You Know You Are Old When

[masscity]

We didn't get a TV until 1956 when our one station started, combination of ABC and CBS. Radio before that, Lone Ranger,

Cisco Kid, I don't remember any of the others. The only time I saw NBC was at my Aunt's house, they had several channels

and a rotor. Also that was the first place I saw colored TV.

 

[BravoXray]

Has Hop Along Cassidy been mentioned?

I always thought Penny on Sky King was hot.
I liked the the old Bamboo Bomber better than the C310 he got later on. Round engines rule!

 

[MossRoad]

When I started my own computer refurbishing business, in 2003, I started getting requests for CP/M, Z80 and DOS based 8086 type floppy only machines. These were getting hard to find as working models. I had to rebuild them, and reseat all the chips, and re-aline the drives. The CRTs usually had so much burn in that they were unusable. After making a few I had to readjust my prices, way up to more than what the new computers were going for. The clients never batted an eye, or questioned the price in anyway. Often they would want two identical machines. The clients didn't want to tell me what they wanted them for. And I could not give a warranty cause replacement parts were hard to find. One client did clue me in, that they needed this particular machine to run a legacy industrial press. I assume this was what the others wanted them for also. They had some mllion dollar machine with custom soft that was taylored to that computer.

That was pretty common at my old job. One machine, one task. Still running 20-30 years it's still making money.

Emulators did resolve a lot of that for us. Machine didn't know the difference. All it wanted was input and output.

 

[MossRoad]

Has Hop Along Cassidy been mentioned?

I always thought Penny on Sky King was hot.
I liked the the old Bamboo Bomber better than the C310 he got later on. Round engines rule!

 

[Alan46]

Has Hop Along Cassidy been mentioned?

I always thought Penny on Sky King was hot.
I liked the the old Bamboo Bomber better than the C310 he got later on. Round engines rule!

For your viewing pleasure!

 

[Runner]

Has Hop Along Cassidy been mentioned?

I always thought Penny on Sky King was hot.
I liked the the old Bamboo Bomber better than the C310 he got later on. Round engines rule!

So did Jimmy Buffett:

I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny
Oh, I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Has Hop Along Cassidy been mentioned?

I always thought Penny on Sky King was hot.
I liked the the old Bamboo Bomber better than the C310 he got later on. Round engines rule!

We watched Sky King since Grandad had a Cessna. I never thought about Penny since I was a kid. I just looked her up... Wow!

 

[sixdogs]

Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, Buffalo Bob Smith (I met him in later years) Roy Rogers, Spin and Marty and Howdy Doody. A little Dragnet at some point.

 

[ultrarunner]

Captain Satellite and Marshall J and Sargent Sacto?

 

[Norm W]

I remember watching the presidential convention with all the "I like Ike" signs around.