Along with the jingle - "N-E-S-T-L-E-S, nestles make the very best.....chocolattttttttttttttttttte "!!
Also the Ovaltine commercials.
Don't forget: Hersheys! The great american bar!
I remember.....
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Don't forget: Hersheys! The great american bar!
I don't remember the 60's or yesterday very well
Course I was born in 1960 so...............
My first real job was picking blueberries. Got paid by the pound, I can not remember the amount but it wasn't much. Rode my bicycle two miles to get there, at the very crack of dawn.
"real job" meaning it was my first introduction to FICA...had previously babysat, cleaned houses and hauled hay. Hauled hay for moon pies and peach Nehi's.
My first job was working as a waitress (around the corner from a horse racetrack). I was smacked on the as* more times than I can count by drunk patrons. Mind you, this was back in olden days. Tips were great -- I ALWAYS had a wad of cash.
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I remember when phone numbers were a combination of letters and numbers. BA4-0387 instead of 224-0387; HI6-0798 instead of 446-0798. When you said your phone number, you said the prefix word: "HIckory 6-0798"
Mid to late 80's. Saturday morning cartoons and waiting for the new Micro machines commercials with the fast talking short guy. I had to have every micro machine. They were all the rage at my elementary school. So much so that my 4th grade teacher coordinated micro machine swaps on the first Friday of every month.
80s Micro Machines Commerical - YouTube
80s Micro Machines Commerical - YouTube
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I remember when the first electric typewriter came out in 1978. It was the IBM Selectric with the golf ball striker. A few of us in typing class (took 4 years cuz thats where all the girls were. Who know how much we'd all type in the future) got to use the 4 new machines. Made my wpm count jump nicely. I just saw one of those girls in Petco last month. She asked why I never asked her out. 20/20 hindsight again?
harley, those IBM typewriters came out before 1978. I was using them when I was stationed at Treasure Island from 69 to 71. My MOS was disbursing and we were processing early outs. I used them to do the paperwork to discontinued the allotments when the guys/gals were discharged.
Actually the electric typewriters came out much earlier. My highschool, for typing class, about 30 students per class, had all first row of electric in mid 60's. (I graduated 67) All the rest were manual, those black ancient ones. We rotated through the electric.
In my highschool a lot of pressure was put on all students to take typing even though I don't remember if it was a requirement. I didn't know anyone who didn't take it. My class was 100, largest to that point. A large percentage of each class went on to college even though we were a predominately farming county, but major dairy, tobacco, and horses. (My older sister's graduating class, 63, produced a Rhode Scholar and runner up to him, from a community of 4,400. Most likely our local schools were primo education.)
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Good and interesting timeline of IBM typewriters. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_milestone.html
I remember sometime in 80's before our first 8088 PC, DOS, and b/w dot matrix printer, we had a fancy all-in-one word processor, probably IBM, that stored documents in memory. That "typewriter" was amazing. But we quickly rehomed it when we got PC and printer.
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I remember sometime in 80's before our first 8088 PC, DOS, and b/w dot matrix printer, we had a fancy all-in-one word processor, probably IBM, that stored documents in memory. That "typewriter" was amazing. But we quickly rehomed it when we got PC and printer.
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Simplistic history of storage in pictures. I remember having at least a little exposure to some real oldies. http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/
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I remember how revolutionary Compuserve was for connecting with others and groups and email on internet instead of via BBB. DOS. It was the closest thing to graphical interface Windows 3.1, released in 92. (For PC users)
Until 386 running Win 3.1 our monitor had colors...... a few and mainly due to Compuserve interface.
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Until 386 running Win 3.1 our monitor had colors...... a few and mainly due to Compuserve interface.
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Oops. I was only around 14 at the time and had never seen an electric, so I just assumed they were newly invented. Supposed I could've researched that a bit first...
I remember punch cards. I use to punch them when I was stationed at Barstow for payroll.
I remember back in the late 60's, watermelon trucks would show up at the local Piggly Wiggly. These were big 18 wheelers. My brothers and I would run down there, help unload the truck and we got paid a free watermelon. I always picked the biggest I could find and hated carrying it home. We would have watermelon for days and to this day, I hate watermelon
My first desktop was a Tandy 286 w/an external hard drive. I wonder if I can still remember enough commands to make things happen at C: ? Shortly after that was the IBM all-in-one. I feel very old.
My first computer was an Apple IIe. You had to have a huge box of roughly 40 discs ready to go because it would call for a diff disc every 30 seconds. Still, it did some great flyers and ran our business so....
Do you still have it? A collectors item! Oh yeah...all those discs. I remember Word Perfect -- must have been 20+ discs. Our lives are so much easier now, right?! I recently purchased my FIRST Mac (Macbook Pro Retina). I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.
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