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Yes, my name is Charlie.
I wish full service gas stations still existed.
I would use them on nasty winter days.
Make a trip to New Jersey. That's all they have there.
I wish full service gas stations still existed.
I would use them on nasty winter days.
Dang. You responded quick. I edited it like 10 seconds later.
They do. In Oregon. C'mon down. Well, not exactly full service. But they do pump the gas for you.
Aye yi, yi, yiiii
I am the ___________ ____________.
Here’s the tricky part!Or can sing the entire “ooey gooey rich and chewy inside” song
I have one of those and used it in collage. It lives next to the E6-B now....Reverse Polish Notation
The DAY I graduated from the UW, with an IE degree, HP came out with their first handheld. I still glance, with a smile, at my Post Versalog.
You must have gone to an engineering "collage".I have one of those and used it in collage. It lives next to the E6-B now....
You must have gone to an engineering "collage".
My wife went to collage college.
Art major?
Bamboo slides. Super smooth those.
BSME University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus.You must have gone to an engineering "collage".
My first job, at 16, at the local Esso station! Summer of '69, when I didn't get to go to Woodstock ...And not only would they pump the gas, they’d also check the oil and radiator, top off the tires, and clean the windshield.
And not only would they pump the gas, they’d also check the oil and radiator, top off the tires, and clean the windshield.
OK Boomers.
A. You say ‘fold, spindle, or mutilate’ and get blank looks around the room.
B. The office Keurig dies, and two 20-something electrical engineers ask you to show them how to use the drip coffee maker.
C. You participate in an Internet thread where everyone tries to show how old they are by saying “class of 80-something,” and you are class of 79.
.45-ish per gallon for leaded regular when I started driving,
...you guys remember when the TV remote control just had ONE button each for "channel" and "volume", and would change it in just one direction until it got to the end and then would cycle back to the beginning of whatever? So if (say) you wanted to turn the volume down, you had to click it for "up" a bunch of times (louder, louder, LOUDer, LOUDER, LOUDESTTTTT, then softest) to get to the right volume?
(As a kid, that made it really hard to sneak into the TV room to watch Star Trek without being heard.)
My HP 41CV is used as my go-to calculator, as well. I bought it a bit later than 1978 (1981 or so?). In 1978 I was still working for the Navy (civilian) and had an HP-25C programmable. I had to leave that when I left silly service in 1979, so I bought an HP 34C and then the HP 41CV when I ran out of memory in the 34C. Of course, back when I was working for Intel I would dig out my slide rule (Picket N4-ES Double Log Slide Rule) and use it to harass the younger engineers. They would ask what is was and my standard reply was that it was a calculator whose battery never dies and whose display hybrid never quit, both of which had happened with my HP-41CV. Then I had to explain what an HP-41CV was. Kids!!!
Your mom was a fashion plate!We finally tracked it down to a belt my mother was wearing. It was a belt of metal rings. And there was a dangling loose end. The rings clinked would change the channel.
Uuuh, there was still a manual control on the TV, you didn't have to use the remote.
The Zenith remotes are audio at very high frequencies. The button struck basically a tuning fork. One evening, my parents were going out, and all of a sudden the channels would change. Sometimes one, sometimes many.
We finally tracked it down to a belt my mother was wearing. It was a belt of metal rings. And there was a dangling loose end. The rings clinked would change the channel.
Oh man. I’m resisting. I’m really trying to not name 3 politicians. …. Whew, wiping brow, I was able to resist.....If you can identify these characters...
You know you're getting old when your entertainment was the radio show, "Stella Dallas".
You also know it when your 1st tv pilot hero was Bob Cummings,
And your 1st true love was pilot Penny on Sky King
Penny was cute, but I always thought of her as a spoiled brat.And your 1st true love was pilot Penny on Sky King