Things we used to do

[mybike]

[QUOTE 4012332, member: 259"]Sending telexes. It took forever.[/QUOTE]

50baud as opposed to the 300 the early modems used. And now ....

How things have changed.

They didn't like the 80v on the telex lines in the exchange.

On one of these.

Or one of these:

I remember my father showing me the one in his office. A spreadsheet can do all it did and more.

 

[Illaveago]

50baud as opposed to the 300 the early modems used. And now ....

How things have changed.

They didn't like the 80v on the telex lines in the exchange.



Or one of these:

I remember my father showing me the one in his office. A spreadsheet can do all it did and more.

Is that a knitting machine?

 

[Brandane]

Making a phone call, which involved lifting the receiver and waiting for the operator to answer, who would then connect you to your requested number. Calling abroad meant booking a time slot days in advance, and cost a fortune.

 

[Brandane]

Drinking Tartan Special .
It does still exist, even on draught in some of the more quaint pubs I have been in, so obviously some people are still drinking the evil, gassy, chemical ridden potion.

 

[raleighnut]

Drinking Tartan Special .
It does still exist, even on draught in some of the more quaint pubs I have been in, so obviously some people are still drinking the evil, gassy, chemical ridden potion.

Youngers version of Double Diamond.

 

[Dirk]

Ind Coope 'Long Life' beer. First beer I remember being in a tin.

 

[ianrauk]

 

[Dirk]

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[Illaveago]

Home brew beer making kits seemed to be all the rage in the 70's

 

[mybike]

Is that a knitting machine?

No, it's an accounting machine. It did some of what a spreadsheet can do but on a printed sheet.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Home brew beer making kits seemed to be all the rage in the 70's

I remember my Dad making a batch of pale ale, it tasted very nice and seemed on first aquaintance a bit weak, but you soon realized you could use it as rocket fuel.

 

[Oldbloke]

Ind Coope 'Long Life' beer. First beer I remember being in a tin.

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[Illaveago]

Watching Spitting Image. It is a shame there doesn't seem to be any political satire these days.

 

[stephec]

I remember my Dad making a batch of pale ale, it tasted very nice and seemed on first aquaintance a bit weak, but you soon realized you could use it as rocket fuel.

I once made home brew barley wine, three pints of it and you knew you'd had a drink.

 

[roadrash]

Your parents owning a Stereogram with a radio.

Being very young, wondering at all those exotic places like Luxembourg, Hilversum, Munchen, Limoges. Turning the dial to tune into some foreign language. Amazing stuff.

my mum still has a big radiogramme in regular use