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[Taz_Zoee]

Randi I remember a phone call at a public booth costing 10 cent. You would be hard pressed to find a phone booth today. The Hersey chocolate bar cost 5 cents when I was young.

For those discussing Gas stations, do you remember that they used to pump your gas ,clean the windshield, and checked you oil as a part of the service? Then they went to full service at a premium ,or self service if you wanted the best price. I don't recall seeing a full/self in years. They are all self only now.

Hey, I actually remember these two things. A phone call being only a dime and the full service at gas stations.
Recently we stopped at a station on the motorcycle and someone came out and told us to move to another pump because we were at a full service pump (which you pay MORE for when they actually have them). Its very rare, but they are still out there.

[Willow Oak]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

[Randi]

WO, I was learning to type on one of them - a solid green IBM.

[Medusa]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

Ah yes, learning to curve the fingers in just the right way so the teacher wouldn't smack our hands w/the ruler. Same w/penmanship in grade school. If I held my pen or pencil the way we were expected to, you couldn't read my writing. If I held it my own way, I had beautiful penmanship. That didn't matter, though. Had to do it their way or you'd have to hold out your hands and get them smacked w/the ruler across the knuckles.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

Manual or electric???

[Willow Oak]

Manual or electric???

They came in electric?

[Willow Oak]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

[Medusa]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.

[Willow Oak]

Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.

Books?

Now let's see, here ..., where have I heard that word before?

[lvpets2002]

Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great.. Still no remotes yet.. Also remember when at night & the TV Stations went off the air = there was the Indian in the circle & the TV just bussdd.. Also by the way I do still own a Manual & Electric Type Writer..

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

[Willow Oak]

Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great..

That is a fact. One of the sweetest things I ever experienced was finally getting that color TV.

[pomtzu]

Typewriters???

Ok - now I remember. Typing I was on that IBM manual, and Typing II you got the luxury of an electric.
And remember the course in Business Machines? - the 10-key adding machine and the monstrous Friden Calculator that was as big as a desk top? It would sit there and clack and grind and take 5 minutes to work an equation and spit out the answer. You could sit there and do homework for other classes while waiting for it!

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.

[kokopup]

post by Pomtzu

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.
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Kids today can type faster on a phone keypad, with their thumbs, than
most could do with 10 fingers on a standard typewriter. Times are a changing.

[Randi]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

That's what I have to do now, although not to change channels - but volume, on/off and everything else. I need a new TV!!

[blue]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

I was the remote control, I learned numbers before I could read.