Old enough to remember

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Continuing the theme re TV -I remember being so unbelievably mad with my Dad after he told us that we were getting a new TV and it was colour....................

It was................................. , red ,.............................................. on the outside

..and I remember the harsh medicated toilet paper just too well , here in the UK it was called Izal , which is very similar to my first name

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"Medicated?"

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I remember having to turn records over to play the other side.

I bet there are some young people who think it would be a fabulous innovation if CDs were playable on both sides and don't even know that it is a technology from olden times.

[fumobici]

Jul 20, 2012 13:17:27 GMT kerouac2 said:

I remember having to turn records over to play the other side.

I bet there are some young people who think it would be a fabulous innovation if CDs were playable on both sides and don't even know that it is a technology from olden times.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-sided_disk

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Typing and waiting for the text to appear on the monitor screen, as my dial up connection was 2500 baud speed. My computer had no hard drive, so I had to boot up using three different floppies.

[bixaorellana]

I saw this image used as that little inset picture on someones fb timeline and recognized it almost before I'd taken a good look. I'm sure that's partly because of my age group, but perhaps because of my nationality as well. Anyone else recognize it at first glance?

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JFK Jr.

[mossie]

Who remembers the Dictaphone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictaphone

It recorded the bosses letters on a wax cylinder which his secretary had to listen to via an early type of record player. The office boy then had to wipe the recording by winding the cylinder in a machine which smoothed the wax ready for a new recording to be made.

Reminds me of the old story of the boss who was robbed one night while working late in the office. The thieves left him gagged and bound, but he was able to phone the cops. HOW

He used his Dictaphone

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Sorry, Mossie, I don't remember the Dictaphone, but I do remember this:

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Yes, they were so completely useless, too, unless you like to scrape holes into your paper.

[foreverman]

^ What is it......??

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It's a sculpture representing a typewriter eraser. You were supposed to erase with the red part and brush the debris away with the blue. What it really did was scrape off some of your paper rather than just the ink, and it often left a hole in the paper.

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They were perhaps invented in the days of much more resistant parchment.

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I always ate at the school cafeteria so I never had a lunch box -- until 20 years later when somebody gave me a Star Wars lunch box as a gag gift. I still have it.

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The items in the photo represent the television of my childhood. We got our first TV in the mid to late 50's and I can remember faithfully watching the Howdy Doody Show, Mickey Mouse Club, Captain Kangaroo, and the Lone Ranger.

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My brother was the Howdy Doody fan, and he was also a diehard fan of Sky King whereas I preferred Roy Rogers. Happy trails...

[bixaorellana]

Ooooo ~~ Sky King!

Re: the typewriter eraser .... this may have been mentioned before, but who remembers the blue stuff for correcting mimeograph masters? As I was correcting a master one day, I idly asked the other person in the office how it was possible that the Egyptians built a vast civilization without the aid of blue stuff. She quickly snapped back, "Don't you believe it. They had blue stuff -- and Wite-Out^®, too!"

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Out of the blue of the western sky......!

Side note:

I really wasn't looking at the lunch boxes when I took that photo, though i have been looking at lunch boxes seemingly all summer. I rarely used a lunch box when attended school, but use one everyday now as an adult. My first school was a very big Catholic girls school with a cafeteria. I don't remember liking the food much, probably because of my food allergies. I learned at a very young age to avoid certain foods, or pay the consequences very quickly after consumption.

I have scrupulously avoided school cafeterias all the years I have been in education, though I understand the food served in our cafeterias is getting healthier. I'm currently looking for a new lunch box to carry my food in. I have a refrigerator in my office, but like to carry my lunch in something a bit insulated. I also like to have a should strap since i typically have other things in my hands, and a pocket or two on the outside to stash non-lunch items such as my car keys and any little things I want to take back and forth (I usually lock my purse/wallet) in the car. It also needs to be stylish.

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You were right to avoid the cafeteria food -- it was beyond awful 90% of the time. I still shudder whenever anybody mentions meatloaf or (I still don't know what it is --->) Salisbury steak.

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Ah, yes, the infamous mystery meat

Here's another I remember being fascinated with as a child. I thought it was so cool the way the coins for change rolled out on the left side.

[bixaorellana]

I never saw one of those! *sulk*

You don't have to be very old at all to remember these prices. This is a Schwegmann's supermarket (New Orleans) ad from September 1, 1994 ~~

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I never saw one of those! *sulk*

They came out in 1959. I remember looking up from about counter height at the grocery store to watch the change come out.

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Oddly enough, the post offices of Paris are using a new version of these machines in 2012. The point is for the employee not to touch any money at all. You insert bills and/or coins and the change comes out in a slot like that. (The reality is a bit different -- since none of the customrs knows how to use the machines, the employee takes the money out of their hand and puts it in the machine for them.) But those old versions were absolute magic.

Actually all of the self check-out stations in big stores use more or less the same system.

[fumobici]

My local grocery store still uses change machines that look remarkably like that. if it ain't broke...

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Keyboards that some of us have known and loved

[bixaorellana]

Known & loved is right. I felt true affection looking at some of those pics.

This afternoon I discovered that the friend with whom I was speaking on the phone was NOT using a cordless phone! I was profoundly shocked.

We reminisced about the days when mobility while chatting on the phone involved clamping the handset to your shoulder with your head & owning a twenty-foot curly cord.

[foreverman]

I have one like this in my office at home.................It works when the power goes off...............

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I also still have a telephone-with-cord, albeit a more modern version. I prefer to use it when the stupid cordless ones are hissing or fading out.

[bixaorellana]

I don't think I've ever seen one like yours, Foreverman, with the classic dial styling, but featuring push buttons.

My emergency non-cordless phone is an at&t model that stores up to twenty numbers (ooo!). It's about twenty or twenty-five years old.