God I'm Old!

[Walter Oobleck]

Used to look for bottles, pop and beer, to redeem for ten cents at Pascoe's Bigboy Market in Tamarack Mills. I think the glass Coke bottles have disappeared...Peach Nehi as well...but the glass beer bottles are still with us and Michigan has a 10-cent return on most cans and bottles and though one can still find them and though I still pick them up when I happen across them out in the bush (yeah, you'd be surprised where they can be found) it doesn't hold the same appeal. Not for me anyway, but there's at least one local guy who makes it a part of his life...I mean he walks or pedals miles picking up cans. Comforting to know so many are drinking and driving. And of course they toss their cans out the window. Pikers. But he also writes to the major corporations with a complaint about a food item, has the receipts to prove purchase, as well as whatever else it is they require...IPC symbol maybe...and he deposits the checks they send him.

Who else made necklaces from pull-tops? Who still has their necklace?

 

[Grandpa]

Dang! Y'all are OLD!!!!

Well, Dad would tell me, "Getting old is terrible. Except for the alternative."

 

[no bounce no play]

I remember pull-tab necklaces I also remember gum wrapper chains... Sheeesh I'm old

 

[Autumn Gust]

I remember "cootie catchers", chinese jump rope, and four square-- the things most little girls did at recess back in the day.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

There's always beer.

 

[hossenpepper]

Hey, I thought Al Gore invented the internet!

Not exactly, but certainly played a greater role than any other politician ever has: Al Gore and information technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His early involvement and efforts certainly played a huge role in getting the government to invest in the infrastructure to proliferate connectivity to the masses rather than keep it as a government only utility. Now, thanks to that, there is more free porn than one man can consume.

But in the spirit of this thread, I am old enough to remember and have studied these early hearings and such. I was always involved with computers. I used to have an Apple I. Wish I still did. That damn thing is worth a fortune now. I actually have a working Commodore 64 set up here in my office. I have the KB, monitor, modem, tape drive, and 2 floppy drives. It all still works too!

 

[hossenpepper]

Another famous playground blast from the past:

Red rover, red rover, send XXXXX on over!

Now, this game is considered too violent and not allowed.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Who else made necklaces from pull-tops? Who still has their necklace?

Didn’t get into that, but I remember as a kid something about (I guess the massive amount of dead brain cells is also an indication of being old ) redeeming Coke a Cola bottle caps for mini football helmets. I would make a daily trip to the one public Coke machine we had in town that had a built in bottle opener, with my magnet strung to a long stick, in order to retrieve the bottle caps from the machine’s inner depths.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Another famous playground blast from the past:

Red rover, red rover, send XXXXX on over!

Now, this game is considered too violent and not allowed.

Kids today are not even allowed to play "tag" in school. It’s considered "inappropriate touching."

 

[DiO'Bolic]

But in the spirit of this thread, I am old enough to remember and have studied these early hearings and such. I was always involved with computers. I used to have an Apple I. Wish I still did. That damn thing is worth a fortune now. I actually have a working Commodore 64 set up here in my office. I have the KB, monitor, modem, tape drive, and 2 floppy drives. It all still works too!

I have one of IBM’s first "portable" computers. Built in mini monitor, no hard drive, and 5 ¼" floppies (and still have some of those floppies).
Arouond 2' x 2' x 8" deep, and the damn thing must weigh 50 lbs. Want it?

 

[hossenpepper]

I have one of IBM’s first "portable" computers. Built in mini monitor, no hard drive, and 5 ¼" floppies (and still have some of those floppies).
Arouond 2' x 2' x 8" deep, and the damn thing must weigh 50 lbs. Want it?

Yeah, just what I need... more computer stuff. That would probably lead to me sleeping on a a couch somewhere...

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Rosie the Recoiler?

 

[GNTLGNT]

Rosie the Recoiler?

...and you could drive rivets with that thing...

 

[kingzeppelin]

I have one of IBM’s first "portable" computers. Built in mini monitor, no hard drive, and 5 ¼" floppies (and still have some of those floppies).
Arouond 2' x 2' x 8" deep, and the damn thing must weigh 50 lbs. Want it?

The first IBM machine I worked on in 1965 was this baby, which was far from portable.
An IBM 1401, a massive 8K CPU. Storage was on half inch magnetic tape on 12 inch spools. No keyboard, just a panel of flick switches and programs on a "brick" of punch cards.

 

[king family fan]

I just got rid of alot of my cassettes,and VHS. But did hang on too a few favorites.Amazing how the times change.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

I remember a minimum wage of $1.60/hour and worked a job that paid that much. Said elsewhere that I picked strawberries for 10-cents a quart and know a local farmer who can pick 300 quarts in a day, but the best we could muster was about 30...we only worked a partial day, bright & early to just past noon, plus we were down-trodden youth and no one to come in and organize us which we'd probably have resisted at any rate. Or how about having to get up off the floor or couch to traverse the living room to change the channel...on the black and white Philco...the channel selector sounding like a .44 magnum with a silencer with each flick? No! Really? The horror! And too, say you were out-voted in the democratic process of the living room, you versus the two sisters, and you revolted...ran over to the channel selector and flipped to Batman! the channel selector sounding like it was on full-auto. MA! Don't make me come in there!

 

[Angelo Bottigliero]

Oh yeah? Well... My first concert was Pink Floyd, so there!!!!

(Ok, ok, you guys win, you're really old )

 

[Neesy]

The first IBM machine I worked on in 1965 was this baby, which was far from portable.
An IBM 1401, a massive 8K CPU. Storage was on half inch magnetic tape on 12 inch spools. No keyboard, just a panel of flick switches and programs on a "brick" of punch cards.

Wow kingzeppelin - is that you in the front? - just pulling your leg (as you know!)
Love and green lights

 

[TheGooch8494]

I'm even older *sigh*
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That's an 8-track tape in case you youngsters didn't recognize it lol

And this would be a..... haha