Are you old enough to have done the following?

[johnpatricia]

A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots

[t_g_farrell]

A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots

yes, yes, yes, and yes.

[lt1_fd3s]

1) what's a type writer? o.O
2) wow! rotary engines in a phones?!?!?
3) like... left overs?
4) which game system was that one? X-box? PS2? Gamecube?

[2gslse]

Sadly yes. I'm old enough to remember when Pacman was a big thing.

[lt1_fd3s]

so... i'm guessing many of you were around when t_g_farrell's SA rolled off the show room floor...

[My5ABaby]

A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots
I was there when they invented forum spammers...

[speedjunkie]

Glad I'm not the only one to find this odd for a first post LOL.

I also find it odd even for a spammer though. What is the point?

[lt1_fd3s]

may be a spammer...but still fun!

[FC Zach]

Remember pogs? ?

[t_g_farrell]

I had one of the first video games ever made, PONG.

Anyway, didn't realize it was a spammed post. Oh well.

[FC Zach]

Duck Hunt, Nintendo! :icon_tup: :icon_tup:

[Pete_89T2]

A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots

Yes to all of the above.... And I had the ORIGINAL Rock em Sock em robots, where all the KO noises made were purely mechanical - no electronic sound effects like the ones my kids had!

[rxtasy3]

lets just say that when i started driving, gas was like .68/gal. and my first video game console as a kid was the atari 2600.

a quick search revealed this site on current values:
http://www.atari2600.com/priceguide/

[Pete_89T2]

lets just say that when i started driving, gas was like .68/gal. and my first video game console as a kid was the atari 2600.

a quick search revealed this site on current values:
http://www.atari2600.com/priceguide/

I never had a video game console, but I do recall waiting in LOOOONG lines during the 1st gas crisis (Carter administration) to buy some of that $0.68 per gallon gas!

[ZGN]

I was there when they invented forum spammers...

I saw this when it was 1st posted and thought the same thing about forum spam. but did not see any links and decided to let it play out.

[djmtsu]

Done all that.

Had the Atari 2600, and I raise you a Commodore 64

The original Test Drive was EPIC!

[RotorDad]

Ha ha I had a Commodore 64, 128 & Amiga as I also have done the above. I also remember having a Betamax player.

[lt1_fd3s]

so... wait, are you old timers saying that there was a world before the internet, xbox 360, ps3, facebook and wii?!?!?

[TitaniumTT]

so... wait, are you old timers saying that there was a world before the internet, xbox 360, ps3, facebook and wii?!?!?

Yes, and I spent it outside crushing the neighborhood kids at street hockey. Then I turned 13 and bought a boat and my summers were spent as the neighborhood pimp/whore

[rx71king]

this thread is to make us feel old....:spam:

[t_g_farrell]

Who remembers being in grade school watching live coverage of the moon landings?

What about the Nixon impeachment?

Or the evening TV news coverage of Vietnam?

Buying cigs for 50 cent a pack.

[lt1_fd3s]

damn spam accounts causing interaction on the forum!

[somchhir1]

Yes to all.....good memories

[Pete_89T2]

Who remembers being in grade school watching live coverage of the moon landings?

What about the Nixon impeachment?

Or the evening TV news coverage of Vietnam?

Buying cigs for 50 cent a pack.

Yes again to all of the above. That last one had me LMAO.... I'm a non-smoker, but back in those days in Brooklyn NY where I grew up, my dad & mom would often send me to the stores up the street to buy stuff for them and cigs & beer were on the shopping list. I was maybe 9~12 years old, and the corner store guy would sell me whatever I asked for without question. Sad but you can't send your kid to do that anymore in today's "gov't knows best" nanny welfare state!

[t_g_farrell]

damn spam accounts causing interaction on the forum!

Sorry you can't play Tray :dunno:

[rxtasy3]

so... wait, are you old timers saying that there was a world before the internet, xbox 360, ps3, facebook and wii?!?!?

yeah. kids actually went OUTSIDE and played and parents hated rainy days.

[Doc-1]

Yes to all and a TV was too expensive in the 50's for us to have one...was black and white when we did and 1 channel for 12 hours a day and a lot of places in New Mexico had out door plumbing until the mid 60's..grew up using a 2 meter rig for phone calls and .............

[diabolical1]

yes on all counts.

i, too, had an Atari 2600 and i started out with Pac Man, Defender and Missile Command.
i had a black-n-white TV, my dad had 8-tracks and i had vinyl. we had a Corona ... and i don't mean beer.

[speedjunkie]

^I have a friend who is about to finish restoring a Corona.

[diabolical1]

jeez ... if you ever get your hands on any shots of it, please, please don't feel any misgivings about sending me some. :)

[Garfinkles Motor Works]

I remember paying seventeen cents per gal for American reg gasoline . Twenty five cents for American white high test .Some of my motorcycles had the shift on the right and some had a twist hand shifter .

[terrent]

Yes. And I still have a working Underwood typewriter and rotary phone.
Speaking of early video games, my family had a pong clone from Radio Shack. Ah, good times. :)

[rxtasy3]

.....and i had vinyl.

and i still got mine

[rxse7en]

I still have nightmares about not being able to dial the correct number on a rotary phone.

[one320fc]

Ha ha I had a Commodore 64, 128 & Amiga as I also have done the above. I also remember having a Betamax player.

Dude you didnt look that old!

Only done 2 out of 4 Rotary phone and Robots, but I had a atari and amiga!

[RotorDad]

LOL Not too old, but old enough I guess. My son is 16 now & I blame him for my now graying hair, thus the reason for a bald head.

[joewrx8]

and I remember getting my first drivers licence 50 years ago.

[GySgtFrank]

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. How about being able to buy high performance muscle cars for a couple hundred bucks? And being able to actually afford the gas to drive it. So much fun when you put your foot to the floor, you could actually watch the gas gauge creep it's way down.

[joewrx8]

bought new Road Runner in 1969, $2700.00. 8 MPG

[RLM55]

bought a used 1969 Javelin in 1973, $1100.00. Also 8 MPG

[GySgtFrank]

I picked up a 1968 GT fastback 390 4spd Mustang in 1976 for $400.00 (Steve McQueen, Bullit look-a like). Put sparkplugs in it and it ran great. I could usually make it to the next gas station.