Kind of a fun game

[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.

[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 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]

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