What old technologies do you remember?
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It's sorta fun to look around the web and see the objects which now are obsolete but which we grew up with and which the kids of today wouldn't even recognize. Grin. I found a picture of the first IBM computer and it's pretty funny. The screen is tiny, the cost is like buying a small car and the memory drive is some sort of cartridge. I had the next model up that I think came out years later as the first home computer. Supposedly, it came out in 1975 and was the size of a suitcase at 51 pounds!
I did own the first super pong system. I remember having it in the basement.
I did own the first super pong system. I remember having it in the basement.
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I remember doing some programming on one of these in high school.
The good ole "trash 80" (TRS-80).
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Beta tapes0
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We had a rotary dial phone in our kitchen in the house I grew up in - it was still there when I moved out in 1997!0
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Yep. I remember those fondly. My parents even had a video recorder for family videos that used those. Luckily, we saved the home movies after the great loss of Beta. Grin. I wonder if any of the youngsters even know what we're talking about???
I kinda like rotary phones...the nice little zip sound they made...they were slow but sorta fun.0 -
Can I get a boom box?0
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Boom boxes were fun! I keep telling the kids that they were fun because it was a moveable party! Nowadays they sit at tables with earphones on and they don't even talk to each other!
You know..that radio shack computer looks awfully familiar. I remember programming a picture to appear on the screen.0 -
8 track
dial phone0 -
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what about the video recorder?? the one that used a full sized vhs tape?? i remember my grandfather teasing me saying "jessie... if u cover ur eyes, the camera wont see u" lol and of course at 3 and 4 i believed him0
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Hard wired cable boxes0
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How about those huge Laserdiscs for movies?0
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i remember when i had to change the cable channels with thiss
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This is going to sound funny but...my parents still have their old laser disc player and they sorta transferred it to me. Grin. I did manage to connect it to the tv and it's very different in picture quality. I have the original Star Wars movies but they don't look as good as the new stuff. Sigh.
I think this is the machine that I still have. Grin. I did find some obsolete movies and I use it as a converter for transferring out of print ones.0 -
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We had Pong - I think I was about 7 when it came out! Oh, and we had to get up off the couch to change the channels on TV.0
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rotary phone .... on a party line!
actually getting UP to change the channel on the TV
car phones
commodore 64
God I'm old! :sad:0 -
iphone 10
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