From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: More old coot tests
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:48:27 GMT

In article <1a2lhjINNsg8@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Sep21.145722.9493@nntp.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
>>Did you ever have 45 RPM Records, and a record player that -only- played
>>that format?
>
>No.  Does the fact that I had one that only played 78s count, though?

    "I have some 5 78 rpm records. I remember the first advets for 33 1/3
    records. It pointed out that an opera could be recorded on far fewer
    of them with better sound quality. I used to have 'Woody Woodpecker's
    talent Show', 'Bozo the Clown goes Under the Sea,' and the Walt Disney
movie soundtrack of 'Alice in Wonderland.' All three in 78 rpm. I know the
booklets that came with them are lost, I might still have the records somewhere. 
>>Do you remember when a tape recording always meant using reel-to-reel
>>tapes? (We still own Laurie's first RTR tape machine).

        My first tape recorder was reel-to-reel. Nothing else existed back then.

>>Do you remember when Michael Jackson was the five-year old kid brother of
>>the guys in the Motown band _The Jackson Five_? (Yep, and I watched the
>>original broadcast where he appeared for the first time).

Yes.

>>Do you remember TV shows presented by a single corporate sponsor? (Yep. It
>>used to be the standard for prime-time TV. That idea is actually pre-TV,
>>and goes back to Radio shows).

      "Most pre-1960 tv shows had only one sponser. When the scandal of
     from the '$64,000 dollar question' came out, most 'only one sponser'
     tv shows went off the air or gained multiple sponsers. If you don't
     remember the scandal, the quiz contestants were given the answers to
     the questions before the show started." DJ. 

>>Do you remember watching on TV when the first man stepped on the moon,
>>LIVE? Where were you?

      "I avidly watched all launches. From Pioneer 1 onward. " DJ.

>>Do you remember the launching of the first man into space? (Yes)

     "Yes, and Sputnik also. Everyone her in the US seemed to believe that
    the USSR could never launch before us. Massive heart failure when Sputnik
    made it..."

>>Do you remember bomb shelters? When it was common for plans to be available
>>for home bomb shelters, designed to protect just your family? (Yep. We
>>never had one, but just about every magazine had hints and tips on how to
>>survive the unthinkable).

    "Yes, popular Mechanics printed several plans. Not to mention the dog
   tags given to some elementary school kids in the US, the tags supposedly
   would be able to stand a certain amount of heat so the kids' boddies could
   be identified. And yes, they told the kids this. I wasn't in that, but I
   was taught to 'drop-and-roll' to avoid the flash..."

[ stuff about building a home computer as only way]

 "I have a 1978 Byte magazine. It has a full page ad for an Apple ][ with
 16 colors !"

Later and I hope this beta-test software works...

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Gad, I dislike beta-testing, it makes me fell all irky inside." me :-)