I had that. Booring.

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Jul 19, 2017
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Author

Time

Age test

thaws Good Guy Idiot

7/19/17 11:52am

All of the above

CopperLix

7/19/17 11:53am

All of the above

Mathew

7/19/17 11:53am

Only the first one.

Six Foot Seven

7/19/17 11:54am

your mom reaching across your body to "save" you when she has to stop quickly

smokymountainrain

7/19/17 11:54am

That's my move!!!!

Tabernacle Tech

7/19/17 12:41pm

Co-Stanza!

DK-

7/19/17 12:49pm

Can't Stand ya

Tabernacle Tech

7/19/17 1:25pm

atari, record players

DK-

7/19/17 11:55am

We got a used Atari when I was 7. I was amazed that I could control stuff on TV.

EpicAccountant

7/19/17 11:57am

WE had pong machine first. So cool you could play --- tennis. That is it. Tennis.

thaws

7/19/17 12:01pm

We had Pong

BYULAWGUY

7/19/17 12:57pm

Add: typewriter, party line for telephone, car without seat belts

Hinta

7/19/17 11:55am

Boy party line is ooooold.

SandYFan

7/19/17 11:56am

we never had one, but my grandparents did. Wierd you could hear somone else's converstation

thaws

7/19/17 11:58am

CB Radios in the farm trucks and a CB radio at home base

Mathew

7/19/17 11:55am

Party line on your phone

CopperLix

7/19/17 11:55am

all except the 8 - track for me as a kid.

indocoug

7/19/17 11:55am

none of the above

Ulysses14

7/19/17 11:55am

all of them and a party phone line.

Belboz

7/19/17 11:56am

we had an 8 track in the house for a bit, but our cars had them, too. Our truck had it where you

thaws

7/19/17 12:00pm

Rotary phone and dimmer switch yes. Why don't they use the floor switch anymore?

Ycrazy

7/19/17 11:56am

Just a guess

bluegato

7/19/17 12:23pm

That is one thing that I would bring back on cars...

ToonArmyCoug

7/19/17 1:09pm

i don't remember the dimmer switch on the floor board or the 8 track, but i'm

smokymountainrain

7/19/17 11:57am

Dimmer = hi beam / lo beam switch - our station wagon had that on the floor

Tricky

7/19/17 1:04pm

Yes....and we had a party line

DodgerMike

7/19/17 11:57am

Transistor radio; no TV with remote; 45rpm records;

Monomachos

7/19/17 11:58am

My mom had some 78s mixed in with her regular 33s.

Belboz

7/19/17 12:03pm

wow...you are young, i can still remember the tube radio in the living room

Nat Gas Man

7/19/17 12:03pm

All of the above minus the party line.

Kama'aina

7/19/17 11:58am

For me it's more of a poor test not an age test. All those listed are still valued commodities on my home reserve.

JohnnyComeLately

7/19/17 11:59am

All except 8-tracks; my family skipped straight from records to cassettes.

fredgarvin

7/19/17 11:59am

I always preferred the actual album because of the packaging.

Belboz

7/19/17 12:02pm

Nat Gas Man

7/19/17 12:00pm

All of the above

bluegato

7/19/17 12:00pm

That was before my time.

thaws

7/19/17 12:01pm

Grew up in Utah with a coal-fired furnace as our primary source of heat until I

basman

7/19/17 12:01pm

Yes on all of the above plus....

BigYfan

7/19/17 12:01pm

Yeah- the remotes with a cord were funny. Most of my growing up - I was the remote with my dad telling me to change

thaws

7/19/17 12:03pm

Ever had one of these?

Thrill

7/19/17 12:03pm

NOt the two player version- but had a football and a baseball one

thaws

7/19/17 12:04pm

Same--we had one like this. I think my parents still have it

fredgarvin

7/19/17 12:08pm

That's it!

thaws

7/19/17 12:10pm

I spent hours playing that thing...

silk

7/19/17 1:22pm

I had that exact one. My brothers and I probably wore out the buttons.

Tricky

7/19/17 5:03pm

I wasn't rich enough for head to head

Belboz

7/19/17 12:10pm

Yes! How 'bout the NFL Electric Football game with the vibrating field?

Hawk in the 303

7/19/17 12:22pm

I had that. Booring.

eddog

7/19/17 12:43pm

I forgot about hand held video games. I had a few of those.

eddog

7/19/17 12:44pm

i thought it was gonna be a coleco or intellevision

pegushin

7/19/17 1:34pm

Yes plus intellivision, pong, cassette phone answering machine, and sore fingers from Manual typewriter.

zephyr

7/19/17 12:10pm

I loved the Intellivision football game.

Belboz

7/19/17 12:12pm

Before my time, but I remember shortly thereafter doing stuff like

IndependentGeorge

7/19/17 12:14pm

Yes to all

Frank Castiglione

7/19/17 12:15pm

The craziest, old tech we had when I was a kid was a Coleco Adam computer

Frank Castiglione

7/19/17 12:53pm

For me, VCR is the old technology I remember when I was a child.

Jezza

7/19/17 12:18pm

Bunch of oldoes on here

Ulysses14

7/19/17 12:20pm

None

byupacker

7/19/17 12:20pm

Regular Nintendo, Walkman, VCR, my grandparents only had 3 channels,

eddog

7/19/17 12:25pm

Do you remember not owning a VCR and renting it when you rented a movie?

Tricky

7/19/17 6:22pm

Yes I do remember that. I'm old.

eddog

7/19/17 6:35pm

Yep

Frank Castiglione

7/19/17 7:13pm

Yes to all.

jdub

7/19/17 12:34pm

I'll say "yes" to all and raise you a BetaMAX.

Bert609

7/19/17 12:34pm

don't forget the slide projector

warp

7/19/17 12:47pm

I'll add CB Radio. We had one of those in our full sized van.

Y'zcrack

7/19/17 12:46pm

Nice, except CB isn't that rare. You'll most likely find one in any

Bert609

7/19/17 12:55pm

Awesome. I didn't realize they were still so common.

Y'zcrack

7/19/17 2:12pm

I would put it as a "niche" market now, not necessarily common.

Bert609

7/19/17 3:06pm

Our first videogame was Pong

SoCalCoug

7/19/17 1:01pm

A few more...

MenloCougar

7/19/17 1:01pm

NEver had reel to reel- a friend of mine did, though. Had flash bulbs and polaroid though and my FIL still

thaws

7/19/17 1:05pm

Shag carpet; bike with a banana seat, huge sissy bar and center bar shifter...

ToonArmyCoug

7/19/17 1:15pm

Yup all of that. Add clock radio where the readout was not LED

BYU Grounds

7/19/17 1:10pm

What about a Merlin tic tac toe game?

Captain Stubing

7/19/17 1:21pm

Watched BYU v. Navy for Holiday Bowl I on a 13 inch B&W TV

Captain Stubing

7/19/17 1:22pm

Lawn Darts!!!

silk

7/19/17 1:29pm

No floor dimmer but did have a Bronco with the high beams switch on the floor

byuTX

7/19/17 5:53pm

Anybody remember what this is?

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