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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

With Lucas's RETARDED, STUPIFYING alterations to the new BluRay StarWars, his Star Wars selections are even more prophetic...
 
Heh, I remember it all, and a lot more that was left out. First time I was introduced to TV we were living in Santa Fe at the time. We got one channel well, one a bit broken up and one (the one with Sat cartoons) that was all but unusable by adults. We kids did not mind, better cartoons than the ones on the main channel.

I remember records, not Walkman's. I still carry my little radio around with me; we have a fair to good classical music station in Seattle. If that were to go I'd have to look at an I-Pod or some such aminal.

:sleep:
 
My then 3 year old daughter came up to me one day and told me the the "black CD's with the big hole" would not fit into the CD player. Turns out she had my 45 records out and wanted to hear them. After that I made sure that she and her sister and now my grandkids at least know what some of this "ancient" tech we grew up is all about.

Oh yeah all the kids in the family know that Han shot first, I have a VHS of SW that was released years before Lucas made that awful change.
 
I don't really agree with many of the technology-related items on the list. If you work in IT you most likely see many of those things every day. I certainly do... :mixedsmi:
 
I know what you mean Kiwikat.

And there are some omissions from that list, but that is probably because the person writing the article is about 12 :icon_lol: ; for example, back in the early 80s I worked for Europe's largest manufacturer of typewriter ribbons - typewriter? typewriter ribbons? What are they?
 
Anyone remember the overlay that went on your tv screen to make it color?

or...how about the micky mouse club
 
I miss the sight and sound of a steam Locomotive. Many will never know what that is much less what it sounded like.
 
JoeW said:
I miss the sight and sound of a steam Locomotive. Many will never know what that is much less what it sounded like.
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They'll know what it is, mainly because of the Harry Potter films. And in the UK we are phenomally lucky, as there is a very active group of enthusiasts preserving & operating lines in several parts of the country; bizarrely, they were helped out initially by the much maligned British Railways who, in a rare display of common sense, made a point of saving quite a few historically significant trains from the scrap heap. And we actually have one taking part in a stage production; "The Railway Children" is being performed on what were the Eurostar paltforms at Waterloo, and as part of the performance they are using a real, working, fully steaming train!!
 
b52bob said:
Anyone remember the overlay that went on your tv screen to make it color?

or...how about the micky mouse club
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Yes to both. We had the first "color tv" in the neighborhood. Never joined Mickey, but we did watch pretty "religiously".

Remember when Hudson brought out a small "compact car" ?? I used to know the name of it but can't remember now and I'm too lazy to look it up.

:guinness:
 
That would be the Nash Rambler. My dad had a used (read: abused) one parked in the driveway at our old Libby Drive home in OKC during the late fifties. He never did get the darn thing running as far as I can remember... :icon_lol:

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JoeW said:
I miss the sight and sound of a steam Locomotive. Many will never know what that is much less what it sounded like.
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For you Joe...

Got to see and hear the SP&S 700 a decade ago, when I still lived in Montana.
She made a run through the state.
I will never forget that sound of that horn or engine in the early morning, it filled the entire valley.
And it was beautiful...

(It's about the 30 second mark when she sounds off here in this video)
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And for fun, here's the UP844 "Portland Rose" doing 80MPH...
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Somewhere buried deep in a closet of my dad's house is a portable radio with tubes in it. In addition to the "D" cells, that powered the rest of the electronics, it also had a "B" battery to power the tubes. It was 45 volts and looked like a 9-volt on steroids!
 
I converted the VHS Special Edition of SW (the 1st ones with the original trilogy souped up) into DVD´s, than had a good friend of mine edit the "Solo affair"..NOW Hans shoots 1st and i have the rest of the stuff!..

Prowler
 
Prowler1111 said:
I converted the VHS Special Edition of SW (the 1st ones with the original trilogy souped up) into DVD´s, than had a good friend of mine edit the "Solo affair"..NOW Hans shoots 1st and i have the rest of the stuff!..

Prowler
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LOL! That is dedication. :salute::salute::salute:
 
I'm teaching some classes to adults and we are using some rather antiquated equipment i.e. laptops with 3.5" drives (I know...don't ask) and I had a student ask me what a floppy disk was...apparently he'd never seen one. Then he asked if he could just leave it in the drive and I had to explain to that the computer would not boot up with a disk in the drive.

I'm not that old (38)!...but I remember when computers used tape drives and 8" diskettes just to boot up. So maybe I am! :icon_lol:
 
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