I’m so old I remember…

[Cwtchseeker]

I’m so old I can remember Panda Cola and Toffos

 

[angelofthenorth]

I’m so old I can remember Panda Cola and Toffos

Toffos, man's gotta chew, what a man's gotta chew,
and the panda pops.

 

[LeSabreur]

I remember cigarette machines
Dial telephones
Calling collect
Rabbit ears
Coast to coast on a Greyhound bus for $60

 

[Cwtchseeker]

I’m so old I remember the Test Card coming on after Prisoner Cell Block H, when 20p could buy you a Mars Bar and still leave you change, and Ceefax

 

[latecomer91364]

I'm so old I remember Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
(and Charlie Horse - but Lamb Chop was the star)

 

[LeSabreur]

I'm so old I remember dressing up for a trip on an airplane...suits and ties for the men, dresses & hats for the ladies.

I remember flying in airliners with piston engines and propellors.

Cars with big, heavy chrome bumpers...that's what you hooked the jack to when it was time to change a tire, and that's what you clamped the rented hitch to when you rented a trailer.

 

[cheekygirl75]

I remember having an ice cream "machine" that we had to hand crank.

 

[Noor]

I remember having an ice cream "machine" that we had to hand crank.

With ice and salt?

 

[cheekygirl75]

With ice and salt?

Yup! And it turned out better than it did when we finally got an electric ice cream machine in the 2000s.

 

[Noor]

MacProject

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Shaking these to clear the screen...

 

[Pad_Foot]

Loading computer operating system on one disk and program on another disk. Then? Two disk drives !!

 

[Noor]

Assembly, binary.

 

[mortis]

Programming a PDP 11/70 with toggles.

 

[Crownvic]

Seeing the Vietnam War live on the nightly news. I also remember my parents discussing it. My mom thought we shouldn't see it, but my dad said we needed to see it.

Lot of that going on at that time...unfortunately..

 

[Noor]

Programming a PDP 11/70 with toggles.

I remember the pdp 11!

 

[Nightbird]

I remember the Wendys Commercials "WHERES THE BEEF"

 

[Crownvic]

Lite beer from Miller, tastes great, less filling..

 

[Nightbird]

I remember Stubby Beer Bottles

 

[LeSabreur]

Programming a PDP 11/70 with toggles.

Swapping out the hard drive on the PDP 11...it was like two feet across and lived in a huge drawer. RSTS/E was the shit!

The "word processor" was a line editor...there was no automatic pagination. What a thrill when we got an upgrade that had the "gold" key!

 

[hugh_jarce69]

https://postimg.cc/nCzXFYPG

 

[Lemmetri]

Im so old I remember electric typewriters.

 

[mortis]

ISOIR masturbating to the Farrah Fawcett poster.

 

[LeSabreur]

Im so old I remember electric typewriters.

When I took typing in high school on the IBM Selectric II it was like jumping into the space age. I learned to type on my dad's manual Royal. No auto-correct. Remember those odd round erasers with the brush attached for correcting typing errors?

 

[Cwtchseeker]

I am so old I remember Happy Eater restaurants, the BBC Broom Cupboard and Dusty Bin