Remember when...

[Grod1]

Thats pretty nuts i'm a 90's kid.The same place i would get slices for 75 cents now sells them for 2.50.

 

[JonM]

Gas was $1.10/gal. too.

 

[GrogNerd]

And I learned to program with punch cards. Had to stand around waiting for the computer ops to run the job and bring out your output. Rinse and repeat if you had errors (usually.)

Brew on

Learned BASIC on a teletype, but COBOL programs were punched on cards, input through the card reader and batched to the mainframe at the government center

 

[doug293cz]

Learned BASIC on a teletype, but COBOL programs were punched on cards, input through the card reader and batched to the mainframe at the government center

Yeah, also did a little BASIC on a Teletype.

Brew on

 

[GrogNerd]

And FORTRAN

 

[doug293cz]

Gas was $1.10/gal. too.

Remember when gas was $0.35/gal? I do. Was ~ 1962.

Brew on

 

[jcav]

Remember when you could go to Carvel Ice Cream and get a sundae in your favorite baseball team's helmet? We collected all the teams back then in the 70's. It was quite the cool thing in Long Island and I'm sure wherever there was a Carvel store.

John

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember when gas was $0.35/gal? I do. Was ~ 1962.

Brew on

I can remember my mom paying $0.37/gal for "ethel" (oxygenated with ethanol) gasoline. I can also remember getting a hamburger, sm. fries & a sm. drink for less than a dollar at Burger Chef.

 

[GrogNerd]

I remember Burger Chef, yet lived nowhere near any place that had one (according to this list). can't say with any certainty I've ever eaten at one

they were bought out by Hardees, which owns Roy Rogers

I remember when Roys were everywhere

and I drive past an Arby's to get to Roy's (Grog's Rules for Food #8 – Arby’s sucks a**)

 

[KayaBrew]

Remember when beers at a hockey or baseball game were less than $8?

 

[day_trippr]

Remember when gas was $0.35/gal? I do. Was ~ 1962.

You lived where gas was expensive as I remember paying 25 cents a gallon around then.
And I still had to dig deep to fill the tank...

Cheers! (everything is relative )

 

[smurfjuice]

For $5.00 we could get gas and a quart of oil and headed to Cape Cod.

 

[doug293cz]

You lived where gas was expensive as I remember paying 25 cents a gallon around then.
And I still had to dig deep to fill the tank...

Cheers! (everything is relative )

Yeah the two states I've lived in for extended periods had some of the highest gas taxes in the nation.

Brew on

 

[GrogNerd]

I remember when we didn't have these new-fangled combination mash & lauter tuns

kept mash temps by cycling the juice in the gas stove & used a ZAPAP* lauter tun

drilled as many holes in the bottom of a bucket as you could, nested it into a bottling bucket, turned on the spigot to lauter

*part of Charlie Papazian's last name backwards

 

[balrog]

FORTRAN! Punch cards. Hollerith fields. LINE PRINTERS! God I don’t miss waiting for runtime reports.

 

[ifnotuthenwho]

I can remember my mom paying $0.37/gal for "ethel" (oxygenated with ethanol) gasoline. I can also remember getting a hamburger, sm. fries & a sm. drink for less than a dollar at Burger Chef.

Ethyl gasoline didn't contain ethanol, it contained tetraethyl lead, which help prevent engine knock.

Regarding gas prices, I remember $0.25 during "gas wars" in the mid 1960's

 

[bleme]

Remember the nice purple hue of the mimeograph?

I can remember the smell of this thing. Funny how scents stick with you so strongly, even if you don't really think about it at the time.

 

[Kharnynb]

bit younger than some here, more of an 80's kid....I do remember dot matrix printers though..the noise...the noise...

 

[jrgtr42]

LOL, all the stuff here.
My family's first computer was an Apple 2E - with the keyboard built into the CPU, and piggyback 5.25" drives. I remember playing Oregon Trail - in text on that one, then my mind was blown when I went to a friend's with a PC and saw videos. Our first PC was a brand new 286 chip, 125MB HD and 4 meg of ram when it was $200 a meg.
We had a Commodore in my classroom in school with a dot-matrix printer. 45 minutes plus when someone would make a banner on Print Shop.
Gas under a buck - that was as recently as the mid-90s.

 

[balrog]

WordStar, one 5-1/4 floppy for the program, the other for the document. If you were rich you had two floppy drives. Same with Turbo Pascal (one floppy TP, the other your code and compiled program/link files)

You mention dot matrix printers -- what about the daisy wheel printers?! Hella-noise. Line printers were still the worst.

 

[Kharnynb]

that was my first pc, with a "wonderful" 9-needle printer.....

 

[KayaBrew]

Remember when you used to have to wait for what seemed like an eternity to get the score while watching a sports game? I think this goes back to the 80's...

 

[Kirkwooder]

Remember when you used to have to wait for what seemed like an eternity to get the score while watching a sports game? I think this goes back to the 80's...

Hell, I remember when you had to check the "Box Scores" in the news paper the next morning. Any game that wasn't in your home city was never on TV in your city. I used to have to wait until my father finished reading the parer cover to cover before he would let me check the sports page.

The paper used to be about 3 times what it s today too.

 

[GrogNerd]

I have DVDs of the 3 Super Bowls the Redskins have won, (plus the '82 NFC championship game vs the Cowboys. HTTR!) and watching them you can't tell what down it is, what the score is, even what quarter it is because there are ZERO graphics on the screen. and when they do show graphics it's like someone did them in MS Paint

the other thing I noticed, especially in that game against the Cowboys, is the severe lack of NFL merch. very few people wearing Redskins jackets, quite a few wearing the Redskins ski cap with the big pompom on the top, but that's it.

 

[KayaBrew]

Hell, I remember when you had to check the "Box Scores" in the news paper the next morning. Any game that wasn't in your home city was never on TV in your city. I used to have to wait until my father finished reading the parer cover to cover before he would let me check the sports page.

The paper used to be about 3 times what it s today too.

Same here except me and my Pops used to look at the box scores together.

 

[Kirkwooder]

My first truck was a 3 on the tree, beer and soda came in a shmoo tab can, Shmoo was a household name, if you shook up a can with a shmoo top and just cracked it open and slammed it on the sidewalk the contents sprayed nearly to the moon, all people stood for the national anthem holding their hand or hat over their heart, the Cubs were losers, bias ply tires were the only thing you could buy, cars had chrome, fur coats were a status symbol, ...

 

[Murphys_Law]

When you know what these are...

 

[Homercidal]

When you know what these are...

We had one that was just a disc. No spring action.

It worked great for single play, but not at all for stacking.

 

[vanishingpint]

When you know what these are...

Bwahaha! So many people under 50 wondering what the hell is that . I know what it is....What the hell is that ? "When SNL was actually funny."

 

[Homercidal]

People shouldn't be wondering what it is, since it says what it is right on it!

Maybe they don't know what it's for. I'm betting my kids don't. I'll have to find one in the... Hell, I have no idea where I can even find one!

 

[balrog]

It’s in the box with your reel to reel tapes and crystal radio kit

 

[bleme]

People shouldn't be wondering what it is, since it says what it is right on it!

Maybe they don't know what it's for. I'm betting my kids don't. I'll have to find one in the... Hell, I have no idea where I can even find one!

You can get 10 for $3.50 shipped on eBay.

 

[Murphys_Law]

We had one that was just a disc. No spring action.

It worked great for single play, but not at all for stacking.

Oh man, I forgot about stacking records! I remember going to Lazarus (grew up in Columbus, OH) and buying 45's for something like $1. We'd spend all day browsing!

Now I feel like the fat people on WALL-E. I was laying in bed the other night thinking that I need to get all my Blu-ray movies on-line so I don't have to actually get up and put a movie in the player!

 

[balrog]

Who would have thought watching movie would go to VCR to DVD to streaming? What’s next? Watching avatars of ourselves watching movies using VR?

On Google glasses?

While riding in self driving cars?

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Doesn't seem like all that long ago, but...

 

[ncbrewer]

And I learned to program with punch cards. Had to stand around waiting for the computer ops to run the job and bring out your output. Rinse and repeat if you had errors (usually.)

Brew on

We left out punch cards in an in-box and came back the next day to get the results. Never saw the computer or the operators. It was all very mysterious.

And the computer equipment filled a very large room, and probably had the same, or less, capability as a laptop today.

 

[KayaBrew]

remember when you had to specify "regular" or unleaded"?

 

[day_trippr]

[...]And the computer equipment filled a very large room, and probably had the same, or less, capability as a laptop today.

Anything still running unit record I/O back then would be less powerful than most modern calculators, never mind actual computers.
Heck, they sported memory measured in kilobytes...

Cheers!

 

[Murphys_Law]

Remember when you would put $0.72 of gas in your tank because you spent the rest of your money on $1.99 six pack of Natural Light?

And you were only 16.

 

[Bilsch]

My introduction to the PC in 1977.