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I can remember all those, but am very happy with the enormous strides made in technology! Just watch my heebie-jeebies if my internet is off too long!!
posted by
adnohr
on February 10, 2013 at 5:24 PM
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My dad looks exactly like james Gardner... I loved the Rockford files and never missed one but down in Miami they do not play the episodes anymore... That movie Garner made, The Notebook... omg! I have never cried so much watching a movie... My mom had just passed and hers and my dad's romance was an amazing one, to the point that my dad, a Dr. retired when she got ill and took care of her for 12 years till she was gone. That movie's theme and the fact that he looked so much like my dad was too much for me but it is an amazing movie. If you have not seen it, do, you would love it. and you are right about how much things have changed :-) Sorry to have gone off in a tangent 
Be well xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on February 9, 2013 at 5:51 PM
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I watch the Rockford files from time to time, but have fallen in love with the George Burns and Grayce Allen show. It amazes me how we all lived back then in what we thought was a modern world. Makes one wonder what tomorrow will bring.
posted by
UtahJay
on February 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM
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Reading this reminds me just how much things stay the same.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 8, 2013 at 12:31 PM
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One thing about the old Royal typewriters,
nobody in the mysterious East could slip in and steal your work without leaving so much as a fingerprint.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 8, 2013 at 4:13 AM
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Not much fun really having to go half a mile to a phone Taps , Well going back a bit further, but then one would have to walk or cycle. Each is a little leap that we do not notice.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 7, 2013 at 11:39 PM
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Re: WileyJohn
Was that the contraption that always turned my fingers purple when I had to make copies?
posted by
TAPS.
on February 7, 2013 at 7:25 PM
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TAPS
That was a great trip down memory lane, I loved that Rockford TV show and watched it for a long time. Your description of telephone books, and other things of that era made me feel so old.Why I even thought of spirit duplicators I used to repair.
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 7, 2013 at 7:18 PM
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I remember the Rockford Files, his dad always cracked me up! When I started in education we had all the tools you described. I remember how ecstatic my secretary was when we got our first word processing typewriter and now folks would chuckle at such an archiac piece of equipment! LOL! The technology is mind boggling these days! sam
posted by
sam444
on February 7, 2013 at 5:52 PM
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well, they did away with telephone books that thick because Grandma was
using it to sit the toddler on so as to reach the table. This was deemed as a dangerous practice because child could possibly
topple off the book
tip sideways off the book
rip bits of paper off the book and become poisoned from the ink
Pick up some germ from the last kid wot sat on said book...
posted by
Kabu
on February 7, 2013 at 5:12 PM
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TAPS
I remember those days with love. I got my first home computer in 1985 and it was hardly a computer compared to today with the old DOS. There was no internet etc., The wonderful advantages was there was more human interaction. Facebook: a social media thingy. Who wants to type in "Oh I went out for groceries today", and find you are talking to people you don't know or would not walk a foot to talk with on such a personal level. No I'll take back the old ways. I love the feel of my Bible even if I have almost worn it out. But I do love your post and ask for forgiveness for writing such a long comment.
posted by
Justi
on February 7, 2013 at 1:16 PM
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And ya know, however nice and convenient modern technology can sometimes be, the "old" stuff was still better, as far as I'm concerned! 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM
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TAPS
There are really some things that never change! I still use Roget's Thesaurus that's sitting on my desk, and my telephone company is still and outrageously charging me an extra 2 bucks a month for the 'privilege' of having a touch-tone phone! I'm debating whether I should go back to the old round-dial thing, if I can find one, that is, LOL...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 7, 2013 at 11:35 AM
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