Old technology you have to explain to kids

[spikechiquet]

Speaking of disc sizes and zip discs...did anyone have this to listen to music in the car? It was sort of pre-iPod.

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I had this hooked up to a cassette tape-looking device that I could pop into the car stereo and tune in to a low FM frequency to listen to my music instead of the radio. This came out in 1999 and I think I had 6 40MB discs. I'm sure I still have it in a junk pile somewhere...

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Anyone ever use one of these to play CDs in the car?

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Yep.

 

[spikechiquet]

Anyone ever use one of these to play CDs in the car?

I had this hooked up to a cassette tape-looking device that I could pop into the car stereo and tune in to a low FM frequency to listen to my music instead of the radio. This came out in 1999 and I think I had 6 40MB discs. I'm sure I still have it in a junk pile somewhere...

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

As I recall, these cost about $999 when they hit the market.

 

[Wenders]

My dad had one of these:

On the subject of phones...who actually knows most of the phone numbers they use on a regular basis? I think I only know two phone numbers: mine and my mom's. They're all programmed into your phone, what do you need to memorize them for anymore?

 

[spikechiquet]

My dad had one of these:

On the subject of phones...who actually knows most of the phone numbers they use on a regular basis? I think I only know two phone numbers: mine and my mom's. They're all programmed into your phone, what do you need to memorize them for anymore?

We had those in my first days of TV...so like 1994/95.
My buddy's dad had one as well and he would leave it in the truck my buddy drove. We would drive out to the lake and call the local "Talk-Time" radio show that bought and sold stuff live on the air to drop f-bombs live on the air (we knew they didn't have a 7-second delay)...ah memories.

 

[Bradley Guire]

I watched "Argo" today at the theater. It was amazingly true to 1980 in office scenes. Typewriters, rotary phones, all kinds of fun stuff.

Related to debit and credit cards, remember how they were processed? Carbon copy paper on top of your card, which made an imprint of the raised card number. Then you signed the slip.

 

[Batman]

I always have cash on hand.

Me too, for two reasons.
1) As long as I have a couple of $20s in my wallet, I don't feel like I'm broke. I'm not rich, by any means (I do work in journalism, after all), but I never want to feel like my next step is begging for change on the street corner. I usually have a little over $100 in there after payday and try to keep at least $40 in there at all times.

2) Hurricane Katrina. All the power went out around here for the better part of two weeks, which meant no internet, no ATM network, no debit card readers. It doesn't matter if you have a million dollars in the bank, if you can't access it. Ever since then, I've always made sure I had cash in my wallet and a couple hundred bucks stashed around the house for extreme emergencies.

 

[ColdCat]

Still carry cash


Strippers don't take plastic

 

[Wenders]

I watched "Argo" today at the theater. It was amazingly true to 1980 in office scenes. Typewriters, rotary phones, all kinds of fun stuff.

Related to debit and credit cards, remember how they were processed? Carbon copy paper on top of your card, which made an imprint of the raised card number. Then you signed the slip.

Yup. Then, at the end of the day, the people who worked there had to call a hotline and call in all of the numbers on the credit card to process them. It was a pain.