The AM Forum

You know you're getting old when you remember the following definitions:

1. Network: ABC, CBS, NBC, or Mutual (remember them?)

2. Ethernet: What the doctor placed over your face when you had your tonsils
removed.

3. Computer: An IBM 370 mainframe in a distant city that usually screwed up
payroll.

4. IP: What I do after I drink beer.

5. WIFI: A popular Philadelphia FM station in the 1970s. It ran a Top-40
format on 92.5 megacycles.

6. Hertz: A car rental company.

7. Siemens: A German manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment.

8. Patch: 1. A piece of cloth used for extending the life of a pair of blue
jeans. 2. (N.E. Pennsylvania) A community of inexpensive housing built by
the coal companies to house miners and their families.

9. Hard drive: What we have on our roads in N.E. Pennsylvania during
December, January and February. (And March...and April...)

10. CD: Provided by a bank for money deposited for a specific length of
time.

11. Virus: Something that made YOU sick, not your equipment.

12. Worms: What you can get if you eat too much sushi...or undercooked pork!

13. Trojans: Something that was sold "for the prevention of disease only"...

(snip)


HA! 370? Yer just a pup. The 370 was discontinued less than 20 years ago!

A 360, or better still a System/3, now you're talking some old-buzzard iron.  ;)

Anyone wanna buy a 390? Here's one for cheap:

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-9672-RB5-G4-and-RAMAC-9393-Virtual-A-Storage_W0QQitemZ5830921484QQcategoryZ11215QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Just add 3-phase power, and you'll be running some REAL IRON, BABY!  8)

--Thom
Killer Agony One Zipper Got Caught

and you can remember when:

       gay meant you were happy

       a Christmas tree was called a Christmas tree

       foreign language programming on radio stations was run for only a few hours on Sunday mornings
... and speaking of radio, radio stations were mostly owned by small business owners

     no one locked their house (at least where I lived)

     there was a ham operator in almost every neighborhood

     local phone service was cheap and long distance was expensive

     stores were closed on Sunday and everybody went to church

     and finally, cars were made out of metal :-)

there are a whole lot more, too but I don't want to make an old-buzzard transmission ... er post  8)

Regards,

Steve

They made a few pretty fancy and compact TTY machines in the early and mid 70's too.  I had a T1000.  Neat-o, quiet and didn't stink like my old Model 15.

Oh, man, yes...so much stuff is water under the bridge.  I can't add to it.

Just one comment you made I have to respond to...something about "eating too much sushi."

With all of the sushi eaten every day in all parts of the country...I know of no case where anyone got sick from sushi.

It's the perfect food.  Delicious, very good for you, and very wholesome.  A sushi chef only becomes a sushi chef AFTER he has proven that he knows what he's doing.  You don't get sick from sushi.  You get healthy.

Other than that...RIGHT ON.

Paul

I tried sushi twice and neither time did I get sick from it, I don;t deny that it might be a healthy meal but, I simply didn't like it all that much. Not that it was bad ot anything but it seemed neither here nor there to me. If I am going to eat at a resturant I much prefer blazing hot spicy Indian Mexican, or  Italian, French, German, Irish, Afghan cuisine, etc... However, I do agree, due to it's delicate natuire sushi prepared in a resturant is usually very carefully and well prepared and does not make you sick. The ONLY case I ever heard of anyone getting sick (as in food poisioning) from sushi was a case where someone tried preparing it at home and then stored it under less than ideal conditions.

Dont kid yourself, I got food poisoning from sushi about a year ago. I got it from a local emporium that was known for their quality. I had been getting it from them for several years.

After 3 days of not even being able to keep water in, and running from both ends, I swore "never again!!" "Once bitten, twice shy"
                                                                    The Slab Bacon

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 True. Sushi has worms parasites ect. Hotdogs have.....well   Whats in a hotdog??  Felt pretty good after one though. Chili and horseradish mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Got to agree with Phil on this one. I call sushi, "bait on a plate". Also found out that sushi, scotch and Karaoke don't mix well. And, as Bud pointed out, I also never got sick on a hot dog or a Philly cheese steak at the Jersey shore.

Eating sushi – Nail scratching on a blackboard is more appealing.

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  'cept tubular  ;)

You know you're getting old when you remember HF amateur radio equipment with NBFM built-in.

Believe it or not..............I remember nearly all of those "antique" things.  I also remember when we sat around and listened to the radio.....before there was TV!  We listened to the Lone Ranger, Jack Armstrong...The All American Boy,  and Buster Brown who lived in a Shoe along with his dog Tye, who lived there too.  I remember when the Post Office delivered mail on Saturday (twice) and even on Sunday during the week before Christmas.  I remember when it wasn't an issue of political correctness to enjoy celebrating and talking about holidays such as Christmas and Easter.  I remember when pizza was a "new" thing and my Mom made it for us with hamburger.  Ordering a pizza wasn't thought of yet.  I remember going to school during the winter, even when there was 8" - 10" of snow!!  We never got off from school because of the weather, except when we had an ice storm and maybe over a foot of snow. I also remember helping my Dad put the chains on the back wheels so he could drive the car through that snow.  I remember mowing the grass for the grand sum of 25 cents on Saturday morning so I could go to the show (movie) at the State theatre.  The admission was 15 cents and then I had 10 cents left to buy a 5 cent bag of popcorn and a 5 cent box of candy!!    I remember when AM was the prevalent mode on the ham bands, heterodynes were minor annoyances that went with the territory, and the FCC was feared (if not revered) and the law was respected by most who valued their ham tickets as prized accomplishments.     
I MUST REALLY BE OLD!!!

when having to pick up an Apache
becomes something you fear

you have more hair in your ears than on top of your head....

... when start to understand your father

   My kids are starting to under stand me there all married and moved away
Don't forget your eye browse are longer than the hair on your head or listening to the radio wile you churned the milk
  73 Floyd

I have heard of cases where people have gotten botulinum poisioning from eating not just raw but cooked fish as well.  Particulalrly occuring when people consumed the entrails (intestines, etc...) of certain types of fish. Apparently  the digestive system of certain fish can become infectied with clostridium botulinum bacteria and it can generate enough toxin particularly concentrated in the digestive tract of the fish...hence the danger of eating the entrails. Fortunately C. Botulinum bacteria won;t live in the  digestive tract of most healthy humans. But unfortunately it's  the toxin that's already generated in the food that paralyzes you from the head on downward in relatively short order.

This is my final post about sushi.  This thread is about nostalgia...it's unfortunate that I was an agent to divert that.  Well, it happened.

To all who have gotten sick from sushi...

I don't know if I've been incredibly lucky or you were incredibly unlucky.

The fact is, I have stuffed myself with raw fish at a sushi bar at least once a week for the last 15 years in many cities in these here united states, and I have NEVER...NOT EVER...had a problem.  So...once a week times 15 years, that's 52 x 15 times plus that I've eaten raw fish at a sushi bar.  Again, I have NEVER had a problem with it.

BTW...I don't eat sushi, I eat sashimi...raw fish without the rice balls.  The usual, tuna, salmon, yellowtail, whille ok and good, is kinda bland.  My favorites are sweet shrimp (small, raw shrimp), live scallop (yea, that's right, raw scallops) and sea urchin.  Those three are unbelievalbly delicious.  But, of course, you gotta get to where you trust sushi chefs.  I've been lucky...I've only known good ones.

But now...back to the "You know you're getting old" thread.  It's a great one, and I offer profuse apologies for disrupting it with my defense of sushi chefs.

73

You know you're getting old when you run across some of your old school papers, and the paper has turned brown.

Boy Mac, aint that the truth!! Something that I used to do with one hand now takes 3 of us to do! I USED to be able to carry complete car engines in and out of my mothers basement, now moving an apache is a major accomplishment!

Another way that I have heard it put is priceless: 
"What I used to do all night, now takes me all night to do"

                                                              The Slab Bacon

Ain't!

Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now...

to quote Tim Mcgraw

Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore

We got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world to be humming
Just keep it coming
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Friday I dragged out the old slide rule to show my daughter who has this hand held thing that makes math way too simple. C and D scales are much smaller these days.

Interesting, I just wrote a short  program in  FORTRAN today. I haven't used FORTRAN in years. I was surprised how much I still remembered. Of course there were several things I had to reference to get it to work right. FORTRAN was developed back in the 1950's by John Backus of IBM. It is still used to this day, particularly for programs involving extensive science and engineering calculations. However, FORTRAN is becoming more and more of a lost art as young programmers use more modern high level langauges like Java, Perl,Python, Ruby, C++, etc. One thing I like about FORTRANis that it's cool to see a program written in CAPITAL LETTERS  with Line Numbers.... and with an occaisional GOTO statement...

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...when you remember eating at real restaurants with real food and local flavor while driving cross-country.

Last time I drove any distance at all it became a real luxury dining experience to get lucky enough to find a Denny's.   :-\

BTW...speaking of that, did anyone here eat at the Glass House Restaurant on the Will Rogers turnpike in OK?  Was it good?

FYI, it's now what they claim to be the World's Largest McDonald's.

(Will Rogers must be turning over in his grave.)