What makes you feel old?

[MG Clive]

I guess there were different markets that record companies catered to around the world.
Most of the EPs in Australia were still 7", although there were some 10", I remember dad had a Winefred Attwell 10" EP, for a classically trained pianist, she could play honkey-tonk and Boogie Woogie like she was born to it ...

T1 Terry

Winefred Attwell, ok, now I really feel old.

 

[Gomev]

The other size was called an EP, spun at 331/3 rpm and had short albums on them, or the best of a certain group .... also the classics such as Edvard Gieg's Peer Gynt Suite and Classic from Paul Robeson including Ol' Man River ..... my father was right into that stuff and had a voice nearly as deep as Paul Robeson and would sing along

I don't just feel old now, I feel archaic

T1 Terry

EP, Extended Play. I have some upstairs from the 60s, 7 inch, same size as a single and still played at 45rpm, the grooves are much tighter. Mine have just 2 tracks per side.
I think the more 'modern' ones might have more tracks and and maybe play at 33rpm, but I don't have any of them.

 

[Rolfe]

12 inch LP's played at 33 1/3 rpm
7 inch singles played at 45 rpm

As I said earlier, I remember 78s.

I also remember punching cards to input data into a mainframe computer. As a postgraduate.

 

[emmrecs]

As I said earlier, I remember 78s.

So do I!

 

[Black estate]

The age of the southampton manager he's only 33
Good old lorrie mcmenamy always looked old
And it's 50 year since they beat man u in the cup

 

[siteguru]

I guess there were different markets that record companies catered to around the world.
Most of the EPs in Australia were still 7", although there were some 10", I remember dad had a Winefred Attwell 10" EP, for a classically trained pianist, she could play honkey-tonk and Boogie Woogie like she was born to it ...

T1 Terry

In the UK there used to be a snooker "game show" type programme on TV called Pot Black .. one of her tunes was the theme tune for the show.

 

[decrep]

As I said earlier, I remember 78s.

Ahh, but did you get to change the needle?

 

[PeterHR2]

I liked GP (the Guinea Pig) the most... talking of TV, how about...

• Patch and Petra on Blue Peter, with Peter Perves, John Noaks and Valarie Singleton?
  ( the common kids from the other side of the village watched Magpie instead!)
• Jon Pertwee as Dr Who
• Top Cat
• Marine Boy
• Magic Roundabout (of course)

and a bit later in life...

• 6 Million Dollar Man
• Are You Being Served
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

and - of course -
- Fawlty Towers


5.25" - pfff! you're a young 'un... I started with cassette tape based storage, then upgrade to the 8" diskette

I'm of an era that actually used Winchester disk drives.

And as to TV of yesteryear, Phaa! William Hartnell was my first 'Doctor'. Stingray, Fireball XL5, Twizzle, Torchy the Battery Boy, Four Feather Falls. Christopher Trace on BP, Richard Greene as Robin Hood, ...

 

[Black estate]

In the UK there used to be a snooker "game show" type programme on TV called Pot Black .. one of her tunes was the theme tune for the show.

I'm of an era that actually used Winchester disk drives.

And as to TV of yesteryear, Phaa! William Hartnell was my first 'Doctor'. Stingray, Fireball XL5, Twizzle, Torchy the Battery Boy, Four Feather Falls. Christopher Trace on BP, Richard Greene as Robin Hood, ...

Renta ghost with Sue Nicols and Christopher Biggins

 

[decrep]

Richard Greene as Robin Hood, ...

I remember him but who played Maid Marianne and Friar tuck???

 

[OriginalBigAl]

I remember him but who played Maid Marianne and Friar tuck???

Was it the same person?????

 

[PeterHR2]

I remember him but who played Maid Marianne and Friar tuck???

Friar Tuck
Maid Marian 1
Maid Marian 2

 

[mg4mc]

As I said earlier, I remember 78s.

I also remember punching cards to input data into a mainframe computer. As a postgraduate.

I wrote whole programs in Fortran on punch cards at uni. The mainframes still used them to boot up when I started work, even though they had a room full of hard drives, each one the size of a large washing machine.

 

[T1 Terry]

My first workshop computer cost $10,000 back in 1987 and had a 10MB hard drive and ran a '286 processor. We marvelled at the development of Word Wrap, where you didn't have to move words to make room if you wanted to add something, or had mistyped etc.
That computer ended up holding 10 yrs of business and customer records by the end, never connected to the internet and ran DOS, had dual floppy 5¼" disc drives and required 15 of them to do the back up each day towards the end of '95 when we finally bought a CD drive for it ..... WOW, it could hold all 15 floppies and had a ton of room to spare, but you still had time to make coffee and drink it as well as shut down the workshop and lock up, before it was finished writing the CD ..... they weren't rewritable back then and you couldn't just back up the information, everything backed up, but we later discovered it could be partitioned and hold a record of every day for a month, as well as the end of month transaction reports .... no more box of paper for the dot matrix printer at the end of each month ..... my, how times change.

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

Soon youngsters will be asking "What's paper?" never mind not knowing what a printer is, and as for dot matrix. Isn't that the latest VR headset?

 

[MG Clive]

Soon youngsters will be asking "What's paper?" never mind not knowing what a printer is, and as for dot matrix. Isn't that the latest VR headset?

They already try to swipe the pages of a book, thinking it's an iPad.

 

[T1 Terry]

Soon youngsters will be asking "What's paper?" never mind not knowing what a printer is, and as for dot matrix. Isn't that the latest VR headset?

No, that's The Matrix, a virtual experience in a virtual world where you can virtually never leave

T1 Terry

They already try to swipe the pages of a book, thinking it's an iPad.
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A funny admission by a couple who were having a lithium/solar/inverter system fitted to their off road motorhome. Over a drink or five, the conversation turned to embarrassing things they have done and thought they had gotten away with it ......

The couple were well outside Google maps range, so they had the paper maps out, the wife is trying to find where each direction went to at a 5 way intersection on a dirt road ..... the husband caught her doing the hand spread in the middle of the map and getting more frantic when it wasn't working .... until she realised what she was doing and looked to see if she had been spotted .... she said the husband couple barely breathe and tears were steaming down his cheeks, now, even at a restaurant, he will look at the menu and then do the hand spread to enlarge it, just to stir her up

T1 Terry

 

[Black estate]

No, that's The Matrix, a virtual experience in a virtual world where you can virtually never leave

T1 Terry

Dot matrix was a robot in space balls of

 

[T1 Terry]

Dot matrix was a robot in space balls of
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That is just sad that such a thing entered your mind

T1 Terry

 

[Black estate]

That is just sad that such a thing entered your mind

T1 Terry

Not really it's a great film
3 fun facts
George Lucas allowed them to copy star wars as long as there was no film merchandise and he had a bit part
John Hurt loved doing the Alien scene again