I remember when.....

[freeandfun1]

Pong

When my portable 8-track player that ran for about 30 minutes on "D" batteries before crap'n out was - "way cool".

 

[Said1]

Pong

When my portable 8-track player that ran for about 30 minutes on "D" batteries before crap'n out was - "way cool".

Mine ran waaay longer than that.

 

[Johnney]

when there was one HBO and TMC
when a screw was a screw
when aids was something that worked in a hospital (ok i know, aides)
when computers cost an arm and a leg
when the air was clean and the sex dirty

 

[Annie]

when there was one HBO and TMC
when a screw was a screw
when aids was something that worked in a hospital (ok i know, aides)
when computers cost an arm and a leg
when the air was clean and the sex dirty

:smack:

Before cable.

a screw was a screw, and a screw was a screw. What are YOU talking about?

Ditto on aids.

Prior to computers-out of IBM realm anyways. Do remember the idiot teaching the 3 & 5 years olds Dos! They got it too!

Air was always dirty, at least since the 18th C and sex too! :dev1:

 

[Johnney]

:smack:

Before cable.

a screw was a screw, and a screw was a screw. What are YOU talking about?

Ditto on aids.

Prior to computers-out of IBM realm anyways. Do remember the idiot teaching the 3 & 5 years olds Dos! They got it too!

Air was always dirty, at least since the 18th C and sex too! :dev1:

oh i remember before cable...lol
i had to pick up one of the analog boxes last week. was like digging up a dinosaur bone! i was like holy shit, is that what i think it is??

 

[Bonnie]

I remember getting the crappy game "Operation" for my birthday. But I think that was in 1981. i had a "Speak and Spell" too, but I don't think it worked right!
Chips were a quarter around the same time.

I got Operation as a gift, also Mystery Date, my cousin would always get the dud date......lol

 

[Bonnie]

So did anyone hold one of those brightly colored hand held tape recorders up to the radio and try and tape your favorite songs? I never would get the begining or the end of the songs.

 

[Shattered]

So did anyone hold one of those brightly colored hand held tape recorders up to the radio and try and tape your favorite songs? I never would get the begining or the end of the songs.

I had the big guns! A tape recorder/player/radio combined together! I could tape anything!

 

[MyName]

All those except gas was $0.49.

Your behaviour was a reflection of your parent's ability to be parents.

It was safe to go outside and play in the neighborhood. I would leave the house at 8 a.m. - home at lunch - then back out until the street lights came on. Parents never worried.

You could eat everything that was in your Halloween bag.

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

Ok, I got more. Yeah, i got way to much time to think at work.

I remember....

...when Johnny Carson was on for 90 minutes.

...getting caught sneaking out of bed to watch Johnny Carson.

...The Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack.

...a very vague, fuzzy memory of a Marlboro cigarette commercial.

...the excitement of getting a color television.

...the most high tech device in our house being a cassette player.

...free road maps at the gas station.

...baseball cards for 25 cents a pack that came with the crappy pink gum.

...two dollars could get you a Big Mac and a Dr. Pepper, with change left over.

...Drive-in movie theaters.

...when you could actually tell when you left Dallas and when you entered Carrolton, because there was space in between.

...when an Apple IIe had more memory than I knew what to do with.

...when a teenagers goal was to get their jeans as tight as they possibly could.

...people being outraged over Nolan Ryan making $1 million a year to play baseball.

...when the media actually gathered facts before they reported a story.

...when the prospect of sharing silly memories with people from across the country, much less around the world, through a box in my living room wasn't even something that crossed my mind.

 

[Comrade]

I remember:

Loading and listening to eight tracks, especially the Xanadu soundtrack.

Wondering why we had to wait in a long line for Gas? I still don't remember Carter on TV.

But I do remember playing pong on TV.

I remember hearing Ronald Regan was shot in my homeroom class.

I remember programming in games for an Apple II, and a C64.

Buying my first IBM PC 286 for somewhere around $1,500.

Surfing the BBS boards, playing online text games, and discovering the Internet on my hot shit 2400 baud modem.

Oh, those were the days!

 

[Said1]

I got Operation as a gift, also Mystery Date, my cousin would always get the dud date......lol

I had Mystery Date too.
And a kit for making your own make-up and Fashion Plates! :happy2:

 

[Fmr jarhead]

....LiteBrite (little game with the colored pegs, for making cool designs)

Little green army men.

Lawn darts

Walking 2 miles to the town's swimming pool barefoot, and cutting through all the yards between our house and the park to do it.

 

[Mr. P]

I remember:

Loading and listening to eight tracks, especially the Xanadu soundtrack.

Wondering why we had to wait in a long line for Gas? I still don't remember Carter on TV.

But I do remember playing pong on TV.

I remember hearing Ronald Regan was shot in my homeroom class.

I remember programming in games for an Apple II, and a C64.

Buying my first IBM PC 286 for somewhere around $1,500.

Surfing the BBS boards, playing online text games, and discovering the Internet on my hot shit 2400 baud modem.

Oh, those were the days!

Well hey! I remember DOS, so there! ;p

 

[CSM]

I remember being taught the abacus in grade school (not kidding!).

I remember using a slide rule in engineering classes.

I remember drafting classes in high school.

I remember (vividly) when the family car was a 1957 Plymouth with pushbutton transmission!

I remember when Jiffy Pop first came out.

I remember when no one had color TV.

 

[Mr. P]

Today I remember where my keys are, tomorrow I hope to remember what their for.

 

[CSM]

What keys?

 

[Mr. P]

What keys?

LOL..Hey, Jiffy Pop reminded me of TV dinners too, and the TV table.

 

[CSM]

LOL..Hey, Jiffy Pop reminded me of TV dinners too, and the TV table.

Ah yes...I remember when frozen dinners first came out! I can remember my parents spending much time and effort canning vegetables from the garden...and eating same in the dead of winter.

I can even remember when mechanical pencils were special tools for draftsmen and VERY expensive (relatively speaking).

I can remember when crayons had names that told you what color they were and not what fruit they resembled or smelled like.

 

[Mr. P]

....
I can remember when crayons had names that told you what color they were and not what fruit they resembled or smelled like.

And the BIG fat ones in first grade!