(January 26, 2021 at 9:51 am)polymath257 Wrote:

(January 25, 2021 at 12:03 pm)Angrboda Wrote: You recognize the sound of a rotary dial phone being dialed.  Also, if you even know what a rotary dial phone is.

How about the sound the phone made when it was left off its cradle for too long?

Party lines.

Long  distance cost *much* more. No, not international. Domestic long distance.

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I had a debate with a friend in junior high school about whether digital or analog computers would be better.

I used to argue that tube stereo receivers and tube guitar amps were better than digital.

When Grace Hopper helped you set up your first computer.

...building a computer required a soldering iron.

You remember, and miss, vent windows in cars and the headlight bright/dim button being on the floor.

(January 26, 2021 at 2:41 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: ...building a computer required a soldering iron.

Our when you know what "baud" means.

I was late to the game in owning a computer. My first was a 33Mhz 386 with 4MB of RAM and a 100 MB hard drive (and two floppy drives).

Now, my laptop has 4000 times as much RAM and my hard drives have well over 30,000 times the capacity.

Remember needing to flip DIP switches to make sure peripherals didn't confuse each other?

(January 26, 2021 at 2:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(January 26, 2021 at 2:41 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: ...building a computer required a soldering iron.

Our when you know what "baud" means.

...and 1200 Baud was lightning fast.

How about 13 channels on TV and only 4 of them worked? if you were lucky?

(January 26, 2021 at 2:46 pm)polymath257 Wrote: How about 13 channels on TV and only 4 of them worked? if you were lucky?

...and you had to get up and walk across the room to your TV to change the channels.

THE HORROR!

Remember the Arab oil embargo? Prices of gas went through the roof! Up to 25 cents a gallon!