You are too old if you remember.......

[Zeffy]

Many stacks of purple dittos.  I was amazed.

Oh man did I read that sentence wrong the first time. 

[D-Dey65]

I had one of those, they were made by JVC and had a AM/FM radio, cassette deck and B&W TV built in.  Came in real handy when I used to ride Greyhound back and forth from my home to my duty station.

I take it they weren't like any of the stereos here:
http://www.fuselage.de/chr73/73chr_acc_01b.jpg

http://www.fuselage.de/chr73/73chr_acc_02b.jpg

[cjk374]

You may be a bit aged if you remember Liquid Paper (instead of today's correction ribbon) & the high you got everytime you opened the bottle to use it.   

[sammi]

You may be a bit aged if you remember Liquid Paper (instead of today's correction ribbon) & the high you got everytime you opened the bottle to use it.   

I actually remember using Liquid Paper (my 10-year-old self found it a bitch to use), but not the other half of that statement.

[vtk]

You may be a bit aged if you remember Liquid Paper (instead of today's correction ribbon) & the high you got everytime you opened the bottle to use it.   

I thought correction ribbon was the older tech. We always used liquid paper in my house.  Is it not still available?

[Stephane Dumas]

For Canadians here on the forum, anyone who remember that classic CBC ident?

Back when CBS aired Charlie Brown, Fat Albert, Garfield Christmas/Halloween/Easter/Valentine's Day specials. Who remember the CBS special presentation logo?

[mgk920]

. . . mouse balls (for computer controlling).



Mike

[mgk920]

You may be a bit aged if you remember Liquid Paper (instead of today's correction ribbon) & the high you got everytime you opened the bottle to use it.   

I thought correction ribbon was the older tech. We always used liquid paper in my house.  Is it not still available?

You can still get it and I still use it.

Mike

[Alps]

You may be a bit aged if you remember Liquid Paper (instead of today's correction ribbon) & the high you got everytime you opened the bottle to use it.   

I thought correction ribbon was the older tech. We always used liquid paper in my house.  Is it not still available?

You can still get it and I still use it.

Mike

It still hangs around my workplace. When you're redlining a plan to be scanned and sent, you can either print a new one every time you screw up or just white out the offending line. If your redline is a shape instead of a line, it's much more effective to use the brush than a ribbon of tape.

[DaBigE]

. . . mouse balls (for computer controlling).



Mike

Depends on the type of mouse ball...track ball mice are still alive and kicking. I wouldn't do CAD work any other way.

[route56]

Depends on the type of mouse ball...track ball mice are still alive and kicking. I wouldn't do CAD work any other way.

Unfortunately, my trackball doesn't have a scroll wheel, so I still use a mouse

(Modern trackballs are optical, however)

[vtk]

The Preview Channel

[Scott5114]

Or the TV guide channels that just scroll the programming grid ad nauseum while something unrelated goes on in the corner.

Heck, actual printed TV guides, for that matter. Do they still have those in the Sunday papers?

[1995hoo]

Or the TV guide channels that just scroll the programming grid ad nauseum while something unrelated goes on in the corner.

Heck, actual printed TV guides, for that matter. Do they still have those in the Sunday papers?

The Washington Post offers one, but you have to request it (at least, subscribers do–I don't know if it's included with the single copy of the Sunday paper you can buy at the grocery store). Ms1995hoo had requested it be included with her paper before we got married because she used an antenna and so didn't have a TV guide channel.

[roadman65]

When Vermont used to paint their center line striping with each stripe a big distance apart.  It had a wider mid section between the two double lines in no passing zones.

Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway both used single white lines in the middle of their respected roadways.

[J N Winkler]

The Wichita Eagle apparently still offers a weekly TV guide, but only as an extra-cost option, which we don't take.  This means that we have to keep a fairly ratty-looking channel guide next to the remote to keep track of our local station-to-channel assignments, which didn't used to be necessary.

[US71]

The Wichita Eagle apparently still offers a weekly TV guide, but only as an extra-cost option, which we don't take.  This means that we have to keep a fairly ratty-looking channel guide next to the remote to keep track of our local station-to-channel assignments, which didn't used to be necessary.

Springfield, Missouri News-Leader totally discontinued the weekly guide. Must have been costing Gannett too much money

[hbelkins]

Been gone from the Lexington Herald-Leader for a few years, too. I think you could pay for it separately for awhile but I don't even know if they offer that now or not.

[DeaconG]

I had one of those, they were made by JVC and had a AM/FM radio, cassette deck and B&W TV built in.  Came in real handy when I used to ride Greyhound back and forth from my home to my duty station.

I take it they weren't like any of the stereos here:
http://www.fuselage.de/chr73/73chr_acc_01b.jpg

http://www.fuselage.de/chr73/73chr_acc_02b.jpg

Nope, I actually tried to find the one that I had, the closest one had a 5-inch color screen and the one I had carried a 3 1/2 inch B&W screen. There are some things ya just can't find on the internets!

[D-Dey65]

Nope, I actually tried to find the one that I had, the closest one had a 5-inch color screen and the one I had carried a 3 1/2 inch B&W screen. There are some things ya just can't find on the internets!

This one is in color, although it's not five inches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RC747fMTgE

I'll try to look up some black and white ones.

[DeaconG]

Nope, I actually tried to find the one that I had, the closest one had a 5-inch color screen and the one I had carried a 3 1/2 inch B&W screen. There are some things ya just can't find on the internets!

This one is in color, although it's not five inches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RC747fMTgE

I'll try to look up some black and white ones.

That one is damn close to the one I had, the only primary difference besides it being B&W is that the tube was on the right, not the left.  I stumbled onto a JVC boombox site that had their boomboxes listed but the interface is terrible.

[roadman65]

When NYSDOT used to place signs on interstates saying:

THERE ARE NO SERVICES ON THIS ROUTE
FIND THEM AT INTERCHANGES

I am guessing that was to help drivers get used to the new freeway concept when Interstates were new.

Also, all rest areas on NY 17 were referred to as "Phone Comfort Stations."

[hbelkins]

When NYSDOT used to place signs on interstates saying:
Also, all rest areas on NY 17 were referred to as "Phone Comfort Stations."

And now they're "Texting Zones."

What's old is new again.

[Pete from Boston]

... mimeograph & ditto machines (precursor to the (Xerox) copiers)







Disclaimer: I wasn't old enough to use these but I do remember receiving worksheets at school (through either 6th or 7th grade) that were printed by the above.

I graduated high school in 2000 and we still had a ditto machine that at least one teacher used a lot.

There was one machine in the entire school, there were very few people trusted to operate it (teachers would leave off an item to be reproduced), and it was a messy, smelly affair.  I still don't know exactly how it worked. 

About 25% of them were so light and faded it was hard to impossible to read.  Purplish-blue ink is not the easiest to read.

I didn't know until now that "ditto" was a brand.  I learned that word first as the name of an in-house reproduced school worksheet, and only later to mean "same as what he/she said."  Is the former sense still in use at all?  Does anyone have a kid around they can ask?

[J N Winkler]

I didn't know until now that "ditto" was a brand.  I learned that word first as the name of an in-house reproduced school worksheet, and only later to mean "same as what he/she said."  Is the former sense still in use at all?  Does anyone have a kid around they can ask?

I remember the former sense of ditto from my school days, but not as a brand so much as a genericized trademark (in much the same way the British use hoover to mean vacuuming a carpet).  Some ways of using ditto in the latter sense are now very much dated.  In the Web 2.0 age the word itself is still widely understood as a synonym for "+1," but back in the 1930's it was often abbreviated "do." and used as a field filler in tables laid out by typewriter--a practice that has now completely vanished.