Do you miss the Old Days? Before the internet. Before cell phones?

[Eagler]

As a tech for years, I  saw a few friends that were still in the field lose their jobs once they install gps in the trucks

Big brother didn't approve of all their travels even though it didn't affect job performance or productivity

Glad I missed that "improvement "

Eagler

[-gg-]

I remember when NFL games and NBA games were on regular television channels. Even the playoffs and the super bowl.
Not that I watch those sports anymore but every once in awhile I would want to see a certain game recently and it's nowhere to be found without paying for a service to watch it.

You guys remember ON TV and HBO with their little microwave dish antennas with the scrambled signals? This was before cable TV and you could buy HBO as a single channel and you would have to install a microwave dish on your house and aim it at their Tower. I don't remember what the cost was but I remember they had the Playboy channel. LOL.

[AKIron]

I remember putting tin foil on the TV antenna and taking turns standing next to it touching it to provide better reception. But it beat watching the radio.

[Eagler]

MDS is single channel microwave tv

Did it in 1979 thru 1983 in north east Florida

Climbed rohn 20 and 25 towers to up 200'  to swap down converters and aim wineguard dishes

The towers were nothing compared to the 50 foot 4 way guyed pushup poles they would install of some very steep two story roofs..

All for Showtime and a grainy pix that would change with signal strength varying as is shot through every changing foliage..there are some tall trees in NE FL

Eagler

[Spikes]

I remember when NFL games and NBA games were on regular television channels. Even the playoffs and the super bowl.

I've never had an issue finding playoffs or SB on regular TV with a digital antenna.

[thndregg]

Born in '73. Low tech, but happier times.

EGG

[Shuffler]

..... when cable had no commercials.

Born in 1959.

[Wildin]

Only the being young part.

[100Coogn]

I'm a '68 model.  I don't mind the tech.  I do miss when MTV actually played music videos.. 

Coogan

[sparky127]

Coog and I are the same age.  We're old enough to still remember before tech took over and we could grudgingly go back to it (could you imagine having to hand write a spreadsheet??) if the powers that be flicked the switch.  We are also the pioneers that ushered the tech in, so we have a firm grasp on it. 

We are the best generation of all.

[Arlo]

Firm grasp on something, alright.

[100Coogn]

You don’t read books.

What was the last book you read

The internet was made for you

Classic 'I got dropped on my head as a child syndrome'.    
You Britt's are just so fancy free.  (kinda light in the loafers.)

Coogan

[Dichotomy]

MDS is single channel microwave tv

Did it in 1979 thru 1983 in north east Florida

Climbed rohn 20 and 25 towers to up 200'  to swap down converters and aim wineguard dishes

The towers were nothing compared to the 50 foot 4 way guyed pushup poles they would install of some very steep two story roofs..

All for Showtime and a grainy pix that would change with signal strength varying as is shot through every changing foliage..there are some tall trees in NE FL

Eagler

not to mention 'code' allowed for up to 15% deflection at least in 2004.  15% deflection on a 100' pole is 15 feet each way folks.  Ever wonder why your cell signal is good in the morning and sucks in the afternoon?  There's your answer. 

Guyed towers are the worst.   

[CptTrips]

I'm so old I remember my Dad used to give me a couple of bucks to ride my bike to the 7-11 and get him a pack of Marlborough Lights and I could buy a cherry slurpie with the change.

And the guy behind the counter never blinked an eye about it. 

[-gg-]

I remember that too. My friend could go buy cigarettes for his mom. LOL.