I remember 8-track tapes. No rewinding. If you wanted to hear a song again you had to keep driving around the block until it came back on. And then there was the pause and loud click as the song continued on the next track. A case that held about a dozen tapes was as big as a carry on suitcase today.
I remember the milk man and his home delivery. My wife recently told me about going to a Cleveland Indians game when she was little. Her dad wore a suit and she had to wear a dress, hat and white gloves. Herm
Wow! My first Mac...the Apple Macintosh Plus (ED) —back when Apple was the up n' comer little company... 9" monochrome display Processor Speed: 8 MHz Processor Type: 68000 ROM Size: 128k RAM Speed: 150 ns Standard RAM: 1 MB
I was going to say that. I wrote my first programs in 1966 on punch cards. My first PC was a Radio Shack Color Computer II (128k) and my monitor was a 12 inch B&W tv. My data storage was a cassette tape. Remember aluminum ice trays?
The national anthem was played every morning on tv and then there was the test pattern with the indian when it went off the air at the end of the night. The space shuttle. 10 cent pay phones Going to the arcade to play video games. I paid over $400 for a 40 mb scsi drive....
I never wrote on punch cards, but my first computer job was writing COBOL and JCL on an OS 360 and later on 390. Feels like a million years ago since I put a blue suit on to go to work and sit in a room with one other person and no windows....
I'll see your TS1000 and raise you the original ZX-81 with only 1K of memory. (Though I did have the 16K ram pack.) Gosh, we must all be of a certain age...
We had milk and yogurt delivered into a little silver icebox at the front door. Selling newspapers on the street corner. Sleeping with the front door open in the summer. Eating dinner as a family at 5:30pm, you had to have pants, shirt and shoes on.
Air raid drills at school, and having to take shelter under your desk. Long sticks of Jolly Rancher candy, 10 cents When a bottle of Coke went from 15-20 cents Having to go outside to turn the tv antenna to get a different channel. Getting on the bus for school and it would still be dark. Getting off the bus from school and it be dark. Laying in a cotton wagon looking at the stars on a cold December night, covered up with cotton to keep warm and listening to the cotton pickers running in the field....most comforting feeling in the world!
I remember our school had some Apple IIE's and we won a contest where the prize was a pair of IIGS computers! I learned to type fast so I could play Oregon Trail on one of them with a color display! Some other things I remember, jeans jackets, trapper keepers, puffy or scratch & sniff stickers, pagers, cell phones in bags or mounted in cars, and buying a weeks worth of groceries for a family for under $40...
