USMB Age Test

[westwall]

I remember blowing in the Nintendo cartridges as a way to get them to work when they refused to cooperate

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I remember the large flat floppy disks, then the smaller ones, then the ZIP drives.

Are you talking about this floppy?

Or this one?

There's an even bigger floppy, but those were for mainframes.....

 

[hjmick]

I knew I was cool when I was able to hook up a few wires to my 13" B&W television and get this:

 

[westwall]

Let's see you prove you're over 18!

you can use the pen to break the tabs

out of the bottom of the tape

so it can not be re- recorded

--LOL

But you could tape over the holes and record away!

To do that you had to push the usually red record button as far as it would go, about halfway, until you simultaneously pushed the play button so you could record on to the tape.

Well duh! Everyone knows that!

 

[September]

Or taking CD players on the bus on the way to games, tournaments, and track meets lol

An iphone would have been so convenient during those times

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I always ran out of batteries, so never really used them.

If you didn't like someone you could hit the top of their CD player and it would scratch up their cd and fuck up their day lol

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[bodecea]

Who remembers 78's?

 

[jon_berzerk]

Let's see you prove you're over 18!

you can use the pen to break the tabs

out of the bottom of the tape

so it can not be re- recorded

--LOL

But you could tape over the holes and record away!

yes that is the other possibility

--LOL

 

[westwall]

Who remembers 78's?

I still have a bunch of them! I play them every now and then too!

 

[bodecea]

I remember blowing in the Nintendo cartridges as a way to get them to work when they refused to cooperate

​

I remember the large flat floppy disks, then the smaller ones, then the ZIP drives.

Are you talking about this floppy?

Or this one?

There's an even bigger floppy, but those were for mainframes.....

The first guy in our command getting into computers would talk about hard drives and floppy disks, we would all laugh at the sexual innuendos.

 

[bodecea]

Who remembers 78's?

I still have a bunch of them! I play them every now and then too!

Yellow? I remember a lot of them being yellow.

 

[hjmick]

The height of portable music technology circa 1979:

 

[jon_berzerk]

Who remembers 78's?

i remember 78s

as well as the 331/3s

 

[Mr. H.]

Here's a good'n...

slide rule...hated those

The slide rule was secondary to classroom teaching. A "crutch" of sorts.

Keep in mind...

The Slide Rule A Computing Device That Put A Man On The Moon NPR Ed NPR

 

[westwall]

Who remembers 78's?

I still have a bunch of them! I play them every now and then too!

Yellow? I remember a lot of them being yellow.

Nope, they look like regular LP's. They're just a lot heavier because of what they're made of. They are also thicker as a rule than the 33 rpm LP's.

 

[hipeter924]

I remember blowing in the Nintendo cartridges as a way to get them to work when they refused to cooperate

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I remember the large flat floppy disks, then the smaller ones, then the ZIP drives.

Are you talking about this floppy?

Or this one?

There's an even bigger floppy, but those were for mainframes.....

The first, and then the second.

 

[Sgt_Gath]

Let's see you prove you're over 18!

You use the pen to rewind the tape.

I'm 26.

 

[mdk]

Who remembers 78's?

I still have a bunch but they are from my parents. I still have one of those gaint record players that looks more like furniture than a record player. It still has a slot of 8-tracks. Lol

 

[Ernie S.]

Sherry is now the only confirmed over 18 poster on this forum

Hell, I've got hemorrhoids over 18.

Name this object!!!

Be kind. Rewind.

 

[Ernie S.]

We keep a ledger in addition to the quickbooks financial records.

 

[ChrisL]

Who remembers 78's?

I don't know what they are. Lol. I thought they might be records. I don't think I'm correct though. Because I just read that they are yellow.

 

[Ernie S.]

Who remembers 78's?

i remember 78s

as well as the 331/3s

Had a turntable that would play 16 rpm recordings. In the 40's they used 16 rpm to record dictation.