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Originally Posted by patriot76

i can verify olddude has not aged in the last three months. He still looks 21 and would be carded if he wanted to buy a six pack of soda. Just my perspective.

thanks, think any one will go for that.

Maybe it was the "bot" comment.
I remember the **** and Jane books very well. And you can't forget Spot.
I'm 51.

OK, the bot got me too so in any future posts he will be called Richard.

Old enough the TV didn't have a remote, computers were only used once a week at school and most of them had a green and black for display colors

Originally Posted by taterjuice

Old enough the TV didn't have a remote, computers were only used once a week at school and most of them had a green and black for display colors

Hahaha, One tv and one very large radio(tubes)at our house when I was kid. Also I or one of my siblings WAS the remote, for the younger folks there a knob on the front of the tv to change the station. Oh and our first tv had a round picture tube and a rotary telephone with a party line(only the old folks will get that one).73, Mike

Originally Posted by miked

Hahaha, One tv and one very large radio(tubes)at our house when I was kid. Also I or one of my siblings WAS the remote, for the younger folks there a knob on the front of the tv to change the station. Oh and our first tv had a round picture tube and a rotary telephone with a party line(only the old folks will get that one).73, Mike

For those that do not know about the party line, each neighbor was assigned a different number of rings. As a kid we use to listen to the neighbors conversations when the parents were not around. It was better than TV. I was never assigned the duty of being the remote because there was only one channel available and that was only when everything was perfect. I was assigned antenna duty which involved re configuring the aluminum foil flag on the antenna.

Technology was boring in those days. In college I remember writing loops using 0, 1, and 2 on computer cards because they said it would be the future. I did not listen and they were right. The only time I remember sitting down with my family to watch TV was the assassination of JFK and the moon walk. Otherwise we would rather play kick the can or flashlight tag, if your family could afford a flashlight. Some used a candle, but that was a handicap if the wind was blowing.

Old timers like to brag they had to walk uphill to school and back. I am so old that we had to swim upriver both ways to and from school. After that they built roads and my kids are the ones that had to walk up hill both ways. It was because of this that God decided we would only have to fight gravity in one direction. That is how old I feel tonight, but tomorrow I will wake up the rooster to start another day.