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Things your kids will never know - old school tech!
cranioscopical:
When I were a lad we had enough food, plenty of money, and could drive to and from school... and it was downhill, both ways.
Paul Keith:
Is the picture to the right a high tech password encrypted hand grenade? Damn, they sure don't make them like they used to...
Shades:
You would get something 'interesting' to read on the table when you use the IBM printhead in a ping-pong game...
40hz:
Yow! An IBM Selectric type font ball? Now I am feeling old... :o
Here's one. It was a common phrase in many catalogs (although you'd have to be from the U.S. to have encountered it)"
"Prices slightly higher west of the Mississippi."
CWuestefeld:
How about:
* Arguing about who would get up to change the channel or turn up the volume
* Being able to tell someone your phone number in only 7 digits (and sometimes even fewer!)
* Wind in your hair as you ride your bike without a helmet
* Why those little things in a form are called radio buttons
Yikes, when I had my first typing class in 1965 - we had to practice on an old manual Royal typewriter!
-CleverCat (October 21, 2008, 02:05 AM)
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Same for me, in 1980. I remember having to exercise my pinky fingers -- they weren't strong enough to get a real "hit" on QAZ etc.
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