What are some things you say that make you feel old?

[isisdave]

This is an IBM 010 keypunch, completely manual and a pain to use. But when all the 026 and 029 machines were in use, and we had to make JUST ONE TINY CHANGE, we'd use this. The chance of getting it right was maybe 60%

And then there is my first love, the PDP-9. DEC didn't sell a lot of these. Really loved the tapes.

And then,

and

 

[pedro47]

Do you remember that small B/W Sony Walkman television? We would that Sony Walkman television to the Washington Redskins football games stadium
to watch other NFL games on Sunday’s afternoon. It used between 8 to 10 “D” batteries.

 

[OldGuy]

Are you from Holladay Utah

no

 

[csxjohn]

I call places by their old names all the time.

Revco instead of CVS

Loder's instead of The Shake Shoppe

Fisher's or Rego's instead of Giant Eagle

The peeps I say them to know that I'm talking about but no one outside the family has a clue.

 

[csxjohn]

Do you remember that small B/W Sony Walkman television? We would that Sony Walkman television to the Washington Redskins football games stadium
to watch other NFL games on Sunday’s afternoon. It used between 8 to 10 “D” batteries.

I've still got mine around here somewhere, I linked two 6 volt railroad lantern batteries. Didn't put it up for sale soon enough.

 

[Talent312]

Calling places by their old names... like long-gone banks.
She: "Can you take this to Barnett" (now a Bank of America).
Me: "Only if I time-travel."

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[artringwald]

I found a picture of the first desktop computer I worked on in 1976. It could do word processing, data entry, database, communications, and games. They let me take one home and I wrote diagnostic tests and a service dispatching system for it.

 

[bbodb1]

Calling places by their old names... like long-gone banks.
She: "Can you take this to Barnett" (now a Bank of America).
Me: "Only if I time-travel."

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Try this retort next time: The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

I can't use a calculator unless it is with reverse polish notation on my HP 12c. I've had the same HP12c since the early 1980s in college. Still works great!

I am so thrown off by regular calculators, that I have now added an HP12c calculator app to my smartphone. My colleagues laugh at me when I use it! (always a techie...)

 

[artringwald]

I feel old when I talk about my days on the high school track team and all the events were in yards, not meters. Our school didn't have a girls track team, because back then, women were too delicate. The girls basketball teams didn't play full court, it was a convoluted half court game, and they wore pinafores instead of basketball shorts.

 

[Sandy VDH]

I can't use a calculator unless it is with reverse polish notation on my HP 12c. I've had the same HP12c since the early 1980s in college. Still works great!

I am so thrown off by regular calculators, that I have now added an HP12c calculator app to my smartphone. My colleagues laugh at me when I use it! (always an engineer...)

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I have a Bachelor of Mathematics, nearly everyone in my class had one of these HP calculators.

 

[bluehende]

This is an IBM 010 keypunch, completely manual and a pain to use. But when all the 026 and 029 machines were in use, and we had to make JUST ONE TINY CHANGE, we'd use this. The chance of getting it right was maybe 60%

And then there is my first love, the PDP-9. DEC didn't sell a lot of these. Really loved the tapes.

And then,

and

I love that tape machine. When I was in High School we had a computer course that used those. We also had a weird machine that you actually had to program in binary. It was the size of a piano. After using that we went to the tape machine that I believe was a terminal for the local college computer. When in college we lerned fortran with the card deck. All fo this talk makes me feel old.

 

[OldGuy]

I feel old when I talk about my days on the high school track team and all the events were in yards, not meters.

For the brief time I was on the Track team, my event was in hours.

But I lettered in golf three years.

 

[DrQ]

I can't use a calculator unless it is with reverse polish notation on my HP 12c. I've had the same HP12c since the early 1980s in college. Still works great!

I am so thrown off by regular calculators, that I have now added an HP12c calculator app to my smartphone. My colleagues laugh at me when I use it! (always a techie...)

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HP-45 and an HP-41c during my college days. I have the HP41 emulator on my phone.

 

[DrQ]

Calling places by their old names... like long-gone banks.
She: "Can you take this to Barnett" (now a Bank of America).
Me: "Only if I time-travel."

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Piggly Wiggly

 

[Talent312]

Piggly Wiggly

They still exist (per Wikipedia). "More than 600 independently owned Piggly Wiggly stores operate in 17 states, primarily in smaller cities and towns." OTOH, A&P does not.

And one can no longer dine at Chi-Chi's or Steak & Ale. <sigh>

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[PigsDad]

They still exist (per Wikipedia). "More than 600 independently owned Piggly Wiggly stores operate in 17 states, primarily in smaller cities and towns."

Yep, we shopped at one on Hilton Head last July. Hadn't seen one since growing up in Minnesota.

Kurt

 

[talkamotta]

no

I was and my number was Crestwood 7 5894. I can remember numbers from years ago but not the current ones. I 've started memorizing certain numbers because my cell phone is getting old and the battery runs down faster. I should get a new one but I don't want to buy another one until this is dead dead. I finally know how to use this one.

 

[VacationForever]

... and who knows 867-5309...?

 

[RX8]

... and who knows 867-5309...?

That is my old girlfriend Jenny's number!

 

[Talent312]

... and who knows 867-5309...?

Tommy Tutone. "I got it. I got your number on the wall."

 

[x3 skier]

Anybody know what a drafting machine was? I used them to make drawings for machine tool designs.

Cheers

 

[x3 skier]

Piggly Wiggly

The grandkids loved their t-shirts from the Pig on John’s Island SC.

Cheers

 

[DrQ]

Anybody know what a drafting machine was? I used them to make drawings for machine tool designs.

Cheers

K&E? I used one before I got into CAD.

 

[DrQ]

That is my old girlfriend Jenny's number!

I alway's thought Stacy's mom had it goin' on.