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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 7:47:47 PM

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Erie, my dad has my old stereo, considered state of the art in the late 70's, and it had an 8 track tape deck....he has a bunch of them, mostly old country and western stuff....Elvis old.....that he still listens to today when he's working in the garage.

I still have my old vcr and a few tapes that I haven't been able to find yet on dvd....mostly Disney ones still in the "vault". I'll keep it and them til I can't use them anymore. I refuse to buy a blue ray player as long as they are still making the dvd format. Technology is getting a bit crazy....buy something in January, and it's obsolete in February! Maybe I'm overly thrifty, but I use things til they break and can't be fixed before I'll buy a new one. I'm usually the last person in the country to get the new tech gadgets. Hell, I can't even figure out my digital camera, let alone the new phones with all those bells and whistles! Give me a 35mm film camera anyday!

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:12:18 PM

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Reading this, on another thread, made me feel old. I literally had a "wtf had pop-up blockers in 6th grade?" moment!

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I first started looking for information on bondage back in 6th grade after the pop-up blocker missed a porn spam and a pic of the beautiful woman tied with her hands over her head and her feet to the ground.

Then I realized MILLIONS did.......

To the porch, for a bit of herbal therapy, this old lady shall go.

hahahaha edit to add the fucking quote.....maybe the porch is not needed!

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:16:17 PM

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Ok, you totally know you're getting old when you hear the hair bands you went to high school with on the oldies station.
And when you see an article on this one musician that you had this big fat crush on as a young girl and you realize he's going to be 63 on his next birthday (Rick Springfield. No, rly.).
*DERP*
And looking in the bathroom mirror and finding that first thatch of silver at your temples doesn't help..
That being said, the rumours are true; as some of us have found, life really does begin at 40..

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:18:46 PM

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I wonder if anyone remembers the "indiscreet" picture in the big Sears catalogue in the early to mid - 70's. Men's underwear page, they actually published a photo where it revealed a bit too much of his package. Of course when we all heard about it everyone couldn't wait to look in the Sears catalogue to see it. I think mom tore the page out and threw it away when she found out. .

What can I say, we didn't have internet then.

My mom heard about that and promptly fetched the catalog for all the neighbors to see!

Here's a good one for young whippersnappers.... party lines and what a revolution it was to have direct-dial long distance calling. Even in '78 out in the country you still had to have an operator connect you.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:21:48 PM

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:27:05 PM

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To those who say "Life starts at 40"

FUCK Y'ALL, I'M 50

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:33:16 PM

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Hey, why you bitching about the last ten years ? Hell ten years ago I was just finishing up my third or fouth childhood. I lost count.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 8:43:50 PM

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To those who say "Life starts at 40"

FUCK Y'ALL, I'M 50

No, you are 10!

I will be 10 next year-can't wait to hit the double digits.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:10:42 PM

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"usually the last person in the country to get the new tech gadgets."

Nope. Almost the only things I have that are not at least ten years old are my computers. But then the OS is, build 2600, 2001. My one and only TV set down in the basement was built in about 1988, my speakers are also about that old and they sound damn good. I did have to replace some woofers but .......

But back on topic, scaring kids with the idea of rotary dial telephones is kinda lame. What you need is a reel to reel tape deck. It may now be considered a deadly weapon in some states.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:13:07 PM

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:16:18 PM

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FR:

Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Firm

Yes!! Ack. Let's not forget the UHF stations, too.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:17:27 PM

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I remember the first night Teds station stayed on all night too. We actually watched, just to be watching.

We had to stand up when the Star Spangled Banner came on, right before the test pattern.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:23:59 PM

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

FR:

Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Firm

Even better. Remember when the early FM Rock stations went off at midnight and came back on at 6AM. (except on sat night they stayed on 24 hours then)

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:46:18 PM

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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Yes!! Ack. Let's not forget the UHF stations, too.

I kinda heard that some big cities had those, but not out in the sticks were we lived.

Does anyone remember the first time they got "cable" and "HBO"?

I was in college. We had one of those cable boxes where you could open them up, and tune in the premium channels with a small screwdriver.

For the guys ... remember when the "adult channels" where kinda-sorta visible, all twisty and stuff, but occasionally would clear up and you could see ... gasp! ... actual naked female flesh?

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:52:53 PM

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Even better. Remember when the early FM Rock stations went off at midnight and came back on at 6AM. (except on sat night they stayed on 24 hours then)

I remember being proud as shit when I got a car that even had an FM radio! Those two FM stations sounded great!

Didn't have an A/C, though. That was optional equipment, and not often purchased.

Damn. And electric windows? I remember when those suckers came out. The height of laziness! You had to be rich and dumb to even consider buying a car with those ...

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 9:54:40 PM

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Got ya beat Firm. I didn't get cable till I had been out of college for a couple of years. When I was in college, they had this box and antenna thingie called "ON TV".

They wouldn't rent it to you if you told them you were a student but if you just gave the address, the tech would go ahead and hook it up dorm or not. One guy on the floor had it My SR year. Since I was the RA, I got to watch too. Yes I remember twisted porn too.

OK, who remembers the when grocery stores sold TV (black and white of course) tubes and they had a test machine so you could bring yours in and see which one you had to replace?

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 10:07:03 PM

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Got ya beat Firm. I didn't get cable till I had been out of college for a couple of years. When I was in college, they had this box and antenna thingie called "ON TV".

What would a 20-something think if you told him that you used "rabbit ears" to watch TV?

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Yes I remember twisted porn too.

heh! So ... how many hours did you send watching that stuff? (Talk about self-gratification making you go blind ...)

Today "Twisty" porn is a website ...

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OK, who remembers the when grocery stores sold TV (black and white of course) tubes and they had a test machine so you could bring yours in and see which one you had to replace?

uhh! uhh! uhh! (raises hand)

Remember when the first Sony Walkman came out? It only weighed, what ... a couple of pounds?

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 10:11:11 PM

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First walkman I saw, I was in college. When I wanted to listen to my music at wrestling tournaments between matches, I had this big assed 8-track boombox with headphones that looked like they came from a WWII bomber.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 10:25:08 PM

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"When I was in college, they had thins antenna thingie called "ON TV". "

I used to hack that out of Detroit. I figured how to "fix" the box. These boxes were all over the place in Cleveland and were initially tuned to UHF 61. On TV from Detroit was a few channels lower, it may have been 56 but it has been so long I am not sure. I owned a TV shop at the time and had a really good antenna which could pick up out of town stations easily. It was split into a hundred or so outlets, but if I got the main coming in and siconnected the distribution systyem I got ALOT of out of town channels.

The Preview box which was the same as the ON TV box was basically an addressable SSAVI 1 decoder. I had the physical address FUBARED and I think it was all zeros, which I think was probably what the company's owners had.The box worked well both for Preview and ON TV.

SAAVI 1 was sync suppression and video inversion. SSAVI 2 also fucked up the sound, and I cracked that eventually as well. Actuall I beat EVERY analog encoding scheme. The problem came with BMAC. BMAC was used on the old big ass satallite dishes and was digital. I knew people who cracked it, but the box to do so cost $11,000. That is what the cable industry called security. At eleven grand, it was cheaper to just pay for it. The fine was $25,000 for illegally decoding the signal, but to display it in a public place the fine was $250,000. Let's just say Wrestlemania wasn't worth it.

Before that, a scumbag maned George Forbes was the block against Cleveland getting cable TV. Nobody offered him enough bribe money. I don't really have a problem with that. But back then the cable companies were using a sinewave scrambling technique in the suburbs. The cable boxes were not even remote controlled ! Thirty six channels, about a half dozen scrambled. With a box taken apart it came clear that to set a box for pay chnnels they cut through traces on the front PC board to enable the severely tuned notch filter to make the signal watchable. As you turned the selector, the open connection enabled the decoder circuit. I modified a shitload of them and in the latest incarnation of the process I simply used a piece of Scotch Tape. That way if the cable guy showed up, all you had to do was to pull on a tab I attached to the tape and thus remove it. I had already beaten all the security measures intergrated in the cable box, and this was the final refinement of my, ummmm, process.

At one point I sold several modified boxes a week at $200 each. Back then I had ambition. Later I had one full time job, one part time and one in my basement fixing VCRs. Remember VCRs ? Later I peddled bigscreen TVs out the house for $500-700 each, to make "ends meet". We are talking the 1980s and 1990s here.

I don't have that kind of amibiton anymore, and that is the real problem. If I did I would probably be able to buy the internet off of Al Gore.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 10:27:18 PM

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Does anyone else remember when porn came on 8mm movie reels?

The next question is. Did anyone else run them backwards?

Fukin HYSTERICAL to watch a cumshot in reverse.

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