I had a rotary dial phone unitil I was in Jr. High. I also remember TV with no remote, and "rabbit ears"! I remember those weird boxes with the push buttons for cable TV in the early days. Never had a microwave or VCR until I was in High School almost ready to graduate and I never had a CD player until I was in College (grad school actually). My first PC was post grad school. I did all my papers on typewriters and mini word processors (the ones that only have 1 line or 1 paragraph display screens). We had Coleco with Pong and one more no one has yet mentioned......my family had a TI 99. Ha! Remember those?
Yes! Texas Instruments. BBC computers were pretty hip for a while (The TRS-80 vs BBC was similar to the battle between Wintel and Apple now). I don't know if BBC computers made it into the USA. (BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation)
Nostalgia doesn't make me feel old, as often as it gives me the warm n fuzzies of comfort, I guess.. Wow... I also did all my papers on a typewriter or word processor box.. was a TI 99 like a Commodore 64?
Funny about remote controls too... the tv our folks got in 1960 (before I was born) actually *did* have a remote control on it... no batteries either.. it was piezo-electric I think, and there was a tube in the tv itself that sensed the nature of the clicks to change the channels, volume, and on/off. Nifty!
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Things that make ya feel old....
Date: 2004-09-22 03:43 pm (UTC)Re: Things that make ya feel old....
Date: 2004-09-22 11:31 pm (UTC)nostalgia
Date: 2004-09-23 09:02 pm (UTC)Wow... I also did all my papers on a typewriter or word processor box.. was a TI 99 like a Commodore 64?
Funny about remote controls too... the tv our folks got in 1960 (before I was born) actually *did* have a remote control on it... no batteries either.. it was piezo-electric I think, and there was a tube in the tv itself that sensed the nature of the clicks to change the channels, volume, and on/off. Nifty!