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originally posted by: roadgravel
Anyone still have an old wind up alarm clock. I remember falling asleep to the sound of the ticking.
originally posted by: interupt42
If I remember correctly, Didn't ATS allow anomous posters? I swear I had posted as an anomous user before I ever created my account?
originally posted by: ladyvalkyrie
I mean, WTF? Who hasn't seen Dumbo? Was the kid raised on some weird cult compound or something?
originally posted by: ForteanOrg
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Transistor radios that ran on 4 x or even 6 x AA batteries.
When electronic stuff did not have circuitboards, stuff was just soldered together
Ironing using an iron heated on a stove
When electrical wires ran in tubes mounted on the walls
And switches were knobs you could turn (on) and (off)
Cat eyes on tube based radios to see how well you had tuned in
Water from a well instead of from a tap
Cars with a rubber knob on the dashboard to spray water on the windshield
Portable record players
LP's, EP's, singles and 45 tpm LP's (for better sound quality)
78 RPM records
Record players where you put 10 records on top and it played them one by one
Taperecorders
Horses that were used to plough, pull carts etc.
originally posted by: fernalley
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
a reply to: neformore
Do you remember dogpile? It searched multiple search engines!
I think was searchspaniel for a while.
I remember using webcrawler in the beginning. Wonder if it still around.
originally posted by: Mugly
i remember getting the weekly tv guide in the sunday paper and leafing though each day to find out what was on and when...scheduling what i was going to watch.
major bummer when 2 things were on at the same time on different channels and i had to make that decision of what to watch.
writing checks
writing letters
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
LOL....where is that?
originally posted by: Imagewerx
a reply to: butcherguy
Using BASIC as it's OS wasn't it?
originally posted by: roadgravel
Anyone still have an old wind up alarm clock. I remember falling asleep to the sound of the ticking.
i laughed so hard i had a tear. NOOOOOOOO!
originally posted by: PheonixReborn
originally posted by: FyreByrd
a reply to: neformore
DOS!!!
I remember my old boss taking a call from his wife when she was having a problem with their home computer and him shouting "No! Do NOT format c!"