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11-20-2019, 06:47 PM
Benny Profane

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Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive

I had a friend who sold bag phones and car fax machines after college. His bag phone actually saved our asses one day stuck in a muddy road in northern MN.

What's a bag phone?
11-20-2019, 07:42 PM
iceman

An early cellphone. big phone and big battery in a bag, usually with a shoulder strap. this was back when carphones were a thing but bag phones were portable.
11-20-2019, 07:53 PM
skiballs

There was even a approved pin stripe width, dad did 35 years with 'em.

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Originally Posted by XXX-er

Before about 1992 everybody at IBM HAD to wear the suits, then head office proclaimed we were adopting business casual to fit in better with our clients, you know those PC guys with the laptops who wore cutoffs and played foosball in the office

SO the next day everybody came to work wearing the same suits they always wore for a number of reasons, it was the uniform and you could hide behind it, you were used to wearing the suit, a lot of guys had suits or T-shirts but nothing in-between and buying the business casual cost about the same as buying a cheap suit.

Everntualy guys wore out the old suits and business casual as we know it became the norm but it did not change overnight
11-20-2019, 08:49 PM
gravitylover

I didn't last very long at those jobs where you had to wear a tie. Not very long at all...
11-20-2019, 08:59 PM
wooley12

My dad had to wear a suit and a fedora to sell bras. I did it hatless and in a leisure suit with bell bottom pants.
11-20-2019, 09:21 PM
XXX-er

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Originally Posted by skiballs

There was even a approved pin stripe width, dad did 35 years with 'em.

that means YOU did 35 years with them

A lot of them died <3 yrs after retirement

I hope he is still kicking
11-20-2019, 09:31 PM
lifelinksplit

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Originally Posted by wooley12

My dad had to wear a suit and a fedora to sell bras. I did it hatless and in a leisure suit with bell bottom pants.

Is there a running tally on how many fucking times wooley mentions bra sales? Maybe this should go in the "shit that annoys you" thread..
11-20-2019, 09:51 PM
BmillsSkier

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

What's a bag phone?

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Originally Posted by iceman

An early cellphone. big phone and big battery in a bag, usually with a shoulder strap. this was back when carphones were a thing but bag phones were portable.

Seriously, I'm only like 1/3 of Benny's age and my mom even had a Motorolla bag phone. Did they not have these in Italy?
11-20-2019, 09:58 PM
riser4

My wife had a bag phone for a while. She needed it for on call. That thing was a brick.
11-20-2019, 10:04 PM
iceman

It was pretty cool technology compared to no cell phones at all.
11-20-2019, 10:11 PM
Benny Profane

Well, I guess I was just trash living under a bridge.
11-20-2019, 10:27 PM
Ted Striker

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Here's a "vintage" bag phone on ebay

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11-20-2019, 10:28 PM
Djongo Unchained

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Originally Posted by Marshall Tucker

My dad would call me in from the yard to change the tv channel. Which you did from a VHF dial ON THE TV. As in Physically attached. A remote was an incredible luxury and virtually nonexistent; even on the console color TVs we'd get.

Porn? for fucks sakes people. in the mid-70s you generally were "finding" / stealing from some other 10yr old's stash, some mildewy playboy that'd been rained on and dried out, rescued from the dipsey dumster. When I was 13 we got the first wiff of HBO, which was I believe #4 on the 12 channel offering from the cable provider. You'd rig up tin foil and antenna wire to defeat first gen scrambling, to see the Harrad Experiment. Which was an incredible film, BTW. The Betsy a solid runner-up. kinda the equivent of scrolling through 3 pages of comments to see one pic in the plea to ullr

Wait what were we talking about? Damn where did i set my beer down

Holeee shittta - are you kidding me? Did you live on-base, '74-'76 in Key West? That's damn near my story...Throwing out trash in the cul-de-sac's dumpster, and there's 2 big boxes of Playboys. Probably 8-10 years worth. Went and got my friend and after dark we spirited ALL of them to our fort in the mangrove bushes. The ensuing mold factor and clumpy, pulpy pages would begin to meld together. They prolly lasted a year or two.
You learn early there's 3 pictorials.
And the covers are classics now and when I see them it brings back such funny memories.
That's where I first saw how Kool skiing was.

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My wealthy Aunt/Uncle had a cordless TV remote in 1973?. Turned me into a couch potato.
11-20-2019, 10:30 PM
Ted Striker

Were there corded remotes?
11-20-2019, 10:34 PM
BCMtnHound

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Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained

My wealthy Aunt/Uncle had a cordless TV remote in 1973?. Turned me into a couch potato.

My grandpa had one as well. The original 'clicker'. It changed the channel and volume via some sort of ultrasonic tone.
11-20-2019, 10:35 PM
MontuckyFried

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Originally Posted by Ted Striker

Were there corded remotes?

Yup. Gotta love the good ol "clickers." Man, we've come a long way.

https://metvcdn.metv.com/kDoOW-14477..._lazybones.jpg
11-20-2019, 10:40 PM
iceman

Why are they watching a washing machine?
11-20-2019, 10:55 PM
m2711c

http://totally-90s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/motorola-bag-phone-266x300.jpg[/IMG]

and with 5 lb swing weight, you could pummel the shit out of anyone within swingin' distance.... an excellent melee weapon.
11-20-2019, 11:05 PM
BmillsSkier

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Well, I guess I was just trash living under a bridge.

I doubt that Benny.

When we’d venture into the city during those years the bridge people had Motorola Skypagers.
11-20-2019, 11:09 PM
ill-advised strategy

My ex gf’s kids got to ride to and from the bus stop in rural NM sitting on the tailgate of my pickup truck. Probably some of the last kids to enjoy that small pleasure. That was 15-20 years ago in a really laissez-faire kinda place and people were getting weird about it then. Gotta be a total no-go nowadays.
11-21-2019, 07:25 AM
Marshall Tucker

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Originally Posted by Ted Striker

Were there corded remotes?

We got my dad this bit of absolute technological wizardry about 1978. So I wouldn't have to come in from the yard. I remember feeding the cord under the rug in the den.

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11-21-2019, 07:30 AM
riser4

http://totally-90s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/motorola-bag-phone-266x300.jpg[/IMG]

and with 5 lb swing weight, you could pummel the shit out of anyone within swingin' distance.... an excellent melee weapon.[/QUOTE]

That's the one. It was beast.
11-21-2019, 07:36 AM
Marshall Tucker

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Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained

our fort in the mangrove bushes. .

Here the topography was endless pine trees on very, very flat sandy coastal plain. Which ain't pretty for much but building massive tree forts. From timber harvesting the trees would be in these perfect rows and you could build room after room, both horizontal and vertical. pecan trees were good too, but harder.

A lost art. Wait, is this thread drifting?
11-21-2019, 07:50 AM
RustyGroomer

Anyone mention Encyclopedia Brown? Those books knew everything.
11-21-2019, 08:09 AM
BmillsSkier

They didn’t have shit on Brittanica though.
11-21-2019, 08:41 AM
skiballs

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Originally Posted by XXX-er

that means YOU did 35 years with them

A lot of them died <3 yrs after retirement

I hope he is still kicking

Yeah we moved a few times. Still going strong 25 years later. Worked at the Microsoft campus until he was 70, and wore his suit, those kids can't write code for shit he would say. The only reason their code works is because the machines got better. I've seen him shot 7 shots under his age on a 6400 tough golf course. He's a tough act to follow.
11-21-2019, 08:59 AM
RustyGroomer

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

They didn’t have shit on Brittanica though.

Shit, that's what I meant. Not those stupid mystery books. Haha.

I remember every year waiting for the new yearbook.
11-21-2019, 03:49 PM
KQ

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11-21-2019, 03:52 PM
riser4

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Originally Posted by KQ

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I asked my daughter if she remembered these and she looked a little puzzeled and asked if I meant those old fashioned smart boards? I laughed.
11-21-2019, 04:02 PM
KQ

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Originally Posted by riser3

I asked my daughter if she remembered these and she looked a little puzzeled and asked if I meant those old fashioned smart boards? I laughed.

How about this?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/e5...5f6c32269a.jpg

Some years ago I was rummaging through the supply room where I worked and smelled a familar smell. Way up on the top shelf I found a box of stencils. Crazy. Hadn't seen any of those since I was in elementary school when I'd help my Mom print the school newsletter on the above machine. I can still see her at the typewriter typing on those blue smelly things and having to make corrections with the bottle of blue goo.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...27a6c9bd5.webp

Meme courtesy of Fast Times at Ridgemont High:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/26...9eb82970c7.jpg
11-21-2019, 04:07 PM
Flyoverland Captive

Those were awesome; we had a hand-crank one I used to make our scouting newsletters. Ink everywhere.
11-21-2019, 04:28 PM
iceman

How did those things even work? I understand xerography but not mimeography.
11-21-2019, 04:32 PM
KQ

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Originally Posted by iceman

How did those things even work? I understand xerography but not mimeography.

It's a sort of silk screen isn't it?

kachunk... kachunk... kachunk..... I can still hear that rhythmic sound.

https://youtu.be/gYjj62eGwc8
11-21-2019, 08:08 PM
riser4

ABDICK!!!
11-21-2019, 09:02 PM
XXX-er

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Originally Posted by skiballs

Yeah we moved a few times. Still going strong 25 years later. Worked at the Microsoft campus until he was 70, and wore his suit, those kids can't write code for shit he would say. The only reason their code works is because the machines got better. I've seen him shot 7 shots under his age on a 6400 tough golf course. He's a tough act to follow.

It's not just the moves it's the thot processes the way of life living with a lifer who had IBM stamped on his ass, I had a couple of exwives who didn't really understand

Sometimes they would ask a guy to move, he would get onto the plane and be there the next day, call the wife and tell her she is moving, the movers come in and move everything, even the ashes in the ashtray, company buys the house

When they ask you to jump you ask how high on the way up was the joke
11-21-2019, 09:31 PM
Djongo Unchained

Oh, Hell yes now, the Mimeograph machine. In 7th grade, I was an office aide to the Principle's Secretary. We ran off the daily attendance reports and then took them to each group teacher sections for distribution.
Walking around sniffing the stacks. Fuck, we went through reams of paper weekly.
This was the beginning of the end to my straight A's/arrow career.

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