What old technologies do you remember?

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  • JanaCanada
    JanaCanada Posts: 917 Member
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    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
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    This was how you found crap in the library before computers:
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  • vice350z
    vice350z Posts: 1,066 Member
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    Computer prices were crazy back in the day

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  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,874 Member
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    Computer prices were crazy back in the day

    And now we have cell phones that do so much more!
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,735 Member
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    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: 4,735 Member
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    300px-Atari-2600-Wood-4Sw-Set.jpg

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    i had both of these as a kid. :)
  • Katie1951
    Katie1951 Posts: 314 Member
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    Vic 20, anyone know what that was?
  • californiagirl2012
    californiagirl2012 Posts: 2,625 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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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  • ball858
    ball858 Posts: 395 Member
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    Atari, Commodor 64 and I even found my gameboy the other week! I still have a video player and one of the very first dvd players ever to come out, about 10 years old - it still works! and mobile phones the size of house bricks
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
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    I was addicted to my game boy growing up:

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  • torshi
    torshi Posts: 107 Member
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    Pagers

    I get asked on a regular basis if my fitbit is a pager.

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  • torshi
    torshi Posts: 107 Member
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    I was addicted to my game boy growing up:

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    If I still have mine from when I was a kid...I would be addicted to it now lol.

    I also remember having several of these has a kid aladdin.jpg
  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
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    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....

    LOL. That's funny. I wish I'd had one of those.
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,071 Member
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    Vic 20, anyone know what that was?
    The C64's red headed step-brother. I had one! Had the tape drive to save all my BASIC games!
  • L00py_T0ucan
    L00py_T0ucan Posts: 1,378 Member
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    Rotary Phone!
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
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    Microfiche readers. We still have one in the back room at work (we don't use it, we just haven't gotten rid of it)

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  • amylovescupcakes
    amylovescupcakes Posts: 146 Member
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    Commodor 64 :D
  • KeithChanning
    KeithChanning Posts: 214 Member
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    My strongest recollection is that when I was at primary school, we were the first people in our street to have a refrigerator, and the first to have a TV (like the one at http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/nmem/exhibitions/bluepeter/images/1950sKidsTV.jpg).

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