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Gasoline was $0.45 per gallon, that's leaded gas.
The evening news was not over until Walter Cronkite said: "That's the way it is." You remember when all the friends of you high school age older siblings wore Beatle Boots. You remember Saturday morning cartoons like Tennessee Tuxedo and Underdog. |
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But that VT100 brought in an whole new era, for me anyway. It only took a few months before everyone else in the office had one. That was on a PDP-11 running RSTS. When the Vax arrived we could forget about shuffling memory around all the time, the 32 bit memory space felt like infinity. When the 16 bit PCs came out it felt like (and was) a backward step. I avoided them for years 'cos I had a Vax to play with. |
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You kids get off my lawn!
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Likewise with 8-track tapes. Often, a song had to be split between two tracks so you ended up with a pause of several seconds during a song.
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Even a touch tone phone, one still have to remember phone numbers sometimes.
I used to keep phone numbers in a phone book, still keeping, e.g. out of city friends and relatives, coz I wrote down their address too. I used a Rotary phone when I was very little, in my grandmother house. |
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You know you're getting older if you still own a record player and 8-track player...
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Oh yeah, they also had VT-100 emulators so you could log onto the PDP and do your compile from there. Ain't technology grand? ![]() ![]() Last edited by wodin; 01-09-2012 at 12:59 PM. |
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You know you're getting older if anything under a quarter isn't worth bending over to pick up. (Either that or it's a sign you're getting fat. Or both.)
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You know you're getting old, if you still dial the number from your memory. That's not using auto-dial.
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Incoming calls were done by a one letter morse code. A ring would sound on all phones on that line, but you only answer the ring if it was your letter. No, we didn't all know morse code, we only had to know our one letter. I guess they couldn't have more than 26 on a line. Actually they only chose letters that were easy to remember/distinguish I think. This was rural. In town (a tiny place, actually) they all had their own lines, so no morse code needed. If the phone rang it was always for you. Us country folk thought that was pretty high tech. But the town folk still had to ask Pixie Steptoe to make an outgoing call. |
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You know you're getting older, if you need glasses to read these messages.
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You know you're getting older if you don't recognize most of the bands on Saturday Night Live.
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Bah! Humbug!
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I'm watching you!
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Oi! I resemble that remark. anyway you know are REALLY REALLY OLD if you can't remember the phone numbers and have to look it up because you don't know how to use the phonebook section of your mobile phone unless your friend's son is there to help.
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