I only got one point, I never, ever used a damn (V)Walkman.
63 thoughts on “How about you guys?”
Zero.
Add in:
Received weekly wage in cash in a little yellow envelope.
Wore jungle green cotton uniforms and black leather ammunition boots with black canvas gaiters.
+zero Hubby had one but I never used it.
Zero. Zilch. Even had the Walkman.
Couldn’t afford a Walkman, so I didn’t score perfect. Didn’t know anybody that had one, either. I didn’t get out much… as a kid, anyway.
#9 is the only one I’ve never been around. Transistor radio – sure.
#17, 18, 19, and 20 I still have and use.
Walkman is the only one I missed.
I did 5,000+ miles road trips in back-to-back years. Paper maps on the first one and GPS on the second. Mostly always knew where I was with paper maps. I mostly didn’t have a feel of where I was with GPS. Technology makes us stupid.
Zero. The Walkman was nice to have when haze gray and under way.
Zero.
Ok, I guess I’m officially old now.
Gee, thanks.
Yup, zero.
Used a camera with an ice cube flashbulb… and learned how to set off the flash by poking it in a certain way…
Used a VCR with a wired remote, tv with a rotary channel selector, CB on a removable tray, played with a cap gun, fished without a permit, played mumbletypeg with friends, drank from the hose, recorded music to cassette with a mic from AM radio, watched the Bozo the Clown show on TV, read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn with the author’s original words, got spanked by a Principal in grade school, spent hours playing gnipgnop, bumper pool, and air hockey, skeeball, and arcade games.
Clipped a playing card to my 3 speed bike with the banana seat to make it sound cooler, thought the black and white Sears catalog was good pron, burned cattails because we liked the smell, walked along railroad tracks, had HO trains, and walkie talkies from Radio Shack. That smell of cheap electronics takes me right back too.
Playgrounds were all hot metal pipes and white crushed rocks, and teeter totters that would break your spine. GI Joe was 12 inches tall, and even running him over with a 1969 Ford Galaxie convertible only cracked his chest (although I had nightmares that my feet and hands would just pull off.)
I also had a TRS-80 model 1 and later a model 100, rented time on an Apple IIe to play games, and used a TI-35 in school.
The smell of a bowling alley brings me right back to the 70s.
It was a good time. Things were changing fast, and for the better. We had freedom to mess up and learn from it, without lifelong consequences. Of course, some of us didn’t make it, but that in itself was a lesson to the rest.
Yeah, I’m old. I’m one of the ones who lived.
nick
Lotsa things you mentioned, Nick. The “smell” of the cheap electronics was due to the wax meltime – the Japanese used to encase their circuit board in it to make it “waterproof”, among other things…
I used to curse that stuff when I troubleshot radios and amplifiers Made in Japan.
One stinking point because of the “Valkman”.
Same here…
I’d like to find an old set of encyclopedias, that history can’t be changed by someone with a computer.
The 1965 Encyclopedia Britannica is a very popular choice. It’s just before the multi culti, save the rainforest, western civ is teh devil crap started.
They used to be cheap, but now I expect to pay $50-150 for a set in good condition. That’s still cheap, considering the effort involved. I wish my siblings hadn’t given away mom and dad’s copy. It took me several years of trying to get my own set, and it’s not as nice as the one we had as kids.
n
When i was a kid, the grocery stores featured a new volume each week for about a buck each. That is how my family got a set.
When I got older, I bought a set of them on CDs.
I have a set of 1913 Encyclopedia Britannica. The article about Negros makes for some interesting reading.
We had the 50’s version of the Britannica – got the Yearly Update book each year for the next 5 years.
Pity I sent the collection to Goodwill. Oh well.
Zero points.
One point
The Walkman of course
Listened on not owned, zero
That’s a zero for me.
The walkman as well. Kinda cheated about the boom box. I’ve never actually owned one, but have been forced to listen to one outdoors very much against my will.
We’ll count it. Or, properly, not count it.
Well I’m happy to say I got 0 points..
0. Still use paper maps.
One point. Walkman. Proud of all that.
Zero. I didn’t own a Walkman, but I did have a Panasonic knock off.
Good enough, don’t count it.
You tried.
One for me (never owned a dictionary but I used one often as a kid). Damn I’m old !
0- no Walkman. 1- had a Walkman knockoff.
Another suggested entry:
“Drank from a Whites Only water fountain”
All the time
2 points! Never used a boombox (thought they were stupid) and never used dialup for the internet but many hours on a BBS.
Being an old English fart got 15.
No floppy no walkman no boom box.
Misread, told you i was an old fart.
Score 3.
I have zero….I have done or used all of those
I figured about a minus 4. But still counting.
Big fat ZERO for the win. And still actively do/use a few of the things on the list even now.
Lots of us Old Farts actively use some of these items, because… they work. Still.
I’ve done all of that a lot.
ZERO!
Do I get a prize?
You get to keep submitting Gunday Monday material…
Booby, prize
Do I get a bonus -1 for using a compass and protractor while using a paper map in the dark? If so, I will proudly claim a score of -1. If not, I’ll settle for my score of zero.
How about a guessing stick , aka wooden calculator ?
where are 14, 15, 16?
otherwise, I’ve done ALL of those.
No boom box. Too get-TOE for this cracker-ass cracker.
All of the above plus beta max , 8track , still have the boom box to annoy the neighbours .
Beta was superior in all areas over VHS except for recording length.
True, but 8 tracks sucked. Open reel tape was the best, but was too expensive and cumbersome for mist people to want to mess with.
Sony also didn’t allow pron to be sold on Beta. Don’t know how much that affected its popularity.
I scored democrat’s collective IQ scores…absolute fuckin’ 0.
2
1 – Valman
0
Get off my lawn.
Zero for me. Also learned to drive on a standard transmission, used a microfiche reader, carbon paper, fountain pen, push mower, rode on a prop driven DC7 and worked pumping gas at a full service gas station
I got a #1. No floppy disc here.
Unpossible
zero. We did not know how well we had it.
Every-Freaking-One and most are still on the shelf or in the basement.
Hoarder.
One point. Never had a Walkman. But who among us used a SWING-A-WAY wall mount or hand held can opener? I have four of those vintage can openers in my stash and they still work like new.
Zero.
Add in:
Received weekly wage in cash in a little yellow envelope.
Wore jungle green cotton uniforms and black leather ammunition boots with black canvas gaiters.
+zero Hubby had one but I never used it.
Zero. Zilch. Even had the Walkman.
Couldn’t afford a Walkman, so I didn’t score perfect. Didn’t know anybody that had one, either. I didn’t get out much… as a kid, anyway.
#9 is the only one I’ve never been around. Transistor radio – sure.
#17, 18, 19, and 20 I still have and use.
Walkman is the only one I missed.
I did 5,000+ miles road trips in back-to-back years. Paper maps on the first one and GPS on the second. Mostly always knew where I was with paper maps. I mostly didn’t have a feel of where I was with GPS. Technology makes us stupid.
Zero. The Walkman was nice to have when haze gray and under way.
Zero.
Ok, I guess I’m officially old now.
Gee, thanks.
Yup, zero.
Used a camera with an ice cube flashbulb… and learned how to set off the flash by poking it in a certain way…
Used a VCR with a wired remote, tv with a rotary channel selector, CB on a removable tray, played with a cap gun, fished without a permit, played mumbletypeg with friends, drank from the hose, recorded music to cassette with a mic from AM radio, watched the Bozo the Clown show on TV, read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn with the author’s original words, got spanked by a Principal in grade school, spent hours playing gnipgnop, bumper pool, and air hockey, skeeball, and arcade games.
Clipped a playing card to my 3 speed bike with the banana seat to make it sound cooler, thought the black and white Sears catalog was good pron, burned cattails because we liked the smell, walked along railroad tracks, had HO trains, and walkie talkies from Radio Shack. That smell of cheap electronics takes me right back too.
Playgrounds were all hot metal pipes and white crushed rocks, and teeter totters that would break your spine. GI Joe was 12 inches tall, and even running him over with a 1969 Ford Galaxie convertible only cracked his chest (although I had nightmares that my feet and hands would just pull off.)
I also had a TRS-80 model 1 and later a model 100, rented time on an Apple IIe to play games, and used a TI-35 in school.
The smell of a bowling alley brings me right back to the 70s.
It was a good time. Things were changing fast, and for the better. We had freedom to mess up and learn from it, without lifelong consequences. Of course, some of us didn’t make it, but that in itself was a lesson to the rest.
Yeah, I’m old. I’m one of the ones who lived.
nick
Lotsa things you mentioned, Nick. The “smell” of the cheap electronics was due to the wax meltime – the Japanese used to encase their circuit board in it to make it “waterproof”, among other things…
I used to curse that stuff when I troubleshot radios and amplifiers Made in Japan.
One stinking point because of the “Valkman”.
Same here…
I’d like to find an old set of encyclopedias, that history can’t be changed by someone with a computer.
The 1965 Encyclopedia Britannica is a very popular choice. It’s just before the multi culti, save the rainforest, western civ is teh devil crap started.
They used to be cheap, but now I expect to pay $50-150 for a set in good condition. That’s still cheap, considering the effort involved. I wish my siblings hadn’t given away mom and dad’s copy. It took me several years of trying to get my own set, and it’s not as nice as the one we had as kids.
n
When i was a kid, the grocery stores featured a new volume each week for about a buck each. That is how my family got a set.
When I got older, I bought a set of them on CDs.
I have a set of 1913 Encyclopedia Britannica. The article about Negros makes for some interesting reading.
We had the 50’s version of the Britannica – got the Yearly Update book each year for the next 5 years.
Pity I sent the collection to Goodwill. Oh well.
Zero points.
One point
The Walkman of course
Listened on not owned, zero
That’s a zero for me.
The walkman as well. Kinda cheated about the boom box. I’ve never actually owned one, but have been forced to listen to one outdoors very much against my will.
We’ll count it. Or, properly, not count it.
Well I’m happy to say I got 0 points..
0. Still use paper maps.
One point. Walkman. Proud of all that.
Zero. I didn’t own a Walkman, but I did have a Panasonic knock off.
Good enough, don’t count it.
You tried.
One for me (never owned a dictionary but I used one often as a kid). Damn I’m old !
0- no Walkman. 1- had a Walkman knockoff.
Another suggested entry:
“Drank from a Whites Only water fountain”
All the time
2 points! Never used a boombox (thought they were stupid) and never used dialup for the internet but many hours on a BBS.
Being an old English fart got 15.
No floppy no walkman no boom box.
Misread, told you i was an old fart.
Score 3.
I have zero….I have done or used all of those
I figured about a minus 4. But still counting.
Big fat ZERO for the win. And still actively do/use a few of the things on the list even now.
Lots of us Old Farts actively use some of these items, because… they work. Still.
I’ve done all of that a lot.
ZERO!
Do I get a prize?
You get to keep submitting Gunday Monday material…
Booby, prize
Do I get a bonus -1 for using a compass and protractor while using a paper map in the dark? If so, I will proudly claim a score of -1. If not, I’ll settle for my score of zero.
How about a guessing stick , aka wooden calculator ?
where are 14, 15, 16?
otherwise, I’ve done ALL of those.
No boom box. Too get-TOE for this cracker-ass cracker.
All of the above plus beta max , 8track , still have the boom box to annoy the neighbours .
Beta was superior in all areas over VHS except for recording length.
True, but 8 tracks sucked. Open reel tape was the best, but was too expensive and cumbersome for mist people to want to mess with.
Sony also didn’t allow pron to be sold on Beta. Don’t know how much that affected its popularity.
I scored democrat’s collective IQ scores…absolute fuckin’ 0.
2
1 – Valman
0
Get off my lawn.
Zero for me. Also learned to drive on a standard transmission, used a microfiche reader, carbon paper, fountain pen, push mower, rode on a prop driven DC7 and worked pumping gas at a full service gas station
I got a #1. No floppy disc here.
Unpossible
zero. We did not know how well we had it.
Every-Freaking-One and most are still on the shelf or in the basement.
Hoarder.
One point. Never had a Walkman. But who among us used a SWING-A-WAY wall mount or hand held can opener? I have four of those vintage can openers in my stash and they still work like new.
Zero points….apparently, I have “Done it All”
Zero Points. Damn, I’m old.