And here's Pat Metheny, who turned 54 today, and still with the same exact hairstyle after all these years.
Posted on 05/18/2008 11:01:10 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Huh? What planet are you from? What do you mean, "no Internet?"
Back then, real men (like myself, of course) were using the Internet. We just didn't have these sissy-boy applications like Firefox and Ineternet Explorer. Heck, WE WERE INTERNET EXPLORERS! Using "bang lists" to route email and copy files, the "uu* apps," rsh, and best of all, "rn" to read the news groups!
You young whippersnappers don't know how good you have it! We had to hand crank the generators to get the electricity to power the 300 bit per second acousti-couplers that allowed us to communicate over the Internet! lol! Seriously though, I remember how excited I was to get my first $250 2400 baud modem, and didn't need to use my old 300 baud modem any more! We're talkin' "BITS PER SECOND" here... Not giga-bits, or mega-bits, or even kilo-bits... bits!
Mark
Nope.
Back then bps stood for “bauds per second”.
Sorry, you've got it backwards.
The term "baud" was actually coined back in the day of telegraphy. I described the rate of data transmission, specifically the number of "pulses" (dots and dashes) per second.
Later is was used to describe digital data transfer, using analog devices, and referred to the speed that raw data could be transfered as bits. This was dependent on the limits of the analog telephone lines, and how many bit transitions per second the lines could reliably transmit. So, at least up to 1200 baud, that speed referred to 1200 bits per second - hence the term "baud rate" expressed as bits per second (it's been too many years for me to remember whether this extended to 2400). Later analog modems used different techniques including different data representation, framing, and data compression to increase the net data transfered, while the actual time divisions no longer increased, due to limitations of the analog telephone lines... Which is why you never saw advertisements for 9600, 14,400, or 19,200 "baud" modems: The speed was always described as "bits per second."
Mark
And here's Pat Metheny, who turned 54 today, and still with the same exact hairstyle after all these years.
Hi Silvie,
Sounds like fun but, no, I won’t be making it down for that event. We have got to get back to work around these parts.
Too much summer! We have been spoiled.
One of my favorite 80’s bands stories surrounds Flock of Seagulls, I remember that I recently recounted it, so I hope that it wasn’t in this thread or I’ll really feel like an old-timer.
Anyway, Flock of Seagulls was probably one of the loudest acts that I have ever seen or heard. Just thinking about that band makes my ears ring.
I caught them during a show at the Tower Theatre in Philly possibly 1983 (I believe that they were opening for Human League supporting the DARE LP). I wasn’t real into FoS and had to get uprange of the blasting sound system, I go into the back and try to order a cup of soda from one of the concessioners. No one else is in line and I walk right up to the counter. I look at this girl and we kind of shrug and motion at our ears that the band is so unbelievably loud. So loud, in fact that this girl can not even hear me when I scream that I’d like a coke in her ear several times. Eventually, we kind of chuckle and I pantomime what I’d like and she figures it out and we make the transaction.
Again, we kind of smile and laugh about how amazingly loud these guys are and she puts the soda down on the glass countertop, where it begins to walk its way across the glass in a matter of seconds before I can snatch the cup up off the edge of the counter.
That was loud.
Incidentally, FoS is probably #1 among bands that I have seen, while never having wanted to; I believe that I have seen them perform 3 or 4 times opening for a really odd assortment of bands from the concert and venue that I mentioned to seeing them open for the Go-Go’s at the Spectrum in Philly to seeing them open for Echo and the Bunnymen.
I simply never liked the band and was sort of dumbstruck by whatever the attraction was, other than the hair and the volume.
Anway, have a great time at the show and let us know how it goes? Make sure that you and your little guy get dressed up in some 80’s kitsch costume - with the Souixie and the Banshees or Adam Ant styled eyeliner - and don’t forget to post the pics here!
Have fun! ;0)
Oh Gawd! If I dress up my son as Adam Ant, my husband will divorce me!
I’ll do my best, however, to dress up in 80’s garb — complete with big hair! I’ll take tons of pics!
Ha ha.
I knew that I was old when kids started coming to my house at trick-or-treat dressed the same way that I did when I was 21.
Don’t destroy the ozone with all that hairspray!
I have notices a lot of the '80s kids now have shaved their heads. I never was into bald men before, but the look is so much sexier than trying to hide losing ones hairline.
I once brought this Adam Ant record to my Catholic high school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgHbt0ODr4
.... and our Mother Superior confiscated it from me and called my parents. She told my mom over the phone that Adam Ant was “the Devil’s spawn” (didn’t some say the same thing about Elvis once?!)....
Ah, memories of youth....
They need to do a “whatever happened to?” show on that family. Does dad still have the mullet? Does he regret the mullet? And the kid — how did all that first and second hand mullet affect his development?
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