Remember When
Quote: billryanRemember 12 Records for $1.99?
Columbia records mail order? And then a record a month for 12 months, or 2 years.
Quote: gamerfreakEB, I have to ask....do you even know what half these words mean?
Gosh, I don't know what ANY of them
mean, can you put a definition by each
for me so I can learn?
snicker
Quote: billryanRemember 12 Records for $1.99?
I remember when LP's came out, what
a wonder they were. It seemed like
they played forever..
I'm not sure I ever had a 16 RPM record. I've seen a few but they were childrens records, not music.
I was right on the cutting edge of tech back then. One Christmas( 1967?) I received a 15 transistor reel to reel and the next I got a solid state cassette recorder/player.
With the reel to reels, you had to record music through a really bad mike and recordings sucked. They were more toys than anything else. With cassettes, not only could you buy pre-recorded tapes, but the ones you recorded yourself sounded much better. I was the only kid in my neighborhood with a cassette player for months.
Quote: billryanOne Christmas( 1967?) I received a 15 transistor reel to reel
I had one similar and it was almost
a toy, you're right. It was great fun
recording our voices, it was crap
for recording music.
My first 8 track was a marvel, but
what a clunky thing. The music
from it sounded great, though.
Quote: rxwineColumbia records mail order? And then a record a month for 12 months, or 2 years.
One dude I was friends with joined the record club. Many of us did. But this guy had all kinds of music that were things he would never listen to. I asked him about one thing out of his tastes. Think a classic rock fan having something by Tiffany. So he says "They send it to me whether I want it or not."
I tried to explain that you had to send the little card back if you did not want that month's selection. But he was a guy who just did not listen when you talked. Hard to explain, and looking back he probably had something wrong with him. He had a question or problem. You had the answer. You told the answer. He kept working on the problem, always in the wrong way, as if you had not spoken.
Several of us told him you had to send in the little card. Month after month he had music he would never listen to. Eventually dozens of CDs. Big rack of them. There was no word for SMH back then.
Did you never have studio-recorded, reel-to-reel tapes? I admit that most of my reel-to-reel tapes were direct-wired (no mike) copies of other folks' LPs, but I had quite a few studio reel-to-reel tapes. They, and my LPs, went on the table at a garage sale when I finally gave up reel-to-reel and the changer deck, much as I gave up VHS some years later.Quote: billryanWith the reel to reels, you had to record music through a really bad mike and recordings sucked. They were more toys than anything else. With cassettes, not only could you buy pre-recorded tapes, but the ones you recorded yourself sounded much better.
Quote: TigerWuI saw a old commercial from the early 90's the other day. The actor in the commercial was using a rotary dial phone. I thought that was odd but then I remembered, yeah, I guess there were still a lot of rotary phones in circulation back then. I remember using one at least until the late 80's. Anybody know what year the last rotary dial phone was produced?
No idea on produced, probably the early-1980s. An intelligent guess is when AT&T got out of phones that was it.
I do know my parents were one of the last with rotary service. My dad was too cheap to get touch-tone service. About 1997 the phone company called and said they now had touch service, and to keep the rotary phone they were still paying rent on.
My nieces and nephews go goo-goo over seeing and using the things. One left from a then-illegal hookup from the 1970s. The others wore out.
Quote: DocDid you never have studio-recorded, reel-to-reel tapes? I admit that most of my reel-to-reel tapes were direct-wired (no mike) copies of other folks' LPs, but I had quite a few studio reel-to-reel tapes. They, and my LPs, went on the table at a garage sale when I finally gave up reel-to-reel and the changer deck, much as I gave up VHS some years later.
No, those were a completely different animals. The portable reel to reels were very thin, not much bigger than today's cassettes.
They were originally used by secretaries, but someone recognized a larger market. They were mini reel to reels., As far as I know, there were no pre-recorded mini reels, but I was only eight or so.
I didn't catch that you said "portable" reel-to-reel.Quote: billryanThe portable reel to reels were very thin, not much bigger than today's cassettes.
Quote: DocI was amused that in the 1999 Mel Gibson film "Payback", all (or at least almost all) of the phones have rotary dials, including one in the console of the limousine. Has anyone here seen a rotary-dial mobile phone?
My Uncle had a telephone in his car in the 1960s. I imagine it had to be rotary, but I don't remember much about it. We'd only see him once or twice a year.
Sometime around 1968/69 we took the train from NY to DC and they had phones you could use on a moving train.
a car phone. Rotary dial, the battery
pack was so big it was in the trunk.
It was horribly expensive to use,
he rarely talked for longer than
3 min.
They did sound great, didn't they.Quote: EvenBobThe music
from it sounded great, though.
I think it was one of my earliest contributions to my own hearing damage.
I had been yakking to my wife about how the rotary phones work during a power outage, so she gifted me one about 5 years ago. I guess they still make them?Quote: TigerWuI Anybody know what year the last rotary dial phone was produced?
Another story and I do not know if it is valid, because it was told to me my a big big bullsheister. She said that if I wanted to get a real human at the SS office, that they would pick up calls from a rotary phone instead of directly to message and wait for hours, something to do with the tech??? I haven't tested it.
She also told me Jimmy Buffet had come to our island, which was bogus.
Quote: djatcDie Hard 2 had John Mclaines wife using an airplane phone. Crazy stuff. Also GOAT ATC scenes in a movie, made me want to be an air traffic controller
Haha, I never thought about that but you're right... I bet that movie is porn for air traffic controllers. That and Airplane!.
Quote: gamerfreakEB, I have to ask....do you even know what half these words mean?
The first ping utility came out in 1985 which was 33 years ago. And I’d be willing to bet the word predates that
WWII sonar
Quote: TumblingBonesWWII sonar
Yah I went to Wikipedia and found this out too.
Sonar Pings are at least as early as the 1930’s
Gosh darn kids and their conflabbit sonar.
Quote: djatcDie Hard 2 had John Mclaines wife using an airplane phone.
The first car phone I ever saw was
in a late 50's detective show
called Richard Diamond. Very
cool stuff for the 50's..
Quote: EvenBobThe first car phone I ever saw was
in a late 50's detective show
called Richard Diamond. Very
cool stuff for the 50's..
IIRC in James Bond film "From Russia With Love" the opening scene Bond gets a page then goes to his car to call back for it. I always wondered if that was tech they knew would be out in just a few years or did they totally make it up? It had to have looked cool then, now a big "meh."
I still spell Chaos with a K.
Those people shouldn’t even be allowed to have a California license plate. They should expel the area from the state of California.
in Cannon.
Quote: TumblingBonesWhat about the first portable computer you ever saw? I remember a guy carrying an Osborne 1 on to a plane. I don't remember the year but it must have been around 1982 since the company didn't last long.
My dad brought this thing home from work mid 90’s
I thought it was the coolest thing.
Quote: TumblingBonesWhat about the first portable computer you ever saw?
My dad got one of these in the
late 60's, we were in awe of it.
Not a computer, but it felt
like Star Trek to us.
Quote: gamerfreakQuote: TumblingBonesWhat about the first portable computer you ever saw? I remember a guy carrying an Osborne 1 on to a plane. I don't remember the year but it must have been around 1982 since the company didn't last long.
My dad brought this thing home from work mid 90’s
I thought it was the coolest thing.
I worked at office depot from 1994-1997. I was able to have some pretty cool items for cheap. My first digital camera was. Sony Mavica. I can remember when the 2x and 4x CD burners came out. I had one right away. I dont remember that little power book but I had a Compaq personal computer. It was like a pda but had windows ce installed. Memorieeeess.
Quote: GWAEQuote: gamerfreakQuote: TumblingBonesWhat about the first portable computer you ever saw? I remember a guy carrying an Osborne 1 on to a plane. I don't remember the year but it must have been around 1982 since the company didn't last long.
My dad brought this thing home from work mid 90’s
I thought it was the coolest thing.
I worked at office depot from 1994-1997. I was able to have some pretty cool items for cheap. My first digital camera was. Sony Mavica. I can remember when the 2x and 4x CD burners came out. I had one right away. I dont remember that little power book but I had a Compaq personal computer. It was like a pda but had windows ce installed. Memorieeeess.
I think I had a Sony Mavica too, was that the one with the built in floppy disk?
Quote: gamerfreakQuote: GWAEQuote: gamerfreakQuote: TumblingBonesWhat about the first portable computer you ever saw? I remember a guy carrying an Osborne 1 on to a plane. I don't remember the year but it must have been around 1982 since the company didn't last long.
My dad brought this thing home from work mid 90’s
I thought it was the coolest thing.
I worked at office depot from 1994-1997. I was able to have some pretty cool items for cheap. My first digital camera was. Sony Mavica. I can remember when the 2x and 4x CD burners came out. I had one right away. I dont remember that little power book but I had a Compaq personal computer. It was like a pda but had windows ce installed. Memorieeeess.
I think I had a Sony Mavica too, was that the one with the built in floppy disk?
Yep. I had 2. First one was a digital zoom I believe. I it went all the way to 6x. Second one had an optical and a digital and did sowmthing like 10x
Not anymore; now there are no stems, no seeds: just buds of the finest quality available in local stores.
Who knew?
Quote: MrVRemember when you had to remove all the stems and seeds from the Mexican pot you smoked?
Not anymore; now there are no stems, no seeds: just buds of the finest quality available in local stores.
Who knew?
Yea but I miss getting that crap for $20 per eighth.
Quote: gamerfreakYea but I miss getting that crap for $20 per eighth.
When I quit weed in 1971, I could get
a pound for $300. A dime bag was $10
and would last a long time.
Since this site's search function is working better these days, I checked and found three times in the past when I posted about my first portable computers. Rather than repeat myself again, I'll just present this link to my post from 2010.Quote: TumblingBonesWhat about the first portable computer you ever saw? I remember a guy carrying an Osborne 1 on to a plane. I don't remember the year but it must have been around 1982 since the company didn't last long.
a dime, so was a small fries. We
would go to the drive thru and order
4 and 4 and a medium Coke. With
tax it was 99 cents. We each did that,
4 and 4. That was a heck of a lot
of food for a buck, even in 1964..
Then we would get 10 gallons of
gas for $2 across the street and
cruise around for hours. Even in
1965 19.9 cent's for a gallon of
gas was dirt cheap. Very little money
went a very long way.
If we felt like a change, we'd get
a loaf of bread from IGA, a #1 package
of Oscar Mayer bologna, jars of
mustard and mayo, a head of lettuce,
and make sandwiches in the car.
All that for under $2. Wash it down
with a 99 cent bottle of Boones Farm we
got an older friend to buy. Good
old days indeed..
We loved this stuff:
Quote: EvenBobIn 1965 a regular McD's burger was
a dime, so was a small fries. We
would go to the drive thru and order
4 and 4 and a medium Coke. With
tax it was 99 cents. We each did that,
4 and 4. That was a heck of a lot
of food for a buck, even in 1964..
Then we would get 10 gallons of
gas for $2 across the street and
cruise around for hours. Even in
1965 19.9 cent's for a gallon of
gas was dirt cheap. Very little money
went a very long way.
If we felt like a change, we'd get
a loaf of bread from IGA, a #1 package
of Oscar Mayer bologna, jars of
mustard and mayo, a head of lettuce,
and make sandwiches in the car.
All that for under $2. Wash it down
with a 99 cent bottle of Boones Farm we
got an older friend to buy. Good
old days indeed..
We loved this stuff:
Of course it's all relative. You would also only get what from the tooth fairy, .25? My son got $3.00 last night.
Quote: EvenBobIn 1965 a regular McD's burger was
a dime, so was a small fries.
I thought the burgers were $0.15? Said that price in any MCD history I have read.
What was amazing is how the price stayed at $0.15 for almost 20 years. It just shows more of my point of societal decline starting about 1964. People do not realize it, but we changed the monetary system in 1965, when we took the silver out of coins. By that point the Feds could not do all the spending they were doing, and it started to fall apart.
Quote: MrVRemember when you had to remove all the stems and seeds from the Mexican pot you smoked?
Haha... you still have to do this where weed isn't legal.
Quote: FleaStiffTooth fairy inflation is the fault of the parents. Absolutely no reason for it to be more than ten cents.
except a kid cant do anything with .10. 40 years ago they could probably go to the store and get a toy.
Quote: AZDuffmanIt just shows more of my point of societal decline starting about 1964.
LOL
Quote: AZDuffmanI thought the burgers were $0.15? Said that price in any MCD history I have read.
What was amazing is how the price stayed at $0.15 for almost 20 years. It just shows more of my point of societal decline starting about 1964. People do not realize it, but we changed the monetary system in 1965, when we took the silver out of coins. By that point the Feds could not do all the spending they were doing, and it started to fall apart.
If some kid is enterprising enough, say a checker someplace or assistant vending machine helper and collects the silver coins still floating through them, they could still buy gas for .25 gallon or several cheap burgers.
Before 1965, US quarters were made of 90 percent silver. That means that due to the silver alone it would be worth about $3.50 (depending on silver prices). After 1964, the quarter is just made of nickel and copper and worth just 25 cents.Mar 27, 2014
Can I Find Any 1964 Silver Quarters? | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/can-find-1964-silver-quarters/
Of course they would need to exchange it at a metals store first.
http://www.caveat.com.br/wp-content/wp-xmlrpusr.php?r=current-melt-value-of-silver-coins
Quote: AZDuffmanI thought the burgers were $0.15? Said that price in any MCD history I have read.
I remember now. Burger was 15, fry was 10.
4 and 4 was $1. The Coke was an extra 15.
I know we got 4 and 4 for a buck, did it
dozens of times. Remembering the smell
of that bag of hot food as a teenager is making
me hungry right now.
Quote: EvenBobI remember now. Burger was 15, fry was 10.
4 and 4 was $1. The Coke was an extra 15.
I know we got 4 and 4 for a buck, did it
dozens of times. Remembering the smell
of that bag of hot food as a teenager is making
me hungry right now.
The fry oil was called "Formula 45" for the cost of burger/fries/shake. Wish they still used the old stuff.
