[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

core. those little ceramic doughnuts. core planes looked like window screens with these little ceramic looking, really tiny doughnut/toroid things where the wires crossed.

relay relay vacuum tube logic circuits in signal systems and industrial automation.

when zip codes didn't exist yet. the u.s. (pre-interstate) highways system was almost completely only two lanes, before there were so many cars and people to need more then that,
and you could be most places where there was a train, as fast or faster on a train, because of that, as you could trying to drive cross country.

and the intercity buses would have bus stops, that were usually also hotels or had resteraunts (not always the best food, but it was real steam table food and not just a vending machine) that were actually in town instead of out on the highway somewhere.

 

I'm so old I can recall the say I was happily swinging in my hammock playing my banjo (that I'd just invented) when a bloke walked in to my garden and said ''Adam,meet Eve. From this day forward,the only two words you need,are ''Yes,dear''..oh...and perhaps ''Sorry,dear''...then he left,leaving just the sound of laughter.

NOW,I understand what was so funny....

 

I'm so old I can remember ….. when being first was a failure - now I'm just happy I can finish the journey

 

Saving and recyclying tin cans, saving green stamps, born after depression here...I'm older, not old.

 

I remember when you could buy a car for $75. It might have been a bit dented, but it ran.

 

I remember when Harry Truman was President and my mother sang the Hut Sut song around the house.

 

I'm so old that I can remember when a Blackberry was a fruit and tweets were sounds birds made.

 

Ike president, no color tv's, no seat belts in cars, the only "tapes" you could listen to were reel to reel recordings, only high end luxury cars had fm radios, there was no such thing as a household microwave, the only phone in the house was hung on the wall in the kitchen

 

You should have been so lucky !!! - when I was growing up we never had television period !!! There was no such thing as 'tapes', radios were big things with 'valves' not transistors that lived in the lounge and needed to be plugged into both a power source and aerial. We never had a house telephone either, if we needed to make a telephone call, there was a 'phone box' up the hill from the house and you had to keep 'feeding' the machine with penny pieces to remain connected at the other end.

 

I wasn't complaining just making an observation. I always had a roof over my head, clothes to wear and plenty to eat. Much more than so many others.

 

I* wasn't criticising, merely pointing out that over this side of the 'pond'[ things were different due to austerity. Food rationing didn't end after WWII until 1953 !!!

 

I'm so old I can remember when Man United last won the Premiership

 

I'm old enough to remember Matt Busby and his 'babes' !!!

 

I remember when we got a computer at school, it 'lived' in a room about 8 feet square and did bugger all, a modern smartphone had more processing power, I was talking to a young lad last year and we got on about mobile phones, I said I got my first one when I was about 20 or 21, "blimey you were deprived weren't you, I got my first when I was about 14" he said, sounding shocked, "not really, that's how old I was when they first came out in the UK, and I was one of the first people in our area to get one" I replied.
When I was a kid we only had a black and white tv and iirc 2 channels, bbc1 and itv, and it wasn't on 24hours, it went off mid afternoon and then again later on at night, there was none of this 24hour tv, that said we had decent programmes back then.
I can also remember when a rape or murder made big news, it was on the front page of the local papers as they were thankfully rare, the crimes not the papers. Now people are getting raped and murdered and it hardly gets a mention it's become so common sadly.

 

I'm so old I remember when hand-held calculators came out -- my senior year of college. Before that, we used a slide rule.

 

I'm so old I forgot...

 

I remember when cars were almost like sculptures. Now they ALL look the same--like jellybeans.
I remember a man in a white helmet knocking on our door and telling my parents to turn off the lights--there were Japanese subs off the coast. (Belmont Shores,Calif.)
I remember free vaccinations, free pencils, free paper in Calif school.
I remember when Africa was still called the dark continent.
I remember when I was about 6, a black man with a cut on his hand showing it to me and saying "see here--my blood is the same color as yours."

 

Our first black and white TV and Hopalong Cassidy program!!!!

 

THOSE WERE THE DAYS - MARY HOPKIN

= True Story

 

It was said that this was written for her by Paul McCartney and John Lennon - a lie !!! - its actually a Russian folk tune !!!