{"id":738,"date":"2007-11-02T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/proving_that_im.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","slug":"proving_that_im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/proving_that_im.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Proving That I&#8217;m Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were talking about old school high tech stuff at work.  You know, the stuff that was &#8216;the bomb&#8217; back in the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mom and Dad had one of the first &#8216;pocket&#8217; calculators.  Made by Texas Instruments, it was about an inch thick, 3&#8243; wide and 5 &#8221; long, took 4 AA batteries (rechargeable with a built in charger), had red LED numbers and buttons that clicked loudly when you pushed them.  It could do all the advanced stuff, you know, add, subtract, multiply and divide.  They might even still have it<\/li>\n<li>In his &#8217;77 Cutlass (Mandarin Orange with the tan &#8216;landau&#8217; vinyl top, natch&#8217;), Dad had an under the dash cassette player.  Now, these things were big targets for thieves, so it was mounted on a slide and you kept it under the seat when you weren&#8217;t using it.<\/li>\n<li>Grandpa has a slightly lower tech solution for listening to cassettes in his &#8217;80 Citation.  He had the in dash AM radio, the under dash FM converter that played FM stations through the AM radio by tuning into a special AM station (like the things folks use now to listen to their iPods in the car).  Next to that, under the dash, was an 8-track player that, I think, played the 8-tracks through an FM station (which then went through an AM station).  He then played his cassettes through cassette adapter in the 8-track player.  There may have been some loss of sound quality once the signal made it to the lone 6&#215;9 speaker in the dash.<\/li>\n<li>In my &#8217;80 Chevy Monza I had an in-dash Pioneer AM\/FM cassette player.  Under that I had the 8 or 10 band EQ\/amp with aux. input for my Sony Discman that I had mounted on the accessory flex arm and mount pad attached to the passenger seat.  I of course had the obligatory 6&#215;9 speakers in custom plywood boxes in the back.<\/li>\n<li>Mom and Dad bought their first color TV in 1975.  It was the best of it&#8217;s day &#8211; a big 23&#8243; Zenith in the &#8216;wood&#8217; cabinet.  They were still using it up until a couple years ago.  We didn&#8217;t have the Zenith &#8216;clicker&#8217; remote, though, we had to get up and turn the knobs (yes, knobs &#8211; clack, clack, clack) ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>Our school was fairly advanced.  I remember using computers back in 6th or 7th grade.  Commodore PETs.  No disc drives, all programs and data was stored on cassette tape.<\/li>\n<li>In High school I had friends with Commodore 64&#8217;s adn Timex Sinclair computers that you could hook up to your TV.<\/li>\n<li>We, of course, had the Atari 2600.  But the one we had wasn&#8217;t called the 2600 because there wasn&#8217;t any other model.  It was just Atari.  Yes, Mom and Dad still have it.  My kids and my sister&#8217;s love to play it when we go to Toledo.<\/li>\n<li>My first stereo was bought piece by piece. I had 60 watt Jensen speakers with 10&#8243; woofers and a 40 watt per Chanel Akai receiver (with touch sensitive volume control, but no remote).  The coolest thing was my JVC dual cassette deck that would shuffle play songs on tape (provided there was the appropriate 4 second gap in between songs).  It would click and snap, fast forward and reverse through the tape to find the 4th song, then the 3rd, then the 8th.  This was before CDs and digital recording made it easy to do random &#038; shuffle.<\/li>\n<li>Dad&#8217;s still got his high end stereo he bought in 1965.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fisher\">Fisher FM tuner amp<\/a> (with tubes and the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:800BbeamFMcrop.jpg\">Stereo Beam<\/a>&#8216;), Electro-Voice speakers and a record changer.  He&#8217;s since added a new single turntable, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wollensak\">3M Wollensak<\/a> cassette deck and a Pioneer magazine style CD changer.  He has to switch between the cassette player and the CD changer because the Fisher doesn&#8217;t have enough inputs.  It was a serious high end system in it&#8217;s day and still sounds pretty good now.  It&#8217;s in a nice wood cabinet the size of a sofa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ah, memories &#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure I could think of more.  What sort of old school high tech stuff do you remember?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were talking about old school high tech stuff at work. 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