I’m So Old I Remember When......

[Col_Temp]

5.25 inch floppy disks.

Means you still be young youngster.
Instead you should have said 8 inch floppies, and thinking 64KB was a massive amount of memory and cost about 20K in today's dollars.

To those who mentioned FORTRAN did you mean FOTRAN 77 or FORTRAN 4? There was a big difference!
I'm so old I actually know since I programmed professionally in both.

Spoiler: show

Spoiler: The difference amongst other things was FORTRAN 77 provided the If-Then-else logic as an allowed programming structure. With 4 you had if then only. Which meant I had lots of GOTO's.

[jukk0u]

TV dinners

[Pablo]

TV dinners

Wait they don't make those anymore???


I'm so old I have hair growing out of my ear cartilage.

[sportsdad60]

Gas rationing during the oil embargo!

[jukk0u]

Watching the Vietnam war on TV over dinner. Body counts... pass the gravy.

MLK and Bobby Kennedy's assassinations. Riots in Baltimore (and a bunch of other cities)

[dan10mmman]

I'm so old, I remember when sex was clean, and the air was dirty

[vic_b]

How about those movie albums? Like huge cd’s

Uh...LaserDisc?

Yup. That’s it!

[anyshorty]

I worked at a Chevron station reg gas was 27cent a gallon

[WaJim]

TV dinners

Damn that rubber corn and Salisbury steak were good when you were starving....but really just dog food.

the gravy was always too hot when the center of the mashed taters was still almost frozen.

[Eagle Chaplain]

TV dinners

Damn that rubber corn and Salisbury steak were good when you were starving....but really just dog food.

the gravy was always too hot when the center of the mashed taters was still almost frozen.

Yeah they are still that way. Although the taste has improved.

[jukk0u]

I worked at a Chevron station reg gas was 27cent a gallon

Cigarettes and a couple of gallons of gas for under a buck. A guy could collect returnable bottles on the way to town and fund the Friday night's cruisin'.

[anyshorty]

Silva Thin cigaretts I thought the guy had the coolest sun glasses I told my parents I wanted those sun glasses to be just like him.

[NWGunner]

Silva Thin cigaretts I thought the guy had the coolest sun glasses I told my parents I wanted those sun glasses to be just like him.

Welcome to the forum, fellow Des Moineser

[WaJim]

Silva Thin cigaretts I thought the guy had the coolest sun glasses I told my parents I wanted those sun glasses to be just like him.

Welcome to the forum, fellow Des Moineser

How about candy cigarettes....they kinda tasted odd.

The pink buble gum cigars were awesome...could feel your teeth rot.

[Caveman Jim]

How about those movie albums? Like huge cd’s

I still have most of mine from the 60’s & 70’s...

Ooppsssss, thought you meant LP albums... Note to self, need mo coffee before posting...