dialed a rotary telephone before! Anyone else?
My mom got me started on this last night after she said to me, "I'm so old I've forgotten more than most people remember"! Thought it would be a fun thread to start.
dialed a rotary telephone before! Anyone else?
My mom got me started on this last night after she said to me, "I'm so old I've forgotten more than most people remember"! Thought it would be a fun thread to start.
I'm so old i can hear a milkman joke, and get it!
I'm so old I've... when working for attorney's I did many, many, many legal documents (wills, deeds, divorces, etc) on a typewriter - letter by letter, word by word. Each one EVERY word had to be typed and no mistakes if possible, if so the old white out was used. So great when we got word processors, then computers, to have all that boilerplate language already there after only putting it in once and just change the new info!
"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in the midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free." Leonard Cohen
Remember the typewriter ERASERS? They had the white eraser on one end and that stiff plastic brush on the other end to brush away the crumbs from the easer on your paper. ;-)Originally Posted by Shalom_Poet
I learned how to type in 1982 (7th grade) on a manual typewriter. It stuck and so I pounded. I STILL pound when I'm typing to this day!
In my office (freight forwarder/customs broker), we still have one of the big old electronic typewriters. Probably ca.1995 or so. I wish all the companies, US Customs, etc., that wanted forms filled out - and NOT handwritten - had them all in writeable PDF files! We still have to type some forms. I've had to show young coworkers how to use the thing. And some not-so-young coworkers who simply have forgotten. I happily type away on it - and at a speed that mystifies my coworkers! I miss typewriters *sometimes*. I LOVED the IBM Selectrics I used while working in various university offices when I was an undergrad from 1987-1991. The young coworkers have never HEARD of manual typewriters, lol!
I'm also so old to have used computers on my college paper that needed boot disks - TWO for each computer. These were huge 5" floppy disks that had a hole in the middle and the magnetic tape (looked like a thick strip of the same sort of tape used for cassettes) around it. The computers were ancient when my college paper got them - maybe made late 1970s. They were likely hand-me-downs from the local paper. Anyway, the computers sometimes didn't boot up. So you pulled the disk out, put your finger on the magnetic tape surrounding the middle hold and moved it around several times. That always worked to get it to the point where the computers would boot.
I also remember the inky smell of mimeographs. I often ran off exams when I worked in a couple of departments when I was in college. AND sometimes typing the exams out. Was there some special paper/carbon to type on for the mimeo machines? I don't remember!
I miss the card catalogs in libraries! I think the part I miss the most was when you would go to the subject cards and find all sorts of neat books. It never seems to me that the library catalog computers work quite right when you're searching by subject!
I remember when it was a BIG deal - maybe sometime in the 80s when you could order something from a catalog via phone with a credit card, rather than having to send away a check and seemingly wait forever.
My first car in 1991 had manual-opening car windows. I miss those. Do they even still make vehicles with them?
And trying to set a station present on an analog radio in a car - remember those big "piano" type black plastic keys sticking out from the radio? And radios that ONLY had AM.
I remember being a kid and my mom having a wipe-off board - avocaco green, again! - next to the phone in the kitchen. She had numbers written down such as AV3-XXXX and referred to them that way for years.
OTOH, I don't remember NOT having a/c at home! An uncle was a HVAC guy and so A/C was put in sometime in the early 70s.
Last edited by Tradd; 6-23-11 at 1:27pm.
Shalom Poet you must remember using carbon copies then? I never realized my aging until I brought up the need to use carbon copies at a job one day and the high school student I was working with didn't have a clue what I was talking about.....gee I'm only 52.
I'm so old....that I remember going to the local convenience store to check tubes of my B&W TV, so old that my first computer program used punchcards to create a ASCII playboy bunny calendar, so old that I remember the bootstrap load address for a DEC PDP-8.
Peace
I remember using one of those hairdryers that had a plastic cap you put on your head. It had a hose that was connected to a case. I must be very old. Does anyone else remember those?
YES! My mom had one! I used it more than once as a kid, just for fun. She also had one that was similar to the ones at the beauty salon - it sat on the kitchen table and it had the hard plastic hood you sat under. I'm laughing - I'd totally forgotten about it! And for some reason I think it was avocado green, too! :P
FYI...I was born in 1969.
LOL, not only do I have one of those, I also have rotary phones hanging around. They are great in the classroom, kids love 'em.
My goodness, I'm only 31 and I remember using a rotary phone. My parents had one until I was well into high school.
I remember when vehicles had carburetors, floor vents, and push button radios, and automatic transmissions were a luxury. I still will only drive a manual
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