You know you’re getting old….

And not only would they pump the gas, they’d also check the oil and radiator, top off the tires, and clean the windshield.
 
luvflyin said:
Dang. You responded quick. I edited it like 10 seconds later.
They do. In Oregon. C'mon down. Well, not exactly full service. But they do pump the gas for you.
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Here they hide inside the building, behind a plexiglass shield, with a small hole cut in it.
 
Aye yi, yi, yiiii
I am the ___________ ____________.
 
kgruber said:
Reverse Polish Notation

The DAY I graduated from the UW, with an IE degree, HP came out with their first handheld. I still glance, with a smile, at my Post Versalog.

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I have one of those and used it in collage. It lives next to the E6-B now....:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Pedal car hell, I had one of these. Cast iron. Musta weighed 50 lbs, which is a bunch when you're like 5. In the winter it would live in the basement. We'd push it as fast as our little legs would go and smash it into a steel lally column. Rang throughout the house, but never put so much as a dimple in it.4aa5be7baee8fbd508db3f41ef777412--antique-metal-pedal-cars.jpg
 
Half Fast said:
And not only would they pump the gas, they’d also check the oil and radiator, top off the tires, and clean the windshield.
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My first job, at 16, at the local Esso station! Summer of '69, when I didn't get to go to Woodstock ...
 
We just had a tour of USAF academy cadets. In years gone by, all the cadets were clean cut. Now with hair and facial hair standards relaxed and changed, a couple of them looked they just stepped out of a Bob Marley video. Plus they were younger than my twins.
 
Van Johnston said:
A. You say ‘fold, spindle, or mutilate’ and get blank looks around the room.
B. The office Keurig dies, and two 20-something electrical engineers ask you to show them how to use the drip coffee maker.
C. You participate in an Internet thread where everyone tries to show how old they are by saying “class of 80-something,” and you are class of 79.
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Class of 79 for HS or college? :D
 
kath said:
...you guys remember when the TV remote control just had ONE button each for "channel" and "volume", and would change it in just one direction until it got to the end and then would cycle back to the beginning of whatever? So if (say) you wanted to turn the volume down, you had to click it for "up" a bunch of times (louder, louder, LOUDer, LOUDER, LOUDESTTTTT, then softest) to get to the right volume?

(As a kid, that made it really hard to sneak into the TV room to watch Star Trek without being heard.)
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Uuuh, there was still a manual control on the TV, you didn't have to use the remote.

The Zenith remotes are audio at very high frequencies. The button struck basically a tuning fork. One evening, my parents were going out, and all of a sudden the channels would change. Sometimes one, sometimes many.

We finally tracked it down to a belt my mother was wearing. It was a belt of metal rings. And there was a dangling loose end. The rings clinked would change the channel. :D
 
Ghery said:
My HP 41CV is used as my go-to calculator, as well. I bought it a bit later than 1978 (1981 or so?). In 1978 I was still working for the Navy (civilian) and had an HP-25C programmable. I had to leave that when I left silly service in 1979, so I bought an HP 34C and then the HP 41CV when I ran out of memory in the 34C. Of course, back when I was working for Intel I would dig out my slide rule (Picket N4-ES Double Log Slide Rule) and use it to harass the younger engineers. They would ask what is was and my standard reply was that it was a calculator whose battery never dies and whose display hybrid never quit, both of which had happened with my HP-41CV. Then I had to explain what an HP-41CV was. Kids!!!
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I was working for HP when I got my first HP-41, when they first came out. A few years later, I sold it to a buddy while in USAF UPT. Had a friend who still worked for HP get me an HP-41CV to replace it.

I still have a couple of HP-41CXs around.

You know there is an iPhone app that emulates the HP-41CX. It even looks like the -41 keyboard. But better, as it has a display bar that shows the values in the stack.

https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/i41cx/id292619450?l=en
 
Seriously???.....nobody??!! LOL!

Clarabelle, Howdy Doody, and Buffalo Bob! :)
 
Pinecone said:
Uuuh, there was still a manual control on the TV, you didn't have to use the remote.

The Zenith remotes are audio at very high frequencies. The button struck basically a tuning fork. One evening, my parents were going out, and all of a sudden the channels would change. Sometimes one, sometimes many.

We finally tracked it down to a belt my mother was wearing. It was a belt of metal rings. And there was a dangling loose end. The rings clinked would change the channel. :D
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I knew of one lady who’d lost her remote but found that dropping a certain number knitting needle on the parquet floor would change channels and a different one would turn the TV on/off.
 
You know you're getting old when your entertainment was the radio show, "Stella Dallas".:(
You also know it when your 1st tv pilot hero :blueplane:was Bob Cummings,
And your 1st true love was pilot Penny:blowingkisses: on Sky King
 
Ken Whitson said:
You know you're getting old when your entertainment was the radio show, "Stella Dallas".:(
You also know it when your 1st tv pilot hero :blueplane:was Bob Cummings,
And your 1st true love was pilot Penny:blowingkisses: on Sky King
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Actually my first pilot hero was probably Gadabout Gaddis, but I caught onto Sky King around the same time (reruns, I think) in the 60s.
 
JOhnH said:
Penny was cute, but I always thought of her as a spoiled brat.
My first true (tv) love was Emma Peel.
Even as an 8 yr old I always said I wanted to see Emma "Peel"
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For me it was Barbara Feldon (Agent 99).

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Watching the video versions of Death Valley Days, and recognizing the theme bugle call from the '30s, when I originally heard the show on the radio.

I recognize some of the actual stories, too. Ronald Reagan did not do the old audio version, though. As host Old Ranger, he does sound remarkably similar to the old Old Ranger he replaced.
 
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