagine, feel they have fallen to no one.
 
I didnt know you could get a lifetime ticket I will check now. I live in the UK maybe you cant get one there. Pip old chap, spiffing good fun this trainz game;)
 
Does anybody seriously think Auran or "neverfail" or whatever will still be around in fifty years? I know I won't be. :cool:
 
big_b said:
Just bought a lifetime FCT & it's only valid for 50yrs.
Thats still good value @ $2 per year .I'm not complaining
As I'm 55 now that should just about see me out.:D
But if some of the younger members buy one the may need two lifetime tickets:'( to keep the downloads gowing after Trainz version 2059:udrool::eek:

Dave
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Goodness, they tell me that I'm only going to live to be 65! This is outragous!:hehe:

Time to try that offer that came in my spam folder today something about, drink this and you'll live longer!:p


Cheers,
Woody
 
Hi,

Lets be realistic about this. Anyone with more than one brain cell knows we are not buying a 50 year FCT.

However I feel that this is a cry from Auran to give them a cash boost in order to survive the current financial crisis (lets face it , multi-national companies are falling by the wayside, so a small company like Auran must be really struggling).

I reckon the cost is equivalent to about 4 years FCT's and since I have enjoyed this Trainz experience for the past 5 years, I am willing to risk my money on a further 4 -5 years.

Come on - lets support this great game.

I have posted this in the two current threads relating to the FCT and new routes available.

Cheers, John
 
;) C'mon, John, we were taking this on the lighter side (- that's a funny offer, indeed - :hehe: - it seems that current Auranites are funny still ).

Since most of us are very realistic people ( we like Trainz :p ) we take this on that lighter side of thinking Trainz to last for 50 more years.

But I still insist on breaking Methuselah's record. :hehe:

The record-breaking side of Alberte :wave:
 
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