I remember when you only had to dial 5 numbers to call someone local on the telephone.

Then it was 7 numbers for a while, and then you had to add the area code.

(January 7, 2019 at 10:15 am)Figbash Wrote: I remember when you only had to dial 5 numbers to call someone local on the telephone.

Then it was 7 numbers for a while, and then you had to add the area code.

Jenny I got your number, I need to make you mine, Jenny don't change your number 867-5309.

(January 7, 2019 at 9:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'The Triganic Pu is a unit of galactic currency, with an exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu. This is simple enough, but, since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.' - HGTTG

And the following may come in handy if you should ever find yourself in medieval Europe:

4 farthings = 1 penny

5 pennies = 1 groat

5 groats = 1 shilling

2 shillings = 1 florin

2 florins = 1 ducat

2 ducats = 1 silver mark

5 silver marks = 1 sovereign

And from 1970 onwards, my father did nothing but bitch about decimalization.

Boru

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. 

Maybe I should have titled the thread, "Ye old foggie thread"

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Pay close attention to Cheryl Ladd's character in the opening of Charlie's Angles. Yep, that is how telephone switchboards used to work.

I remember party lines for the telephone, four lane highways were almost non existent, used the outhouse, neither set of grandparents had bathrooms, you were lucky if you could receive 3 TV channels, gas was 29 cents a gallon, bread a nickle a loaf and a penny could buy a kid a number of things.

GC

3 TV channels!
We had 2 and they both closed at 10pm.

LL, remember channel 0? I think it turned into channel 10 dinnit?

Also, guys would fill up dad's car up with fuel! We weren't even allowed to touch the bowser!

I remember when milk was delivered directly to our house.

I remember when gasoline was 33 cents a gallon, and you could buy a new Volkswagon Beetle for $2000.

I remember when The Flintstones first appeared on TV.

I remember when cars didn't have seat belts.

I remember buying 45 RPMs of Beatles' songs when they first came out.

I remember when Pong was a cool video game.

I remember standing in lines at banks to withdraw money, before ATMs.

I remember standing in long, slow lines at grocery stores when prices had to be punched into cash registers, before scanners.

I remember when the engineering department got its first two computer terminals connected to the mainframe. All the engineers in the room had to share them.

(January 8, 2019 at 5:41 am)ignoramus Wrote: LL, remember channel 0? I think it turned into channel 10 dinnit?

Also, guys would fill up dad's car up with fuel! We weren't even allowed to touch the bowser!

Anywhere above Brisbane had only the local tv and the ABC.
You southerners were miles ahead of us.
The first tv we had after 10pm was in 88 and it was rage.

(January 7, 2019 at 1:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Pay close attention to Cheryl Ladd's character in the opening of Charlie's Angles. Yep, that is how telephone switchboards used to work.

But not at that time. Automatic switching was ubiquitous then.

(January 8, 2019 at 6:27 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(January 7, 2019 at 1:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Pay close attention to Cheryl Ladd's character in the opening of Charlie's Angles. Yep, that is how telephone switchboards used to work.

But not at that time. Automatic switching was ubiquitous then.

You'd be surprised how many companies/businesses, as they still do today, still refuse to update or adapt because of costs.

It would not surprise me if places were still using manual switchboards even in the 1970s, maybe not many, but still.