Hey old guys lol. Middle age guys too.

[Colin - STAPUFT]

^ NICE!

[dog24fret]

Guess Im part of the aging older crowd (37).

Ihat techmaster PEB tape got ruined. lol I played that so much it must have turned to dust.

I remember most the rest of you guys do. Saturday morning westerns was my thing. I had the rich friend with cable so we got to watch everything. lol

Lol you old too JK. Never had one of them my neighbor did. Cable who needed cable back then. Throw up a 35 foot antenna and you were good for 13 channels and a few radio stations lol. Then we got cable in the city which was cool.

[Hotdog]

I remember having

- He told me he had a Radioshack pong console, and his brother used to have an Oydyssy

- The Television only had 3 channels to pick from

- Alot of cars didn't have power steering

- When he called, he had to speak to an operator, and used rotary phones

- My grandma used to have the biggest in the neighborhood, which was 27 inches

- Audio wise, he told me he had a reel to reel tape player, and of course the usual analog players, like a turntable, tape player, and whatnot.

- The banking system was more human based, and he remember the atm, and credit card coming out

- He used to work with computers the size of rooms, and he learned analog computing (making programs by connecting wires)

- His first calculator was a slide rule(he still has it), and his first advanced calculator was an HP with red LEDS, and he had to plug it into the wall.

- He used to tell me that when he went to the arcade, he loved playing pong, and he was a big fan of pac man, and tetris

- He told me Commdore 64 was ridiculously expensive

I remember all this. When I was in college we were still using punch cards to program computers. Top of the line stuff on the market at the time was a IBM 8088 I believe.

[WastedTalent]

All the old timers that are 35+ will really understand this easier. The topic of old school and history has been talked about before. But I got to thinking after reading the old school forum. Just a mere 30 yrs ago we were walking around with cassette Walkmans or boom boxes with 8" speakers in them. Thinking we was cool with such advanced equipment lol. If someone was to tell us that in 20 yrs or so that we would have a devise. That would have more computer capabilities than that of our home computers then. The ability to watch movies,carry 2000 songs,be able to make calls on it,be able to connect it to our car stereos and be less than a 1/4" thick plus fit in you back pocket. We would have put them in a padded room cause they were crazy. Then enters Ipod,iPhone etc lol. We may be old compared to the next generation. IMOA I'm glad to been able to see truthfully how far the personal and car audio has come. From push button dial controlled radios to remote and Bluetooth keyboard controlled radios. I wonder what the next 20 yrs will bring. Just got to reminiscing last night talking to my daughter about it after she ask what it was like back then. If this has been said or talked about before my apologies just thought it was cool what we have had the privilege to see. Can you imagine what the people that are 100 yrs old have seen.

Even the guys 30+ will know allot of this also. Edit to include the middle age guys lol.

so that's the only post I read, out of all 7 pages... but I feel the same. I mean I'm one of the younger guys, being 23, but even I remember that. CD players weren't around, had cassette players in cars. I know back in the day, you were a boss if you had a walkman. Now? Hell no, you are beyond pathetic. Lol. That's why I'm scared for the future. Something will replace ipods, just what? May be something from apple but, can't even imagine what it would be.

[dog24fret]

For you older guys

Though, I'm still a kid, my dad, who's 50 now, used to tell me how things used to be back in his day.

- He told me he had a Radioshack pong console, and his brother used to have an Oydyssy

- The Television only had 3 channels to pick from

- Alot of cars didn't have power steering

- When he called, he had to speak to an operator, and used rotary phones

- My grandma used to have the biggest in the neighborhood, which was 27 inches

- Audio wise, he told me he had a reel to reel tape player, and of course the usual analog players, like a turntable, tape player, and whatnot.

- The banking system was more human based, and he remember the atm, and credit card coming out

- He used to work with computers the size of rooms, and he learned analog computing (making programs by connecting wires)

- His first calculator was a slide rule(he still has it), and his first advanced calculator was an HP with red LEDS, and he had to plug it into the wall.

- He used to tell me that when he went to the arcade, he loved playing pong, and he was a big fan of pac man, and tetris

- He told me Commdore 64 was ridiculously expensive

Moving on to the 90's

- Having a phone was so expensive, he had to rent it, and the company he worked for who rent one for him.

- Me and my brother had to ask him permission to use the computer, and nobody could use it when he wasn't home, not even my mom

- He used to make programs (he's a software engineer), and store them on diskettes when he used to run Windows NT

- His 1st computer was $1500 for something basic so he could work from home.

Just think of the things you'll be talking about in 20-30 yrs. 1500 for a computer that does less things that some watches can do now. Sad isn't it. Dang almost all of the stuff in your post I can remember lol. A good comparison of how far our technology has come. Our smartphones have more computing power than the first and second space shuttles.

[dog24fret]

All the old timers that are 35+ will really understand this easier. The topic of old school and history has been talked about before. But I got to thinking after reading the old school forum. Just a mere 30 yrs ago we were walking around with cassette Walkmans or boom boxes with 8" speakers in them. Thinking we was cool with such advanced equipment lol. If someone was to tell us that in 20 yrs or so that we would have a devise. That would have more computer capabilities than that of our home computers then. The ability to watch movies,carry 2000 songs,be able to make calls on it,be able to connect it to our car stereos and be less than a 1/4" thick plus fit in you back pocket. We would have put them in a padded room cause they were crazy. Then enters Ipod,iPhone etc lol. We may be old compared to the next generation. IMOA I'm glad to been able to see truthfully how far the personal and car audio has come. From push button dial controlled radios to remote and Bluetooth keyboard controlled radios. I wonder what the next 20 yrs will bring. Just got to reminiscing last night talking to my daughter about it after she ask what it was like back then. If this has been said or talked about before my apologies just thought it was cool what we have had the privilege to see. Can you imagine what the people that are 100 yrs old have seen.

Even the guys 30+ will know allot of this also. Edit to include the middle age guys lol.

so that's the only post I read, out of all 7 pages... but I feel the same. I mean I'm one of the younger guys, being 23, but even I remember that. CD players weren't around, had cassette players in cars. I know back in the day, you were a boss if you had a walkman. Now? Hell no, you are beyond pathetic. Lol. That's why I'm scared for the future. Something will replace ipods, just what? May be something from apple but, can't even imagine what it would be.

So true.

[Omega5002]

Oh yeah, speaking of vintage audio, here's a pair of 1980's Sennheisers my dad used to rock

[WastedTalent]

Or how big the first computers were, such as an entire room... and now they're billions of times faster, more powerful, and based on comparison? microscopic in size.

[Hotdog]

Or how big the first computers were, such as an entire room... and now they're billions of times faster, more powerful, and based on comparison? microscopic in size.

1980 – The world's first gigabyte-capacity disk drive, the IBM 3380, was the size of a refrigerator, weighed 550 pounds (about 250 kg), and had a price tag of $40,000( $113 thousand in present day terms ^[13]), 2.52 GB

[dog24fret]

Oh yeah, speaking of vintage audio, here's a pair of 1980's Sennheisers my dad used to rock

Oh crap vintage now. And I use to rock those on my walkman listening to AC/DC for those about to rock on cassette.