Back in the Old days...

[Loupey]

We didn't have our fancy shmansy pink digital video cameras to record our class lectures when we were 10 years old.

Where would we be without our fax machines, computers, email, cell phones, Ipods, digital cameras, and on and on and on?


The 1970's I tell ya!

[polarbeardiggers]

hey the seventies were great times,those were the days when we played outside for long hours, and listen to great music, those were the days, i still haven't caught up to this new techno age yet, my dvd player is my kids xbox 360,.

[another view]

I saw the 9yr old next door walking around with a Blackberry yesterday (although it could have been mom's)... Class clown in high school got a big laugh for taking a picture of the chalkboard in English class - but that was a few years ago. Yeah, I'm still a fan of playing outside!

[Loupey]

Thanks for looking, guys. I'm not good at starting a thread that everyone can participate in but wouldn't it be neat to see stuff from around the house that is no longer useful, efficient, nor needed (i.e. obsolete).

Better yet, something obsolete yet are still being used. Anyone have and still using cassette tapes or LP's?

How about those cranking pencil sharpeners (although I think schools still have them mounted to the walls).


Love to see what was once hot, but now so not. Anyone care to participate?

[txhalfblood]

What about 45 and 78 and 33 on a Hi Fi. Best of all $ .25 gas and movies $ .10, .50 at the drive-in. The only drug was steeling one of my dad's beers and running up to the barn to drink it. Oh, fun times. No remote then.

John

[Byron Lentz]

Yeah and a 14 year old out at 3:00 A.M. delivering the morning paper, who would let a 14 year old kid out a 3AM by there self now!

[another view]

Better yet, something obsolete yet are still being used.

A friend keeps his darkroom timer around because it's handy for making tea. Ooh - don't tell the film guys I said it was obselete! :blush2:

[mn shutterbug]

What about 45 and 78 and 33 on a Hi Fi. Best of all $ .25 gas and movies $ .10, .50 at the drive-in. The only drug was steeling one of my dad's beers and running up to the barn to drink it. Oh, fun times. No remote then.

John

I remember a buddy and I walking the ditches, looking for beer. This was probably back in
'69 or '70. We found a bonus once of a couple 16 oz. cans of Hamms. Yep, to his dad's barn we went.

What, no remote? It wasn't such a big deal back then. I recall getting just 3 channels on the TV, and 2 of them weren't worth watching, so who needed a remote.

[Frog]

Good idea for a thread....I know I can dig some stuff up...I never throw anything away.

[SmartWombat]

My house is full of stuff.

8" hard drive?
yes a whopping 10 megabytes from IMI
power supply that would run a dozen PCs
three Z80s to run the drive
linear voice coil head actuator
heady stuff on those days !

Betamax ?
Zenith Z180 laptop?
Compaq 286 laptop?
386 SX CPU?
Remember the chord keyboard Agenda?

I've good geek stuff out of my ears.

Loads of cassettes and LPs.
Even some 10" 78s.

Anyone remember Teddy Ruxpin, the original, and Grubby?
How about the talking Mickey Mouse and Goofy?
Or Mother Goose .. all the WoW talking toys.
Tippy Tumbles?
The original Tiny Tears?
Sindy, Patch, Pepper, Poppet, Paul?
All Angie's toy collection.

[Loupey]

What on earth is SmartWombat talking about!

I have a few "obsoletes" that I/we still use. I'll have to post those soon. Some will recognize, others will not

[brmill26]

Great idea for an interesting thread, Loupey. Here's one that's both fairly new yet completely obsolete already... the MiniDisc. It came out in the late 90s. For its time, it was extremely advanced - it had write/re-write functionality, full text functionality (for track/artist/album names), and a digital optical in/output for completely lossless recording. All in a 3x3x0.8" package. And the great thing about the MiniDiscs themselves, because of the case, they can't be scratched.

Unfortunately, it only lasted a couple years because flash memory and mini- hard drives quickly caught and surpassed its abilities. I think it's still used in some professional music recording devices, but that's extremely limited at best. Nonetheless, the MiniDisc was really the first iPod before there was any such thing as an MP3 player.

[SmartWombat]

Oh yes you reminded me, I have a professional DAT recorder somewhere.
And some 8mm video cameras, including the video walkman.

[MJS]

I still have an 8 and Hi8 Camcorder, along with some vinyl and a bunch of cassette tapes. Does an original model Polaroid land camera count?

[Frog]

I have a 16mm camera and projector...my dad's from the 40s.

[Loupey]

Thanks for joining in, brmill26. Those Sony MD players were very tempting back then. I was thinking about it just as the first MP3 players started coming out.

I still have an 8 and Hi8 Camcorder, along with some vinyl and a bunch of cassette tapes. Does an original model Polaroid land camera count?

Sure! Do you still use it? I think it would be fun to see the stuff that we're still using.


So here is my first entry. My engineers have all converted to ACAD long ago. But I still prefer the ease, beauty, and art of drawing designs out by hand. Granted I don't design all that much any more...

[Loupey]

I've been using one of these virtually every day for the past 17 years.

Tried three different PDA's over the years (one is on my current cell phone), but nothing beats being able to open up a page and seeing the whole month's appointments at a glance or being able to scribble a note while driving.


And where would I put my receipts?

[Greg McCary]

When I was a kid my job was to go outside and turn the TV antenna. When we switched from an Atlanta TV station to a Chattanooga TV station it would have to be rotated. We got a rotar motor when I was about 13 and then cable soon after that. 13 channels of clear TV. Now I rarely watch TV at all/
And who had a Commador 64? I even had a VIC 20.LOL

[BMOORE]

O.K. you want to see old days? Who remembers what this is for? It works too.

[Frog]

Now I'm going to have to get mine out, BMoore