Nostalgia thread for grown-ups. You can only post in this thread if you remember:
- Dialling a telephone - Busy signals - Waiting in line at the bank on payday - Usenet before AOL/WebTV and Eternal Autumn - 110 baud, 300 baud, or 1200 baud - Waiting for the TV set to warm up - Pong consoles - Smoking on buses, in the supermarket, at restaurants, and after every meal - "Who shot JR?" - Jean jackets with metal bands on the back - Leather fringe - "Avon calling!" - Where you were when Elvis died
How about it, am I the last grown-up on Sup Forums? Anyone else out there old enough to order a beer without being carded?
Kek I'm 29 and even I don't recall some of that. You must be an ancientfag.
Noah Stewart
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Bentley Williams
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Jeremiah Harris
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Nathan Baker
>tfw op forsakes thread
Evan King
Factory sealed... wut u got?
Luis Cruz
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Carson Cruz
Damn man that's pretty cool. What sort of display do you have? Assuming you have some you play of course
Julian Perez
Wow, that's crazy, both a Intellivision 1 and a 2.
That disk used to drive me crazy, especially with the racing game. I thought I had to spin the disk to turn.
Easton Parker
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Andrew Wood
Fuck I loved Utopia, that was one of my favorite Intellivision games. Of course I was always partial to the TI-99.
Jayden Reed
when were you when Evlis was kill
i was eating peanut buter and sosigs when fred ring
"evlis is ded"
"no"
and you?
Joshua Cruz
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Julian Wright
Anyone had one of these bad ass robots?
I had the one with the yellow horns and yellow body. His fist shot off his arm. But, of course, I lost it almost immediately, along with all of the red missiles.
Tyler Johnson
honestly lately all in my mind is nostalgia I actually just finished my meal and am trying so hard no to somke, my lungs are shit
Daniel Garcia
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Nolan Davis
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Owen Cooper
I’m not about the catalog but I owned that little red bus!
Ryder James
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Aaron Hall
Yep, I do remember the bus. The people would bounce up and down when it drove.
Angel Gomez
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Grayson Mitchell
Do you remember having to fill out paperwork at the bank BEFORE you went up to the teller. There were deposit and withdraw slips, etc.
Jordan Reyes
I havnt built a display yet but will in future. Have a separate collection of opened games ive had since i was a kid. Also i have no idea wut the hell to do with this thing.
Adam Taylor
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Dylan Morris
no matter which book I used I always ended up dieing bc I got locked in something
Henry Turner
TI 99 my first computer
Kevin Brown
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Jace Evans
ha
Angel Gray
The trick was to use your thumb to hold your place
Thomas Powell
wow.
Juan Foster
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Luke Green
Laser discs came in two formats... one was like a record, the other came in that huge cartridge that you inserted into the machine then removed.
Jace Bennett
Ehh I meant what sort of TV do you use?
Landon Edwards
Hhhnnggggg!
Dylan Hill
a.k.a Radar Detector...
Asher Price
Is this service merchandise?
Jeremiah Adams
If I knew where you'd live I'd rob you. It'd be worth it
Gabriel Walker
Heh anything with a coax will work
Owen Perry
Consumers distributing was a retail store, but it was catalog-based. You just came in, put the item numbers on your order form, pay and they get them from the backend warehouse.
You did not get to see any of the items before you bought, generally.
Jace Kelly
Go to the library and you could "watch" a documentary. Put the rotary slide cassette on top and insert the audio cassette. The cassette would play and advance the slides at the appropriated time. Shit was like magic and didn't start fires like a film projector.
Ayden Hernandez
Ahh I was like 5 when I played that.
Grayson Evans
Everything cool was always sold out. They had that stupid board of numbers on the wall indicating what wasn't available.
Jackson Long
Oh my shit...i had that...
Grayson Cruz
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Hunter Morris
oh yea, i do remember the big board.
Kayden Ward
Shit... forgot the pic. Dam hi-tek interwebs.
Lucas Adams
Interesting. There was this place that had the same feel that catalogue had here in Texas called service merchandise.
Justin Long
I used little strips of paper.
Grayson Butler
Before the photocopier. Used flammable liquids and dye. Lots of schools had fires. Pages smelled weird.
Andrew Reyes
Anyone else remember when Tonka came out with post-apocalyptic variants of their construction toys?
Evan Gutierrez
Oh shit, I had that one. I got it in 1st grade I think. One of those free books they let you have in school.
Joseph Reyes
after these messages... we'll be riiiiight back
Gabriel Lee
No but i remember when they used an elephant to illustrate how unbreakable their toys were
Nicholas Reed
>pages smelled weird But we all smelled them anyway. Always.
Cooper Jackson
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Mason Ramirez
Did any other old draw fags get into design because of this?
My friend had the original commodore 64. I had the upgraded version... the C-64c
Blake Hernandez
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Nicholas Young
There was a CD near where I grew up, it was always really disorganized and a lot of the stuff was cheapo, no wonder they went out of business. Had an extreme 80s decor.
Adam Moore
My parents owned a print shop and i lived that smell... god i miss that smell
Parker Lee
I preferred the Sears catalogue.
Parker Gray
Heh what did possibly do with all of that 64k of ram
Camden Thompson
Betting I'm the oldest here.
Brayden Murphy
Shitfuck! Just nostalga'd a bit too hard in my pants...
Juan Morales
Let's just say I'm 62 years old and I eat these Sup Forums assholes for lunch almost every day.
Crazy stories about how Radio Shack went down the tubes
Colton Evans
51, grew up in a house with one rotary dial telephone.
Zachary Reyes
Really?
Angel Price
so that is how Mexico is paying for the wall
Blake Edwards
This frustrates me for some raisin.
Hunter Smith
Plenty. Programming in machine language had its benefits.
Jason Baker
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Parker Thompson
Wrong user Fuck
David Diaz
Also had to masturbate usingg the lingere section of the JCPenny catalog, no porn.
Charles Bell
I think this was the robot that was in one of the Rocky movies.
Parker Walker
10 MEGABYTE hard disks selling for about thousands of dollars. "Smaller than a briefcase!"
Owen Howard
Fucking yes!
Justin Butler
First radar detector
Kayden Lopez
I saw a magazine ad for a 286 ibm system, $4000 new, ha!
Oliver White
Nice. Lowest I have ever worked with is C.
Jordan Young
Yup....
Samuel Mitchell
Really!
Nathan Walker
High Resolution CGA screens
Tyler Adams
i miss those times
85fag here
Asher Wright
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Jeremiah Walker
The wife of the man who would eventually have a chain of furniture stores AND become the mayor of Toronto used to flog those things. She ran afoul of the police and took peoples right to use them to the courts. Unfortunately she lost. Marilyn Lastman, the wife of Mel Lastman
Jace Lewis
why aren't these used anymore?
Luke Rogers
he slipped it a roofie
Nathaniel Garcia
me too
Joshua Bennett
Fuck! Someone used to do some dialing or phreaking eh?
Those things sell for some good money now. You in to Apple II still?
Levi Gray
Radar guns improved. The moved out of the old X band into the K-Band and then the Ku band. Instant on radar guns then laser based. They still make radar detectors but the old fuzz busters are pretty useless now.
I have a similar vintage radar gun around here someplace. It still has the 55mph tuning fork to check the calibration.
Thomas Foster
Dittos! Fuck yeah!
Nolan Cook
Imagine taking days to type in lines and lines of DATA statements, then saving to cassette tapes (because I didn't have a floppy drive at the time).
