You know you're old when . . .

[MacTwidget]

Well I still say Pound but apparently the correct term now is Hashtag

Just two days ago I learned that a widely accepted term for # is "octothorpe". There is no known usage before it was adopted by Bell Labs in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

 

[prepressdork]

i like explaining dial up internet. SKREEEErrrrrrrrrbingbing

LOL! Kids today will just never understand the struggle!

 

[prepressdork]

You youngsters! My first computer experience used punch cards!

I'm a youngster kind of. I started with a Macintosh 512K Enhanced which had a 9" black and white display, 1MB of RAM, and a high density (1.4MB) internal floppy drive.

 

[dabob]

My first computer was the Laser 128 (Made by VTEC). It was an Apple //c clone.
1.02Mhz processor and 125K of RAM. 5.25" floppy drive.

Talking about computers . . . back in the early 70's I worked on an HP2000 (I think) but I do remember that it had a 1 Meg hard drive that measured about 15 inches around and 10 inches tall and had its own air conditioning vent blowing on it from above . . . it ram the mailroom for the Detroit News - nothing but what would be considered a mailing list today . . . but back then it was bleeding edge, state of the art . . .. nothing but assembly language back then . . . command line, low level machine language . . . after that it was a trash 80 with a cassette tabe for the memory . . . those were the days!!!

 

[MailGuru]

First "color" monitors. Back then, the screen was black with white lettering (type). Then, along came IBM with dark background with green type. AND THEN, the "Piece De Resistance": dark background with Amber type.

 

[prepressdork]

I believe they called those EGA displays.

pd

 

[gordo]

First "color" monitors. Back then, the screen was black with white lettering (type). Then, along came IBM with dark background with green type. AND THEN, the "Piece De Resistance": dark background with Amber type.

This was also when digital FM screening was introduced since they didn’t have the resolution to form halftone dots to simulate different tones.

 

[MailGuru]

I believe they called those EGA displays.

pd

We called them "CRT's" (acronym for Cathode Ray Tube) -- top of the line, leading edge technology!

 

[MailGuru]

You know you're old when........you used to buy a candy bar for 5 cents, and, a coke for a dime.

 

[Slammer]

We called them "CRT's" (acronym for Cathode Ray Tube) -- top of the line, leading edge technology!

Did you ever get customers complaining about the two very thin horizontal lines at the top and bottom of a Sony Trinitron?

 

[keith1]

candy bar for 5 cents, and, a coke for a dime.

I remember pop was 12 cents, with a 2 cent return on the bottle. Unless you drank it in store, then it was only a dime. The smaller stubby cokes were 8 cents. There was a laundromat that sold the stubby cokes from a machine. They were about as cold as you could get without being frozen. I loved when I was in the area and could buy one.
Candy, 3 for a penny. You could pick your own candy and fill a small bag for 5 cents. Not any more. People are too paranoid of germs.

 

[old guy]

You know you're old when........you used to buy a candy bar for 5 cents, and, a coke for a dime.

and 35 cents to get in the movie. what do get for 2 bits now?

 

[MailGuru]

and 35 cents to get in the movie. what do get for 2 bits now?

Or, 6 RC Cola caps to get in to the Saturday Kids Movie Matinae

 

[Schnicklefritz]

We called them "CRT's" (acronym for Cathode Ray Tube) -- top of the line, leading edge technology!

As a typesetter in the early 80's, the CRT was part of my "dumb terminal" networked from "the mainframe" in the computer room. Inside one could also observe a Rapifax machine, evolving into common fax machines a few years later.

 

[y2kflhr]

and who remembers Magnatype, MagnaPage? I operated a Phototypositor when I first started out....dad was a linotype operator then got into cold type....damn I'm old

 

[davarino]

You know you're old when........you used to buy a candy bar for 5 cents, and, a coke for a dime.

You know you're REALLY old when you would have gotten 3¢ deposit back when you returned the bottle.

 

[Slammer]

and who remembers Magnatype, MagnaPage? I operated a Phototypositor when I first started out....dad was a linotype operator then got into cold type....damn I'm old

Worked on a Berthold Staromat for quite a while.

 

[dabob]

I remember my dad authorized the Linotronic 202 for the Detroit News in the early 70's . . .. does that date me . . . . .

 

[Guest]

I was printing in the 80's before Quark. Still fumbling through it!

 

[hsearcy]

I started out in the late 80's doing darkroom work and stripping. Spent many years doing paste-up and cutting rubylith. On the design side, years of marker comps and Letraset type (and hand lettering when I couldn't get the point size needed). I miss those days sometimes, computers have made things easier but it was a lot more fun back then!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane