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And after everyone invested heavily in stereo cassette systems, the manufacturers decided we needed "quadraphonic" systems.
Old Enough To Remember?
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Sadlsor
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I remember installing 16 KILOBYTE! memory chips (with the fiddle little pins that bent so easily) in Apple ][ pc's.
And while I don't put any faith in snopes, I came across this, when looking for Bill Gates' infamous, shortsighted quote on how RAM was enough:
Does anyone have the cite for the first time this statement was attributed to Bill Gates?
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I'm sure it's not the first attribution, but the oldest one I could find
was this one from a 1988 issue of InfoWorld:
"Memory is a bit different, however. Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates once said 640K of memory was more than anyone needed. He was wrong.
Nobody realized, however, that the 20 bits of addressing in the AT wouldn't be enough . . ."
And while I don't put any faith in snopes, I came across this, when looking for Bill Gates' infamous, shortsighted quote on how RAM was enough:
Does anyone have the cite for the first time this statement was attributed to Bill Gates?
= = = = = = = = =
I'm sure it's not the first attribution, but the oldest one I could find
was this one from a 1988 issue of InfoWorld:
"Memory is a bit different, however. Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates once said 640K of memory was more than anyone needed. He was wrong.
Nobody realized, however, that the 20 bits of addressing in the AT wouldn't be enough . . ."
He has enough money to pay all the "fact checkers" to claim he never said it.
Also, he's a health and climate expert.
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Shuey
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Back in the 'civilized' days I enjoyed watching various comedians that performed on the Ed Sullivan Show and was able to listen to them from my bed as the appeared with Jack Paar / Johnny Carson (it was past my bedtime). Back then, it was just for entertainment . . . no new books or movies being hawked, just great humor. Sullivan had a comedian, usually somewhat better known during his variety show and Carson usually had a comedian just starting out at the beginning of every show. There were of course regular appearances of better known ones on these and other variety shows too.
Buddy Hacket (My favorite)
Don Rickles (My other favorite)
Johnathan Winters (dang, he's my favorite also!)
George Burns & Gracie Allen
George Carlin
Sam Kinison
Bill Cosby
Flip Wilson
Richard Pryor
Jackie Mason
Keep in mind that some of these performances, which had me laughing out loud (hear parent's yelling at me to get to sleep) they were without vulgar language. This was a time when streaming hadn't been invented. George Carlin, for example, performed much of his stand-up at clubs and other venues pushing the limits to include "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV". But his TV appearances were, back in the day, hilarious without the shock value! Just my opinion.
I'm sure I've forgotten others, but . . . you might remember these . . . if you're old enough!
Shuey
PS: Here's Buddy with Johnny Carson (hang on for the 3rd joke about the duck)
Buddy Hacket (My favorite)
Don Rickles (My other favorite)
Johnathan Winters (dang, he's my favorite also!)
George Burns & Gracie Allen
George Carlin
Sam Kinison
Bill Cosby
Flip Wilson
Richard Pryor
Jackie Mason
Keep in mind that some of these performances, which had me laughing out loud (hear parent's yelling at me to get to sleep) they were without vulgar language. This was a time when streaming hadn't been invented. George Carlin, for example, performed much of his stand-up at clubs and other venues pushing the limits to include "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV". But his TV appearances were, back in the day, hilarious without the shock value! Just my opinion.
I'm sure I've forgotten others, but . . . you might remember these . . . if you're old enough!
Shuey
PS: Here's Buddy with Johnny Carson (hang on for the 3rd joke about the duck)
You left out Rodney Dangerfield: he still gets no respect!
Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour.
I still remember the show's theme music.
I still remember the show's theme music.
One of my all time favourites was dear Red........
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Shuey
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Definitely, so many good ones from back then . . . just couldn't remember them all.
Shuey
PS: Rodney, although not a favorite, was outrageous and funny. I always thought there was a reason he didn't get any respect.
PPS: I'm guessing Ted Mack wasn't something my parents watched. I knew of him, but . . . can't recall that I ever watched (or overheard) it.
One of my favorite shows was Red Skelton, went to one of his live shows , man was funny and a class act.
bdalameda
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I like watching the Red Green early shows also. Even though they aren't that old. They still have the old show values. They are clean humor, The Muppets are another show and movies are fun to watch. For me anyway.
Remember when pickup trucks had mud flaps that considerate owners put on to save the windshields behind them
Back in the very early '80s I'd go to the Comedy Store in Hollywood on Wed nights with friends, because that was when they'd have different comedians come on in 20-minute shifts from about 8PM to 2AM, so you saw a lot of comedians. Many of them went on to become big names in comedy.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Sam Kinison. They brought him out around 1AM or so when the crowd had thinned out, and warned us we were in for a wild ride. My roommate and I were sitting in the front row, we'd never seen anything like his act, and never have since then. He instantly became our favorite comedian. Saw him several more times on Wed nights, then he got popular and we never saw him again live after that. Saw him a few times on various videos, and he was still pretty out there, but I think those first few live shows we saw when he was honing his material were at a higher level of crazy.
Mophead
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My first in a 1963 Impala SS.
That's a four-track deck. Note the pressure wheel is part of the deck, not the cartridge.My first in a 1963 Impala SS.
Some decks had the wheel sprung, and could play both four- and eight-track carts.
Not really old enough to remember these, record player for your 1956 to 58 Dodge automobile
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Mophead
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Correct Mr Fine. I did move on up to the four/eight track deck a little later. Been installing this stuff since I was 15. Pretty sure my impedance loads were all out of whack back then since I didn't even know what 4 ohms meant. But I did have six speakers in the Impala. And they weren't Focals or JL's.
Maybe a couple of Automatic Radio speakers were the high end, if you could call it that. Wish I would have had a subwoofer back then, but probably nothing to drive it with in those days. I'm sure all that distortion is why I have Beltone speakers today!!
Since we're bragging about why we're so hard-of-hearing, I'd have to say my biggest car system was the one I built in a Dodge Caravan. I had an in-dash CD head unit feeding a 4-way active crossover. I mounted the crossover and four amps on a board set into the space opposite the sliding door.
The amps: 2x 35w to a pair of ribbon tweeters I installed on top of the dash next to the factory speaker grills, 2x 40w to a pair of closed-back midranges in the factory speaker holes, 2x 55w to a pair of 6.5" mid-woofers in the doors, and 1x 125w to a 12" subwoofer in a large sealed box in the back.
It may not have been the loudest system, but it sure sounded good playing as loud as it did. I added a trigger relay because I didn't know if the head unit could handle five components' trigger currents. When I turned on the head unit, I could hear a satisfying click from the trigger relay over my shoulder.
The amps: 2x 35w to a pair of ribbon tweeters I installed on top of the dash next to the factory speaker grills, 2x 40w to a pair of closed-back midranges in the factory speaker holes, 2x 55w to a pair of 6.5" mid-woofers in the doors, and 1x 125w to a 12" subwoofer in a large sealed box in the back.
It may not have been the loudest system, but it sure sounded good playing as loud as it did. I added a trigger relay because I didn't know if the head unit could handle five components' trigger currents. When I turned on the head unit, I could hear a satisfying click from the trigger relay over my shoulder.