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Trey

Trey

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Holy funkadelic man- that's like magic! Gotta love the IntraWeb. Thanks!
Bet a million Dinars I'm the only person in Montana who listened to that song on cassette, and youtube today.
I'd like to thank you with a gift. Something like their outfits maybe. What's your cape size?:)
 
2door

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Only if you can get me a 'FRO' like theirs to go with it.

I had to go back and listen again. Just great old stuff. Thanks for the reminder Trey.

Tom
 
Allen_Wrench

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I don't have many vinyl records anymore. Some are still at home in Mansfield; some I keep with me. Don't remember what became of my old Led Zeps. But I have a treasure:

The first sci-fi/fantasy book I ever read, the one that started me on the path to geekdom, was the Hobbit. Later, Rankin Bass made a movie of it. I liked the movie enough that my folks bought me the double-record set, complete with story book. I still have it.

There's one on Ebay right now that is not quite in as good a shape as mine. Here's what the bid is up to:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rankin-Bass...-complete-record-in-super-shape-/110824852282

Mine has been played very little. When cassettes came out, I had the records recorded onto a blank cassette, to listen to at will and spare the records. I'll bet I could get a decent sum at a gamer's convention.
 
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Bikeguy Joe

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I have a bunch of old vinyl and acetate...yes, some 78's. And a record player that looks like a suit case until you swing the speakers open and flip down the turn table. Works great!

Anybody want a Doris Day 78? lol.

I have the "flame cover" Lynyrd Skynyrd version of Street Survivors on vinyl!
 
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Bikeguy Joe said:
Oh, here's one for old guys.... Dark Side of the Moon turns 40 this year.
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LOL, how many of you remember jumping when the all the alarm clocks go off? :)

You're setting there, mellowed out and listening to the clocks ticking...and then the mood is shattered by the bells and chimes. If you had the volume way up it always got you, even when you were expecting it.

Tom
 
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Wow. When did Pink Floyd get that old? That means *gasp* Led Zep's even older!

When I was younger, classic rock was Chuck Berry, Elvis, Bill Haley & the Comets, Buddy Holley, etc. And at the time, that stuff was only ten to twenty years old. Now, classic rock means '70s, '80s, and sometimes '90s. Oooohhh, my bursitis! My sciatica!
 
Bikeguy Joe

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Allen_Wrench said:
Wow. When did Pink Floyd get that old? That means *gasp* Led Zep's even older!

When I was younger, classic rock was Chuck Berry, Elvis, Bill Haley & the Comets, Buddy Holley, etc. And at the time, that stuff was only ten to twenty years old. Now, classic rock means '70s, '80s, and sometimes '90s. Oooohhh, my bursitis! My sciatica!
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Yeah, I was telling my daughter that if I listened to 40 year old music when I was a kid, it means it was recorded when her grandmother was BORN!

There wasn't any such thing as rock music in 1935.
 
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Kids won't get this one: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=423457827747767&set=vb.167008056731308&type=2&theater

I don't have a link for Youtube, so al there is, is the FB link for now.
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BWAAHAHAHAH! Yep, some of us had a little trouble adjusting when the PCs came into vogue. I learned to type (they call it "keyboarding" now) on my mom's manual typewriter. I've learned to ease up a bit, but my co-workers still say I bang on my keys.
Some days I actually miss the "TIK*TIK*TIK*T*T*TIK*TIK*T*TIK*DING*BLAM!"
 
Allen_Wrench

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Okay, old guys everywhere, here's why I feel so much at home where I work:

It's a government office building, so things change very slowly. Some court offices, at the judges' whim, still keep manual typewriters on hand in case the computers crash (which has happened, so these things still occasionally see use).

The primary data management program we use was originally set up for a mainframe; it's in DOS and was created in 1986. After so many years, pretty much all the bugs are worked out (and everyone there is very used to it) so nobody in IT has been able to replace it.

Even the mail chutes still have the little "This is your NEW Zip Code" signs from 1974, when zip codes were implemented and the post office wanted people to start using them.

They even covered the wooden frames of the revolving doors with stainless steel so they'd look more modern and take less maintenance, but you can see the wood at the edges.

When I step outside the building on my lunch, it's kinda like going back to the future.
 
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