You Know You Are Old When

[ultrarunner]

Had to look up Mayor Art.

I was on the City Council in studio having won a contest and Danial Boon Fess Parker visited…

What I remember is the very bright lights when on air live… and then the lights would dim for commercial break…

 

[Runner]

Captain in the morning and Mayor Art in the afternoon…

Torey Southwick and Old Gus in afternoon for me.

 

[Oaktree]

I recall some kid's mom on our block tried to get us to watch that. We were more Captain Kangaroo types.

Kiddie shows varied a lot by where you lived. We only got one tv station growing up, and they didn't carry either one. But we did have Uncle Gus.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Each new introduction was monumental enough, I could probably guess with 95% certainty, based only on the month and year of purchase. There were a few short-lived odd-balls along the way, but especially the 8080 and x86 series each came with huge leaps in capability and architecture. Then Pentium and PnP changed everything.

Remember when early Plug'n'Play was called "Plug and Pray"? Crap didn't work half the time, in those first two years.

This was a vast improvement for the NC machine tools I started on. With there punch tape and optical readers were the high tech, the 8086 was a leap into the future dreams of what was possible going forward. It was just amazing.

Magnetic Bubble Memory was another one that was amazing for its stability, but it too lost market share because it was just to slow for the increasing speeds of other memory technologies.
And I still do remember the "plug and pray" saying, thats been a while.

 

[Runner]

Torey Southwick and Old Gus in afternoon for me.
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Local public TV station ran a nostalgia piece where they interviewed Torey Southwick and Old Gus in 1996 (about 30 years after his kids show) and then KC Star ran this cartoon:

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

How much, inquiring minds want to know....
Oh, I just read how they matured in 1981 or so and have not increased in value since.

There were about 100 bonds from $25 to $100 each. It could have been invested better because I think interest was about 3%. Guessing about $8-$10K. The house didn't bring much because they never upgraded it, a contractor bought it for $50K, sold it for $150K after a lot of work.

 

[not2old]

I found the answer to your question!

Travelers Cheques have been a timeless addition to the world traveler’s carry-on for over 130 years. While new Travelers Cheques are no longer issued, your Cheques remain backed by American Express and have no expiration date.

About 30 years ago I took travellers cheques with me on a trip to Hawaii and got a bit of a hassle. The next time I went there with $50.00 in my pocket and two different credit cards. No problems at all.

 

[MossRoad]

This was a vast improvement for the NC machine tools I started on. With there punch tape and optical readers were the high tech, the 8086 was a leap into the future dreams of what was possible going forward. It was just amazing.

Magnetic Bubble Memory was another one that was amazing for its stability, but it too lost market share because it was just to slow for the increasing speeds of other memory technologies.
And I still do remember the "plug and pray" saying, thats been a while.

Punch tape!

Punch cards!

I think sometime in the first few weeks of working at the newspaper they asked me to help pull wire in the computer room with a raised floor. I grabbed the suction cup device and lifted a floor tile... YIKES!!! A blizzard of punches came flying up from under the floor and got in my eyes, nose and mouth.

Apparently the old punch card machines were located in that room at one time, and all of the chads had migrated down to the corner of the room under the floor over the years. It was a mess.

 

[ultrarunner]

I still use punch tape for my Bridgeport point to point mill.

 

[DarkBlack]

If you lived in New England and remember the talent show “Community Auditions”

 

[Oaktree]

If you lived in New England and remember the talent show “Community Auditions”

I remember that. Dave Maynard hosted it as I recall.

 

[Alan46]

Does anyone remember watching Andy’s gang around 1955 or so, or was it just a New York show?

 

[CalG]

I still use punch tape for my Bridgeport point to point mill.

The Allen-Bradley Bandit controller could accept data from audio cassette tapes.

Those were the days....;-)

 

[garry1p]

1955! that was just like yesterday.
Now, getting to stay up past 7PM on a Saturday evening and listen on the radio "Only the Shadow Knows".

Those were the days. LOL

 

[chiefcook]

1955! that was just like yesterday.
Now, getting to stay up past 7PM on a Saturday evening and listen on the radio "Only the Shadow Knows".

Those were the days. LOL

Sgt Preston if the Yukon and the Lone Ranger.

 

[Alan46]

Sgt Preston if the Yukon and the Lone Ranger.

Sky king!

 

[bigtiller]

Sky king!

Sky king and Sea Hunt were two of my late night favorites.

 

[JasperFrank]

Romper Room started in Baltimore, MD. It was already in its 6th season by the time I was old enough to watch it. Another of my favorites was Diver Dan. Basically an puppet show with fish, one of which, chain smoked. It's hilarious to see some of the old episodes and how cheesy it was.

 

[JasperFrank]

When I started my own computer refurbishing business, in 2003, I started getting requests for CP/M, Z80 and DOS based 8086 type floppy only machines. These were getting hard to find as working models. I had to rebuild them, and reseat all the chips, and re-aline the drives. The CRTs usually had so much burn in that they were unusable. After making a few I had to readjust my prices, way up to more than what the new computers were going for. The clients never batted an eye, or questioned the price in anyway. Often they would want two identical machines. The clients didn't want to tell me what they wanted them for. And I could not give a warranty cause replacement parts were hard to find. One client did clue me in, that they needed this particular machine to run a legacy industrial press. I assume this was what the others wanted them for also. They had some mllion dollar machine with custom soft that was taylored to that computer.

 

[garry1p]

YKYO if you grew up before TV.
I remember standing in front of a display window with other people looking at a black and white round tube TV probably 8 to 10 inches with a snowy picture.