What old technologies do you remember?

monicalosesweight
monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
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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!

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I did own the first super pong system. I remember having it in the basement.

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  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    I remember doing some programming on one of these in high school.

    The good ole "trash 80" (TRS-80).

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  • 1FitMomof4Girls
    1FitMomof4Girls Posts: 202 Member
    Beta tapes
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    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!
  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
    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.
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    Can I get a boom box?
  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
    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.
  • Lyssa62
    Lyssa62 Posts: 930 Member
    8 track
    dial phone
  • elprincipito
    elprincipito Posts: 1,200 Member
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  • jesscox2003
    jesscox2003 Posts: 65 Member
    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 him :)
  • asgard825
    asgard825 Posts: 1,516 Member
    Hard wired cable boxes
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    How about those huge Laserdiscs for movies?
  • vice350z
    vice350z Posts: 1,066 Member
    i remember when i had to change the cable channels with thiss

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  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
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  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
    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.

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    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.
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
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    Not only do I remember it, I still have it and play it! :)
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
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  • BAFilek
    BAFilek Posts: 139 Member
    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.
  • RubySinclair
    RubySinclair Posts: 90 Member
    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:
  • rambo831
    rambo831 Posts: 93
    iphone 1
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
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  • JanaCanada
    JanaCanada Posts: 917 Member
    Sadly, I am old enough to remember ALL of the above. :blushing: :sad:

    When I was in college, we used keypunch cards to program the computers. The hard drives were floor-to-ceiling models that had to be kept in a separate room where the room's temperature had to be constantly cool or the drives would overheat and shut down completely.

    Now that's about as old as Fred Flintstone's car! :laugh:
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    This was how you found crap in the library before computers:
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  • vice350z
    vice350z Posts: 1,066 Member
    Computer prices were crazy back in the day

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  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    Computer prices were crazy back in the day

    And now we have cell phones that do so much more!
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    8" floppy discs

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    radio headphones (from the 70's)

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    first generation LED calculators

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  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
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    i had both of these as a kid. :)
  • Katie1951
    Katie1951 Posts: 312 Member
    Vic 20, anyone know what that was?
  • californiagirl2012
    californiagirl2012 Posts: 2,625 Member
    I was a kid when color TV's came out, and you had to rush home from school to watch something on TV when it was ON. LOL.
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    Talkboys! I used to have hours of fun with this bad boy! found it again a couple years back,but had to throw it out :-(

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkboy

    When I was a kid (4/5 ish) , we had a rotary phone. I thought that was the coolest thing ever lol
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Secret Sender 6000!.... The FIRST "PDA's"... I remember turning off the TV in class during one of those boring educational videos and the teacher had no clue who was doing it....
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