You have 10 seconds to prove you're 40 or older. >Do

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We got 2,4,5,9,11, and 30 on UHF. On cloudy night I could get 8 too.

>>733104130
I used to spend hours gently positioning the UHF dial between stations to pick up taxis, police cars, beepers, and the tower at the airport. It was more fun than a crystal radio.

>>733103809
Third-party 5081. 0.007" thick and the same size as an 1880s US dollar bill.
Punched on an IBM 026 or printing 029.
Not verified.
I have my own card gauge.

>>733104592
Do you remember when payphones went up from two dimes to a quarter?

>>733104654
First year I studied computer science, first semester we used electric adding machines. Second semester were IBM alphanumeric keypunch machines. I still remember using the metal tip of a protractor to do a manual sort on the punchcards.

I'm not

>>733104130
kek
We got 2,4,6,7,9,12 and 31 on UHF
Nights I could get 40 which was a 24/7 home shopping channel.

Fucking 300 baud modem bitch! BBS life

>>733104299
>not taking the whole thing apart to wire together an ungodly contraption that mostly spews noise

pleb

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>>733106488

>>733106796
hah my NES was connected with this exact adaptor

>>733106721
I can beat that. My first modem was a 110 baud teletype machine, complete with rubber acoustic couplers for the bakelite telephone receiver. It didn't even have a monitor, just a printer. I used to call up the university mainframe to play Maze of the Minotaur. If I wanted to use a different program, I'd have to call the computer science department and ask them to please change the reel.

my first phone was in a leather duffle bag

>>733106721
Meh. I was a Fido-Net node operator.

>>733107527
Ever go to any Fido meet-and-greets?

I got a Commodore 64 when I was 4

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My first computer. Prior to this I used a PET at school.
My brother and I pooled our money and bought a disk drive for this and played Zork.

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My first program was in FORTRAN.

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>>733103809

>>733103809
good luck beating this: the first pres I remember was Eisenhower. Martin Luther King is a real person to me. The first time I saw color TV I actually got a boner. So fuck you faggots. /b was never good but America was.

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>>733107965
Forgot to mention, ya'll know these guys as AOL.com now

>>733107965
Yep, bought a box of these and used scissors to cut another notch to make the other side writable.

>>733108123
I always used a single-hole punch. Turned a 160K disk into a 320K

>>733108221
And this was all before security cams so all my tech gear was shoplifted.

>>733108422
I had a friend in highschool I bought all my computer supplies from at 25% retail. The only stipulation was that it had to fit under a shirt.

>>733103809
Remember watching first foot hitting moon surface.

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>>733103809

>>733108705
Our family acquired our first television for this.

Does anyone else remember when your neighbourhood always had a repair shop, a cobbler, a tailor, and a butcher? Do you remember when the store kept a notebook at the cash register where they'd make a note on your family's tab whenever your parents sent you to pick up a pack of smokes, and everyone would go by on payday to pay off their tab (after waiting half an hour at the bank to cash their cheque)?

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>>733108705
Lies you scum there was no moon landing that was staged you faggot

>>733104892
I remember when they were one dime. Newspapers were a quarter.

When I was finally old enough to buy smokes, they had just gone up to $1.50. People were pitching a fit. They were pitching a fit over gas prices, too. It was $1.13/gal...

why are there 40 year olds on /b/

don't you graduate to better boards?

I graduated from high school before moot was born

Remember not being allowed outside because of possible radiation from Chernobyl. Also had a big day at school the every classroom had a TV in it to watch a teacher go to space. That did the goes as well as I think it could have though

>>733109146
No. We browse /b/ and laugh at all of the cringy little faggots drooling over chicks with dicks... fuck. You fags even drool over guys with dicks. I swear, this entire decade has gone straight into penis lust.

>>733109314
I remember that. Our teacher was one of the ones that was on the list to be chosen. We all cried when Challenger exploded.

>>733109323
This.

>>733109146
Get off our lawn, ya little faggot. Get a job, hippie, and a haircut.

hey.. got one for you.. google this "instwatch monthly giveaway". thank me later :D :D :D

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>>733109408
I was in the Army when that happened.

>>733109408
On 9/11 I remember exactly where I was, because I had gone down to the computer shop to pick up my computer, which had been in for repairs. Every computer was watching a different news station feed, and the first thing they said as I walked in the door was, "A plane hit the World Trade Center!"

I was baffled why everyone was so excited. I kept trying to get my computer back. Then a second plane hit and everyone lost their minds. It took me 30 god damned minutes to get my computer back, and only after asking them whether the plane had hit the back of their fucking store and, if not, what was preventing them from getting my fucking computer.

>>733109679
I was in a hotel room in Greenville, SC. I was getting ready for work. I was working for a large Burger King franchise at the time, and they had me going to different stores that they owned to help train managers. I remember that being the slowest lunch shift I'd ever seen on a weekday. It's like the whole world stopped and gasped. I think we all know now that it wasn't Iraq... but I think we pretend that it wasn't an inside job because we don't want to believe that our own government could do that sort of thing... The sorts of things that ruthless, blood-thirsty dictators did.

>>733107897

Fortran, what are you, NASA?

>>733109981
I was housesitting for my father who was on vacation on the Cook islands, he flew out on pretty much the last aircraft allowed, landed in LA and had to rent a car from there.

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>>733103809
my dad gave me this computer when I was 7. it was top of the line at the time.
>TRS 80

>>733110256
The Trash 80. I loved mine. Mostly used it for Frogger,

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>>733103809
It took me about 15 minutes (sometimes longer) to load a game on my Commodore 64.

>>733110363
We played CleanUp every chance we got.

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>>733103809
I remember this modem

>>733110492
epyx joystick. respect

>>733106950
the smell comes right back every time

You can use a paper pack of matches to clean and set points.

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>>733110006
Written on punch cards for a (literally) Rocket Scientist.

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>>733110492
I would spend most of my lunch loading a game via tape player, play for 5 mins and then rush to my next class.

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QED

Get off the phone kid. We're expecting a call.

>>733110936
taping over the LEDs on the computer and modem to keep it dialed in all night long to download

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I remember using E tickets at Disneyland

I remember going on America Sings (loved it as a kid).

I remember a knight in the Haunted mansion that used to grab people and scare the shit out of them.

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>>733110492
>my proof
That's actually the upgraded Commodore 64 case, after they introduced the Commodore 128.

Commodore 64 (old case) was my first computer. My older brother had a Vic 20 with a tape drive.

>>733110936
Hi Mr Logan, my name is Michael. Can I please speak to Jenny?

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>>733110904
HA. I remember doing that as well. I had a Vic 20 with a tape drive.

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>>733111058
Racing Destruction set was my favorite game on the Commodore 64

>>733111111
?

>>733111083
Radical idea Jenny, Breakfast Club sounds like it will be an ace movie. I will meet you outside the cinema at 6pm. See you then. Have a good week.

Dad I'm off the phone now!

i remember being in primary school and the whole school sitting down in the assembly hall to watch Princess Anne marry Cptn Mark Phillips, my family being Socialist and completely Anti-Royal i had no fuckin clue who either was.

Got a rubber keyed spectrum 48k when I was 10 or 11. Was working on 9/11. I've got 2 kids in double figure ages and I didn't have the 1st til I was 30. I was over 40 when I discovered b I think, fappening fag. You guys keep me young, even if it's shaking my head over traps and fb fap threads.

>>733103809
I had Major Matt Mason, and my GI Joe was about 10 inches tall.

>>733111299
Fuuuu we had a party line, you pick up the phone and someone you did not even know was having an imtimate conversation.

>>733111280
pic related

>>733111299
Dad says we have to go on two dollar Tuesday.

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>>733111496
I forgot the pic!

>>733104892
We had rolls of yellow paper tape instead of punch cards. How big a roll of tape you carried around was a status thing.

>>733106950
Yeah, can still smell it...

Did you ever use a telecopier, with a mimeo-like rotating drum, you plugged a phone handset into it and sent copies of a document to somebody with another machine plugged into his phone. An electric spark from a needle in the receiving machine made a burn mark in a white clay-based coating on the paper to reproduce, more or less, the writing on the original. Took about 2-3 minutes a page.

McDLT was my favorite hamburger.

Hot side was hot, cool side was cool thanks to Styrofoam.

I miss those days when you would use styrofoam to get your food and when you got home your food was still hot. Now the paper shit they wrap the stuff in is fucking cold 30 seconds later.

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Palabra jot, palabra jot

>>733108705
Me too. I also remember being in the car with my Dad, listening on the radio as they landed, racing for home hoping to get there in time to see the landing coverage. Dad would help me follow what was gong on by pointing out "They're about as high as that building now... now about as high as that phone pole..."

when I was a kid...
TV used to really suck. a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ruQ1tj4MDA

Excuse me miss. How do you pronounce this word? N-A-C-H-O-S.

OK so what is it?

Eeewww bit sure about thart. Maybe I'll try it next time. Tonight I'll have the shrimp cocktail to start and then the Steak Diane.

I know its a bit pricey but I don't mind paying $5 for the steaks here. They're good quality

Now Michael tell us about that Jenny girl. We should have her parents over for dinner next week. Need to meet them and make sure they're nice people.

>>733111831
McDonald's never was and still isn't good. Styrofoam or not.

What I miss is the cartoons those days, not the food. Transformers, GI Joe, Thunder Cats, Ewoks.

>>733110256
I worked in a campaign electing the governor of our state, ran the whole thing on Trash-80s, and thought we were the absolute shit. And we were, that was cutting edge shit at the time. I remember when we got the first external hard drive attachment for them .. no more keeping our donor list on dozens of floppies...

>>733111831
> Styrofoam

Omg, I totally forgot about that. Styrofoam was great. And you are right it kept the burgers in shape and hot!

I saw the first broadcast of MTV

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>>733103809

Hey Ive been waiting half an hour for you to show up. Where have you been? I told you to meet me in the food court my the escalators at 3. Its 3:30. Didnt you hear the message over the loudspeaker? You have to be more responsible. Turn around, pull your pants down I'm going to have to give your ass a whooping in front of all these people. Excuse me sheriff, can you please hold my bags while I smack my son.

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I built my first computer

1975 i was 6 then and the worlds first computer was released. MITS Altair 8800

>>733112724
Video killed the radio star

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I bought this my freshman year of high school.....I'm about to sell it on eBay

>>733113122
Can't remember the last time I saw a kid being spanked in public. Used to see it happen every other day in the 70s. Sometimes random people would walk up and tell the kid off for disobeying their parents.

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My computer..... 1200 baud was fast as fuck.

I hate niggers. Segregation was a godsend

>>733113896
Witnessed and remembered...

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976 numbers

Tunnels of Doom on my TI/994A
Almost flunked Thermo playing this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhfQF9075NQ

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>>733103809
>>>733106488
>>NES
>>No Atari 2600
Get on my level son

>>733114303
hunt the wumpus

>>733103809
Boomers need to be gassed

>>733113453
>1975 i was 6 then and the worlds first computer was released.
>1975 the worlds first computer was released.
>1975 worlds first computer

>>733113896
>>733114090
This one time I was got a real painful clip across the legs from my dad because i slipped out of a store with some candy down my shorts. Someone said to him "make sure you teach that kid a lesson. You should use your belt next time."

Never stole again.

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My after school jam

>>733114480
I think he meant worlds first personal computer anon.

>>733113896
Hang out around more black people.

>>733114479
Is that your opinion as someone of age 40 or so?

Or are you implying that boomers are age 40? Because boomers are 65 now

>>733108121
Oh the nostalgia
I used to play Spiders of Mars all the time
Also having to insert a cartridge to increase ram by 16k

>>733114593
Still the antikythera was a laptop and a PC!

>>733114677
Kek.

Phew. Not in my neighborhood thank you!
Can remember going out to the mall with only one or two singles and a small handful of coins feeling like a millionaire. And I'm 'only' in my forties !

>>733103809
Our house had ashtrays in every room except the kids bedrooms. People were expected to be smoking in the house. We had 1 tv, and it was black and white with only over the air channels. Born 1965

STOP GIVING PETER KAY MORE MATERIAL

>>733106796
Colecovision faggot. Atari master race checking in.

>>733103809
I remember what they used to call AIDS before they knew what it was: Gay Cancer. And also, everyone freaked out because they thought it could be transmitted via mosquito's.

>>733115272
All I remember of my TV was lots of magazines and newspapers on top of it. And dad hitting the side of it and playing with the aerial all the fucking time to adjust the picture.

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>>733115404
pshh. I had an Atari and Colecovision. Atari was dogshit in comparison

What happened to face the jury?

>>733115440
I remember that. We had to watch an made-for-TV movie in a class about a gay dude that got aids. After he breaks it to his parents, the dad was like, "but that's impossible. Only gays can get aids."
"That's right dad."

>>733103809
I'm 23

>>733115440
>>733116078
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_uiiRAZqs

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fapfapfapfap NO MOM NOT NOW fapfapfap

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do you remember when white dog shit was green?

eh? lads? eh lads?

>>733116314
Hahahahahahahahaahahaha!!!!!!!!!

>>733107965
Only a 5.25" floppy? It's like you're not even trying.

I have a box of 8" floppys and a disk drives to use them.

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>>733103809
N/A I am 29.

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Hard Drive

>>733108899
Same here.

Getting in the car on a hot summer day and burning the fuck out my legs on the seats

I remember when I was 7 and my parent were buying a house it was a totally acceptable and normal thing to say to the realator "we don't want to be in a neighborhood where theres any black families"

I remember when the drinking age was 18.

>>733112751
Tab! Tab Cola, you're beautiful,
Tab! Tab Cola, for beautiful people,
Tab! Tab Cola, you're beautiful to me,
Great cola taste, just five calories!

>>733103809

I got my knuckles rapped for writing with my left hand.

>>733113896
Giant naugahyde purse clenched between elbow and ribs, one hand with a lit Virginia Slim, the other one whacking the kid on the ass in the aisle at K-Mart while the pick threatens to fall out of her giant home perm afro and a Muzak version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty" plays in the background... yeah, brings back memories.

>>733116386
Top definition
white dog shit
a product of the 1970's,white dog shit was everywhere! it was all over the place because once upon a time high quantities of chalk were addded to tins of dog food therefore when a dog would take a shit after a few days in the sunshine the poo would dry out and eventually turn white. nowadays pet food manufacturers don't use chalk in their food and this is why we don't see any more white dog shit lying around.
bring back white dog shit it's so nostalgic.
#shit#dog#1970's#chalk#poo#everywhere

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>>733107719

I got one when I was 13, played so many games on it...

Last Ninja
Wizball
Dungeons of Ba
Cauldron
Defender of the Crown
Paradroid

Way too many to mention...

Getcha skiis shined up!
Grab a stick a Juicy Fruit!
The taste is gonna move ya!
Take a sniff. Pull it out.
The taste is gonna move ya when you pop it your moooutthh!

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>>733115272
My mother smoked four packs a day when she finally quit. She would light up as soon as she woke, then chain-smoke one cigarette to the next all day long. There were multiple ashtrays in every room including the bathroom and bedrooms. Sometimes she'd lose track of whether or not she had one burning and have two or more going, one in each room.

My father only ever smoked two packs a day, and he quit years before my mother did.

To this day the smell of cigarettes make me sick, although I've smoked a pipe for more than twenty years. Very different experience, though. Ah, the glory days when you could light up after a meal in a restaurant, or walking around in the supermarket, or on a bus, or even in the movie theatre. As a kid I used to enjoy watching the smoke swirl through the beam of light at the movies.

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>>733116314

>>733116488
I saw an old AES word processing station for sale in an electronics junks shop and bought it on a whim. It weighed over a hundred pounds, the keys were made of wood and bakelite, and the green phosphor screen took about 30 seconds to warm up, but glowed for several minutes after the thing was turned off. I shudder to think what kind of radiation the thing blasted out.

It had an 8 inch floppy drive but didn't have the software with it, so I called AES to see if they had one. No one at AES recognized the serial number of the machine, but days later I got a call from an old woman in Europe who had worked for them for 40+ years and remembered it well. She told me Honeywell-Bull still sold the software for it.

I called Honeywell-Bull and they offered to sell me an 8 inch floppy with the AES software on it... for $300. I politely declined. But it means somewhere in a giant Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, in a dark corner, covered in cobwebs and dust, sits a crate of 40+ year old 8" floppies all fresh and ready to go just in case somewhere, someone on Earth needs one.

>>733118407
Mind. Blown.

>>733119013
Balls. Blown.

Christmas 1977.

> Spiderman Y fronts
> a Fanta brand yoyo
> Star Wars Chewbacca iron on transfer
> spirograph
> Bag of marbles
> two cans of coca cola (they were steel with the sharp ring pulls)
> $5 bill
> a Richard Scarry book

Best Christmas ever.


Sister got a stupid Abba LP. Played it so often Gay.

>>733120337
>Richard Scarry book
My parents bought me the entire Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew collection. My mother thought they were terrible and said I should be reading the Bobbsey Twins.

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>>733103809
I had two of these and an accelerator cartridge.

>>733106721
Pffft. 110/300 and CompuServ. It was slow enough to read the text as it downloaded.

>>733118578
>Defender of the Crown
Best damned game evah.

Notice the graphics was better than IBM until they came out with VGA?

>>733120578
Only plebs used dot matrix. Daisywheel printers were where it was at.

>>733104130
Where I grew up we could only get 3 channels, and two of them sucked.

>>733117706
You over 50 nigga.

>>733116921
Oh Guru Meditation. Red, I think that's an Amiga 500, Workbench 1.3. I had an A2000 w/ 2.04.

>>733115440
Remember HTLV? I think they only used it for a while. It was HIV before they called it HIV, if memory serves.

>>733120849
Dot matrix could do graphics a ton better.
>4 color ribbons.

>>733120851
We had two, ABC and NBC. Then after many years they added CBS.

>Dot matrix could do graphics
FTFY

>>733103809

First personal computer: Apple ][
College computer: Apple ][c (with a *huge* 2mb external drive)
Pre-WWW internet, done either via dial-up ISP or BBS.
Most advanced OS used at the time (personally): VAX/VMS

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I remember the original ham burglar. And he didn't have no child's face.

>>733120766
I remember on my 300 baud modem I used to have to pause typing on BBSes message boards to let the text catch up or else I'd fill up the buffer and knock myself offline. It was until 2400 baud that it could transmit text as fast as I could type.

Incidentally, I was part of a warez group, and one of our members was an intern at Bell Northern. He swore they had a modem in the lab which worked on ordinary copper phone lines, but was literally thousands of times faster than the modems we were currently using. We laughed at him and called him a bullshitter, but it turns out he was right; it was xDSL. They had DSL technology since the mid-70s, but never found a use for it, so it just sat gathering dust.

>>733120839
Do you remember the Hercules cards? They gave VGA+ graphics during the CGA era, but they could literally refresh your monitor to death if you set them wrong, and they were notorious for causing monitors to burst into flame.

>>733120578
Is that an Amiga 1000? Classic!

>>733103809
You get me my paper tape and get these punch card shits off my lawn.

>>733103809
Punch all the holes in and pass it trough anything

>>733121376
Yeah. At the time this pic was taken, it was the only Amiga.

>>733110492
Do your disk drives still work? I've still got all my shit but i've had issues with the drives. Probably gotta clean the heads I guess.

>>733107719
Who buys a 4 year old a computer?

>>733113453
That was not the first computer. That was one of the first PERSONAL computers.

>>733106950
What the actual fuck
Was this before a fax machine or something?

What the hell are you 40+ year old fags still doing here?

>>733121586
The old 1501 hippos were notorious for going out of alignment, but they're easy to fix. Just open them up and load up a simple app which reads the track and tells you which track it *should* be reading. Then you can just physically drag the drive head until they track numbers match. I had to do that every six months or so.

>>733108048
Did you vote for Trump?
How can we make america great again?

>>733108939
Why didn't your parents just etransfer the funds with a banking app?

>>733121776
>What the hell are you 40+ year old fags still doing here?

Excellent question. No idea.

>>733121776

Laughing at you kids, that's what.

>>733121365
Yes, in fact, my first PC was a 'true blue' 4.77MHz 8088 with 640K of ram, a 10Meg HDD and a Hercules card. I was playing with a hacked copy of autocad back then.

Paid $1000 for it, + a 9 pin dot matrix printer.

>>733121776

Don't worry, you'll still be here when you're over 40

>>733109408
Spoiler alert

>>733106950
Nothing better than the smell of methanol.

We flew to Florida from Ottawa one summer instead of driving.

Got dressed up, my brother and I both wore matching brown cordduroy suits my mother made especially for the flight. The stewardesses all said we looked adorable. We sat in the smoking section of the plane.

And back then we had an airline called CP Air.

>>733121932
>10Meg HDD
Yeah, I remember when I got a 10 meg MFM for my XT and it boggled my mind that I could put MS-DOS, Pirates!, Stars!, and Civilization on it -- and still have room left over. I wondered how on Earth I would ever fill it.

>>733112101
I feel sad for you old fucks if you think this is comedy

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This was a real thing.

We lived out in the country, so we put a 10' mast on our roof with a huge 100+ array antenna on a big rotor. We also attached a 12db and a 20db booster in series. We got about 24 channels on a clear day.

HS graduation in 94
classmate had "FREE OJ" on his mortor board

>>733115440
I remember it being called 'GRIDS' for a bit

>>733115868

kek Makes me wonder if the Atari programmers were just lazy asses.

>>733103809
Punching in and out hours... for work?

>>733118706
Triggered

First computer was a C128.
Would program a sound command in each of the 3 voices with random variables... then let it makes noise for several minutes to freak out my mother.

>>733122523
I used to plug my rabbit ears directly into a wall socket and turned the entire electrical system of the house into a giant antenna.

>>733103809
Curled into a fetal position under the desk ...
Grade school teacher says (after the alarms stop)
"If the blast doesn't kill us, the flying debris or radiation will"
One year later the President is dead.
Today is worse.

>>733122770
I know some people who still do.

Anyone else remember party lines?
We had a neighbor who always left their phone off the hook. We could hear them watching TV. My parents had to send one of us over to tell them to hang up their phone.
This happened many times.

Marina
soft as a sea breeze
yet strong as the sea

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>>733103809
>prove you're an oldfag
>post stock images of computers

Get rekt fags

>>733103809

Jimmy Carter was president when I first got laid.

>>733122523
>a big rotor.
We had one rigged with an electric motor called a "Roto-tenna". It kept me from going out in the rain to manually adjust the fucking thing....FUCK I'M OLD!!!

>>733109615
Wow!! I was going through my physical at Ft. Dix when this happened.

>>733115868
I had Colecovision as well. It was so awesome as it offered almost 1:1 arcade conversions. Zaxxxon etc. After that it was downhill with C64, I always only had a fucking tape and all my friends had disk drives. Ultima 5 was first game to really blow my mind, I played it always at my friend's house. Those days are never coming back and the sense of mystery and wonder. Now everything is just one click away and so damn boring...

>>733103809
>Breaker one, breaker one.
>Anyone out there got their ears on, come on?
>What's your 10-20, over.

>>733123244
Remember that funny dial inside the house? How it would be resistant to turning? How you had to push it down a bit?

Remember the old refrigerator handles? How you had to pull down and towards you in just the right way?

When was the last time you had to defrost your icebox, anon?
heh heh. Damn we're old.

>>733122926
How about the VIC20? Not my first one but I had one for a bit before moving up to the C64.

>>733123230
Bless you... Nixon for me.

People over the age of 40 don't get triggered when someone abuses us but anyone younger freaks the fuck out and has to write a goddamn blog post about it
'Zomg today someone cut me off And flipped the bird'

Also the faggots at school kept quiet about it because they knew there would be consequences. I couldn't imagine a school environment where fags are celebrated sounds degenerate as fuck.

>>733123070
>Anyone else remember party lines?

One of my friends phones had 2 different ring patterns - several short rings or 1 long ring.

I could never figure out why the did not answer the phone half the time it rang, and my friend refused to explain what was gong on - I think he was embarrassed.

This was around 1970.

>>733123510
You know - I can't even find a list of those 10- codes anymore...

>>733123539
I remember all that! Those were the refrigerators that trapped and smothered kids!