You Know You Are Old When

[ultrarunner]

Had to look up Mayor Art.

I was on the City Council in studio having won a contest and Danial Boon Fess Parker visited…

What I remember is the very bright lights when on air live… and then the lights would dim for commercial break…

 

[Runner]

Captain in the morning and Mayor Art in the afternoon…

Torey Southwick and Old Gus in afternoon for me.

 

[Oaktree]

I recall some kid's mom on our block tried to get us to watch that. We were more Captain Kangaroo types.

Kiddie shows varied a lot by where you lived. We only got one tv station growing up, and they didn't carry either one. But we did have Uncle Gus.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Each new introduction was monumental enough, I could probably guess with 95% certainty, based only on the month and year of purchase. There were a few short-lived odd-balls along the way, but especially the 8080 and x86 series each came with huge leaps in capability and architecture. Then Pentium and PnP changed everything.

Remember when early Plug'n'Play was called "Plug and Pray"? Crap didn't work half the time, in those first two years.

This was a vast improvement for the NC machine tools I started on. With there punch tape and optical readers were the high tech, the 8086 was a leap into the future dreams of what was possible going forward. It was just amazing.

Magnetic Bubble Memory was another one that was amazing for its stability, but it too lost market share because it was just to slow for the increasing speeds of other memory technologies.
And I still do remember the "plug and pray" saying, thats been a while.

 

[Runner]

Torey Southwick and Old Gus in afternoon for me.
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Local public TV station ran a nostalgia piece where they interviewed Torey Southwick and Old Gus in 1996 (about 30 years after his kids show) and then KC Star ran this cartoon:

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

How much, inquiring minds want to know....
Oh, I just read how they matured in 1981 or so and have not increased in value since.

There were about 100 bonds from $25 to $100 each. It could have been invested better because I think interest was about 3%. Guessing about $8-$10K. The house didn't bring much because they never upgraded it, a contractor bought it for $50K, sold it for $150K after a lot of work.

 

[not2old]

I found the answer to your question!

Travelers Cheques have been a timeless addition to the world traveler’s carry-on for over 130 years. While new Travelers Cheques are no longer issued, your Cheques remain backed by American Express and have no expiration date.

About 30 years ago I took travellers cheques with me on a trip to Hawaii and got a bit of a hassle. The next time I went there with $50.00 in my pocket and two different credit cards. No problems at all.

 

[MossRoad]

This was a vast improvement for the NC machine tools I started on. With there punch tape and optical readers were the high tech, the 8086 was a leap into the future dreams of what was possible going forward. It was just amazing.

Magnetic Bubble Memory was another one that was amazing for its stability, but it too lost market share because it was just to slow for the increasing speeds of other memory technologies.
And I still do remember the "plug and pray" saying, thats been a while.

Punch tape!

Punch cards!

I think sometime in the first few weeks of working at the newspaper they asked me to help pull wire in the computer room with a raised floor. I grabbed the suction cup device and lifted a floor tile... YIKES!!! A blizzard of punches came flying up from under the floor and got in my eyes, nose and mouth.

Apparently the old punch card machines were located in that room at one time, and all of the chads had migrated down to the corner of the room under the floor over the years. It was a mess.

 

[ultrarunner]

I still use punch tape for my Bridgeport point to point mill.

 

[DarkBlack]

If you lived in New England and remember the talent show “Community Auditions”