I don't know about anyone else but when I was going up we had five channels to chose from. The local ABC, CBS and NBC affilitates and an indpendent station and PBS.

My dad had a remote control...us kids.  We got cable in 1980. If I remember right we had about 25-30 channels. 

My kids have always had cable.  They've always had CD's and have no idea what an 8 track tape is. 

I remember having a remote control car that had the cord attached so you had to follow the car around!

3 years ago, my husband and I had a console TV.  That was the heaviest thing ever!  When we moved, it did not come with us (even though I wanted to turn it into a fish tank!).  We do still have the 8 track player with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and we recently got rid of our Beta player and tapes!

Nope, we didn't buy it, my parents did.  Then, when they got a clue, I got the Beta player and a handful of tapes.  I had it hooked up to their old black and white tv in my room, and with my Nintendo (which I still have!), I thought I had it made!

Oooh, you just opened another can!

Video games.

Remember the Ataris?  the big battle game was the two little tanks that drove around with like two walls to hide behind?

My Dad upgraded to Intellivision when I was in grade school and we thought that was the coolest.  It had those little plastic inserts you put on the controllers to make the controller look different for every game you played.

Yeah, breakout was cool.  That was my favorite game.

I also remember when intellivision came out with something called SUB HUNT.  It was a big step up graphics wise, but still nothing compared to todays stuff.

I used to RUN home from school to play that game.

Boy, you hit it on the head confuzzed.

Those original computers were sooooooooooooooooooooooo slow.  You could turn it on, go make a sandwich, come back and it would just be getting to the point where you could use it.

I remember the first computer I bought, the woman at Best Buy told me I didn't need a hard drive.  "What do you need a hard drive for, any programs you use you will be on a floppy (5" floppy no less") and this computer has two floppy drives, so the data can go directly onto the second floppy"

I used to keep my cassette tapes list on a database called MYDATABASE, it was about 400 tapes, and I would enter the newest purchases each week and then hit the SORT button so that it would put them in alphabetical order.

It took that computer HOURS, I MEAN LIKE 3 OR 4 HOURS to perform that task!

GOOD TIMES

You're also right about FFR.  This would never have been possible, but if computers had been where they are today when I was 10 years old, I'd be a 27 year veteran at this.  My cousin and I used to make our radio stations on cassette tapes, putting the recorder next to the stereo during a song, then talking in between.

How many of you remember telling the folks "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm recording this song!"

I'm sure that's something every kid did, before the days of built-in cassette decks.

Asisson1969, threads always go awry here.  And I'm no help.

Wan'na feel old?  In the last few years, I've watched my first daughter go from sitting on the floor at my rehearsals, to trying out for the drama team and not making it, trying out again two years later and making it, and just last week she stood next to me and was part of the audition judges for the latest batch of kids!  She talking about driving!!  GAHHHHH!

Rome, the eternal city!  Asisson, is that for the Duran Duran appearance, or just a desire to see Rome?

I would love to see McCartney.  Nice to see these artists giving of their time and talents for humanities's sake.

Thanks for the info Confuzzed.