Getting Older

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Not only do I remember using the "vintage" phone, I remember when they put the dial on it but the city telephone service (Ma Bell) did not have the ability to dial your own number yet. So the only thing you could dial was "0" for the operator and give her the number you needed and she connected you!

jazzon · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:04 am **(#42)**

Thanks Pat625, Now I feel Young again ...

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12854

lolol

Old I am, but not that old.

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

I'm glad I made all of you feel better!

SysTemX · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 1088

Pat625 wrote:

You know you are "older" if you remember using one of these.

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Don't want to give too much away but that new-fangled dial thing with the redial and flash, ours had a tap handle for morse code to the operator, who would connect and then speak to you. You asked for "Bob or Dora" at which point you were connect to the Cellular Network (Cellular because it was connected in a loop and did not directly connect to the greater world). Times are changing. Facebook is not a photo-album on the coffee table and the internet now extends beyond the office "internal telephone network". YouTube is no longer a plumbing term and a buffer does not polish... :roll:

A tablet should be examined closely before swallowing, HOWEVER a patch can still be used for piracy, a carriage return can still refer to transportation and a keyboard will still hold keys.

Jazzon wrote:

To Everyone who thinks this thread applies to them:
I spent 20+ years driving a semi (lorry) all over the U.S. In that time I can confidently say I have become an expert with an atlas. THEY say Old Age is simply a state of mind. But as an expert, I can tell You there is no such state!

Classic.

"# I left my hair in Cincinnati..."

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:52 am **(#46)**

Didn't have a phone in our home until I was about 9. Was one of the 'vintage' ones then.
My mother used to work as a telephonist, which I think is a person who transfers call etc in her 20's

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12854

SysTemX wrote:

Pat625 wrote:

You know you are "older" if you remember using one of these.

Attachment:

vintage-style-telephone.jpg

Don't want to give too much away but that new-fangled dial thing with the redial and flash, ours had a tap handle for morse code to the operator, who would connect and then speak to you. You asked for "Bob or Dora" at which point you were connect to the Cellular Network (Cellular because it was connected in a loop and did not directly connect to the greater world). Times are changing. Facebook is not a photo-album on the coffee table and the internet now extends beyond the office "internal telephone network". YouTube is no longer a plumbing term and a buffer does not polish... :roll:

A tablet should be examined closely before swallowing, HOWEVER a patch can still be used for piracy, a carriage return can still refer to transportation and a keyboard will still hold keys.

lylejk wrote:

To Everyone who thinks this thread applies to them:
I spent 20+ years driving a semi (lorry) all over the U.S. In that time I can confidently say I have become an expert with an atlas. THEY say Old Age is simply a state of mind. But as an expert, I can tell You there is no such state!

Classic.

"# I left my hair in Cincinnati..."

You have me quoted for saying something I didn't; just wanted to set the record straight.

SysTemX · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 1088

lylejk wrote:

SysTemX wrote:

Pat625 wrote:

You know you are "older" if you remember using one of these.

Attachment:

vintage-style-telephone.jpg

Don't want to give too much away but that new-fangled dial thing with the redial and flash, ours had a tap handle for morse code to the operator, who would connect and then speak to you. You asked for "Bob or Dora" at which point you were connect to the Cellular Network (Cellular because it was connected in a loop and did not directly connect to the greater world). Times are changing. Facebook is not a photo-album on the coffee table and the internet now extends beyond the office "internal telephone network". YouTube is no longer a plumbing term and a buffer does not polish... :roll:

A tablet should be examined closely before swallowing, HOWEVER a patch can still be used for piracy, a carriage return can still refer to transportation and a keyboard will still hold keys.

lylejk wrote:

To Everyone who thinks this thread applies to them:
I spent 20+ years driving a semi (lorry) all over the U.S. In that time I can confidently say I have become an expert with an atlas. THEY say Old Age is simply a state of mind. But as an expert, I can tell You there is no such state!

Classic.

"# I left my hair in Cincinnati..."

You have me quoted for saying something I didn't; just wanted to set the record straight.

True!!! Fixed. Was a quote too. :puzzled

jazzon · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2016 2:49 am **(#49)**

Pulse Dial... Thats going back. I remember dialling phone numbers (for about a week) by tapping them out on the "hooks" because I had tried to "look under the dial". It ended badly. Took a week for me to make the money to buy mom and dad a new phone. Didn't bother them much, they never MADE calls, just received them. I was the phone-a-holic ....

Morse to the operator ... before my time.

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

You might be "older" if you learned to type on one of these:

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dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:32 pm **(#51)**

I typed on one of these, Pat !

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Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:38 pm **(#52)**

Remember?

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Oh, Yes. Atari. My children drove me crazy with that. However, the old Regal and Remington typewriters are much older. My mother had one that I learned to type on at home. By the time I got to High School, they had much improved ones.