Remember when...

[IvanBrew]

I remember when this was my first computer:

In addition to the cartridge slot, I had a tape drive I could load games from. I'd fire it up, go have dinner, and come back and play frogger, lol


I also remember running a BBS on one of these, back when 2400 baud was smokin' fast and nobody'd ever heard of the internet:

I actually had a disk drive for that one. It was a 5 1/4" floppy, DSDD... Good God Man, lol

 

[boydster]

The first computer we had when I was a kid was this:

Later, we upgraded to a Macintosh Performa and got set up with AOL dial-up internet. It was a 14.4 modem. Good times.

I leave you with this fond memory (apologies if it has already made its way to this thread):

 

[unionrdr]

I started with a Tandy color computer I "upgraded" to 16K with a tape drive. Sounded just like that vid of yours. Then I got the 5 1/4" floppy disc drive. Random access beat the snot out of sequential access! My fav was Sub Battle Simulator. Slammed 6 torpedoes into the Yamato,ripping it from neck to nuts. Or sink their carrier & watch the zeros run out of fuel & crash into the island jungles.

 

[flars]

Remember when schools were one room, eight grades, and one teacher. Grades 1 through 4 for me.

 

[Zuljin]

I started with a Tandy color computer I "upgraded" to 16K with a tape drive. Sounded just like that vid of yours. Then I got the 5 1/4" floppy disc drive. Random access beat the snot out of sequential access! My fav was Sub Battle Simulator. Slammed 6 torpedoes into the Yamato,ripping it from neck to nuts. Or sink their carrier & watch the zeros run out of fuel & crash into the island jungles.

When I first started in Operations at the plant, we still had tape backup. It was 2006.

We use terabyte books now.

Remember when schools were one room, eight grades, and one teacher. Grades 1 through 4 for me.

You mean the 1980s? I went to an ACE school for a bit. Not exactly one room, but 9th through 12th grade, as it were, was in one big room.

 

[flars]

When I first started in Operations at the plant, we still had tape backup. It was 2006.

We use terabyte books now.



You mean the 1980s? I went to an ACE school for a bit. Not exactly one room, but 9th through 12th grade, as it were, was in one big room.

No, the 1950s.

 

[sudbuster]

No, the 1950s.

Really? Tell us about that, please. I did my first brewing in the 50's. A totally different world in the USA than today. Most of these folks can't remember the 70's because they weren't born yet.

 

[Zuljin]

No, the 1950s.

Ha! Just sayin, a lot of old stuff stuck around for a while. My PC is hooked up to a record player.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember when schools were one room, eight grades, and one teacher. Grades 1 through 4 for me.

A lot of the Amish schools still do that today. There are also a few non-Amish 1 room school houses still in use here in MT.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/20/185596302/mont-one-room-school-house-boasts-international-diversity
Regards, GF.

 

[flars]

Really? Tell us about that, please. I did my first brewing in the 50's. A totally different world in the USA than today. Most of these folks can't remember the 70's because they weren't born yet.

A lot of the Amish schools still do that today. There are also a few non-Amish 1 room school houses still in use here in MT.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/20/185596302/mont-one-room-school-house-boasts-international-diversity
Regards, GF.

We also have a large Amish community here in Taylor county. When my parents started out farming there was little difference in the way they farmed and the way the Amish operated a farm.
The REA started running power lines into this part of the county the year after they bought their farm. Then there was the cost of being to utilize electricity. I have some of their milk payment stubs. Less than $5.00 a week.
I remember a brand new 6-cylinder tractor and a combine being delivered in 1951. The long-tree on the McCormick reaper was shortened for being pulled by the tractor. The reaper was still used to shock corn. My parents kept the horses for a number of years. Tractors couldn't get through deep snow to haul the manure sled or get to the river bottom for hauling out firewood.
Harvests in those days was a neighborhood event. Each farm would have one or two pieces of equipment. Just went from farm to farm to get the crops in.
I was the last of the kids to leave the farm. Found some changes on the farm coming home after the first year of college. New equipment to make field work manageable by one person. It was a treat to go out to plow 40 acres and be home by lunch time. A diesel tractor with an air cushioned seat and power steering. Wow.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Flars, your post reminds me of milking cows by hand, I don't mean hooking them up to the machine, I mean milking with the teats in your hands & a steel bucket underneath, while sitting on a stool. We only had 1 dairy cow, so it was pretty easy. I used to get up early to pour off some cream for my Cheerios.
Regards, GF.

 

[flars]

Flars, your post reminds me of milking cows by hand, I don't mean hooking them up to the machine, I mean milking with the teats in your hands & a steel bucket underneath, while sitting on a stool. We only had 1 dairy cow, so it was pretty easy. I used to get up early to pour off some cream for my Cheerios.
Regards, GF.

By the time I started helping with the miking we had Surge milking machines. Still the odd cow that needed hand milking, and always the stripping by hand.
Comment about cream reminds me of the Jersey we had. The Jerseys milk was almost pure cream. This cow could crawl through a four wire fence. Would go off into the lowland brush to calve. Finding the calf and carrying it home was risking your life. Any other day the sweetest most loving cow we ever had.

 

[BierMuncher]

I remember when this was the biggest, baddest thing on two wheels. (Because most Harleys at the time were sitting idle in peoples garages over an oil drip pan)

Honda CB750 - Circa 1973

 

[Kirkwooder]

BM, was that your bike or just a file photo? I am a fan of Yamaha's myself, had a '80 650 special and '83 650 special II. Great bikes and would go all week on 3 gallons of high test!
(@ about 78 cents a gallon!)

How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand? When I was a kid my grand dad used to raise 500 leghorn roosters for meat every summer. (yeah, I said leghorns) We would spend a couple weekends putting them up, depending on how many people would show up to help.

Or how about scalding a hog? Ahhh, the good old days!

I can remember my grandma frying up 10 of those leghorns at a time. She would fry them in the lard from the hog. Mmmmm! My grandfather died form his 7th heart attack! lol But man was it good eating!

 

[GrogNerd]

How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand? When I was a kid my grand dad used to raise 500 leghorn roosters for meat every summer. (yeah, I said leghorns) We would spend a couple weekends

Do the chickens have large talons?

 

[Homercidal]

Do the chickens have large talons?

You mean spurs?

My friend's family ALWAYS had chickens. My friend would tell me stories of how the mean roosters would fly at you and peck your eyes and attack you with their spurs.

I was scared of them for years afterward.

 

[flars]

BM, was that your bike or just a file photo? I am a fan of Yamaha's myself, had a '80 650 special and '83 650 special II. Great bikes and would go all week on 3 gallons of high test!
(@ about 78 cents a gallon!)

How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand? When I was a kid my grand dad used to raise 500 leghorn roosters for meat every summer. (yeah, I said leghorns) We would spend a couple weekends putting them up, depending on how many people would show up to help.

Or how about scalding a hog? Ahhh, the good old days!

I can remember my grandma frying up 10 of those leghorns at a time. She would fry them in the lard from the hog. Mmmmm! My grandfather died form his 7th heart attack! lol But man was it good eating!

Current bike: 1983 750 Virago. Chicken plucking, yes. Banties. Hog scalding, yes. Neighbor had the kettle.

 

[Kirkwooder]

Mean roosters go straight to the pot! I had a road Island Red rooster that was absolutely beautiful, but he started chasing my daughter around, he met a load of 6's from my 12 gauge.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Do the chickens have large talons?

I didnt understand a word you just said...

 

[BierMuncher]

I didnt understand a word you just said...

This one got into an onion patch.

 

[processhead]

"How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand? When I was a kid my grand dad used to raise 500 leghorn roosters for meat every summer. (yeah, I said leghorns)."

I can't imagine anyone wanting to raise 500 roosters.

500 chickens, sure. But roosters?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand? When I was a kid my grand dad used to raise 500 leghorn roosters for meat every summer. (yeah, I said leghorns)."

I can't imagine anyone wanting to raise 500 roosters.

500 chickens, sure. But roosters?

By my expert calculations, that would require exactly 500 cooking pots, 500 bottles of table wine, and 500 good sized onions to make that much coq au vin...

 

[GrogNerd]

You mean spurs?

movie quote

Napoleon Dynamite: Do the chickens have large talons?
Farmer: Do they have what?
Napoleon Dynamite: Large talons.
Farmer: I don't understand a word you just said.

 

[Kirkwooder]

I can't imagine anyone wanting to raise 500 roosters.

500 chickens, sure. But roosters?[/QUOTE]

He raised them for meat, and roosters grow larger than hens, and in the day, I think he got the day old leghorn rooster chicks for just the cost of postage. He fed them just grain from his farm. They fed all 8 of his kids and their kids too! 500 leghorns didn't really go all that far! lol They only weigh about 1 1/2 to 2 pounds butchered at the end of summer. It is a lot of work for not a lot of meat.

Today's cornish cross chickens that I raise for meat get butchered at 6-7 weeks of age and weigh in at an average of 3 1/2 pounds. Then they go off to a processor. I get them back all neat and tidy in a bag all picked and dressed and ready for the onion and wine that Creamy goodness is talking of!

 

[Zuljin]

I remember when this was the biggest, baddest thing on two wheels. (Because most Harleys at the time were sitting idle in peoples garages over an oil drip pan)

Honda CB750 - Circa 1973

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And he we are on 805s thinking the next one will be bigger.

 

[Homercidal]

movie quote

Ah... Duh. I really ought to have picked up on that. Fantastic movie!

Remember when girls used to wear a side ponytail? (From the movie...)

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Mean roosters go straight to the pot! I had a road Island Red rooster that was absolutely beautiful, but he started chasing my daughter around, he met a load of 6's from my 12 gauge.

I remember it used to be common for kids to get live chicks for Easter & 1 year my cousin got one. I think we were about 7 at the time. The chick was cute, yellow & fuzzy, but it grew into a huge leghorn rooster, this bird was easily over 3 feet tall & meaner than I ever thought possible. It would chase my cousin & his dog around the yard. (LOL)

It tried to attack me once, but I smacked it with the broom a couple times & it thought better of the idea. To make a long story short, my Uncle popped that rooster in the head with a .22 & my Aunt cooked him up; he wasn't that old, but he was tough, she simmered him all day. My cousin cried. (LOL) He was such a puss.
Regards, GF.

 

[Beernik]

Do the chickens have large talons?

My mom described this movie as everything terrible she remembered from growing up in a small town.

I'm not a fan of the movie. But when the grandma said they are running low on steak and Lyle is going to come over and take care of it, I laughed hard. And I was the only one in the theater laughing, which made me laugh that much harder.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

"How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand?

Sure have.
When I was a little kid, for about 12 years we kept chickens ... about 10 to 15 of them a year.

When it came the end of the year, chicken-dispatching was originally done by one or both of my grandfathers, then I was the one to do the plucking, singeing and cleaning.

Both of my grandfathers were right off the boat. One from Germany and one from Italy.
When it came to killing the chickens, the German grandfather used a hatchet to cut the head off ... whereas the Italian grandfather had a fancy way of swinging the chicken back around through his legs and twisting the neck.
Though the last couple years years we had chickens the whole process fell to me. (I was a hatchet man, myself.)

Harvest time was always tough for my mom who, most years, would name the chickens like pets - and often named them after various family members ... much to the amusement of my grandfathers, and the scolding and clucking of other elderly relatives.
Though she was still more than happy to make the birds into dinner.

 

[jleiii]

I remember when this was the biggest, baddest thing on two wheels. (Because most Harleys at the time were sitting idle in peoples garages over an oil drip pan)

Honda CB750 - Circa 1973

That's a fine looking machine.
I had a '71 CL350 (in 1984), which I upgraded to a '73 CB350 (in 1987 using the CL engine), then a few years later I got an '81 CB900 Custom that looks surprisingly like the '73 CB750. It's patiently waiting to roll again.