I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 9:59pm

oh wait! i have one. i'm old enough to remember when digital clocks were the latest cool thing!

Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 9:59pm

ha, sherry! i remember batman. POW ! BOP! WHAM!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 11, 2011 at 8:55pm

I Remember Mama!

Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 8:43pm

oh wait! i DO remember the star spangled banner happening late at night with the tv!!!! hahah

Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 8:41pm

oh nancy, how funny about you hallucinating sputnik! well i don't seem to remember the test patterns but i do remember the late night weekend alfred hitchcock hour creeping me out!!!

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 11, 2011 at 7:29pm

Oh my I could go on for years...I am old enough to remember buying U.S. savings bond stamps at school...to remember the pledge of allegiance before "under God" was put in seeing newsreels at the movies....no TV's and Lisa, your comment of remember watching something on TV when you were sick...I was home sick when the first Sputnik was launched and was listening to the radio...got so excited I ran into the living room to tell Mom and Grandma and they thought I was hallucinating...

Comment by Amy Chapmon on July 11, 2011 at 7:09pm

I remember test patterns and the sign off messages.  "(call letter name of channel) has finished it's programming for the broadcast day..."

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 11, 2011 at 7:04pm

AND the TV actually went off the air at midnight and that test pattern would come on .....

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 11, 2011 at 7:03pm

Oh gosh! Having to actually change the channel on the TV using a knob! Anyone every get sent to the store with the TV tubes to test them and buy new tubes for the set?

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 11, 2011 at 7:01pm

I remember when Atari that made pong came out with Pong because I worked with Nolan Bushnell at Atari when the entire company had just moved out of a garage into a small dinky warehouse and we were trying to get Sears to take a gamble and sell the game :-) The first order was for 2000 Pongs and we worked our tushes off filling it! Before that, I remember living in the SF Bay area and everywhere you went it was nothing but fields and fields of veggies and orchards and orchards and orchards of fruits. There were little buildings in the shape of oranges and others in the shape of an artichoke. You could buy fresh orange drinks from the orange stand and artichokes fixed a zillion different ways from the artichoke stand. That was before the microchip and oh yes! Does anyone recall the first computer? Where you had to first create your punch tape and then feed those huge reels into the computer for it to do your bidding? I do :-) those computers were huge "machines"! I also remember Atari discussing whether to go into the personal computer business and they voted against it because they figured there were not enough savvy consumers to warrant it :-)

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