[wcr3d]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

according to our pal google, cassette tape was invented '63 and the 8 track in '64

Invented and widely used are two different things.
Ask any other old fart in here which they owned first.
And speaking of 55, anyone remember when THAT was retirement age?

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

And speaking of 55, anyone remember when THAT was retirement age?

Still is the minimum for some. I know folks who started out in the university retirement system as grad students in their early 20's and then retired with 30 years service at 55. They were pulling in really nice pensions and were able to go back to their old jobs part-time to earn even more.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

Invented and widely used are two different things.
Ask any other old fart in here.................

i resemble that remark.

8 tracks were popular in cars for music playback in cars well before cassette tapes.

Cassette tapes may have been invented and may have been used for recording music and sound earlier, but cassette tapes in cars for playing music came after 8 track tapes by a number of years.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

When they started putting USB inputs instead of CD players.


Attachment 2518745 Get off my friggin lawn.

I have underwear older than that event.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

If your VTR was a reel-to-reel B&W unit and you know how to clean crud off of the flying heads in an emergency by placing your finger over the slot on the head drum unit with the heads spinning, you are welcome on my lawn.

If your greatest production work is stored on 3/4" U-matic, you may visit my lawn...but don't sit down.

If you ever wrote a grant for $300 to buy *four* BLANK VHS tapes, you may view my lawn from the curb. (Yes, $75 for a T-60 tape back in the olden days.)

If you know what "Never The Same Color" means, you probably spent way too much time in a two-deck studio editing videos back in the day.....

I'll bring my lawn chair. My college roommate and I had a Teac 7" reel to reel and I used to clean it just like that. Please allow me to move close to the center of your lawn since this amazing 7" reel to reel was driven by a Heathkit amp and preamp.

[chief1richard]

When you can remember who Tom Terrific was.

[SpeedBuggy]

When I turned 18, had to sign up for the Draft and it was legal to buy 3.2 Beer

Worked at a Full Service Gas Station, pumped gas, checked the oil, cleaned the windshield all while the driver sat in the car.

[M_Six]

When I was able to buy beer legally, it was cheaper to buy room temp beer than chilled beer. You paid a premium to buy beer from the coolers.

When I joined the military, a carton of cigs was $3.25 in the PX.

[mc-m3]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

i resemble that remark.

8 tracks were popular in cars for music playback in cars well before cassette tapes.

Cassette tapes may have been invented and may have been used for recording music and sound earlier, but cassette tapes in cars for playing music came after 8 track tapes by a number of years.

I had a home cassette player before I knew anyone with an 8 track in their car. I agree 8 tracks were popular in cars before cassettes.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by M_Six

When I was able to buy beer legally, it was cheaper to buy room temp beer than chilled beer. You paid a premium to buy beer from the coolers.

When I joined the military, a carton of cigs was $3.25 in the PX.

You are welcome to share my lawn at anytime sir, but throughout my "military career", Navy 1966-1970 cigs were $1.10 per carton, and free in Nam.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

You are welcome to share my lawn at anytime, but throughout my "military career", Navy 1966-1970 cigs were $1.10 per carton, and free in Nam.

I'd heard that. The military stopped subsidizing cigs when it became seriously apparent that smoking wasn't the healthiest lifestyle choice. I was still in at the time the price of a carton started to really go up.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I'd heard that. The military stopped subsidizing cigs when it became seriously apparent that smoking wasn't the healthiest lifestyle choice. I was still in at the time the price of a carton started to really go up.

No military for me. I turned 18 when the draft ended. First pack I bought myself I was 13 years old (I think) and it was 35 cents from a cigarette machine at a gas station. I remember the amount because it was a quarter and a dime.

Took me approx 5 years to quit, at age 45. One of the hardest things I ever did. After I would successfully quit, I'd have one. Then another, and then another. Then I'd be back at it.

Had a neighbor friend who smoked and I would bum them off of him. Then I'd buy a pack, then a carton. Eventually, I beat it.

Now I can't even stand the smell. Actually makes me angry. Glad I finally won, and don't have any health issues. Luck of the Irish.

[Maynard]

I used ARPANET to play Star Trek on the MIT computers from two states away. Friend of mine also hacked in and redirected 90% of their CPU time so he could compile a program, and we got to watch a moving 3D earth rotate in real time on what was supposedly one of the first vector-graphics display machines. Grew up with piles of IBM cards everywhere that we used to scoop up 'pet residues'. And in car world, Trans-Ams w/ the big block made about 180 hp and you could double the power of anything in an afternoon with a bolt-on carb/manifold/header swap. 911's still had lead ballast in the front bumpers to try to offset the 'suboptimal' 25-75 weight distribution (made enough money teaching law students about lift throttle oversteer to buy my 240z some triple Webers).

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Maynard

I used ARPANET to play Star Trek on the MIT computers from two states away.

I ran up a $51 long distance phone bill playing LEM (lunar lander text game) from NY State...on a computer in Las Vegas...at 300 baud...using a thermal printer terminal with no screen. Those were some mighty expensive (virtual) craters that I made on the moon from running out of fuel!!!!!

[Maynard]

Yes, this was like trig for nerds, no graphics at all. You remind me of those 'liberated' phone passcodes with about 200 digits that let you call for free (does anybody even pay long distance fee anymore?). And OMG, the money I dropped in tokens back then. I could probably afford a P car with it if I'd just put it into a bond fund (but no bonus ships for that).

[3798j]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

i resemble that remark.

8 tracks were popular in cars for music playback in cars well before cassette tapes.

Cassette tapes may have been invented and may have been used for recording music and sound earlier, but cassette tapes in cars for playing music came after 8 track tapes by a number of years.

Got and installed an 8 track player in the summer of '69...first tape purchase...Led Zeppelin's first album (introduced earlier in the year...a huge hit).

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

You are welcome to share my lawn at anytime sir, but throughout my "military career", Navy 1966-1970 cigs were $1.10 per carton, and free in Nam.

I was in the US Army '67 to '70. During my 12 months in Vietnam, cigarettes were free. Four cigarettes were packaged with every C-Ration meal, so there's potentially 12 weeds a day. Also, we received a free supplemental/subsistence package every 20 days for my 5-man team that included 4 or 5 cartons of cigarettes, flints, lighter fluid, pipe tobacco, pipe cleaners, envelopes, writing paper, tropical candy, etc. We were relatively well off compared to the ARVN.

[wdb]

Originally Posted by 3798j

Got and installed an 8 track player in the summer of '69...first tape purchase...Led Zeppelin's first album (introduced earlier in the year...a huge hit).

I had a buddy with a QUADRAPHONIC 8-track in his PoS Fiat 128 wagon. The fun bit was finding quadraphonic tapes. It played standard 8-tracks too.

I knew of, but never experienced, car-mounted record players. Can't imagine they were very good for the records.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by wdb

I had a buddy with a QUADRAPHONIC 8-track in his PoS Fiat 128 wagon. The fun bit was finding quadraphonic tapes. It played standard 8-tracks too.

I knew of, but never experienced, car-mounted record players. Can't imagine they were very good for the records.

...and there was the Muntz 4-track player. It was a real rage when it hit the streets. Early 1960's I think.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

I was in the US Army '67 to '70. During my 12 months in Vietnam, cigarettes were free. Four cigarettes were packaged with every C-Ration meal, so there's potentially 12 weeds a day. Also, we received a free supplemental/subsistence package every 20 days for my 5-man team that included 4 or 5 cartons of cigarettes, flints, lighter fluid, pipe tobacco, pipe cleaners, envelopes, writing paper, tropical candy, etc. We were relatively well off compared to the ARVN.

Wow. You guys were packing heavy nicotine. I just carried 2 packs a day along with a tool belt and a Ka-bar. Of course we were being chauffeured about the countryside in Hueys stripping downed aircraft of useable parts to return to our ship (USS Enterprise), and erasing the rest with C4 and a splash of Avgas. And everybody was well off compared to the ARVN, even the VC.

[evil-G-nius]

When you no longer get carded. Or...that could be that I frequent my liquor store too much and everyone knows me...IDK. LoL

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by evil-G-nius

When you no longer get carded. Or...that could be that I frequent my liquor store too much and everyone knows me...IDK. LoL

...and here I am dreading an order of potato pancakes from the 55+ seniors menu over the embarrassment of possibly being carded.....