A post I made earlier got me thinking.... I'm 48 and have all the 'remember whens' from my childhood (short list of a few below). But since there are many members older and many younger than myself, I'm really curious what YOUR 'remember whens' are - especially the much younger folks.... I've never asked my grown kids their 'remember whens' and will do that next time they're over. 1. Pay phones had rotary dials and calls were a dime (now try to FIND a pay phone) 2. It never occurred to me that things weren't 'in color' on black-and-white TV. In my mind, cartoons WERE in color! Didn't get color TV until I was 17! (1978) 3. The only way to make copies of things involved a mimeograph - remember the smell? 4. People would SMOKE IN THE GROCERY STORE! My dad smoked and they had ashcans at the end of every isle. 5. Summers were WAAAAAYYYYYYY longer Yours? Jedi
8. Being able to leave doors unlocked at night or away because the neighborhood or town you live in, nothing ever happened.
10. Icky Twerp on "Slam Bang Theater" (it was a Noth Texas thing). 11. Scuderia shields were found ONLY on racing Ferraris, and to put them on a street car was unthinkable.
The corner drugstore that served burgers & malts. Movie theatres that only had one screen & balcony seating. Sambo's Restaurants
Believe it or not, there was a time when you had to get your big fat lard ass off the couch and walk across the room to change the channel on your TV, and there were commercials for cigarettes! And men wore hats. And breakfast cereals had "sugar" in their names.
I remember when Motocross bikes had short travel, drum brakes and were air cooled. http://www.vintagefactory.com/73CR250Elsinore23.jpg
Only 5 Channels on TV - here it was 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11 until 1979 when we got 13 (now I have 500 and there's nothing EVER on!) Jedi
- When grocery stores had vacuum tube testers - You could buy firearms through Sears catalogues or buy a firearm at your local Gunstore and take them home that very same day. - Ethyl Gasoline! Image Unavailable, Please Login
When you...took photos and actually couldn't see them until you 1) Drove to the photo developer and got them developed 2) Wait 5 days 3) Pay for them 4) Open envelope and look at them. When you...listened to vinyl When you...had to insert a floppy disc to play a game on the Macintosh.
Even better using punch cards to input data to the computer http://jebrown.us/PunchCardReader/images/punch_card.75dpi.rgb.gif The funny thing is the photo is of a punch card from the school system when I went to High School.
FORTRAN for just a start I have programmed in Basic, Cobol, RPG, Pascal, Assembler for IBM 360/370 DEC PDP-10 and PDP-11 Back in the good old days when 64K of memory was a Luxury
Hah, I knew it was going to be asked. Actually yes I do Chas. My dad collected vinyl albums of Bollywood movies, I'm looking for some old turntables so he can listen to them. I loved our Macintosh, I had Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, and a bunch of random ones. My favorite, I cannot remember the name though, bunch of monkeys, and you can climb skyscrapers and throw banana peels at the other monkeys. The picture one, one of my uncles has been a big photography fan, so whenever we were there, we used to be spending time at camera shops alot. I did steal the first one from another website, but I remembered it, so I stuck it in my post.
Yep. Same here - remember having my very own 64k slice of the University of Puget Sound IBM 360 with a BASIC interpreter All my 'early' programming (1974 when in JR High) was done in FORTRAN with a hand punching encoder. The nerds among my group would do things to mess with 360 operator at Central School Admin by writing things like 'endless count' generators, and 'null page print' loops - there was no way to preview code on punch cards and we'd get nasty notes back about how much paper was consumed during our 'run' I only did assembler on Motorola chips - Zilog and the first Intel '86 architecture was way over my head. Now I just USE computers and couldn't care less how they worked [sigh] Jedi
My favorite, I cannot remember the name though, bunch of monkeys, and you can climb skyscrapers and throw banana peels at the other monkeys... Wrong, but this is the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX2q7d2a4w&feature=fvw
Absolutely! And younger people ask why I would watch shows like Waltons or Six Million Dollar Man. Well, with 5 channels... Also, remember when Evel Knievel would perform a jump, and to see it live you'd have to go to a theater?
