Remember when

https://www.tcm.com/video/81679/smokey-and-the-bandit-original-trailer/

 

I was driving a shitbox 78 Buick LeSabre with a 301-2bbl Pontiac in it. Torquey but slow. It was a miracle to be able to do 70 uphill. I remember climbing 5 mile hill on the Quickway at Wortsboro, and the car would constantly shift between 2nd and 3rd gear. It could go faster in 2nd uphill at 70, but once it got above 70, the transmission would shift into 3rd, and she'd lose speed... It was 2nd / 3rd / 2nd / 3rd...

Now I am more content going with the flow at a reasonable pace. No need to go over 60 on a two-lane blacktop unless I am out on a flat straight-away in the desert...

 

Back in 1987 when I got that ticket CHP didn’t use radar. (Not the case today) I thought I was pretty safe until I found out about the eye in the sky. My last ticket was 31 years ago, on Valentine’s Day by a very attractive blond female CHP who didn’t want to go out with me (I asked) and seemed not to have a sense of humor. I hope didn’t jinx myself

 

I quit using a radar detector after that mainly because my speeds were never excessive and I'd rather take my chances with my own ticket avoidance skills. I've found being polite, having your paperwork and vehicle in order plus not being the LEO's a-hole of the day gets me warning's far more then tickets.

 

I have to laugh back in my Youth Police all looked so much older thirties or older .

Now so many look like High School was last year.

I can`t help myself I tend to ask does your Mother like your choice of career ??

They all tend to laugh so hard.

 

Remember when trailer brake controls were hooked up to the brake master cylinder .

A steel brake line ran through the fire wall to the control mounted to the left under the dash.

you could also apply the trailer brakes alone by hand.

The brake light switch was connected to the control to operate the brake lights.

I installed many in those early days.

 

I still have my old Tandy (Radio Shack) tractor feed that I bought in 1990 but haven't used it in years. I doubt if I could find drivers for it these days.

 

You don't need a driver. A ten iron would work just fine.

 

30 years ago, a friend brought me an orphan Tandy RadioShack computer that was rescued from the bin. I can’t remember the model number, but it had something to do with games, like GRS-2? Or something like that…

It operated just fine but of course it was extremely primitive and there was absolutely no software available for this machine. People wrote their own stuff or bought what RadioShack offered, which apparently wasn’t much.

I gave it back to him after my analysis, and just told him to put it back in the bin; because it was worse than the worst computer he’d ever used in his life.

 

Was it a TRS-80?

 

I’m thinking it was an older model than that.

 

Was it like this? The TRS-80 Model 1 was the very first personal computer as we know them today.

 

Remember rigging up coat hangers and tinfoil on your t.v. just to get 3 channels?

 

I remember riding my bike to the gas station to buy smokes for my mother. I was probably around 7-10 yrs old.
She would send me and my brother with an empty pack to show the cashier.
This would've been around the time when soda was sold in returnable bottles......and time of console t.v's

 

I'm 76yo, was with the same company 43 years, and have been retired 10 years! I remember when the company got their first internet connection and the speed was "14 mbps". When it went to 27 mbps we thought, WOW this is great. Times have changed.

 

I can’t imagine an office working without email… but then again maybe it was a better option than what we have today. Let me “cc” 10 more people onto this email…

 

The last place I worked was dragged screaming into the email internet age.

I think they might have been the last to still use fax machines and phone calls.

It was 2016 when we started using email then since we had our on cell phones why would we need company phones.

Some people made so many Errors of a major kind the having a paper trail put the fear of the Gods into them.

 

No. This computer had a 5.25 floppy.
It must’ve been something more advanced.

 

I think the TRS80 was first sold with tape drive but in time you could upgrade to the floppy drive.