I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

I remember bluescreen and 56k of total memory.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter

I learned on an IBM Selectric. With the little dancing ball. You could take it out and replace it with different ones to change fonts. Italics. Sans Serif. Whatever your little paycheck could afford. I think my class was the first to use them otherwise we would have been banging away on manual Olympics, too.

I remember carbon paper. And white-out. And ... what was that purple stuff they used to make copies? Not carbon paper, the other purple stuff.

 

[notabitail]

I remember bluescreen and 56k of total memory.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter

I've had many a bluescreen in my life.

I have a couple 68k Macs but I need to fix the keyboard and replace the hard drives.

 

[MROO]

Aww. Bobby Sherman died. View attachment 4157665View attachment 4157666

I LOVED Bobby Sherman! I still have one of his 45's cut from the back of a cereal box.

DANG! I'm so old I remember when you got free 45's on the back of cereal boxes!

 

[MROO]

I learned on an IBM Selectric. With the little dancing ball. You could take it out and replace it with different ones to change fonts. Italics. Sans Serif. Whatever your little paycheck could afford. I think my class was the first to use them otherwise we would have been banging away on manual Olympics, too.

I remember carbon paper. And white-out. And ... what was that purple stuff they used to make copies? Not carbon paper, the other purple stuff.

Before whiteout, we used white tape. You had to backspace to the error, carefully place the tape over your mistake and type the exact same thing overtop the regular ink. You had to hope, pray and cross your fingers that everything lined up properly. One minor shift and your error would show through when you retyped the correct word over your mistake!

And the blue copies were mimeographs. Mimeograph machines were a LOT of fun to run. You had to spin a handle to run each blank page over a barrel. We LOVED to help the teacher run copies. That lovely, toxic blue ink smelled WONDERFUL!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yes! The mimeograph machine! I used to run off copies of the Latin newsletter! Thanks!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

And you're right, it was tape. Ugh! Hated that stuff! Six copies, sometimes.

 

[Evadig]

DANG! I'm so old I remember when you got free 45's on the back of cereal boxes!

I remember when you’d cut the box tops off cereal boxes for school. Then they had it where you’d scan a QR code. I don’t know if that even exists anymore.

 

[tripletfeb]

I remember when you’d cut the box tops off cereal boxes for school. Then they had it where you’d scan a QR code. I don’t know if that even exists anymore.

Now you have to scan your receipt. I stopped do Box Tops when they stopped printing them on the package

 

[LaurenRitz]

I learned on an IBM Selectric. With the little dancing ball. You could take it out and replace it with different ones to change fonts. Italics. Sans Serif. Whatever your little paycheck could afford. I think my class was the first to use them otherwise we would have been banging away on manual Olympics, too.

I remember carbon paper. And white-out. And ... what was that purple stuff they used to make copies? Not carbon paper, the other purple stuff.

Ditto? I can't remember the official name. My brain is saying mimeograph, but I don’t think that's what you're thinking of.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ditto? I can't remember the official name. My brain is saying mimeograph, but I don’t think that's what you're thinking of.

Same, I think.