You are not old if you know this is a recording device. You are old, however, if you identified it as a Betamax™. If you owned one of these, just give up now and admit you are old. If you were getting ready to discuss the pros and cons of Betamax and VHS and had… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old. Part 8.
Category: You May Be Old
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 7.
OK. This one is actually a two-part test. If you know that this is paper, then you are not necessarily old. I can’t rule out that you are clever or that you saw this in a museum somewhere. However, if you know that this is green bar paper and that it went through a dot… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old. Part 7.
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 6.
If you remember having to add your own cup (!!) of sugar, you are really, really old. Oh, yeah.
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 5
Smokey and the Bandit? Rubber Duck? Convoy? If the above looks familiar, and any of those ring a bell, you are probably old. Or you are a long-haul trucker, and I apologize.
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 4
And, if you have ever used one for its original purpose, you are really old! For a while, the receptacle for these found new life as a source for 12V power for cell phones, radar detectors, CD players (!!), CB radios (!!!!!), and other electronic gear. But, over time, it turned out to be easier… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old. Part 4
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 3
I am not sure if identifying this as a Rolodex® is what makes you old, or if it is that you know what a business card is, but if you correctly identified this as a Rolodex you are old for sure. For those of you who didn’t know what it was, it is what your… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old. Part 3
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 2
This was a big thing back in 1981. Western MicroData Enterprises Ltd. wrote Norad for the Apple ][ and I spent a bit of time saving the US from Russian nuclear missiles coming over the pole. Plus ça change…
If you know what this is, you are old… Part 1 of many?
This is the first of possibly many, “If you know what this is, you are old…” posts. These were the cat’s meow, the bee’s knees, the best thing since sliced bread (or pull-top beer), the jelly in the jelly-roll, and so on. Elephant Memory Systems 5 1/4″ single- or double-sided diskettes were just what you… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old… Part 1 of many?