Duke Bushido Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 On 4/21/2021 at 11:00 PM, Bazza said: Daisy dukes. I am old enough to remember them being called Daisy Mae's Sometime in the 80's Catherine Bach's over-tanned bird legs just drove Li'l Abner's gal right out of the American consciousness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperion Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Let's go on a drive without being harassed by family, law enforcement, neighbors, everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Tires that aren't radials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 25, 2021 Report Share Posted April 25, 2021 An absence of tire farms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 25, 2021 Report Share Posted April 25, 2021 Oh man, back when I was a child, there was a HUGE tire fire in the town I lived in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted April 25, 2021 Report Share Posted April 25, 2021 On 4/22/2021 at 12:47 PM, Pariah said: Tires that aren't radials. I'm not sure what you're missing here: is simply the existence of the choice, or the knuckle-whitening terror of doing seventy on bias ply tires as the attempt to follow every tiny bump and groove on the pavement at all times? 10 minutes ago, Cygnia said: Oh man, back when I was a child, there was a HUGE tire fire in the town I lived in... That hurts. The "when I was a child" part. I was twenty-six... pinecone, aylwin13 and Pariah 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 11 hours ago, Duke Bushido said: That hurts. The "when I was a child" part. I was twenty-six... For what it's worth, some of us are just very old, to still be a child. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 On 4/21/2021 at 4:50 PM, Cancer said: Which reminds me: Lava Lamps. Those kind of made a comeback. You can even order custom lamps: https://www.lavalamp.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 Yeah. I first saw a lava lamp in the dentist's office when I was 10 (1966/7) and was amazed. I got one for myself some 20 years later. Kept it for a long time, but it became an inevitable breakage casualty only a couple of years back (while moving stuff during Christmas feast prep). Maybe I'll get another one, but it won't happen until we purge a bunch of other stuff that has accumulated here (multiple deaths in the family will do that) so there's again a safe place to put it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 References to Joe Friday, and "Just the facts ma'am." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 14 minutes ago, Cancer said: References to "Just the facts ma'am." Okay, what's your fax number? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, archer said: Okay, what's your fax number? What's a fax? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 Dot matrix printers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 playing TREK on a 110 baud teletype ... suspense! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 Remember when medicine cabinets had these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 27, 2021 Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 1 hour ago, tkdguy said: Remember when medicine cabinets had these? I had one of those medicine cabinets, but never knew what the slot was for until we had the bathroom remodeled and the contractor found a pile of rusty razor blades in the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 27, 2021 Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Cancer said: playing TREK on a 110 baud teletype ... suspense! and LOUD!!!! But I could do the math and clear out all but the worst clusters pretty easily...the suspense tended to be pretty rare. 3 Klingons? Bring em on! Unless my resources were running super low, anyway. No one wanted to play Battle against me either...cuz I figured out the trajectory equation, or really close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted April 27, 2021 Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 I remeber playing games on Plato. the precurser to the "Internet".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 27, 2021 Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 24 minutes ago, pinecone said: I remeber playing games on Plato. the precurser to the "Internet".... Avatar was huge on Plato when I was in college. The game was so obviously addicting that I never attempted to play it. My own Plato experience was limited to physics extra credit assignments, which was an especially infuriating way to discover which function keys weren't working on a given terminal. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 27, 2021 Report Share Posted April 27, 2021 Learning LOGO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 I never played on PLATO much at all; we simply didn't have enough terminals to play. What I DID do for a couple years...punched cards. OMG, I hated those. Typos were unfixable; the card's wrecked. We had a self-serve card reader, but you still had to wait for the code to run, then the results print out, and be laid out by the system operator. Readers *mangled* decks from time to time. Second worst format I ever had to deal with; the worst was in HS, where we had paper tape ONLY. One tear and the entire tape's got to be re-punched...and the paper was flimsy, especially with holes punched. I never loaded from magnetic (cassette-style) tapes; we did load from the bigger, 10" or whatever reel tapes, but that at least had a decent storage capacity (for the day anyway). And as the pilot of Apollo 11 passed away today... sitting around the TV with the entire family, as Neil Armstrong takes one small step.... We may make it back to the moon; I doubt it, but it's possible, I suppose. That won't be the same. If we put a man on MARS...that would be major. But I don't see that...ever. The problems here will mean the resources to do this, will never be allocated. (And I don't think we'll avoid catastrophe, either.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 On 4/27/2021 at 8:08 AM, Cygnia said: Learning LOGO Heck, I did that as a graduate student! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 Never got into LOGO but I do remember one undergrad class where we had to work in LISP. And the lower-level undergrad classes taught PASCAL. I think I also had a Borland Turbo Pascal compiler at some point, but we're talking a LONG time ago. Hooooo boy...."portable" computers the size of a medium suitcase, and the case wasn't that far off. Almost needed both hands to lug the darn things. Kaypro as the leading clone maker....!!! Advertising oneself as an IBM clone. The OS/2 operating system... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 I remember formatting over OS/2 so I could install an OS that was markedly inferior but which was actually supported by software. 7-pin keyboard and mouse cables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 BSD 4.3 UNIX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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