[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when your first car had wind wings.

Ours, a 1946 Studebaker, and also the 1955 Studebaker that followed was also equipped with side panel vents that stuck out from the side of the car when opened, and funneled air into the front foot wells. We lived in Miami so the windows, the wings, and the vents stayed open year round but to little avail. My parents never did own a car with AC.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when your first car had wind wings.

That, and 2 (or 4) 60 a/c!

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when your first car had wind wings.

And this is why the hearing loss in my left ear is worse than my right ear (seriously).

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

And this is why the hearing loss in my left ear is worse than my right ear (seriously).

Mine's worse in my left ear as well. But I've always attribute that to shooting in the military. Shooting righty meant the left ear was tilted slight more toward the end of the barrel. I remember my left ear ringing badly after firing without earplugs.

[Lady Jane]

[dscabra]

If you used SLIP to enable your Mosaic browser on your dial-up Internet connection.

[M_Six]

When you could tell if your dial-up connection was going to be reeeeeaaallly slow by the sound of it connecting.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by M_Six

When you could tell if your dial-up connection was going to be reeeeeaaallly slow by the sound of it connecting.

300 bps.

[vreihen16]

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[wdb]

When you actually typed in all of the bit code from one of PC Magazine's tech articles. (And it worked!)

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by wdb

When you actually typed in all of the bit code from one of PC Magazine's tech articles. (And it worked!)

I did that for a game for my Texas Instruments TI-99. The program was saved on a standard cassette recorder.

[Lady Jane]

[cmyx6go]

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

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We had one of those gizmos in my dad's mom-and-pop TV store back in the '70's. It was for the exclusive use of transmitting the day's credit card receipts, if I recall correctly. Prior to that invention, we had to hand-carry the credit card stuff to the bank up the street a few blocks. And we wouldn't know if any of the credit cards were fraudulent for days after the sale.

[SpeedBuggy]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Attachment 3290193

1) Oscar Mayer
2) Peter Pan
3) Kit Kat Bar
4) Folger Coffee
5) Almond Joy/ Mounds Bar
6) Coca Cola
7) AT&T
8) Nair Hair Remover
9) Lucky Charms Cereal
10) Meow Mix

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

We had one of those gizmos in my dad's mom-and-pop TV store back in the '70's. It was for the exclusive use of transmitting the day's credit card receipts, if I recall correctly. Prior to that invention, we had to hand-carry the credit card stuff to the bank up the street a few blocks. And we wouldn't know if any of the credit cards were fraudulent for days after the sale.

We had one in a Texas Panhandle field operation I managed in the mid-70s. It passed data to the home office in the SF Bay Area, and not infrequently couldn't complete a transmission without interruption.

This was due to weather affecting the microwave relay transmission equipment that moved the data across the country. This equipment was generally located on towers about 30-50 miles apart.

In terms of completing a transmission without interruption, winter was the worst. Ice on the microwave dishes in New Mexico often resulted in interruptions to our data transmissions.

However, the software governing the transmissions took appropriate checkpoints (i.e., regular snapshots during the transmission, allowing the transfer to restart from those points after restarting), and we almost always succeeded in transmitting our data on time.

[mc-m3]

Originally Posted by SpeedBuggy

1) Oscar Mayer
2) Peter Pan
3) Kit Kat Bar
4) Folger Coffee
5) Almond Joy/ Mounds Bar
6) Coca Cola
7) AT&T
8) Nair Hair Remover
9) Lucky Charms Cereal
10) Meow Mix

I think #2 is Toys R Us

[SpeedBuggy]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

I think #2 is Toys R Us

Oh, you may be right there........

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

I think #2 is Toys R Us

...when you know the above...and the lyrics to a more "adult" parody version that was potty humor for high school kids back in the day.....

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[Pauly Wauly]

I hope this is the right thread for this picture

[Lady Jane]

And if you do, make sure you flush...

[Ric in RVA]

Fascinating look back at the beginning of music on the internet...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6wy...27a6f86ecb43c2