You Know You Are Old When

[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.