Post a picture of something that someone under 20 yrs old might not recognize

[Bertha Venation]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Hell, *I* don't recognize that thing

and it's been a long, long time since I was 20.

[Bertha Venation]

3. Well, then.

A good start to my thread, wouldn't you say? ;)

It's a teletype machine. I've seen them in movies.

[stewartcolbert08]

323. Me either!!!

But now that you mention it LOL that was a really good one!

[TreasonousBastard]

447. I used one like that. The Signal Corps was thinking about replacing the...

leftover Korean War shit we were still using in the 60s.

[RebelOne]

419. Neither do I and it's been a long, long, long, long time since I was 20.

[phasma ex machina]

2. My first teminal.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

27. Acid flashback!

I used one at a law firm I worked at -- it was a very big deal when a Telex was coming in from our London branch -- we would have to coordinate our transmission time.

And who could forget getting a fax back in those days -- a spinning drum that resulted in a pretty shitty image.

[phasma ex machina]

34. Actually owning one was outside the range of possibility for a financially strapped student like me.

But my college made a dozen available to students.

[jmowreader]

96. A shitty image that smelled like the machine was burning up!

I feel like the Four Yorkshiremen sometimes. Old Fax paper wasn't thermal. Thermal would have been luxury! No, a Fax machine's paper was double-coated. There was a layer of black shit, covered by a layer of aluminum. The fax image was formed by selectively burning off the aluminum coating.

[S n o w b a l l]

225. Yep! Remember those too

It was a rare occurence when we sent or received a fax.

[S n o w b a l l]

224. Mine too....

And that was back in the early/mid '80's. Those things were a real pain in the ass!

[HopeHoops]

4. I have at least 3 of these that work (not the same model)

[Bertha Venation]

5. Ooh, yeah!

[HopeHoops]

7. I've got a bunch of those as well. I don't think I have that one.

I'm almost afraid to try playing them. The tape is 30+ years old and I ran the things constantly.

[canoeist52]

6. phonograph stylus

phonograph stylus

[HopeHoops]

8. I've also got one of these and use it regularly

This is the actual unit I own. I've got a great collection of laser discs and love the picture quality.

[cherokeeprogressive]

369. My Mickey Mouse Rotary Dial Phone looked SOOO cool wearing my Koss headphones.

Still have Mickey, have no idea what happened to the headphones.

[Politicub]

406. I love mine!

And you can get some great movies cheap on ebay.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Here's one:

I love the smell of duplicator fluid in the morning...

[dugaresa]

11. jinx!

[hunter]

20. Our kids will never know the smell of fresh dittos...

When I was teaching there were absurd limits on the Xerox machine, we were allowed to make 100 copies a semester, which was sort of useless since I had over 200 students throughout the day. But we could make all the dittos we wanted if we bought our own paper, masters and fluid.

[rebel with a cause]

139. We didn't have dittos

we had mimeograph machines. Of course those had a smell to them also and they usually left a lasting impression on the readers hands when they were handed out to quickly.

[cwydro]

158. I remember mimeographs!

The teacher would pass out freshly printed tests or handouts and all of us would immediately put then to our face and smell them! Lol!

[volstork]

452. You must've

been in my class!
I would LOVE to smell that ditto smell again!

[phasma ex machina]

33. That brings back memories.

[Bertha Venation]

52. DITTO! Ever seen a movie called "Teachers?"

:rofl: GREAT movie, including a character, a teacher who was nastily nicknamed "Ditto" because he hogged the Ditto machine.

[RoyGBiv]

81. Teacher, Teacher ...

... can you teach me ...

There's also a scene in Fast Times and Ridgemont High that my daughter never understood until I tried to explain it to her ... the scene where Mr. Hand passes out some papers to the students, and they all sniff them.

Ah, memories ... er, at least those memories the fluid fumes allowed to remain. :)

[BuelahWitch]

106. With Nick Nolte?

And one of the teachers was actually a mental patient who escaped from the hospital? I used to LOVE that movie!

[Bertha Venation]

203. That's the one.

Great movie.

[LibDemAlways]

212. Great movie. Poor Ditto died at his desk and no one noticed

because his classroom routine was to have kids hand out and complete dittos while he sat at the back of the room. The screenwriter apparently went to my high school.

[nytemare]

285. DITTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffffffffff snifff sniff!

I remember making a thread about dittos a few months back. When was it that they stopped using them, around 85?

[Politicub]

404. Mmm Used to love the smell of fresh pages w/ duplicator fluid

in school. I wonder if it was a mild high kind of thing that kept reinforcing it?

[dugaresa]

10. one of these

<>

i remember the smell of this bugger in action vividly today!

[Crabby Appleton]

42. First you have to cut a stencil

[struggle4progress]

108. You really cut a true stencil for a mimeograph, but not for a spirit duplicator:

the mimeograph used a horrid thick sticky ink that was spun through the cuts in the stencil that you placed on the drum; but the spirit duplicator used a reverse image in paraffin-like material that dissolved slightly in the spirit for direct transfer to the paper

[Richardo]

12. You just made CMW's heart go pit-a-pat.

:hi: Happy New year, Bertha!

[Call Me Wesley]

18. LOL!

I will not look for old teletype machines. I will not look for old teletype machines ...

I'm not this familiar with cars, but that's the thing to ground them, isn't it? So the passengers won't get sick from static electricity? You can still see some cars going around with them here, instead it's some sort or rubber band at the rear. :hi:

[Richardo]

21. A car grounding attachment - you are correct sir!

The old glass-disk rotors and cat-fur brakepads used to build up ENORMOUS, potentially lethal amounts of static electricity. It was quite the safety coup when they switched over to the asbestos brake pads.

[Call Me Wesley]

24. ZOMG! Think what happened if they would have gone loose!

A car on cruise control full of dead, electrocuted people!

[Bertha Venation]

58. I thought they were curb-feelers. That's what my grandma used them for

-- when she heard them scratching on the curb, she knew she was too close.

Learn something new every day.

[Richardo]

61. Oh Bertha, please do not take my riffing with CMW seriously...

...they ARE the curb feelers. :hug:

[EstimatedProphet]

67. Really, you should know better than to make jokes here.

[Still Blue in PDX]

398. Wholey Jayzus, you had me going.

:blush:

[dysfunctional press]

22. they're called 'curb feelers'...

to help you park the car correctly.

[Call Me Wesley]

23. Heh!

:rofl:

[dysfunctional press]

29. it's not about static electricity...it's about not scraping hubcaps or whitewalls against the curb.

you can buy them at amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Superior-26-6331-Duplex-Feeler-Chrome/dp/B00029K702

Superior 26-6331 Duplex Twin Curb Feeler, Chrome, 10.5" Long



Product Features

* Never Hit A Curb Again
* Helps Prevent Tire, Fender Damage
* Take That Old Classic To An Original Look
* Twin Curb Feeler
* Clean Chrome Look

[Call Me Wesley]

32. I stand corrected

and will go spank Richardo! Thanks for the input! :hi:

[Lionel Mandrake]

145. I had those on a car a long time ago.

They were damn useful.

[uncle ray]

30. this IS the correct answer.

though they do make grounding straps for cars, these are not those.

[Bertha Venation]

53. Happy new year, Richardo

:hug:

[Deep13]

13. *sigh*

[phasma ex machina]

35. Too true. LOL

[Bertha Venation]

60. + 1

[snailly]

307. +100 Just sad

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Sure:

Kidding (I hope,) but this might be something:

[SeattleGirl]

128. That looks like the first typewriter I ever typed on. My grandmother

had that model and I was just fascinated by it.

[rebel with a cause]

143. Hmmm. That is what I learned to type on.

I went from that to a smaller type, then to a portable one, then an electric typewriter, then to a work processor, then a huge computer, smaller computer and now a lab top. If I live long enough I wonder what would come next.

[SeattleGirl]

177. That was my path too.

My daughter still can't believe I used to type on one of those things.

[rebel with a cause]

178. That is what we built our finger strength up on.

You really had to pound on those keys to get them to leave ink on the paper. ;)

edited to correct sentence structure. It is now almost twelve thirty a.m. here. The new year has begun. Let NYC drop their apple, here we had almost five minutes of cannon fire. Yipee! :rofl:

[sarge43]

273. A few thousand miles on one of those monsters and you crack

Brazil nuts in your bare hand.

[THUNDER HANDS]

211. why are the Z and Y keys in different spots?

[Call Me Wesley]

266. European layout.

Here, it's 'QWERTZ.' :hi:

[Lasher]

325. I did not know that.

I wonder if this European convention applies to computer keyboards nowadays?

Edit: Wiki strikes again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

Sometimes I amaze myself with my own ignorance. But I learned something today, thanks.

So do you use the Swiss German or Swiss French layout?

[Call Me Wesley]

327. Ths Swiss German layout,

with all the umlauts. The French accents are there, too, but the umlauts are dominant.

[LibDemAlways]

263. I was sitting beside a woman who was using a Kindle the other day and

it didn't look appealing to me at all. I'm sure many will find it useful and convenient, but, for me, there is nothing like the feel of turning the pages of a good book.

[Call Me Wesley]

269. I do find it useful and convenient.

Does it mean I abandon real books? No, I just ordered a bunch I'd never would want to have as some e-reading digitalized text-bits. Besides, nobody can sign a book on the Kindle. ;) There are still quite (quite!) a few books left here and many more yet to come. :hi:

[dana_b]

342. I have to look at a computer screen

at work so I have no desire to look at that thing while I read. I'm with you. As long as books are made, I'll go with that.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. Hmmmm... maybe --

more like a 30 year old would recognize! God I hated these things:

[graywarrior]

25. Bwahahahahaha!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. Those were the days, eh? :D

At least I didn't have to use the kind with safety pins!

[graywarrior]

38. Your underwear always ended up with two gaping holes

One in the front and one in the back...lol

[Bertha Venation]

62. Those were being phased out as I came of age

but gawd, I can imagine how unpleasant.

[tonysam]

286. Same here. The maxipads started coming out in around

1969-1970, and the rest is history.

[Stardust]

333. My first experience with maxipads--didn't know which side was "up" --OUCH!

[sarge43]

364. Husband said the pads should be printed with the same instructions on claymore mines:

"This side toward the enemy."

[CTyankee]

357. I remember there were special underpants with "slots" for the pads to slide in.

That was a long time ago...

[Sabriel]

71. Hah! Those were my training wheels

My mom had never used tampons, so....

And let's not forget the fun Kotex pamphlets I learned from, such as "Why Sally Can't Go Swimming Today."

[Kat45]

87. Those Kotex pamphlets served as "the talk" for me.

My mother never talked to me about the facts of life, periods, etc. When I first got my period, she handed me an envelope of Kotex pamphlets. :rofl:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

113. Me too

but by then I had understood the facts of life:
Don't marry a bum :rofl:
even if he was a Merchant Marine :patriot:

[rebel with a cause]

144. You were lucky,

My mother sent my one sister in to talk to me. I about had a nervous break down.

I told on here the other day about my family having company and my asking for the Kotex napkins (meaning paper table napkins) to be passed. I was about eight at the time and had seen the Kotex hidden away in the bathroom closet. I had no idea what they were, just knew they were napkins. They gave me a hard time over it for years but I figure it was their fault for being so secretive about them. :rofl:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

185. Kotex belts. ICK.

When I was in the hospital in 1985 having a baby, they had huge pads with the gauze strings on the end, like you would use with a belt. But did they have any belts in their supply??? Heck no!!!!

Thanks a lot you incompetent maternity nurses at Park Plaza Hospital, Houston, Texas.

[LibDemAlways]

216. I got one of those pamphlets in 5th grade, a day when the boys were

sent out to the playground and the girls were taken to the auditorium to see a Disney movie about the "wonderous" changes we were about to undergo. I know my mon was very relieved that she didn't have to discuss any of it. I'm sure she was grateful that Bambi stepped in.

[proud2BlibKansan]

268. We saw those movies too!

Minnie Mouse gets her period. LOL

[sarge43]

274. And Mickey stops sweating. "Missed again, thank Walt." n/t

[PassingFair]

362. My mother gave me a "Feminine Hygiene" box and a talk when I was 12....

It contained pads, tampons (I think...) a "panty girdle"
and a "belt.

There was a booklet included that I used to take out and
read once in a while...

for FOUR LONG YEARS...I didn't get my period until I was
almost 16....

By the time I was ready to use the products, they had
disintegrated!

:cry:

Here's a blog that's good for a laugh:

http://jezebel.com/348766/let-it-bleed-a-look-back-at-period+related-advertising

[Gabi Hayes]

154. I thought that thing was a garter belt.

[dana_b]

343. ah! now I know what it is

thank you.

[sarge43]

72. Thanks heaps for that blast from the past.

:puke:

[Gormy Cuss]

86. Thanks for the reminder.

Yay for the advent of adhesive strips!

[Kat45]

89. And the pads were so thick.

They were huge!

[auntAgonist]

97. OMG I hated those!

[rebel with a cause]

147. I think we all did.

I hated them and the garter belts also. People now think garter belts are sexy and I always thought they were torturous.

[Mari333]

100. Lord , BAD memories!!!!

[SeattleGirl]

129. ROFL!!!

Yep, I remember those things. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

148. AAAGHH! That's a memory I'd repressed...

Ick.

[babylonsister]

155. Jeeze. Memories.

:rofl: Bad ones.

[LibDemAlways]

215. My mom couldn't bring herself to discuss what that was for. One day

when I was 13 one of those plus a Kotex box mysteriously appeared in my bedroom. I had to figure out what to do with them. Awful, awful memories.

[S n o w b a l l]

232. God, we all had horrid memories of those things!

And they could show through your pants. My mom was one of those that thought if I used tampons, I wouldn't be a virgin anymore.
She never really had a talk with me, just a mention that it would happen one day.

I'll never forget on the school bus talking with girlfriends when I was around 9 and they said boys had periods too, but it was white stuff.

:rofl:

[sarge43]

240. Truth be told.

I think many of us got laid just we could comfortably wear a tampon.

Still remember the look on the doctor's face when he was briefing me pre-op about the hysterectomy.

Him: You won't have periods anymore.

Me: No kidding. Side bennie.

Glad to know my mom wasn't the only one who didn't give The Talk.

:eyes:

[Stardust]

335. My beloved sister gave me the "facts of life talk" including the part

where boys pee inside you. Amazing that I ever lost my virginity.

[Highway61]

244. Damn

I just spewed coffee all over my keyboard :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[annabanana]

270. YEEPS!

You just made me squirm in my chair!

[Ken Burch]

279. Today, there's probably a fetish website for those.

n/t.

[rainbow4321]

304. OMG...having flashbacks to the day

that the school nurse handed me that thing in 1974!

[stewartcolbert08]

324. lmao

OMG that is the worst thing ever!

[lunatica]

392. That and garter belts were horrible!!!

Especially when used at the same time.

[Politicub]

408. Is that for a strap on?

::evilgrin:

[BlueIris]

423. Woah. Yeah, I've...never actually seen one of those (turned 30 last year.)

Always wondered what they looked like.

[Deep13]

16. New Coke

[valerief]

74. Oh, yeah, that was their transitional coke so that they could go to HFCS next. nt

[rcrush]

281. What about Coke II?

[Politicub]

409. Remember this one?

[Deep13]

17. I've got one of these.

[LibDemAlways]

217. Mine never took. My parents took me to the Dr. 3 times. Finally he

declared I must have "natural immunity." Hope so!

[Mollis]

448. ?

What is it? haha

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Given the last 4 or 5 years...

[Xipe Totec]

26. ...

[NoPasaran]

28. Sure

[phasma ex machina]

36. I lost mine sometime after high school.

I always wanted one of those Cray circular slide rules.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

150. I still have mine from high school.

I keep it on my desk at work, just to prove what a nerd I've always been.

[Xipe Totec]

256. Not at all what I thought you were talking about losing in High School

:yoiks:

[struggle4progress]

414. I have an old circular. I must have been one of the last people to use a slide: the

calculators were still improving, and I couldn't see any reason to buy a clunky battery-powered gizmo if you were doing quick calculations where you didn't need more than 3-place accuracy: it drove everybody I knew crazy

[pokerfan]

59. Thanks to Ebay, I own about a dozen slide rules

including a six inch plastic Pickett I keep in the glove box for figuring gas mileage. It never needs batteries and is a great conversation starter at the pump.

Here is an on-line implementation of the N600-ES (the slide rule that went to the moon): http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/virtual-slide-rule.html

Explanation of scales:
C/D: multiplication (and division)
CF/CF: 'folded' C/D scales for working with pi
A/B: squares (and roots) of C/D
K: cubes
CI/DI: reciprocals of C/D
L: log
Ln: natural log
LL: log-log exponential scale
S: sine (and cosine)
T: tangent (and cotangent)

[NoPasaran]

65. I bought that very nice Post slide rule cheap around 1975

Scientific calculators had become affordable and the bottom had fallen out of the market for expensive slip sticks. I think I still have one or two of the plastic ones I used in high school. And, like you say, they never need batteries!

[pokerfan]

66. By the time I was in high school, slide rules were no longer taught

but when I spotted the classroom wall model in the science room storage locker I made my teacher show me how it works. To this day, I don't understand why slide rules aren't used to illustrate logarithms.

[Roon]

168. I used to clean an office every night

And the engineer for the company had one of those behind glass hanging on the wall with a sign that says "In Case of Emergency..Break Glass"

[LibDemAlways]

214. My dad graduated from Penn State as a mechanical engineer in 1942. That

was the most important tool he owned. He never took a liking to calculators and the computer completely baffled him in later years. But he sure could use a slide rule.

[Taitertots]

247. A professor I had used to have one that was 5 feet long

With really small numbers covering the whole thing.

I still have no idea how to use one.

[NoPasaran]

259. Your reply could be a classis Lounge post all its own

:toast:

[sarge43]

275. BMOC. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

436. I've got a round one of those...

It was my mom's. I learned how to use it, too.

Looks like this:

[Crabby Appleton]

37. this could be found in most drug stores

[Kutjara]

125. I remember those!

When our old Magnavox TV would break, my dad would remove half the tubes from it and cart them down to the local Safeway, which had one of those testing machines. When he figured out which tube was burned-out, he'd buy a replacement, cart all the tubes back home again, and then realize he'd forgotten which tube fit in which socket. A sheepish call to the local TV repairman usually followed. I wish I could say this little tableaux only happened once...

[texanwitch]

156. I think that was a common story.

The days when one could fix their own tv.

Old radios were the same.

I have two old radios one from the 30's, the other one from the 40's.

[Lionel Mandrake]

166. I used to fix TV sets when I was in high school.

It helped to know which types of tubes were used for which purposes. For example, the high voltage rectifier (the most likely tube to burn out) was either a 1B3 or a 1X2A. If there was sound but no picture, that was probably the culprit. Either that or the horizontal oscillator. I used to know the common tube types for horizontal oscillators, but I have forgotten. That was over 50 years ago. Another tube which often burned out was the low voltage rectifier. It was usually made of glass and would glow purple if some air got in. To see that, I would have to defeat the safety interlock.

After the set had been on a while, if a tube was cold to the touch, that was the bad one. I never removed more than one tube at a time. I had my own tube tester and other test equipment, but I seldom needed them. Only once did I have to use a soldering gun.

[Lionel Mandrake]

164. The sign says COLOR TV

You don't see or hear that any more. It reminds me of Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing"

"we've got to move these refrigerators,
we've got to move these COLOR TVs."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPjxz4LGak

[LibDemAlways]

220. I was telling my teenager about the TV repairman just the other day and

how he'd show up with a truck full of tubes. I forgot about those machines. Thanks for the memory.

[rug]

39. Baghdad.

The bombing started January 15, 1991. Nineteen years already.

[Tikki]

40. I believe not many use these anymore...

Most use a blow dryer and a big round brush...


Tikki

[Hell Hath No Fury]

44. My sister had a "mobile" hair dryer --

that you strapped to your waist with a belt and had a long cord so you could move around while drying. :D She used to do the dishes while drying for the big date.

[dana_b]

344. omg! I remember that one!

my mom had a big pink one however the dryer portion was less "sophisticated" than the one shown here. The tube attached to this big box that blew out the hot air. I think it was from the fifties.

[suninvited]

41. well, of course anybody can recognize milk

but those under 20 would probably wonder why it is sitting on the doorstep~

[FunkyLeprechaun]

88. We get those here in the UK

It's really nice!

[Kutjara]

126. Yep, daily milk delivery...

...was one of the things I loved about living in the UK. Even when I got up late and found that bids had pecked through the foil caps to get to the lovely cream inside.

[sasquatch]

389. Lucky bastards

[dana_b]

345. more like under 60!!

how many of us really had milk delivered?

[suninvited]

417. I am in my forties, and I sure remember the milk delivery guy

we would sit on the porch and wait for him in the mornings. I realize now that was my mothers way of getting peace and quiet.

"Go sit outside and wait for the milkman"

[donheld]

444. Denver's still got it

http://www.royalcrestdairy.com/

[canoeist52]

43. bobbin winder

[XemaSab]

115. Those are still around

at least on my sewing machine. :shrug:

[Roon]

257. Get a load of the oldtimer.....

no one uses those anymore..................................................teasing..even the brand news ones have them I think. But your post was cute...

[Ryano42]

45. Last model year was 1987

:D

[victoryparty]

56. Now all you need,..

...is a picture of a young Bill Clinton standing by his Ranchero (or was it an El Camino?).

[SKKY]

318. My cousin still drives one of those...

...it's been restored probably 3 or 4 times, and is on its 6th engine. But, it still looks pretty much the way it did the day he drove it home from the dealership.

[NYC_SKP]

437. I still own an 84. Use it rarely but good to have for when it's needed. n/t

[Ptah]

46. ok

[Brother Buzz]

180. Even I missed out on this machine yet I still call the modern ones steam rollers

My Great-grandfather had a steam powered trencher. He was a mover and shaker in the septic sewer systems around the turn of the century (um, the last turn of the century). I regret only a photograph of it remains.

[baldguy]

47. People who were once kids would know this.

[TK421]

50. for the hydrants, right?

[baldguy]

51. Nope.

[femmocrat]

54. Roller skate key?

"I got a brand new pair of rollerskates and you got a brand new key" (old song)

[baldguy]

57. Kids didn't wear sneakers, they wore hard shoes and the skakes clamped on to them.

A skate key tightened the clamp.

[dugaresa]

63. i had a pair of those!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

149. Had a pair just like that.

I clamped them to my saddle shoes. They were not very maneuverable and I fell down a lot.

[SoCalDem]

433. I still have a pair.. and a pair of clamp on ICE skates

that were my aunt's.. she was born in 1911, so they must be pretty darned old..:)

[TK421]

48. okay

unless you had older brothers or sisters who kept it around

[THUNDER HANDS]

213. this is the first thing on this entire thread I recognize, and I'm 31

:D

[darkstar3]

313. Aww, now I miss my original 2600.

It still works, but my parents insisted on keeping it when I moved out oh so many years ago.

They never touch it, just keep it locked away hoping it will appreciate in value. I'd love to get it back from them and play it again for the retro value...

[flvegan]

49. Likely one of these:

[Iggo]

91. That's beautiful, man.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

141. Holy crap, is that a carburetor?

[ConcernedCanuk]

171. yepper, it's a Holley 4bbl (4 - barrel)

.
.
.

I used to rebuild them things many moons ago

(sigh)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

187. A four barrel Holley....wow

My big sister LOVED fast cars and loved to work on them.

She got a Motor's Auto Repair manual one Christmas, and a socket set. She also put a four barrel Holley on her GTO and later took out the block on her '67 Sting Ray Convertible 427/390 and shaved the heads to increase the stroke. She and our dad and her boyfriends.
I think she got the HP from 390 to 415 or so.

I remember the new stainless steel camshaft as well.

Just like this one, only silver, with black ragtop:

[ConcernedCanuk]

291. Is this a test? shaving the heads dos not increase the stroke

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.
.

It DOES increase the compression ratio, and if other things are syncronized, the horsepower.

AND

ya don't have to remove the block to shave the heads, just just take the heads off and leave the block in the chassis.

but anyhoo

kudos to your sis

:thumbsup:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

296. Yeah that was in about 1968.

She met boys by working on cars. She used to do tuneups on my Subaru.
And then she'd clean up and fix her hair and polish her nails!

I was so proud of her for being a mechanic!

OK I was wrong. The stroke is not any longer but the compression DOES increase, and the horsepower if done right, you are right.

She died in 1990 from brain cancer at the age of 42, and I miss her terribly. :cry:

[ConcernedCanuk]

300. Lost my only sis to a car accident when she was only 43, I was 44 at the time

.
.
.

I hear ya

I got/had 4 brothers - oldest brother died some years back, but sis and I were the closest.

"fix her hair and polish her nails"

ya - I hear ya loud and clear.

I miss my sis more than anyone else I ever lost in my life, and I'm 59 now - seem to be losing them at an ever increasing rate.

Life - ya never get out of it alive . . .

(sigh)

[NYC_SKP]

438. Holley 600 n/t

[Hayabusa]

55. You know that new game your parents got you for your DS for Christmas?

This is how it started...



(Well, not exactly how it started since I'm about to raid the third dungeon. It's also iffy on the 20 years thing due to being rereleased for the GBA in 2002 and on the Wii virtual console. However, it's likely the majority of those who bought the rereleases played the original game)

[LeftyMom]

64. My eight year old knows what that is.

I set up my old school Nintendo a while back for him. Sure, I could have let him play all the old games on the new system, but I'm of the opinion that a proper geek should have permanent little dents in his hands from the old controllers, it'll help him to appreciate the newer, better designed stuff.

[Odin2005]

132. I still have my NES I got for my 4th birthday in 1990.

Still works! :D

[Politicub]

410. He may not recognize this

Might I add, this was one of the most useless peripherals ever, but it was cooler to get the full NES kit with the light gun and R.O.B.

[Odin2005]

130. I have the original Zelda on my GBA!

:)

[Chan790]

222. I remember when that first came out...

and it came in a gold cartridge. It was acclaimed as revolutionary and video-game industry-changing, a completely-different type and quality of video game than had ever been made.

And yes, it was. The Legend of Zelda came out when I was 6 or 7, I was still playing it like 4 years later when Zelda 2: A Link To The Past came out...man, that was like the worst sequel in history.

The bomb limit was completely dumb too. Why 8 bombs? It wasn't like they were a vastly better weapon except against that one boss.

[darkstar3]

314. My wife and I still have the gold cartridge, and it works.

You just have to blow it right to get the damn thing to turn on. ;)

[Taitertots]

68. At 25 I've seen almost all of those

In museums.

But really, I've seen pictures of most of those things.


The best part of that photograph is that it is the double whammy. Look at the telephone in the background.

[GreenPartyVoter]

69. I had that exact phone in my kitchen when I was growing up.

[dysfunctional press]

75. i have that exact phone in my kitchen right now...

and a beige rotary-dial desk model on the end table in the living room.

when my father-in-law passed away a couple years back, all the kids were 'salvaging' stuff from the factory before it was all scrapped and sold. we got LOTS of cool stuff.

[zabet]

124. I I still have and use a phone like that.....

old rotary dial on a hard-wired pulse line. Actually still had dial-up internet until about a year ago. :D

[Posteritatis]

131. I desperately want a rotary dial cellphone. (nt)

[Taitertots]

194. Rotary dial Iphone app? n/t

[Posteritatis]

243. Nah. Normal cellphone with a big physical dial. (nt)

[Taitertots]

252. It is only cool if you also have a....

Iphone wedged into a old phone body with a blue tooth headset mounted into the receivers.

Yeah, my cell phone is rotary and my home phone is touch screen.

[One_Life_To_Give]

385. Just want Cell as durable as West Elect Rotary Phone

I would settle for a Cell phone that had some mechanical robustness. Now the Western Electric Rotary Dial sets, that was some mechanically robust design. Didn't have to worry if it was dropped to the floor. (Unless you had some cheap linolium that might be damaged.)

[Kaleva]

70. Before my time this one.

[dysfunctional press]

76. can that thing be converted into a transmitter, too...?

at least it's stereophonic.

[Kaleva]

112. It was used before radar. To detect incoming enemy aircraft.

[Taitertots]

195. All I can think about when I saw that was getting someone to put them in

and farting really loud by the opening.

[sarge43]

73. From my duffel bag of memories

[Roon]

169. My father retired from lockheed martin

but I remember him using the punch cards at his work when I was a kid.

[sarge43]

191. The AF started using them early '60's.

I hammered out a mountain of them. However, bless 'em, they did take over doing that bete noir, The Morning Report.

[Roon]

201. That's exactly when my father was using punch cards

he was in the AF as well..

[sarge43]

208. If he's still with us, give him "Hey, Zoomie" for me.

If not, hand salute and a CAVU.

[Roon]

223. Oh, Ok! I will!

He did go to vietnam,he has never uttered a peep about it. I had his dogtags for years and years and finally LOST them.

[sarge43]

233. Hubby put in two tours in that hell hole. He doesn't talk much about it either.

As they say, if you been, you know. If not, you won't understand.

:hug:&:patriot: to your Dad.

[Roon]

239. Thanks Sarge!

[GoCubsGo]

202. I did some of my Master's thesis statistics with punch cards

The rest I did on an original Mac. Talk about spanning the technological spectrum!

[sarge43]

237. I'm still amazed how much has changed in one life time. n/t

[LibDemAlways]

264. My husband was a Computer Science major at Cal State in the

early 1970's and he used to carry around stacks of those things. Amazing how far we've come in such a relatively short period of time.

[sarge43]

271. Howls of pains when after sorting thousands of those things,

dropping the canister and spilling them down the hallway. Of course, one card would run and hide, so hi-ho, here we go again.

The good old days weren't.

[RubyDuby in GA]

450. My mom worked for an AF base and she is forever telling me and my brother about the punch cards

I was wondering if someone was going to put that on this thread. :)

[Gold Metal Flake]

77. They look funny when running...

[dana_b]

347. what is it? n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

349. It's a wire recorder. It pre-dates tape recorders.

It recorded audio onto a reel of wire. In the picture, you can see two reels and a small cylindrical item inbetween them. That central cylinder contains the record & playback heads and guides the wire to helps it wind flat on the reels by bobbing up and down.

I had a few of them. They work pretty well.

[dana_b]

380. cool!

i've heard of them (of course) but haven't seen a picture before now.

[valerief]

78. rotary phone

How does one push the holes to call????

[Lionel Mandrake]

161. Featured in Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1F6pnXlPY

[Deep13]

242. We still have one. nt

[Politicub]

411. Woe be unto you if you made a mistake dialing, especialy on the last digit

of a long distance number.

[Gold Metal Flake]

79. Analogue

[Gold Metal Flake]

80. Missed it by that much...

[NoPasaran]

93. Ah, the CED Video Disc

Does that bring back the memories!

The early RCA players had a manufacturing defect: a little too much slop in the stylus drive that caused the colors to rainbow like a weekend at Jimi Hendrix's house. RCA paid us ten bucks a unit to add a washer to the shaft under warranty.

My boss had a roll of shrinkwrap and a heatgun. One of my duties was to re-wrap all the discs that came back from rental so they looked brand new. Our customers were impressed that we always had new discs for them to rent. Suckers!

[GoCubsGo]

95. And, also along those lines...

and

[Odin2005]

134. We had the thing on the bottom when i was in elementary school (1990s)

[rebel with a cause]

151. We had both of those things when I was in elementary school (1950s)

[ConcernedCanuk]

173. LOL - "thing on the bottom" is a slide projector - carousel style

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.
.

damm I must be gettin' old . .

[sakabatou]

98. delete

[RagAss]

82. I played in one of these...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s77XPQZjRl0/Sqmwuz6YSeI/AAAAAAAAEPY/iys65UyTuA4/s400/riddell+3b.jpg

[Gold Metal Flake]

83. We brought freedom to the dodo...

[geardaddy]

84. Here's a couple

[Gold Metal Flake]

85. Ooh, both are good ones!

Two other versions...

[Bertha Venation]

204. Love it! Those flash cubes SO remind me of my grandma.

:)

[LibDemAlways]

221. Half the time the little flash cubes wouldn't flash or turn like they

were supposed to. No wonder old family photos are so awful. It was all very hit or miss.

[geardaddy]

90. These

[Arugula Latte]

227. I had both of those radios in the 70s.

The round one was white and the twisty one was yellow. Sooo cool.

[GoCubsGo]

92. Something I wish I still had...

The original "Creepy Crawlers", with metal plates and a heater. The current iteration has a "magic oven" with a light bulb to heat-cure the goop. The poor kids these days don't get to know the joys of burning their hands on the hot plates.

[baldguy]

104. I've got a scar on my forearm from that.

[gardenista]

133. Wow, I would LOVE to have those plates!

Gonna look for that on eBay

[texanwitch]

163. That was my favorite toy.

I loved it.

I made good money with the toy.

The plates got really hot.

[Frank Cannon]

198. There wasn't a kid in America that didn't get blistered by a Thingmaker

Those were good times.

[geardaddy]

228. I loved those!

:D

[Capn Sunshine]

393. Don't forget it's cousin, Vac-u-form!

My little brother got one. We played with it more tnan him

[ChickMagic]

427. I had a vacuform!

I'm still surpised I didn't maim myself.

[jmowreader]

94. Without even looking at the filename I realized that was a Model 19 ASR

There were four versions of the Model 19:

Model 19 ASR (automatic send and receive): has printer for receiving, keyboard for line servicing, paper tape punch for preparing messages, paper tape distributor for sending traffic. Was used for circuits with heavy two-way traffic--if you were a Western Union office this is what you probably had.

Model 19 KSR (keyboard send and receive): paper tape capability is missing--used for circuits that had some outbound traffic but mostly inbound traffic.

Model 19 RO (receive only): only has a printer. If you see photos of banks of wire service printers in newsrooms, those were almost always Model 19 RO units.

Model 19 TD (tape distributor): just the paper tape reader. Someone who had a lot of people feeding one line would have this--they'd install thirty or forty ASRs for punching paper tape. As people punched their tapes, they'd take them to the communications center, where a clerk would transmit the tapes. There is an army regulation on message preparation that, in the version dated 1989, had complete instructions for preparing these tapes. I called the office that put it out: "Does anyone in the Army have a paper tape subsystem anymore?" 'No, but it's in there just in case.' Apparently I wasn't the only one asking this.

Fun trivia: No one ever cleaned the inside of a Model 19; the more grease and muck in it, the better it runs.

[Bertha Venation]

205. "the more grease and muck in it, the better it runs."

Wow, what descriptions. I didn't actually expect anyone here to have used this. Thanks!

[jmowreader]

236. I've used several teletypes

I was in a unit that had quite a collection of these old monsters, which we used. Don't ask what for.

We had the Model 19, which I already discussed. I really didn't like it much; it was so fucking old it needed LOTS of tender loving care, and we had to teach ourselves how to do it. The people who really knew how to work on the Mod 19 are all dead.

You can change the sending and receiving speed on a Model 19, but to do it you need to change a gear.

We also had the Model 28. Mod 28s were louder than Mod 19s because they used a "type box." All the characters were stacked up in this little box the machine moved around until it got to the right position, then a solenoid whacked the bottom of the type block to make the character imprint on the page. I guess you could have replaced a worn-out character if you needed to, but figure the odds on getting one in the 1980s. I'm pretty sure they were bulletproof.

Someone put a picture of the Model 33 above this post. The Mod 33 introduced seven-level ASCII signaling to the Teletype line. All previous Teletypes (it's a brand of teleprinter) were five-level Baudot with 31 different character combinations. "So how'd you do numbers?" Good question, and I'll tell you. There are two keys on a Baudot keyboard: shift and unshift. Most of the keys on your teletype had two characters on them--E would have also had 3. To type the letters on top, you press the Shift key. The teletype sends the "shift" character, and the machine at the distant end goes into shifted mode. You then type all the shifted characters you want. When you wanted to type unshifted characters, you then pressed the Unshift key. So to type a sentence like "George W. Bush went AWOL from the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group" (it would have been in all caps because Baudot teleprinters don't have lowercase letters) you would type:

GEORGE W. BUSH WENT AWOL FROM THE <shift>147<unshift>TH FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR GROUP

This was as big a pain in the ass as it appears it would be.

The Model 40 was used in lots of communication centers. It has a CRT terminal for composing and a separate teleprinter for receiving, and it uses cassette tape instead of paper tape for data storage. The Mod 40's printer uses a type band--a rubber belt that has the type blocks stuck into it. It turned all the time the machine was on. The machine knew where the characters were in relation to the type hammer. IIRC there were five sets of characters in each band--this because the band ran all the way across the carriage. It was also a durable machine.

And that. I think, is what the twentysomethings are REALLY missing out on--not this old funky-ass equipment (as romantic as the idea of a teletype might be, the reality is they literally stink; between the motor, the smell of burning rubber and the machine oil you needed to lubricate the thing, you wouldn't want this in your house or in most offices)--but computers that actually last, and that they make their money not by selling ink cartridges but by selling the machine itself. Right now it's often cheaper to throw the printer in the trash and buy a new one when the ink runs out. Does that make sense to anyone else? Because it doesn't to me.

[sakabatou]

99. This guy

[jmowreader]

101. How about some things it's GOOD they don't recognize?

This everyone here should recognize


Flvegan might know what this is...


And then there's this...


and this (we can only wish)...


and this.

[Bertha Venation]

206. Iron lungs. What a sad legacy.

I can't imagine needing one of those things.

[jmowreader]

231. I would love it if there was one in every town

Or at least a few in every state. There are people out there in the anti-vaccination movement who say there's no connection between polio vaccine and the eradication of polio. It is for these people the iron lung is for--I would take the "the polio vaccine doesn't prevent polio" crowd into the room with the iron lung and explain that the polio vaccine is the reason you don't see these anymore.

[valerief]

102. The rocket radio is something someone under 50 wouldn't remember.

I had this as a kid. I'd clip the wire (it had an alligator clip tip) to a chain-link fence and listen to the Four Seasons. Of course, I was stuck to the fence and looked like a dufus. But I was grooving!

[Bertha Venation]

207. that is awesome, valerief

:thumbsup:

[guitar man]

103. Ok

I have a small collection of these

[Aristus]

105. Analog iPod:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

421. Looks like digital tuning. I like it.

Shut out the noise without jamming earbuds into the ears.

Nice

:hi:

[1gobluedem]

107. This

When we moved into our new offices one of my student employees found one in a desk and had no idea what it was. He'd never even heard of typewriter erasers, let alone seen one.

[TokenQueer]

109. 1970s homemade tanning elixir...

plus...

[kentauros]

110. A little thing called a "watch" and not on a wrist:

If someone asks you for the time, it takes a minute to dig it out of your pocket, open it and read the analog display. They may end up asking someone else for the time instead of waiting twenty seconds, too :P

[Odin2005]

136. I use a pocketwatch because I hate wristbands.

I have a pretty one with a bass relief Northern Pike on the cover I got 10 years ago.

[kentauros]

153. Nice!

:)

I have found, though, that it's usually older folks that find them interesting when you pull them out. No one else seems to notice. I guess if it was a phone, then those under 20 would think it's cool ;)

[Brother Buzz]

183. My open face watch hardly takes a minute to pull out

I can sling it out as fast as anyone can shoot their cuff, but only into the safety of the cup of my palm as I keep it on a short leash. I don't believe most people even know I carry it.

My old worn 1904 Waltham is on a leather thong and rides in my watch pocket with the pristine crystal facing in and the thong tied to a belt loop. It may look silly, but it's always been a workingman's watch and on the rare occasions it catches on an object, the leather thong parts, leaving my watch safely in the pocket. It was my grandfather's for sixty-eight years, I simply followed his custom.

[sarge43]

234. Hubby has one.

Suggest for tradition sake you get a velvet poach for storage when you not using it. Prevents scratches on the crystal and metal.

[Brother Buzz]

261. Yes.

And a watch in a big pocket with loose change or keys will surly wreck havoc on the crystal in a short order.

I had a pair or jeans that didn't have a watch pocket and I never wore with the watch with them. I need the dedicated pocket up close for easy removal and safety.

Hey, that's something a lot of young people might not even know, "What's this pocket called?".

[sarge43]

280. Special care for an old timer like yours.

Like a fine straight razor, back when a quality pocket watch was a source of pride for a man and they were cherished.

[kentauros]

278. Cool story and history

:) Mine's not very old at all, but I wouldn't mind finding another one later on. Don't know if it'll be an antique or not; I was never very good at winding even wristwatches...

Mine does take a bit of time to dig out because it's not the only thing in my pocket. Then again, I'm pretty laid back, and knowing the time right now!!! is rarely a priority. I'm willing to wait a bit to pull it out, open it, and look :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

381. Pocketwatches are back in fashion.

Only we call them cellphones now.

[Patsy Stone]

111. Here's one:

[Odin2005]

137. We had those in my school, I graduated in 2004.

[Kaleva]

114. An ad for a product nobody today uses as advertized

[TokenQueer]

116. Ouch.

and Yikes!

[XemaSab]

117. Here:

[blogslut]

118. Here ya go

[TroglodyteScholar]

284. Tincture of merthiolate!?

I have a much older-looking bottle of the stuff in my cabinet right now :)

[struggle4progress]

416. I don't think mercurochrome and tincture of merthiolate were the same thing:

I use to buy them both as a kid because they were stinky staining chemicals that you could play with, and drops of them behaved very differently in long columns of water: they had different densities, and one was an aqueous solution, while the other was alcohol based. Drops of one of them tended to form rings when falling through the water

[blue_roses_lib]

305. I remember that

From my childhood in the 80s. Do they still make that? My parent's 20 something yr old bottle finally ran out, and dad wants more, but I don't know if it's still in existence. That stuff hurt like hell, but it worked.

[jmowreader]

383. Get him some Betadine instead

Betadine is an iodine preparation but it works better than tincture of iodine.

[rainbow4321]

306. We had bottles of that stuff laying around

Bleh, my parents and siblings used it to put on canker sores in our mouths!:shrug:

[SKKY]

319. Monkey Blood!!!

At least, that's what we called it in Louisville, Kentucky.

[tabbycat31]

379. I'm 29 and remember that

my grandfather used it as a cure all and whenever he mentioned it my sister and I would run

[Capn Sunshine]

394. Mercury AND Chrome in one bottle!

that would cure anything!
After returning to the professional kitchen environment, I searched out some iodine for the millions of nicks I got, and it was urprising how hard it was to find

[Kat45]

412. I didnt know that stuff was mercury and chrome!

No wonder it was called mercurichrome. Duh! It was actually considered good to put mercury on a wound? Wow!

[caraher]

413. No chrome

Mercury, yes. I think the "chrome" part of the name is an allusion to the dye present.

[Tom_Foolery]

400. My dad called it Red Medicine...

Whenever I would cut myself as a kid, I would cry more over the thought of the Red Medicine than the pain of the injury.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

119. O.K, I'll play

[madamesilverspurs]

120. Prelude to "ouch!"

[applegrove]

121. The band Abba. My niece who is about 11 told me did I know the music

from Mamma Mia was actually from a band beforehand. Made me feel really old.

[bluesbassman]

122. The Toy Of Death

[lazarus]

174. someone

died playing with those as recently as 1997.

[bluesbassman]

182. That's tragic and is why the were banned for sale in the US in the mid 80s.

Unfortunately there are still probably a lot out there.

[Taitertots]

197. My buddy has those and we still use them

It actually is a pretty fun little game.

[Frank Cannon]

199. I loved that game and was pissed when they took them off the market

I must have played a hundred games of lawn darts and was never even aware there was a danger.

[darkstar3]

316. Picture a group of four-year-olds,

at a large company picnic, stumbling across the set left in the yard by the adults when they went to eat the BBQ.

Oh yeah, we were throwing them into the air for height records. Then when we realized how deep into the ground they sank, we started throwing them at various objects trying to make them stick...including the brick wall of a building...

Ah, to have the innocence and energy of a four-year-old once again.

[kentauros]

331. Survival Research Laboratories created a "Parking Lot Dart"

for one of their catapults. They used to have the video on their site, but can't find it anymore. I recall the dart went into the asphalt a good six inches :o

[WolverineDG]

123. Still have a scar on my thumb where one of these sliced me

dg

[ChickMagic]

428. Ring tabs!

We used to call those Aggie class rings. :)

[Odin2005]

127. What the hell is that thing? some kind of primitive fax machine?

It looks connected to the phone.

[jmowreader]

140. It looks connected to the phone because it is

A teletype is kinda like primitive e-mail.

[Odin2005]

142. Teletype? don't Deaf folks use those to use the phone?

[jmowreader]

226. They certainly do

The ones they have now are about the size of modern-day laptops.

[SeattleGirl]

135. This:

[CTyankee]

363. I still have one. It was my husband's. It is BROWN.

I can't believe they made a princess phone in brown...hubby got it because he said it looked masculine...:rofl:

[enigmatic]

138. Here you go

[Kaleva]

146. My 14 year old has told me he has never seen a record player.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

152. How about these?

[Gabi Hayes]

160. I really love those! now, remember this guy?

[EFerrari]

167. I used to have a ViewMaster collection. The oldest one was metal

and it was made by a different company. :)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

298. I had an electric viewmaster projector.

[valerief]

176. Fizzies and Spoolies!!! Ha! I loved them both. nt

[Gold Metal Flake]

179. You are killing us with this one...

It's too familiar, but we can't place it. Watizzit?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

181. "If you see a plane on high/a diesel train go roaring by/a bumble bee/ or

a tree--it's me! When there is trouble/I'm there on the double..."

Or how about this...

"I'm mighty Manfred (oomph) the wonder dog..."

[Gold Metal Flake]

218. JOOOOOOOOYYYY!!!!

Wow, that woke up some long-buried grey matter. And it's on You Tube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI-BT5OOY4

[NYC_SKP]

439. Tom Terrific. n/t

[Ken Burch]

188. I dunno about you folks

But if I saw that "Brylcreem" dude hanging out by the playground, I'd call the cops!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

210. It lasted into the 1960s

I recently watched some episodes of Naked City from around 1961-62, and they had Brylcreem ads.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

235. I remember all of those, had most of them.

Gawd, I'm old.

[Stardust]

338. Is it just me or does Howdy Doody look just like Ronnie Raygun?

[Odin2005]

351. I remeber the 1st 2 and the fizzies!

Fizzies made a comeback when I grew up in the 90s! :)

[lumpy]

382. " A little dab'll do ya' " Bryllcreem

x

[trackfan]

435. I accidentally brushed my teeth with Brylcream when I was a kid.

And I loved - and still have - my Viewmaster

[babylonsister]

157. Syringes, rubber bulb?

http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-ear-wax.htm

Mom swore by these, and lined all 5 of us kids up to clear them out.

[Drunken Irishman]

322. They still sell 'em.

I have one in the bathroom that came with some solution you put in your ear to break down the wax.

I swear by it! For years I'd get bad wax buildup and have to go to the doctor and have them flush it out. Now I just do it at home.

And some of the shit I pull out is NASTY! :o

[Odin2005]

352. My mom used those when I was little.

[Ptah]

159. Road signs:

[Ken Burch]

189. Aerial wolf-shaving is legal in Alaska, btw...

:sarcasm:

[MorningGlow]

162. A few good 'uns

[YankeyMCC]

165. Parachute pants

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_pants

[Jade Fox]

170. A real phone

[lazarus]

172. that looks a lot

like a DSTE paper tape machine we used in the comm center in the Air Force. I couldn't even find a picture of one, but I could type 120 WPM on the bastard.

On edit:
I found a picture of the tape we used.

[Roon]

241. How neat!

This has been such a fun thread for me.

[1awake]

175. Remember carrying around one of these thinking you were cool?

[Roon]

249. OMG!! I am blushing because I used to carry one.

and thought I was cool!

[Odin2005]

353. My sister did!

BOOMBOX!!! :rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

184. Pick one or the other ...

[THUNDER HANDS]

219. I have one of those!

my parents gave it to me. I assume its a camera, but I'm not sure how it works.

[eppur_se_muova]

238. Google or Wiki "Polaroid SX-70"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX-70

Some diehards are trying to keep the film in production.

[Call Me Wesley]

272. I have the brown SX-70 (with fresh film,)

and several analog cameras which could use the Kodachrome displayed here. ;)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

186. yo. Suffering for beauty.

ttp://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-25014124926995_2066_52759791

[Ken Burch]

190. Here's some:

[Odin2005]

354. ETCH-A-SKETCH!!!

:D

[Ken Burch]

376. Here's something else

(You need to read the ingredients list) :

[sarge43]

192. Sock darning egg

[Brother Buzz]

295. That just might be the definitive obsolete object....

in our throw away society.

A friend on mine, born in Germany but of Estonian decent, visited Estonia with his father soon after the the USSR collapsed. He met his Estonian aunt who did more than just darn socks, she actually wove dog hairs into the soles of the socks to beef them up for winter wear. He brought back a pair of socks reworked by her and we marveled at them.

[sarge43]

302. I remember my mother using one.

Depression habits didn't go away easily.

Depending upon her age, that woman may have considered a pair of socks a luxury. The people of Eastern Europe went through some horrific times.

[caitxrawks]

193. LOL ya'll are funny.

I'm dying over here. I know what a lot of these things are, but some just look like sex toys.

[sarge43]

196. "Weeellllllllll ....." (Jack Benny, remember him?)

Welcome to DU.

[Bertha Venation]

209. Welcome to DU, caitxrawks

:hi:

[Skittles]

373. like this? :O

I slept with one of these in England when our only source of heat was to make a coal fire in the morning - when I woke up in the winter I could see my breath

[Taitertots]

200. Some things I think most young people wouldn't recognize

A "Choke" lever for a manual choke carburetor.

Those things to hold socks up on guys legs before good elastic bands.

An old octopus style coal fired home furnace.

Maypo

Drum brakes

Edit: Battery hydrometer, turkey baster with floating balls.

[LanternWaste]

229. A clutch for a standard transmission

[LibDemAlways]

260. My husband wouldn't drive a car that didn't have a standard

transmission. His 2007 Accord has one of those!

[GoCubsGo]

334. I won't, either.

I hate automatic transmission. I would only have it if I lived in some place with a lot of steep hills and/or constant heavy traffic, like San Fransisco.

[LibDemAlways]

346. Believe it or not we live in a place with constant heavy traffic - LA.

However, my husband would still rather have the standard shift - better gas milage and less to go wrong. He's a master at driving it, but when we go out to someplace where there's a valet, we take my automatic. Too many valet guys have no idea what to do with a stick shift.

[pink-o]

370. Well my Toyota had a stick shift and I managed on the highest hills we have

But unfortunately, it got totaled last year, and I'm now driving an automatic. I miss my standard trannie a lot!!

[Zomby Woof]

230. I had a desk lamp my mom bought by saving these

[LibDemAlways]

250. You beat me to it. We had those, but in So. Cal. we also had

There were blue chip stamp redemption stores all over the place and the stamps were handed out at gas stations and supermarkets. Came in handy for buying new small appliances. This all brings back good memories.

[Deep13]

245. Spirograph

[Deep13]

246. These are the drawings it made.

[Ken Burch]

277. Spirographs rocked!

Anybody know where you can get spirograph screen savers?

[tonysam]

290. They still make 'em.

Same is true with Etch-a-Sketch and Viewmaster.

[Odin2005]

355. OMG, I loved those when i was a kid!!!

I still have mine! SOOOO pretty!!! :D

[Roon]

396. We did those around the same time we were doing the spinning ink thing

You put a piece of paper down on a platter and the electric motor spins it. You take little drops of ink and drip it on the paper and it would make all kinds of cool designs.. Forget what it's called though.

[Texasgal]

248. Fun Thread!!

[hedgehog]

251. How about

or



Some are still around, but sightings are very rare. I got 3 for my wedding!

[TK421]

262. Is that an electric frying pan? I have an old Sunbeam here...I love those things!

[tonysam]

293. There are lots of those being made.

link

[Odin2005]

356. I have an old electric frying pan my mom gave me when I moved out.

It's very useful for making stuff in gravy, like meatballs or biscuits and gravy.

[LibDemAlways]

253. A little something for those of you who grew up in So Calif:

When these were first introduced they were $2.50 for adults. $1.00 for children. Things have certainly changed - and not for the better.

[Brother Buzz]

267. Wooho an E ticket ride

I remember burning the A tickets at Frontierland's shooting gallery at the end of the day. That, or ride Dumbo the Elephant. Mad Tea Party teacups might have been a B ticket ride, but I don't remember much these days.

[Bertha Venation]

303. Here, youngsters, is where we get the term "E-Ticket ride."

The e-tickets were the ones to the best rides, like the Matterhorn.

Thanks for posting this, LibDem. I even remember the ticket kiosks scattered through the park.

You really did take me back. :hi:

[hedgehog]

254. My husband issues this challenge:

and

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

265. The first thing looks like a set of points from a car distributor.

I recognized them because way back when, we'd remove the points from our friends' cars, put the distributor cap back on, and watch in amusement while they tried to figure out why the car wouldn't start.

The second gadget is some sort of electrical testing device, maybe for an ignition system.

[hedgehog]

294. That's a set of points and a dwell meter for setting the timing.

:)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

299. I remember timing lights - like a chrome space gun.

[Ken Burch]

276. Is the one on the bottom a shortwave radio you can power through the dashboard cigarette lighter?

n/t.

[hedgehog]

255. Before cable

[GoCubsGo]

336. They still make 'em.

Not everyone has cable...

[Odin2005]

358. BUNNY EARS!

[LibDemAlways]

258. Anyone else remember this stuff? The little girl who lived next door to me

drank it right out of the plastic container. LOL

[rcrush]

282. The Pepsi sex can.

[AbbeyRoad]

283. An entire aisle of generic products w/ black and white labels

like this:




My grade school principal called a beginning of the year assembly to show us this item, which he mentioned he drilled holes in specifically for aerodynamics.




And probably this:

[Brother Buzz]

287. During the black and white label craze, there was a local sailboat simply called ....

Generic White Boat. It had a barcode painted on the stern. I believe it was a J-24. It was dry sailed so even the bottom was plain white. Competitive, too. I never got to meet the skipper.

[DBoon]

310. The movie "Repo Man" had a whole series of generic product jokes (nt)

[LibDemAlways]

309. So that's what a Trapper Keeper is. When my now 16-year-old daughter

was in elementary school the yearly list of school supplies would always say "three ring notebook - no trapper keepers." I had no idea what they were talking about. Now I guess the list was drawn up by someone who grew up in an earlier era.

[Recovered Repug]

315. My principal used to refer to the middle one

as "The Board of Education".

[AbbeyRoad]

375. Isn't that clever?

Being a good little girl, I never had to face "the Board."

I used to have a teacher in middle school who would write up demerit slips for disruptive students.

As he was handing the slip to them, he'd say that they suffered from diarrhea of the mouth, and he had the prescription.

[Odin2005]

359. I had a more modern trapper-keeper in high school.

It was part of my IEP special ed program. nice fabric thing that zipped up.

[nytemare]

288. My father had an old Triumph TR6 with one of these

I wondered if it hurt the engine when he used it.

[Vinca]

289. Wow - this thread is a real trip down memory lane.

[mike_c]

292. late to the party, but twenty somethings have probably never seen one of these....

[DBoon]

311. Blotter acid?

One of my first joints was rolled in "Spiro Agnew" rolling paper....

[mike_c]

340. yup

eom

[johnnie]

297. These

[Manifestor_of_Light]

301. My Marantz receiver, circa 1971.

Still using it in a stereo system. It was part of my xmas 1971 present. I was a senior in high school. Still cranks out clean power.

[EndersDame]

308. Da Comrades, I have all of you beat

I just turned 24 last week and vaguely remember this

[DBoon]

312. How about this??

I had to register for Vietnam, but fortunately by the time I turned 18 they were no longer drafting soldiers

[Richardo]

328. I was '1H' also

Turned 18 in late 1974 so did not get called up (It was all over five months later).

Wow, Grace Jones was on your draft board! :thumbsup:

[DBoon]

329. That's not *my* draft card

Just an image from google

Mine is stashed away somewhere

[Richardo]

337. Mine too.

[bikebloke]

429. I wonder where I stashed mine.

Possibly in my high school year book.

The lady in the draft office where I registered was a mean, nasty piece. But it ended before they could get me. Ha-ha.

[denbot]

317. A sign of our times.

Great thread.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

321. The tank/pimpmobile Mom drove me to school in.

1955 Cadillac Fleetwood, four door, only ours was gray:

[DBoon]

330. Drop drills, I think the last Friday of the month

and if we didn't take them seriously, we'd get a lecture from the Catholic school nuns about how the Russians were going to invade us from Cuba

[Odin2005]

360. My university library has one of those signs on it.

And I thought "they were worried about Fargo-Moorhead getting nuked? it's not even a major city!"

[PJPhreak]

320. I have a working one of these...

And it still has the Civil Defense emblems on it,freaks the shit outta people when I break out with it.

And what Seventies Kid would ever forget bustin his or her noggin with these...



I got Really good with 'em...until they shattered in an explosion of plastic!

[stewartcolbert08]

326. I got one! hehe

[Bzzzz]

332. Clackers...

[chrisa]

339. ...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

341. A couple of entries

[unpossibles]

348. I don't want to get the thread locked! nt

[TheMightyFavog]

350. Here's something from my days as a kid... Remember these?

Used the tape recorder to narrate the presentation, and on the fancy models, to automatically advance to the next frame.

Bing!



Man, I can't believe I'm turning 30 in a few days!

[Capn Sunshine]

361. This was the hi-tech toy to have in 59

Just bought one on EBay!

[sarge43]

365. Nurse's watch

Note direction of watch face

[triguy46]

366. 2 things

Vacuum tube amplifier:


A vampire that is scary, not friendly:

[janx]

367. My 21-year-old daughter and I were in a museum recently

and several of these were present!



She had seen picture of them before, but it really didn't hit me that she didn't know how to use one. So I showed her how to DIAL my childhood phone number. WOW.

[rurallib]

424. my childhood number was 491. 3 digits!

[janx]

368. I don't even recognize that!

Teletype or something?

[pink-o]

371. This one,,,I thought it was so cutting-edge!

In the 21st century, I've bought close to 7 Ipods, and only 3 were gifts for friends!

<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[janx]

372. My skateboard!

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/surfingcowboys_2085_0

http://www.surfingcowboys.com/rodemu15visk.html

(Photo won't come through--links will.)

[janx]

374. One of my earliest memories!

http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/raven2.html

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=365750

[Ken Burch]

377. Remember THIS guy?

[warrior1]

378. Saved all my allowance to buy one of these at

Cost around $5 bucks and it was pink. Monosound. In the 60's. Grooving on a Saturday afternoon.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

391. That was my first I-Pod!

[Doc_Technical]

387. Aye, I, I, I

I am the Frito Bandito
I love Frito's corn chips
I love them I do
If you don't watch out
I will steal them from you.

sung to the music of "cielito lindo"

[Ken Burch]

397. And voiced by Mel Blanc.

n/t.

[Iggo]

440. Ai, ai, ai, ai...

...I am the Frito Bandito.
Give me Frito's Corn Chips
And I'll be your friend.
The Frito Bandito
You must not offend.

Ai, ai, ai, ai....

[AsahinaKimi]

384. NOT a something... MAYBE a some one

He is still dreamy!!

[spiritual_gunfighter]

386. this is the first thing i thought of

[ThatsMyBarack]

388. From the figure skating world:

[gmoney]

390. Can't find a picture but the OLD spinning-drum fax machines

You used to have to wrap paper around a cylinder, set a stylus to one end, and the cylinder would spin while the stylus traveled the length of the cylinder, marking the paper line by line. It took something like 8 minutes for the stylus to travel the length, then you'd have to start over. The phone would also be sitting in two padded cups, transmitting and receiving data. So, a 3-page fax would take something like half an hour to send or receive. When I worked at a bank in the late 80s, they were still using one of these

FedEx briefly, also in the late 80s, offered "same day delivery" of documents for an astronomical fee -- they were simply faxing the originals to another FedEx office near the destination, and then would send a driver out to deliver the faxed pages. When every business got their own fax machines, this service was no longer necessary.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

401. I remember those things! I think I first saw one in the mid-'70s.

I also remember the FedEx fax service. It seemed pretty slick at the time.

[cherish44]

395. Ditto copies

Anyone here try to sniff those to catch a buzz?

[ashling]

399. AFL

[Politicub]

402. WTF is that thing?!

[Politicub]

403. Used to be one of my favorite toys

Recognize it?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

405. Ooh, ooh, anybody remember this thing??

The IBM Displaywriter. In the mid-'80s we thought this was greatest invention since the zipper.

[Deep13]

425. Oooh! Floppy drives! How fancy. nt

[EndersDame]

407. Black Normal Looking Michael Jackson

I am 24 and always knew MJ as Jacko and just missed his music. I am listening to it now and enjoying it very much



I still think I like my USSR entry the best though

[SoCalDem]

434. He had already had a nose job in that pic..

:( poor michael.. never knew how attractive he was:(

[Skittles]

415. woo!

Bears win Superbowl :D

[baldguy]

418. I guess they still make these.

Can't sell them to children anymore, though.

[Orsino]

420. .

[meow2u3]

422. The under-20 crowd probably has never seen one of these

[Mist]

426. Here's one they might not recognize:

And geardaddy beat me to it, but I'll include the picture of a collection I came across (there are collectors, apparently):



And right now I could really go for a good whiff of fresh mimeographs! *sigh*

[ZombieHorde]

430. OK

[RubyDuby in GA]

453. OMG! Voltron! And the lions, not the crappy cars.

That was the perfect end to mine and my brother's afterschool day that included the cartoon GI Joe and He-Man. Ah sweet memories of the early to mid eighties...

[Gold Metal Flake]

431. FTW

[SoCalDem]

432. here's an oldie

[JanMichael]

441. One thing:

Couldn't find a picture link for the other one...

[EndersDame]

442. There is a whole generation of kids who have never blown on a cartridge

[rebel with a cause]

445. Or know that sometimes you have to tap it twice before you blow on it.

At least that is how my kids taught me to do it. :rofl:

[EndersDame]

446. Thats what SHE said....Zing!

[Lil Missy]

443. Buffalo Nickels

[mikeiddy]

449. My favorite

I still think this is the most amazing device I have ever seen - a 20 ton word processor that uses molten metal instead of ink.

My very first real job (1969) was working for a newspaper in a small town. Old style letterpress, none of that newfangled offset stuff. The press was 10 feet high and about 25 feet long. The editor/reporter used an old Underwood like that posted up-thread - he could type about 60 words a minute, while chain smoking. I was the photographer. To get a photo ready for printing, you would put the photo on a revolving drum that had an electric eye attached. The image was transferred from the electric eye to a lathe type device that cut grooves in a zinc plate wrapped around another drum, making a copy of the photo on the plate. The zinc image would be cut to size, glued to a wooden plate so it would be the same height as the lines of type. The shop was dirty, grimy and noisy, and one of most fun places I ever worked. When they finally went to offset printing, they broke the old letter press into pieces, dumped in the pit and poured concrete over it. It was a very sad day.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32912172@N00/3060476693/

(edit to add link for video)

[Blasphemer]

451. Reading this thread has made me feel young again

Thanks for that! I recognize the 'ol 2600 but not much else. That garter contraption really had me scratching my head.