Have to beat erasers as punishment

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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Originally posted by 4x5:
Load a program off a cassette tape

I had the ScarfMan clone of PacMan on Cassette for my TRS-80 Model4 w/ 64k of RAM.

Oh, you must have been rich or something! My TRS-80 (Model 1) only had 4k of RAM!

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
A few in defense of the Millennial (I'm technically a Millennial, turning 18 right around the turn of the millennium):

A kid turning 18 today never had to:

1) Choose between a high paying job and a reasonably priced college education.

2) Have a job out of high school that he could hope to turn into a career without a college degree.

3) Look at the price of a home and imagine himself buying it without two incomes or a professional degree.

4) Pay for a college education solely on part time work without soul crushing debt.

5) Compete in a market place where the world wasn't globally connected and lets employers find skilled professionals and cheap labor from every corner of the world.

True dat!

Go outside and call for your dog. Who was free to cruise the neighborhood!

Get sent to the principal's office and receive a paddling.

Walk the country roads picking up pop bottles (at 2 cents each) to get enough gasoline to put in the tank to go on a date. Or siphon gas to get enough to go someplace. Maybe tell the difference by taste between regular and ethyl. Get a job pumping ethyl!

Figuring out how to drain the pop out of a 6 oz coke bottle while its still in the machine. You know, the horizontal ones. Buy ammo at the filling station or hardware store. By the individual round. They also sold cigarettes by the ones and twos. The pack was too expensive at a quarter.

Back to the school uphill both ways. There were uphills both directions. If you walked in the street, the rich kids in cars would try to cover you with slush. Walk on the unshoveled sidewalks you had to step in others footsteps to minimize the amount you got in your shoes.

Use a crystal set to pick up the local radio station. Or camp out in the back pasture near the antenna and listen on the barbed wire. It was tuned in. So was a buddies mothers frying pan. It was kind of short on high fidelity. We called it low fidelity. Didn't matter anyway, we never slept when camping out.

Filching Mr. Temples beer when we slept out. For convenience he put in an old fridge with a tap outside. He probably got the best end of the deal. He never had to cut his grass or shovel his snow. It was on us.

How about push starting the car when we got it far enough down the road so our dad's couldn't hear. And shutting it off and coasting home so as to make no noise.

Going hunting and pooling all our ammo so everyone had at least 5 rounds.

Pull the choke.

Ok, a rant here due to something at work.

I learned how to change a tire at 15. Isn't that something that is still taught these days??


Today a grown ass man (age 32) was instructed on how to change his flat tire. I just told him what to do. He asked me to change it and I refused. He then said isn't that your job? No asshole, my job is to sit here and make sure no one runs into you. If you don't want to change it, I'll just tow and impound your car.

*sigh*

Definitely getting written up on non courteous behavior once my bodycam gets reviewed.

Worth it.

Just for a little perspective, I am 49 years old. Not sur what that makes me.

1. Go to the record store and try to sing the lyrics to a song, to see if the person working there knows what the record is.

2. Use a payphone, calling card, collect call, or have the charges billed to another number.

3. Remember anyone's phone number.

4. Know what to do when the only 3 TV stations go off the air at midnight.

5. Deliver newspapers.

6. Live without AC in the car and house

7. Ride around in the bed of a pick up truck

8. Put babies in a car without a car seat, just holding them on your lap.

9. Seeing people smoke everywhere.

ask a girl out on a date and put some effort into it.

Sift the ashes to recover unburned pieces of coal

Go to the Library to use the copy machine and pay 10 cents per page

Use a bumper jack

Watch a black & white only TV

Wait for the tubes to warm up in the radio or TV

Take the tubes out of the TV and go to the TV & Appliance store and use the tube tester

Listen to 78 rpm records

Put up / take down the storm windows

Watch a "snowy" TV picture

Math without a calculator.

Dim their headlights with a floor switch.

Make a necklace out of pull-tabs.

Buy a pack of smokes from a machine.

Dial 10 10 321 from a pay phone to save money on your long distance call...

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Pull the choke.

I think they call it something else nowdays

Push button shifter on the dash to the left.

Interesting the things mentioned here that I never did when I turned 18.

Operate the mimeograph machine at their school, and smell the purple ink on their test paper.
Use a card catalog at a library, look something up in an encyclopedia. Deal with the Fuller brush man and door to door salesman.

Tear off the page you just printed, then tear off the two dotted strips on either side of the page.

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Originally posted by 4x5:

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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Originally posted by 4x5:
Load a program off a cassette tape

I had the ScarfMan clone of PacMan on Cassette for my TRS-80 Model4 w/ 64k of RAM.

Oh, you must have been rich or something! My TRS-80 (Model 1) only had 4k of RAM!

Well, it did have dual full-height 5.25" floppy drives, so that's kind of fancy.

My friends and I would stay up all night playing that thing, in awe no less...