Posted on 12/09/2025 10:34:36 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Age quiz time! Give yourself one point for each thing you've NEVER done. Lowest score wins.
18-for-18
And I have the eyes to prove it... ;)
Fortan 77 for the win!
BTW, for #12, my first modem was a 300 baud acoustic coupling modem that I used to run my BBS on, which was an original Timex Sinclair ZX-80, connected to another ZX-80 doing parallel processing.
Dual floppy disks to run the bulletin board system and a 10mb HDD that was slow as molasses and at the time cost over $500 by itself.
My friends considered my BBS the "stuff" (another S-word) and it was wildly popular for about a year.
Same, and I learned how to program Assembler language on a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a whopping 64k of memory.
I hope you remembered to number your punch cards in case you dropped them, so you could put them back in order.
The first house the ex-wife and I bought had one in it. It was GREAT for doing bedsheets!
Well, you’re kickin’ it old school for sure!
Boomers gonna Boom.
Done all of those and some of them I am still doing...
You’d probably have to be born no later than the 2000s to have potentially never used any of them, especially things like CDs. And at least the 1990s to have never been exposed to all of those things.
They're still available in print format.
https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/travel/road-trips/paper-maps-triptiks-still/
I do. The guy a few houses down worked for RCA on the color TV system, and he had a prototype color set on temporary loan. January 1, 1954
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The first broadcast circa 1948-49 from the RCA Labs on US 1 in NJ only reached a few miles I think - it was aimed at a system to broadcast color to black & white TVs ( the only kind available then ). The broadcast was a repeating loop of a black monkey in a green jungle eating a yellow banana under a blue sky. No Rose Bowl.
I still send checks in the mail. How else does one pay for Mortgage and taxes?
That would be ZERO. (0)
What you described was not a “broadcast” in the usual sense, it was an experiment, like many other experiments that preceded it. It depended on three separate projection CRTs, not a single tube that came a few years later.
By late 1953, RCA got approval from the FCC for a true compatible color TV system, after they had prematurely approved and then unapproved the non-compatible CBS color wheel system.
The 1954 Rose Parade was the beginning of true commercial color TV broadcasting in the US, even though few people saw it in color. The first RCA production color TV, the CT-100, hit the market in April of 1954.
AOTA
A bit late to the party here, but been there, done that to all of them. In fact, I still have an AM/Shortwave console radio with record player in all 3 speeds. My oldest car currently is 5 years younger than me and the first car I remember is Dad’s green and white ‘59 Ford Galaxy.
OK so it was a broadcast experiment. Happy?
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My apologies for not getting back to you.
Been really busy.
Just start with gravity. Its a power where planets revolve around Suns. Where whole galaxies develop. Where we came from.
The only answer is either its always been here or some guy, a friend of mine, a lot of people, call him “God”.
I’m going with God.
Nobody has an answer. Its a chicken or the egg thing. Which came first? All I can tell you is that everything in nature works just fine. Its called “Intelligent Design”.
The beauty of our Earth, just look around, its a thing, no explaining it but its a beautiful thing.
Charlie
;-)
We’ve the got two encyclopedias in the basement, my Wife’s World Book encyclopedia with matching Dictionary that she had in her youth, and the Encyclopædia Britannica with 12-volume Micropædia, 17-volume Macropædia and a single volume Propædia (hierarchy of knowledge), a three volume Dictionary, and a World Atlas, bought when our daughter was born overseas in the Azores Islands.
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