ST1100Y
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If you reckon this... you're officially old... 
Old Enough To Remember?
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Give me a minute and I'll start up one of my three desktops...
When DOS 5.0 came out, there was a review in the Boeing computer club magazine. It broke down the commands into three categories. One, the commands you needed to know. Okay, I was good there. Two, the commands only power users would care to know. Wow!, I used those two. Then he listed the commands no one needed to know. I read those and said to myself, I use those all the time!
Those were the good ol' days...
Chris
When DOS 5.0 came out, there was a review in the Boeing computer club magazine. It broke down the commands into three categories. One, the commands you needed to know. Okay, I was good there. Two, the commands only power users would care to know. Wow!, I used those two. Then he listed the commands no one needed to know. I read those and said to myself, I use those all the time!
Those were the good ol' days...
Chris
The beauty of my Compaq Presario whirring to life so I could piddle in Minesweeper for 3 hours.If you reckon this... you're officially old...
Slydynbye
Will ride for Pie
I looked at that screen so many times I still have a ghost image on my Retina.If you reckon this... you're officially old...
rtbmrgl
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.For some reason my report cards had letters further down the alphabet.
diferg
Dan & Ingrid
Yes and you could lock the car, put both keys in your pocket and go surfing! try that with a key fob!
Once I went to Uncle Harolds in Bellevue to get the trunk lock picked to get my keys out of the trunk. Saw them in there just a milli-second after the lid closed
All pennies were wheatback. Steel Pennies. All dimes, quarters, 50 cent pieces were silver. The dentist drill whistled like a banshee. The dentist gave you a lollipop. Sitting in a class corner with gum on your nose. Locking the front door and leaving the back unlocked. Your parents driving a 50 something Belair or a 60 something Impala. Friendly neighbors. Tops, yo-yo’s, gyroscopes, clackers. Patches. Deep fryers. Your mom and dad.
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Don't forget listening to the neighbors phone calls on party line.
Or packing baking soda in the scuba diver that came in cereal box, or when the toys in cereal boxes and cracker jacks were actually cool
Barber gave the kids Bazooka bubble gum for behaving well.
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My father is a barber. He’s 94 and still working 5 days a week. Yes, he still gives out Bazooka. Always loved the little comic that was inside the wrapper.Barber gave the kids Bazooka bubble gum for behaving well.
Bazooka Joe and Mort.
My grandfather was a barber, born 1888. I asked him about the roaring twenties. He worked in a two chair shop in Cleveland, got an offer at a six chair, turned it down. Within a month the six chair shop was blown up by a bomb through the front door.
On inflation he said as a boy he would buy bread two loaves for a penny. I corrected him that he meant 2 cents a loaf. He said no, two loaves for a penny! That may have been Sicily, I didn’t ask.
His razor, now over 100. I wonder how many shaves has it seen?
On inflation he said as a boy he would buy bread two loaves for a penny. I corrected him that he meant 2 cents a loaf. He said no, two loaves for a penny! That may have been Sicily, I didn’t ask.
His razor, now over 100. I wonder how many shaves has it seen?
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In Europe inflation hit 3000 percent in one day before WWII. Oh my g...
ST1100Y
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... once upon a time ...
