Kind of a fun game

[GilpinGuy]

We haven't had a fun game in a while. I heard this on a podcast.

Name something that someone under 30 doesn't know about, hasn't used or hasn't experienced.

This isn't to bash or demean anyone under 30, but to show just how far we have advanced with technology and perhaps slipped backwards in other ways.

I'll start:

Going to "the video store" to rent the whole gigantic VCR that you hooked up to your TV and a few video tapes. Get everything back in 2 days or you get charged a late fee!

[powerstroke79]

Be kind and rewind

[Irving]

Skip-it

[.455_Hunter]

The purple text and chemical smell of paper fresh off the ditto machine. For me, that was last experienced in the middle '80s elementary school.

[O2HeN2]

I mentioned it a few days ago in here: Testing tubes.

That's at the very edge of my memory.

O2

[GilpinGuy]

Remember Lawn Darts?
78003

[MrPrena]

The purple text and chemical smell of paper fresh off the ditto machine. For me, that was last experienced in the middle '80s elementary school.

I remember it took me longer to read the light print out than solving some of an actual problem on the exam.

[MrPrena]

WORD PROCESSOR.

Computer ( serious POS today's standard) were so damn expensive that people bought word processors for about 900 to 1400. All it does is that it does Word type of program with integrated dot printer.

I had a brother's wp-xx series word processors and people said that it is too much of a machine for 6th grader.

Kids knows about typewriters but not too many kids knows word processors.


https://youtu.be/NkczNkDldGk

[XJ]

Rotary telephone

ETA there are modern lawn darts with a bean-bag “tip” I sent a set to the nieces.

[ray1970]

Regular gasoline. With lead.

[hollohas]

The mail order music service. What was it, BMG?

Sign up, buy 1 CD, get 10 for $10. They automatically mailed you a different random CD each month and if you didn't return it, they'd charge you full price.

[ray1970]

The mail order music service. What was it, BMG?

Sign up, buy 1 CD, get 10 for $10. They automatically mailed you a different random CD each month and if you didn't return it, they'd charge you full price.

Oh, you youngsters.

I thought it was something like twelve free cassette tapes.

[ray1970]

For the win...

I remember when the internet didn?t exist and every phone on the planet was hardwired.

[ray1970]

And let?s not forget carburetors.

Imagine telling a sixteen year old who is just learning how to drive how to set the choke to get it started up or teaching them what to do if it?s flooded and won?t start.

[hollohas]

Oh, you youngsters.

I thought it was something like twelve free cassette tapes.I definitely rocked one of these when I rode my bike around town. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190517/14d3612f8cc6dd28ae58911fd1251fe1.jpg

[Irving]

I was recently in a room of just under 30 year-olds and not a single one of them knew who Loraina Bobbet is.

[CS1983]

I was recently in a room of just under 30 year-olds and not a single one of them knew who Loraina Bobbet is.

A shame when people are cut off from popular remembrance.

[CS1983]

Hrm... having trouble deciding between slap bracelets and having your POG container spill everything into your Jansport backpack.

[Hound]

https://geekologie.com/2019/05/two-17-year-olds-challenged-to-dial-a-nu.php

This is a video of two 17-year old boys (born circa 2002) who were challenged to dial a specific phone number with a rotary phone in less than four minutes. It was a real nail biter. I like how they originally start dialing from the bottom of the finger stop and dial TO the number they want. They also just leave the handset on the receiver. Although eventually (with a little help), they are able to figure it out and make the call within the time limit. A life skill that should come in handy in the event, and only in the event, they're ever visiting their grandma like decent grandchildren and her house catches fire. Now let's see if they can make a call with a pager.

[ChickNorris]

Remember Lawn Darts?
78003

All the fun. Miss these a lot.

[Irving]

Even driving a manual seems to be fading away.

[ray1970]

We used to play the lawn darts from the front to the back yard, tossing over the house. We?d have two of us on either side and one person on each team was blindfolded. The guy who wasn?t blindfolded was responsible for keeping the blindfolded guy safe via verbal commands to avoid the incoming darts.

We?re probably lucky nobody was hurt.

[StagLefty]

Party phone lines !!!!

[ray1970]

Even driving a manual seems to be fading away.

I was talking about this yesterday with a coworker.

I taught my son to drive a stick shift when he was learning and he did okay but every vehicle he has owned has had an automatic transmission.

The daughter... yeah... no thanks. I knew it would be all I could do to teach her how to drive. The last thing she or I needed was to complicate things with clutches and shifting.

[ray1970]

Party phone lines !!!!

Sheesh. Now you?re making me feel young.

[izzy]

Using a road map. Also I still drive a manual transmission.

[ray1970]

Call me sometime, Stag.

Here?s my number.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190517/e9f0ef211d496c347d108daee11e6381.jpg

[StagLefty]

Call me sometime, Stag.

Here?s my number.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190517/e9f0ef211d496c347d108daee11e6381.jpg

Someones on the line maybe later Ray [ROFL2]

[MrPrena]

1-900-

[Irving]

OK cola, and also 1-800-OKColaa hotline.

[Great-Kazoo]

The mail order music service. What was it, BMG?

Sign up, buy 1 CD, get 10 for $10. They automatically mailed you a different random CD each month and if you didn't return it, they'd charge you full price.


Capital Music Buy 10 for (iirc) $1. then pick 1 per month for the usual price of $6-10 depending on a sincle or double album.

Record Albums, 45's with always looking for the lesher. That's after the phonograph no longer came with the large diameter center piece where you could stack a 1/2 doz 45's in a row.


Call me sometime, Stag.

Here?s my number.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190517/e9f0ef211d496c347d108daee11e6381.jpg


1 grandparents was TE (Terrace) 8-0842 the others was SH (shore road) 8- 2130

[Bailey Guns]

Calling the "operator".

Fuel filler behind the license plate on your car.

Full service gas stations. "Ethyl" gas.

"Duck and Cover" drills at school.

[Bailey Guns]

Party phone lines !!!!

Oh, hell! We initially had one when we moved to Bailey in 1990. I was shocked.

[Great-Kazoo]

Horn & Hardart's automats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx1E-kDpVQ0



albums (33/13 & 78's) made out of some type of glass / ceramic material that would break if not handled correctly


Weed Killer that had DDT, Killer Kane was one brand

Watt's riots

JFK's assassination, Years later watching a B&W tv when Bobby Kennedy was shot.

My dad arresting Paul Anka. WHO? [LOL]

When the movie ratings were introduced and theaters actually enforced the NO ON UNDER 18 Admitted without a Parent or Guardian


Transistor radios and the only music was on a.m. 77 WABC. with Cousin Brucie.


Getting hit by a teacher in school, or one of the neighbors dragging you home for some discipline if caught


Being one of those kids your parents warned you about.



When only a limited few rode motorcycles and it was either Indian, H-D or the odd Limey bike.

[Bailey Guns]

I remember getting "paddled" in school on more than one occasion. And I remember the community ass beating I'd get when a friend's parent or a neighbor caught me doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing: that person would beat my ass, then my parents would get home at different times and I'd get another ass-whooping when each of them arrived.


Remember riding your bike thru the mosquito foggers?

[ray1970]

The last time I got paddled I was in ninth grade. Fifteen years old and pretty much full grown. My English teacher hit me so hard she sprained her wrist.

[ray1970]

Remember riding your bike thru the mosquito foggers?

Well,that definitely explains a lot.

[CS1983]

Velvet wallpaper like my grandmother had in their bathrooms.

[ray1970]

I also doubt anyone much younger than me will remember when they desegregated the schools.

[hollohas]

Making a collect call from a payphone, but instead of saying your name, saying "come pick me up" so your parents didn't have to accept the call and get charged.

[CS1983]

Making a collect call from a payphone, but instead of saying your name, saying "come pick me up" so your parents didn't have to accept the call and get charged.

Bobwehadababyitsaboy

[meatman]

I was referred to as Schneider for doing handyman work at a female friend's house.

[ChickNorris]

I was referred to as Schneider for doing handyman work at a female friend's house.

I still call people (including myself) a Schneider.

[hollohas]

I'm at field day right now. It's more like a bunch of carnival games.

When I was a kid, field was was legit track and field events with ribbons for the winners.

EDIT : There's even a bouncy castle...

[Ah Pook]

78006
78007
78008

[ray1970]

I was referred to as Schneider for doing handyman work at a female friend's house.

I would have just called you meatman.

[Martinjmpr]

Telephone "calling cards" for long distance calls. I had one for years when I was in the military, now I think hardly anyone remembers them since everyone has a cell phone.

[TEAMRICO]

Telephone "calling cards" for long distance calls. I had one for years when I was in the military, now I think hardly anyone remembers them since everyone has a cell phone.

Roger that!!!!

[meatman]

I would have just called you meatman.

https://i1.wp.com/laurazielke.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/What-you-talkin-bout-willis-quote-1.jpg

[thvigil11]

Mom gave me a quarter to keep so I never had an excuse not to call home and tell her where I was. I was 8 and kept it in my shoe.

About 10 years ago I found a complete set of jarts in the box with all the accessories (rings and spare fins) at a goodwill in Denver. Price was 4.99. I had a hard time leaving the store, everyone who saw them, including the checker wanted to get them off me. One guy even chased me into the parking lot. Kept upping his price ten dollars at a time. I think his final offer was near 100 or so.

They are a hit at my annual summer bbq.

[colorider]

Playground games such as smear the queer and red rover. Seems those are banned from the schoolyards now.

[TFOGGER]

Telephone "calling cards" for long distance calls. I had one for years when I was in the military, now I think hardly anyone remembers them since everyone has a cell phone.

I still remember the number on my Sprint FON card...


Timing lights, dwell meters, and for the old OLD school bike mechanics, a "buzz box". I still have and use all 3...

[Justin]

- Blowing air into a Nintendo cartridge to get it to work.
- When you bought a video game, you got the whole thing, no microtransactions or add-ons.
- Video games that were difficult and didn't handhold the player through the whole thing.

[whitewalrus]

Photos that you had to take and then get the film developed

[BPTactical]

FotoMat

Getting popped drinking beer underaged and the cop dumping out all the beer and telling us to go home.

Chevy LUV pickup

AMC Gremlin

Triumph TR7

.45 cent pack of cigarettes

.35 cent gallon of gas

Azars Big Boy

Cruising 16th St and out running Buster Schneider

Graphic Equalizer for your Pioneer SuperTuner 8 track

Air Shocks

$1000.00 big block Chevelle SS

$1000.00 Boss 302 Mustang

Killer Bee Records & Tapes

Peaches Records

Wearing out Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath LP albums

Girls in high waisted jeans, tube tops and mid riffed tops[Muaha]

Cinder Alley

$12.50 concert tickets

[TFOGGER]

The cops always made US dump it out...truly traumatic, watching 10 hard earned dollars pour down a storm drain...

[ChickNorris]

Y'all were terrible kids.



You got caught. ;-)

[Trigger Time 23]

The "Service Merchandise" catalog. I used to love to look through that.

[Gman]

Making a collect call from a payphone, but instead of saying your name, saying "come pick me up" so your parents didn't have to accept the call and get charged.
I don't remember being able to make a voice recording on a collect call. It was operator assisted and my folks would decline to pay for the call. It didn't matter, because that was the signal that I was ready to be picked up.

Anybody else remember clackers?

http://youtu.be/uNWLC16gyOk

[Gman]

Playground games such as smear the queer and red rover.
I got clotheslined so bad one time playing red rover. The line rose their arms and caught me in the throat and took me off my feet. I thought I was going to die.

Ah, the good old days.

[CS1983]

Playground games such as smear the queer and red rover. Seems those are banned from the schoolyards now.

Sometimes we play red rover w/ the boys. They don't quite get it, but are happy to get to run back and forth between us.

[Zundfolge]

The "Service Merchandise" catalog. I used to love to look through that.

Ha ... I worked at a Service Merchandise in my college years ... there's good reasons the place no longer exists (the system basically encouraged employee theft).

[hollohas]

Getting popped drinking beer underaged and the cop dumping out all the beer and telling us to go home.



^This is a big one that I feel like younger folks don't understand. Every weekend our goal was to not get found by LE and it was their goal to find us. They knew it and we knew it. Sometimes they won, sometimes we won. But everyone loved the game. They'd just laugh at us as we poured it out. We'd just laugh when we pulled out our backups as they left.

How about carrying knives in school. I was never without a knife since elementary school.

[Bailey Guns]

Playing dodgeball at school. Or kickball. Choosing sides. Winning and losing.

[Gman]

How about carrying knives in school. I was never without a knife since elementary school.

Good one. I always had a Victorinox Spartan or Tinker on me.

[Gman]

I was in a meeting yesterday with people around my same age. Someone mentioned "phone book" as a description and I felt the need to point out that some people may not understand that reference.

[hollohas]

Good one. I always had a Victorinox Spartan or Tinker on me.Me too. Got my first Tinker when I was in 2nd grade. Lost it years back and kick myself for that. Would have loved to hand it down to my son.

[.455_Hunter]

All of my friends and I had pocket knives in early 90's high school. When did society get so fucking stupid that a having pocket knife means you are a "threat"?

[ChickNorris]

Wish that were true at my school. Girl started a fist fight & after I endured a couple of sucker punches I knocked her out, but because I fought at all, my grandfather's pearl handled knife was 'confiscated' after 2 years of me carrying it to school everyday. It was spun into big deal too until the shop & english teachers both spoke up to confirm I always had it & wasn't carrying it to harm someone. To be clear, it never left my pocket. Still, I wasn't allowed to wear it after that.

[Gman]

Me too. Got my first Tinker when I was in 2nd grade. Lost it years back and kick myself for that. Would have loved to hand it down to my son.
They still make them. You can still get him one...and replace your own. [rockon]

[hollohas]

They still make them. You can still get him one...and replace your own. [rockon]I plan on it. It just won't have the history of countless sticks whittled, spears made, fish gutted, misc things tinkered and the lots of blood that comes with learning to use a knife properly that mine had. He's 1 now...should be ready for one soon, right? ;)

[Scanker19]

Paper food stamps! And getting change back in cash.

[3beansalad]

Calling 555-1212 for time and temperature.

I know there are still similar services out there, but I doubt any one uses them much.

[GilpinGuy]

The "Service Merchandise" catalog. I used to love to look through that.

I bought my first shotgun at a Service Merchandise when I was a kid. Still have it too.

How about:
candy cigarettes

<$1.00 a gallon gas

<$10 for a case of Bud. I remember the first time a bunch of us high school kids went to the local gas station that was a pushover for selling beer to us and a case was over $10 for the first time. [Mad]

That 20 foot long coil cord on the telephone so you could walk into the other room and have a little bit of privacy. The cord would always end up a tangled mess.

[3beansalad]

S&H Green stamps.

My mother saved enough to get me an Atari 2600 as a kid. It happened about 5 years after everyone one of my friends got one sadly.

[3beansalad]

The format wars! Thankfully we didn't choose Beta, of course we probably picked 5 years after everyone else again!

[whitewalrus]

The format wars! Thankfully we didn't choose Beta, of course we probably picked 5 years after everyone else again!

They had HD DVD vs BluRay

[whitewalrus]

How about going outside and told not to come back in until it was dark?

[Gman]

How about going outside and told not to come back in until it was dark?
I had to be home when the street lights came on. Fortunately, those old lamps made a distinctive noise when they started and took a couple of minutes to get going. It was a race to get back to the porch before they actually came on.

I had just remembered the S&H Green Stamps, but 3beansalad had that one covered.

[whitewalrus]

No street lights where I grew up...so dark had to suffice. Now it seems the kids cannot get too far away from the house before getting called back in.

[3beansalad]

They had HD DVD vs BluRay

I guess you're right, though I feel like the old school format war lasted longer.

[3beansalad]

No street lights where I grew up...so dark had to suffice. Now it seems the kids cannot get too far away from the house before getting called back in.

I grew up with a dinner bell. If you didn't hear it, you went hungry! Or stayed close enough to home when you thought the time was right.

[3beansalad]

https://youtu.be/Cnchea6LHN0 (https://youtu.be/Cnchea6LHN0)

[Irving]

candy cigarettes


Still a thing. My kid had some earlier this year.

[3beansalad]

When Saturday Night Live was funny!

That Farrah Fawcett poster.

Finding the stash of Playboy magazines your dad/ brother/ neighbors dad had.

[XJ]

How about going outside and told not to come back in until it was dark?


I often ignored the streetlights as a kid, and was summoned home with a cowbell [facepalm]

[Joe_K]

Shooting .22?s during recess.
Black & White 6? TV?s
Wrapping TV antennas in foil
Taping cassette tapes back together
Rewinding cassette tapes with a pencil eraser
Again, rotary phone

And I?m not 30 yet. [emoji1787]


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[theGinsue]

Chalk boards

[OldFogey]

Chef Boyardee pizza. Mom could make magic happen out of that little box.

[hollohas]

candy cigarettes




Still a thing. My kid had some earlier this year.

How about cigarette loads? Are those still around?


https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190518/9d2c074c14699127537f2bb3aea37586.jpg

[Irving]

Are those the ones where you fill them with flour or something to pretend you're smoking?

[hollohas]

You put them in the end of a cig and it would explode.

[OldFogey]

You put them in the end of a cig and it would explode.

They were "the bomb". [ROFL1]

[whitewalrus]

I guess you're right, though I feel like the old school format war lasted longer.

Yeah I guess it did. HD DVD was pretty far behind Blu-ray from the start.

[whitewalrus]

Chalk boards

My high school had about half whiteboards and half chalkboards. Had one teacher that had his swapped to chalk as he didn?t like the whiteboard.

[whitewalrus]

Still a thing. My kid had some earlier this year.

Thought the candy cigarettes went out when everyone got serious about trying to ensure nobody smoked cigarettes anymore?

Seems like the late 90?s the war on smoking went into full gear and all this stuff started to disappear.

[SideShow Bob]

Remember riding your bike thru the mosquito foggers?


And we?re paying for it now......

[SideShow Bob]

Anyone grow on or around a military base? This was the local tv station sign off where I grew up......


https://youtu.be/6uGP74qRzSc

[SideShow Bob]

And anyone remember the headlights dimmer switch being on the left floorboard below the parking brake pedal ?

[wctriumph]

Dittos

Shooting lawn plugs with your Daisy Air Rifle.

[Gman]

And anyone remember the headlights dimmer switch being on the left floorboard below the parking brake pedal ?
Yep. I remember hearing that those had a tendency to rust out in the Northeast.

[whitewalrus]

And anyone remember the headlights dimmer switch being on the left floorboard below the parking brake pedal ?

Yeah, though I am not old enough to...my dad had a '64 truck for quite a long time.

[Gman]

http://youtu.be/jNKgpAFOsa0

I also remember the first digital watches that used LEDs. Then the LCD watches came years later.

...and now I wear a computer on my wrist.

Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, Chemistry Sets, and these guys were hours of fun:

http://youtu.be/c6so_o3Kues

[Great-Kazoo]

Getting pulled over for potential drunkenness, would result in them asking you . Is there anyone we can call to come pick you up.

Telescoping car antennas.

Riding motorcycles was considered dangerous and unprotected Sex was safe ;) .

Both biological parents at a parent / teacher conference.

[Big E3]

I was too cool when I got my first “portable” cell phone. It came in a shoulder bag the size of carry-on luggage. It weighed a ton, I think the battery was the size of a motorcycle battery. And the only thing it did was make and receive calls. But at least I could finally give up my pager.

[O2HeN2]

And anyone remember the headlights dimmer switch being on the left floorboard below the parking brake pedal ?

Yes. How about dash buttons for the automatic transmission?

O2

[SideShow Bob]

Yes. How about dash buttons for the automatic transmission?

O2


Heck, I even remember when cars had the stater switch on the floorboards.

[SideShow Bob]

Getting pulled over for potential drunkenness, would result in them asking you . Is there anyone we can call to come pick you up.

Telescoping car antennas.

Riding motorcycles was considered dangerous and unprotected Sex was safe ;) .

Both biological parents at a parent / teacher conference.

And a 45rpm record player on the transmission hump.

[GilpinGuy]

Thought the candy cigarettes went out when everyone got serious about trying to ensure nobody smoked cigarettes anymore?

Seems like the late 90?s the war on smoking went into full gear and all this stuff started to disappear.

Yeah, me too. But I haven't really been shopping around for candy much in 30 years. I do see "big league chew" on the shelves at gas stations though.

The headlight dimmer switch. Yes, they would rust out in the NE.

Is 3 on the tree still a thing anymore? I learned to drive in my dad's beat up Dodge with 3 on the tree and no 1st gear. LOL I think I gave him whiplash from all the jerking and stopping.

[davsel]

Air Force memories:
Ashtray next to your PC on your desk.
No Internet.
Grabbing your cigs and ashtray to go to a meeting.
Commander buying a keg for the monthly porch party in front of the building.
Airmen doing all the yard work and custodian services around the building.
Annual 1.5 mile downhill jog for qualification.
Ability to openly call each other faggot.

[Irving]

You put them in the end of a cig and it would explode.


Thought the candy cigarettes went out when everyone got serious about trying to ensure nobody smoked cigarettes anymore?

Seems like the late 90?s the war on smoking went into full gear and all this stuff started to disappear.

I've never even heard of those, so I'm not sure. I'll have to ask, but she might have had the ones that make you look like you're smoking, rather than just the candy cigarettes.



http://youtu.be/jNKgpAFOsa0


My dad had two of those. First thing I ever played on the toilet.



Telescoping car antennas.
Both biological parents at a parent / teacher conference.

Got that in my chicken coop. Also the other one.

[Bailey Guns]

First thing I ever played on the toilet.

Sure it was.

[Great-Kazoo]

Yes. How about dash buttons for the automatic transmission?

O2

My 63 Valiant




Got that in my chicken coop. Also the other one.

That's an auto antenna, like Caddies, Lincolns and Chrysler had. I'm talking an actual telescoping / extendable one. Where it collapses in to itself.
Picture this with smaller end on top.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/General-Tools-383NX-Telescoping-Magnetic-Pickup-2-Pound-Pull/15860145


In the city they'd get broken of occasionally and used as zip guns

[StagLefty]

"In the city they'd get broken of occasionally and used as zip guns"

Now that's an old memory haha !!!

[Gman]

Zoot suited gangsters with zip guns.

[Ah Pook]

M
Chalk boards

Overhead projectors.

[Gman]

M

Overhead projectors.

Slide projectors. Movie projectors. How about film strips with an accompanied cassette tape that would beep when it was time to move to the next frame? Then there were these fancy integrated filmstrip projectors;

http://youtu.be/r522pR5NYUc
I remember sex ed being a film strip in grade school and it was totally focused on simple biology.

[theGinsue]

http://youtu.be/jNKgpAFOsa0


I was @ a FedEx store in Sunnyvale back in February and they had most of the Mattel Electronics game "new in package" (must be a bring back) on their racks of junk to sell. Almost bought a few for nostalgia purposes.

[Gman]

There were modern re-releases of the games labeled as "Classic".

[Justin]

M

Overhead projectors.

Overhead projectors with their low resolution and horrible image quality and color fidelity can't die soon enough.

[Gman]

Overhead projectors with their low resolution and horrible image quality and color fidelity can't die soon enough.

You're thinking of something else...like a video projector that is mounted overhead.

Overhead projectors usually had the resolution of a felt tip pen.
https://csinan.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/images.jpg

[O2HeN2]

M


Overhead projectors.

Even older, opaque projectors!

Which might be ther reference to poor image quality.

O2

[GilpinGuy]

Sure it was.

Ha!

[Delfuego]

Mimeograph machine

Auto-reverse tape deck (best invention ever!)

z cavaricci's

[MrPrena]

Mimeograph machine

Auto-reverse tape deck (best invention ever!)

z cavaricci's

I feel old now.

[Rucker61]

I was referred to as Schneider for doing handyman work at a female friend's house.

I guess you fixed the cable?

[Rucker61]

Ha ... I worked at a Service Merchandise in my college years ... there's good reasons the place no longer exists (the system basically encouraged employee theft).

My little brother worked there, and got fired for stealing. ;)

[BladesNBarrels]

35mm film and slides with the Kodak Carousel holders for the projectors.
I am sorting my old slides from the pre-digital camera days as we speak.

Forced busing in Denver in the early 70's that caused the flight to the suburbs.

And, I graduated from high school in 1964 and lived through the days of the hippies and Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, burning draft cards and bras, anti Viet Nam War protests, the Young Socialists at CU, and returning home in uniform and being spit at in downtown San Francisco.

The good old days had some down ones

[whitewalrus]

35mm film and slides with the Kodak Carousel holders for the projectors.
I am sorting my old slides from the pre-digital camera days as we speak.


I still have carousel slide holders, a projector, and film cameras. I do miss the days of slide film and was hoping the hipsters would help make it come back

[hobowh]

Telephone "calling cards" for long distance calls. I had one for years when I was in the military, now I think hardly anyone remembers them since everyone has a cell phone.

I still have one for work, though only because it is connected to my conference line

[ray1970]

Thought about this thread the other day at work as I was boxing up some old floppy discs, VHS tapes, and Polaroid pictures.

[hobowh]

And anyone remember the headlights dimmer switch being on the left floorboard below the parking brake pedal ?
Yup my 73 dart had the dimmer switch on the floor

[hobowh]

how about a winchester drive, mfm, rll, or being able to walk into kmart with a quarter and being able to buy enough 22 as a kid to shoot for a couple hours? Oh and the modern that went with the rotary phone that you set the handset in...
Tape drive for the vic20
Wang drives
When Novell was the network software of choice
Windows 3.11 for work groups
Monochrome monitors hooked to a var in your room as a tv

[Jamnanc]

Sure it was.

Lol. I think I peed.

[Delfuego]

When Novell was the network software of choice [ROFL3] I had to learn Novell for a CCNA. I don't believe I was ever lucky enough to use it.

How about ISDN? And what does it stand for?

[sellersm]

I used my Novell knowledge back in the day. We had a dBase application compiled with Clipper and our client had a Novell network. Found some bugs in both their code and ours.

How about DOS?

FoxBase anyone?


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[newracer]

https://www.jbugs.com/store/graphics/00000001/vw_bosh_ignition_points_01011.jpg

[Delfuego]

FoxBase anyone?Not sure, but I still run into FoxPro applications. Similar?

[sellersm]

Not sure, but I still run into FoxPro applications. Similar?

Yup. FoxBase was the precursor to FoxPro, and it also was for the Mac. It was basically a clone of dBase 2.

There?s also VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3!


I once created an entire application for Eastman Kodak using Lotus 1-2-3 running on a VAX via a DOS emulator feeding an Oracle DB!! Yeah, those were the days....???


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[sellersm]

https://www.jbugs.com/store/graphics/00000001/vw_bosh_ignition_points_01011.jpg

And your point is?

One of the original uses for feeler/gap gauges!


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[sellersm]

Let?s not forget the distributor!


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[TFOGGER]

https://imgflip.com/i/31j99178046

[sellersm]

^Truth TFOGGER!

[Bailey Guns]

What about waiting a half hour before going in the water so you didn't get cramps and drown? I always felt like I was cheating death by having a candy bar and immediately going swimming...in the shallow end just in case.

[Justin]

You're thinking of something else...like a video projector that is mounted overhead.

Overhead projectors usually had the resolution of a felt tip pen.
https://csinan.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/images.jpg

Oh yeah.

I remember using one of those in college.

[SAnd]

Not much talk of medical stuff.

Blood pressure gauges that manually operated and used a mercury column.

Eye exams where they used a funny an eyeglasses frame and a rack with a gazillion different lenses to try out. The eye doctor looked into your eye with a simple magnifying glass and a light reflector. When he dilated your eyes it took most of a day to get back to normal. Eye pressure measured with a plunger on a gauge that actually touched your eye.

Eye glasses that were actually glass and all bifocal/trifocals had lines in the lenses.

Injection Needles were routinely bigger diameter than now. I seems like a LOT bigger.

Mercury medical thermometers that you stuck under your tongue or up you bum (rectal).

Blood and other test results that sometimes took weeks to come back.

X rays that had be developed and could take several days to get back if they weren?t high priority. And it was the only imaging available.

Non scope type surgeries with the long incision scars and the much longer recovery and hospital stays that were needed with them.

Sutures / stitches that were actual sewing type stitches with thread or animal lines.

I guess some of these aren't that uncommon but things sure have changed.

[SAnd]

About cars...
A couple of things that are out of sight so a lot of people aren't aware of them.

Collapsing / telescoping steering wheel columns and air bags.

I sincerely hope younger people never need to learn about them.

[sellersm]

Not much talk of medical stuff.

Blood pressure gauges that manually operated and used a mercury column.

Eye exams where they used a funny an eyeglasses frame and a rack with a gazillion different lenses to try out. The eye doctor looked into your eye with a simple magnifying glass and a light reflector. When he dilated your eyes it took most of a day to get back to normal. Eye pressure measured with a plunger on a gauge that actually touched your eye.

Eye glasses that were actually glass and all bifocal/trifocals had lines in the lenses.

Injection Needles were routinely bigger diameter than now. I seems like a LOT bigger.

Mercury medical thermometers that you stuck under your tongue or up you bum (rectal).

Blood and other test results that sometimes took weeks to come back.

X rays that had be developed and could take several days to get back if they weren?t high priority. And it was the only imaging available.

Non scope type surgeries with the long incision scars and the much longer recovery and hospital stays that were needed with them.

Sutures / stitches that were actual sewing type stitches with thread or animal lines.

I guess some of these aren't that uncommon but things sure have changed.

Mercurochrome! And real mercury filled thermometers and blood pressure gauges.

Vick?s vapo-rub with real eucalyptus or whatever menthol stuff they used.


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[Gman]

https://www.jbugs.com/store/graphics/00000001/vw_bosh_ignition_points_01011.jpg

Don't forget the condenser and your feeler gauges!

[ChickNorris]

A map or two in the glove compartment.

[ChickNorris]

100 watt incandescent bulb

Perhaps too soon to say never on this one...


The first thing I look for @ estate sales.

[davsel]

Not much talk of medical stuff.

Blood pressure gauges that manually operated and used a mercury column.

Eye exams where they used a funny an eyeglasses frame and a rack with a gazillion different lenses to try out. The eye doctor looked into your eye with a simple magnifying glass and a light reflector. When he dilated your eyes it took most of a day to get back to normal. Eye pressure measured with a plunger on a gauge that actually touched your eye.

Eye glasses that were actually glass and all bifocal/trifocals had lines in the lenses.

Injection Needles were routinely bigger diameter than now. I seems like a LOT bigger.

Mercury medical thermometers that you stuck under your tongue or up you bum (rectal).

Blood and other test results that sometimes took weeks to come back.

X rays that had be developed and could take several days to get back if they weren?t high priority. And it was the only imaging available.

Non scope type surgeries with the long incision scars and the much longer recovery and hospital stays that were needed with them.

Sutures / stitches that were actual sewing type stitches with thread or animal lines.

I guess some of these aren't that uncommon but things sure have changed.

I believe all of these are still in use at Air Force Clinics and Hospitals. [Flower]

[ChickNorris]

Did I miss mention of a phone book? If not the book then ...

How about a soup can & twine telephone? Can't imagine the kiddos even having context for it now.

[MrPrena]

Not too long ago, but Palm Pilot.

[Circuits]

I remember legal drinking at 18 and voting age at 21.

[meatman]

Early light switch automation, The Clapper.

[gnihcraes]

Loading Novell from 5.25 inch floppy.

Ethernet network was coax with terminators.

Arcnet twisted pair networking.

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[Gman]

Anybody up for some Token Ring? IPX/SPX? I also had fun with Novell and OS/2. I can remember PCs booting from floppies prior to the existence of hard drives.

There are some things I don't miss.

I can remember going to ball games with my dad where we brought all of our own food (fried chicken, hot dogs in a thermos+buns and mustard).

I can remember having Mapsco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapsco) map books for both Dallas & Ft. Worth. How about Day Planner personal organizers?

Do kids still play Pin the Tail on the Donkey at birthday parties?

The younger generations can keep "new math". It seems more complicated than what we learned/memorized. They've probably never seen a slide rule.

[Irving]

Do kids still play Pin the Tail on the Donkey at birthday parties?


What about before poker was played on TV?

[callerys]

[ROFL3] I had to learn Novell for a CCNA. I don't believe I was ever lucky enough to use it.

How about ISDN? And what does it stand for?


ISDN = It still does nothing

[AirbornePathogen]

Some say I'm part of the younger crowd here, but I have a few.

Cheap gas- cheapest I remember seeing it was 96 cents a gallon at Fort Bragg in 01.
Bricks of .22 LR for ten bucks or less, and 100 rounds of Winchester white box 9mm for 10-11 bucks.
Corded phones with no caller ID.
Cars with ashtrays built in. Last vehicle I had with an ashtray was my 01 Jeep Wrangler, when I traded it in on an 05 Wrangler it was gone.
Walkman! When I was a kid, you were cool if you had a portable CD player.
Dial up internet, pagers, cell phones that would only make calls. My grandma still had a rotary phone, I remember thinking it was the weirdest thing.
Since I mentioned Bragg and the Army, shining boots and pressing uniforms. We wore the BDUs when I was on active duty.
If you left the barracks when you were on recall, having to leave a phone number for where you'd be, and getting a cell phone so you could just leave that number and go wherever.
Cell phones- "Call me back after nine so I don't burn my minutes!"

[Rucker61]

You're thinking of something else...like a video projector that is mounted overhead.

Overhead projectors usually had the resolution of a felt tip pen.
https://csinan.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/images.jpg

At HP, we called this the ScribbleJet.

[O2HeN2]

ASR33 with an acoustic coupler (300 baud modem, or about 30 characters/bytes a second).

You could get it to throw fits and print garbage by whistling at just the correct frequency.

The acoustic coupler would replace the grey panel with the red button to the right of the keyboard/printer.

The ASR33 is the classic "news sound" (chick-chick-chick-chick) that used to be played in the background of the openings to some newscasts.

O2

78058

[TFOGGER]

O hell yes! I still have programs saved on paper tape, hundreds of lines of BASIC...

[BladesNBarrels]

Colorado Motor Scooter License at age 14.
Cushman, Vespa, and Lambretta scooters lined up at Wheat Ridge Jr. High.
Even the term Jr. High vs Middle School

[SAnd]

100 watt incandescent bulb

Perhaps too soon to say never on this one...


The first thing I look for @ estate sales.

I bought a 4 pack at Lowes yesterday.

[Irving]

Colorado Motor Scooter License at age 14.
Cushman, Vespa, and Lambretta scooters lined up at Wheat Ridge Jr. High.
Even the term Jr. High vs Middle School

Is there even a Wheat Ridge Middle? Because I went to Everett.

[BladesNBarrels]

Is there even a Wheat Ridge Middle? Because I went to Everett.

The Wheat Ridge 5-8 Middle School closed in 2016.

I was at Wheat Ridge Jr. High in 1959-1961 and we moved with the principal, Don Solem, to the new Wheat Ridge High School the next year.
A few of the 9th Graders had motor scooters

[Rucker61]

ASR33 with an acoustic coupler (300 baud modem, or about 30 characters/bytes a second).

You could get it to throw fits and print garbage by whistling at just the correct frequency.

The acoustic coupler would replace the grey panel with the red button to the right of the keyboard/printer.

The ASR33 is the classic "news sound" (chick-chick-chick-chick) that used to be played in the background of the openings to some newscasts.

O2

78058

I did a lot of programming in high school on one of these, and played a lot of "Hunt The Wumpus".

[GilpinGuy]

I had a Tandy computer that would save data on cassette tapes. Like music cassette tapes. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

[Irving]

My kid didn't know what an answering machine was, but I'd think that people in their late twenties would.

[Gman]

I had a Tandy computer that would save data on cassette tapes. Like music cassette tapes. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

TRS-80, aka the Trash 80?

[newracer]

When at the end of Wheel of Fortune the winner went on a shopping spree.

[ray1970]

When at the end of Wheel of Fortune the winner went on a shopping spree.

And it seemed like everyone ended up with some sort of ceramic dog.

[GilpinGuy]

TRS-80, aka the Trash 80?


That was it!

[Irving]

Did we already talk about when many vehicles still came with manual transmissions?

[GilpinGuy]

We did. I still miss a manual sometimes. Most times not though.

[Gman]

A manual is now considered a theft deterrent device. [Coffee]

Speaking of which, remember when 'The Club' was a big thing for preventing car theft?

[Irving]

My neighbor still uses the club on both of his vehicles.

[O2HeN2]

My neighbor still uses the club on both of his vehicles.
Sucker security. If someone really wants your car, they cut the steering wheel (mere seconds) and take the club off that way. Doesn't matter how good the club's steel is.

Law abiding people rately think ouside the legal, non-destructive box.

O2

[Irving]

Interesting. I've never really given it much thought since I've never had one. He's an old guy and stuck in many old guy ways.

[3beansalad]

Some say I'm part of the younger crowd here, but I have a few.

Bricks of .22 LR for ten bucks or less, and 100 rounds of Winchester white box 9mm for 10-11 bucks.


Along these lines: $69 for a SKS.

[Ah Pook]

78063

[BladesNBarrels]

Laugh In
how about
Man from UNCLE?

[ChickNorris]

78063

Great Kazoo uses that phrase & I had to ask.

[Great-Kazoo]

Laugh In
how about
Man from UNCLE?

Get Smart


Would you believe this much > < ?



speaking of gas prices. I had to stick a sign with NO MORE GAS, TODAY on some lucky customers car. when gas prices jumped to $0.40 and there was talk of it possibly going over $1 before the 1st embargo was over. People would actually be sitting in line when we got there by 7 in the a.m.

Limit 5 gallons.

[O2HeN2]

Get Smart
One of the two Barbaras that men (then young boys) my age had severe crushes on...

O2

[Gman]

One of the two Barbaras that men (then young boys) my age had severe crushes on...

O2

And then there's Diana Rigg of The Avengers.

"Ginger or Mary Ann?" Mary Ann...of course.

[William]

Girl next door vs Hollywood ____? Just can't think of anything that rhymes with door.

[ChickNorris]

I bought a 4 pack at Lowes yesterday.

Umm.... I dont think we're speaking about the same item... do you have a pic?

[SAnd]

Umm.... I dont think we're speaking about the same item... do you have a pic?
Not a pic but a link to what I bought...
https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-100-Watt-EQ-Dimmable-Bright-White-Light-Fixture-Halogen-Light-Bulb-4-Pack/1000373297
GE 100-Watt EQ Dimmable Bright White Light Fixture Halogen Light Bulb (4-Pack)

Well it does have Halogen in the name so maybe it isn't exactly what we used to get.

[ChickNorris]

Not a pic but a link to what I bought...
https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-100-Watt-EQ-Dimmable-Bright-White-Light-Fixture-Halogen-Light-Bulb-4-Pack/1000373297
GE 100-Watt EQ Dimmable Bright White Light Fixture Halogen Light Bulb (4-Pack)

Well it does have Halogen in the name so maybe it isn't exactly what we used to get.

You almost had my hopes up...

It isn't, unfortunately.

[Irving]

I'm done with lights that aren't LED.

[hollohas]

How about these?

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190525/d0d62ca8e3ced6daf0dc06a16c65b82b.jpg

[O2HeN2]

How about these?

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190525/d0d62ca8e3ced6daf0dc06a16c65b82b.jpg

Full roll + big rock.

O2

[Bailey Guns]

Sucker security. If someone really wants your car, they cut the steering wheel (mere seconds) and take the club off that way. Doesn't matter how good the club's steel is.

Law abiding people rately think ouside the legal, non-destructive box.

O2

You obviously don't remember Stick Death Auto Security.

PZ2PECzurXQ

[Ah Pook]

BR549

[sellersm]

BR549

?Hey Grandpa, what?s for dinner??


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[Gman]

You obviously don't remember Stick Death Auto Security.
I had never seen that before.

[Fentonite]

100 watt incandescent bulb

Perhaps too soon to say never on this one...


The first thing I look for @ estate sales.

I still buy them on eBay. The wonky wiring in my house makes LED?s act goofy, but incandescents are fine. Just got a 12 pack of 75w, but 100?s are also readily available.

[GilpinGuy]

I still buy them on eBay. The wonky wiring in my house makes LED?s act goofy, but incandescents are fine. Just got a 12 pack of 75w, but 100?s are also readily available.

Maybe I have wonky wiring too. LEDs seem to last about the same as "old fashioned"incandecents, then they start flashing wildly and getting all weird. I like the brighter light though.

[O2HeN2]

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation).

O2

[CobaltSkink]

CXO1/2

[Gman]

At least the good LEDs are far better than the best twisty fluorescents.

[sellersm]

How about these?

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190525/d0d62ca8e3ced6daf0dc06a16c65b82b.jpg

We?d spend hours scraping the powder out and then lighting the pile of powder!


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[Gman]

We would stack roll caps in a metal cap grenade. Was a lot of fun until the grenade broke. [Coffee]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/x3QAAOSw8MxcDXCI/s-l1600.jpg

Was looking for an image and now the toy I played with is being referred to as "Vintage". That makes me feel old, but not quite as old as I feel.

[sellersm]

We would stack roll caps in a metal cap grenade. Was a lot of fun until the grenade broke. [Coffee]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/x3QAAOSw8MxcDXCI/s-l1600.jpg

Was looking for an image and now the toy I played with is being referred to as "Vintage". That makes me feel old, but not quite as old as I feel.

Yup. I remember those! We tried to make our own years before those came out.

Don?t think cherry bombs and M-80?s mean much to today?s youngsters.


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[O2HeN2]

CXO1/2
CXO1 is where I worked until they moved me up the hill when they decomissioned CXO1/2. Supplied a lot of testing software for the RA80/81/etc.: The exerciser, surface tester and eventualy the formatter (UDA50 based).

O2

[TFOGGER]

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation).

O2

Wrote my first programs on a PDP 11/34

Still have a functioning laptop, originally came with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, currently running Win 95.

[Ah Pook]

Leaded gas.

[Doc45]

We would stack roll caps in a metal cap grenade. Was a lot of fun until the grenade broke. [Coffee]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/x3QAAOSw8MxcDXCI/s-l1600.jpg

Was looking for an image and now the toy I played with is being referred to as "Vintage". That makes me feel old, but not quite as old as I feel.

Oh yeah! We also would take two bottle caps (remember those??), clean the cork off the inside, stuff them with the heads of strike-anywhere matches, then wrap electrical tape around the two caps to make a lame excuse of a smoke bomb :D

[eddiememphis]

Leaded gas.

Not in aviation. Still readily available as 100ll- 100 octane (lean) Low Lead.

[ChickNorris]

I still order my coffee 'leaded'

[ray1970]

I still order my coffee 'leaded'

I bet the people at Starbucks look at you like you?re weird.

[ChickNorris]

Riiiiight.



like I'm weird

[Gman]

[werdo]

[Coffee]..