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Posted: 5/15/2017 7:41:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 7:54:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 7:55:10 PM EDT
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Hint: It's not a fancy flask.  
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Posted: 5/15/2017 7:58:19 PM EDT
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Not really any pics, but remember how to shift an old Volkswagen into reverse? What was the big problem with the windshield washer system in the early '60s models? |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:08:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:10:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:12:15 PM EDT
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 Attached FileAll those free bytes, what am I going to do with all that memory? 1985 or so, the C-64, 1541 drive, and the MPS-801 dot matrix printer cost about $1500.00 (IIRC) Had a Microlog SWL cartridge, it would turn Short Wave morse code into text, weather maps, all kinds of neat nerd-geek stuff! |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:15:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:18:48 PM EDT
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The early RCA 45s were color coded. Red was classical, blue was pop, yellow was children's, etc.
A dedicated player was introduced at the same time so people would have something to play them on. 
There was also a less expensive changer without the electronics available that was designed to be plugged into a radio. Radio shops could add the jack if necessary and would often do it for free if the changer was bought from them. |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:25:16 PM EDT
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Is this the same analyzer? I said I still had my dwell meter earlier, but this is what I was referring to. I thought I had it going on when I got this thing to tune on my 67 Fairlane. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247941/Capture-205249.JPG There are a couple of the oil can spouts in the tool box too. One was my Dad's and one was my FIL's. |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:25:47 PM EDT
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Wife's first "word processor" ::
My first tape player: 
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:29:55 PM EDT
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The early RCA 45s were color coded. Red was classical, blue was pop, yellow was children's, etc. http://cf.collectorsweekly.com/stories/VfOb5FnH38SC0z4yf92tOQ-small.jpg A dedicated player was introduced at the same time so people would have something to play them on. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J7AkPgpZCEA/UDTK2mnjwfI/AAAAAAAACgc/OV5I4C_-DLg/s1600/45rpm.gif There was also a less expensive changer without the electronics available that was designed to be plugged into a radio. Radio shops could add the jack if necessary and would often do it for free if the changer was bought from them. I have an old RCA reciever, has the 'eye tubes' and a jack in the back for tv picture tube. The idea was that the radio could tune in TV channels, just plug the 'picture tube' into the radio! |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:44:14 PM EDT
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If you're crafty and get your hands on one (or more) of the original cassettes and some other tools, you can still roll your own. Processing the film might be the next challenge, but where there's a will and all that.. In case you want to check out some of what's involved:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16QH54YDaYY
ETA: I can't seem to bring myself to throw mine out. I just might start putting things together for rainy-day project #3602. |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:50:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:16:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:23:29 PM EDT
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Great thread y'all, thanks
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:24:33 PM EDT
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You've probably heard one of these without realizing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymk  THEREMIN - Over The Rainbow |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:26:44 PM EDT
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My first was a Pencrest (just a re-branded Sony): 
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:36:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:44:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:45:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2017 9:55:56 PM EDT
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Has this been mentioned yet?
Woe be unto the user who didn't first check the lawn for dog poop! 
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Posted: 5/15/2017 10:02:11 PM EDT
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You've probably heard one of these without realizing it. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ad/7b/29/ad7b29319bd854d50cb48a192736c725.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymkJimmy Page of Led Zeppelin used a variation of the theremin (minus the loop) during performances of "Whole Lotta Love" and "No Quarter" throughout the performance history of Led Zeppelin, an extended multi-instrumental solo featuring theremin and bowed guitar in 1977, as well as the soundtrack for Death Wish II released in 1982. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones also used the instrument on the group's 1967 albums Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request. |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 11:18:47 PM EDT
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The gear drive tuner on these radios was amazing. The receivers worked well, too. |
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Posted: 5/15/2017 11:46:11 PM EDT
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We saved our used engine oil and "painted" the wooden hay wagons after we were done with them for the summer on the farm I grew up working at. Even though this was the late 80's/early 90's, this farm was stuck in the 1940's/50's so I got to learn a lot of things the good old fashioned way. Things like cultivating corn with front mount cultivators on narrow front end tractors with manual lift, bailing hay with small square balers with no bale thrower/kicker and stacking the bales on the wagons by hand as they came out a chute on the back of the baler. Cleaning the dairy barn gutters by hand with a hoe and pitch fork. Also feeding cows with a wheelbarrow and ensilage fork and/or scoop shovel. Milking cows in a stanchion barn with buckets and a dumping station. Mowing hay with a sickle bar mower that had rivet on knives, and then running that hay through a conditioner after it had been mowed. Picking ear corn with a one row New Idea Picker into gravity wagons, and the shelling the corn as it was needed for the cows with a hand cranked sheller. Chopping corn with a one row Fox chopper, blowing it into open top badger wagons, then blowing it up an old shingle roofed, brick silo. No fancy unloader for that silo either. We climbed to the top, and shoveled/forked out what we needed for the day down an unloading chute that had doors that slide up and down to match the level of silage in the silo. The cows lived in the barn all winter, and only went out side for fresh air after the morning milking while we cleaned the barn, and put fresh straw down. They lived outside in the spring/summer/fall, and all we had to do at milking time was ring a bell and holler for them, and they all came running to the barn door. Of course there were always a few assholes that we needed to walk out and motivate to come in, or a few wild bitches who thought you walking out there was play time, and would either run like the wind as far away as they could, or chase your ass over the fence. A few days of this bullshit and their udders being ready to burst usually broke that behavior quick. It was a big deal for a cow to die back then, some of the old grandma's of the herd were 20+ years old, and the lived their entire life on the farm. There was never any sending older unproductive ones off to auction. When they got old and feeble, they were, as the old saying goes..."put out to pasture"....usually with the young ones that hadn't had their first calf yet, and they kinda watched over them and taught them to not be wild dickheads around people. When it was her time to go, we would usually just find them "asleep" out in the pasture, get the loader tractor, bring her back to the barn, and call the rendering plant who would send a truck to pick her up and take her away. Those old time dairy farmers really had a connection with their cows, and they were almost like pets/family to them. |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 12:02:39 AM EDT
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Anybody post one of these yet? Still have it from Christmas 1970-something: 
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Posted: 5/16/2017 12:05:03 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2017 12:09:32 AM EDT
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Push down on the shift lever before selecting reverse. What was the big problem with the windshield washer system in the early '60s models? |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 12:19:32 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2017 4:27:07 AM EDT
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Not really any pics, but remember how to shift an old Volkswagen into reverse? |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 4:31:17 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2017 4:44:00 AM EDT
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Full size GI Joe stuff....
Agent Zero gear. Kurt Russell was Agent Zero in the ads.
 
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Posted: 5/16/2017 7:39:23 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2017 8:40:43 AM EDT
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some of the noisy classics
stuffs worth a fortune now. and some of it banned since the late 60s . 
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Posted: 5/16/2017 9:42:50 AM EDT
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Has this been mentioned yet? http://img0109o.psstatic.com/160637581_jacobsen-reel-mower-lawn-queen-21-1951-antique.jpg Woe be unto the user who didn't first check the lawn for dog poop! |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 11:25:03 PM EDT
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Not really any pics, but remember how to shift an old Volkswagen into reverse? |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 11:26:17 PM EDT
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Down (floorward) over and forward? Back ? I can't remember the last movement. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not really any pics, but remember how to shift an old Volkswagen into reverse? |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 11:28:06 PM EDT
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Push down on the shift lever before selecting reverse. What was the big problem with the windshield washer system in the early '60s models? |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 11:29:35 PM EDT
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Has this been mentioned yet? http://img0109o.psstatic.com/160637581_jacobsen-reel-mower-lawn-queen-21-1951-antique.jpg Woe be unto the user who didn't first check the lawn for dog poop! |
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Posted: 5/16/2017 11:59:35 PM EDT
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up until i was 15 or so our cabin property still had a party line shared with the entire dirt road of about 7-8 cabins.
you listen for how many rings and that means its for you. |
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Posted: 5/17/2017 12:09:52 AM EDT
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Anyone else remember Sillisculpts? That's what these things were called.
These things were on everyone's desk in the 1970s. They must have made a billion of them. All different kinds. "World's Greatest Dad," "World's Greatest Mom," "World's Greatest Golfer/Tennis Player/Whatever," and a lot "Love (Blah Blah Blah)" ones like this. 
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Posted: 5/17/2017 12:18:16 AM EDT
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Anyone else remember Sillisculpts? That's what these things were called. These things were on everyone's desk in the 1970s. They must have made a billion of them. All different kinds. "World's Greatest Dad," "World's Greatest Mom," "World's Greatest Golfer/Tennis Player/Whatever," and a lot "Love (Blah Blah Blah)" ones like this. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/49274/Sillisculpt-210120.jpg |
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Posted: 5/17/2017 12:21:27 AM EDT
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I ran straight out ordered one of these in the late 70's. Waited over a year for delivery.
If anyone would've told me 'Just wait! Some day you'll have a ... CORDLESS phone with a screen three times the size at 1/10th the weight with a built in computer & GPS, and it'll cost less!" ... I would have punched them. 
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Posted: 5/17/2017 12:27:30 AM EDT
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I ran straight out ordered one of these in the late 70's. Waited over a year for delivery.
If anyone would've told me 'Just wait! Some day you'll have a ... CORDLESS phone with a screen three times the size at 1/10th the weight with a built in computer & GPS, and it'll cost less!" ... I would have punched them.
http://www.guenthoer.de/doku/werbung-panasonictr1000-3.jpg The phones we have today are about 8 times faster than the fastest "Supercomputer" when those little TVs came out, and we use them to type messages to other people. 
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Posted: 5/17/2017 12:58:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/17/2017 1:01:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/17/2017 1:03:01 AM EDT
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How many are old enough to know how to adjust the dwell on a set of points? |
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Posted: 5/17/2017 1:13:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/17/2017 1:15:45 AM EDT
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Points, condensers, dwell meter, timing light, feeler gauges, rotary phones, Western Union, Western Auto, AM radio, rabbit ears, dimmer switch on the floor, church keys, 23.9 for regular, PF Flyers, when radial tires first came out, Uniroyal Tiger Paws, The Honda Elsinore debut, the first remote controlled tv, saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, Quick Draw McGraw, cartoons before the double feature, the first Supercross in 1972, The Flintstones in prime time, the Red Skelton Show....
When people were proud to be American |
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Posted: 5/17/2017 1:36:03 PM EDT
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 60s TV Commercials: G.I. Joe, Jonny Quest, Slinky ads etc. |
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