Feeling Old (Off-Topic)

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Thursday, August 13, 2015, 18:14 (3393 days ago) @ bluerunner

Mine's a mix of old and country:
- We had a party line (several households sharing the same phone line).
- I was about to start college when they paved our road.
- Never had cable, but finally got satellite in high school.
- First computer was an Apple II. It was a loaner from a rich couple who owned a farm 5 miles away.
- I watched more TV on a black and white TV than color during my childhood. Much of that TV watching before I was school age was done in a chicken house.
- During most of my childhood we didn't have a street address, just a route and box number.
- Even though we had indoor plumbing, we still had an outhouse out back.
- I learned to drive a tractor before learning to drive a car.
- I got my first Walkman when I was 10 and wore out a Don Williams cassette tape while working on our farm.

nice!

-My first cassette tape was "Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits"
-My first concert was Dwight Yoakam, when i was in 1st grade.
-My first computer was a Tandy 1000RL with 768k RAM, a Tandy 16 color monitor, and no hard drive
-I had an old black and white TV that only had 13 channels, until i got an NES, then i got used color tv
-Our living room TV sat on top of an older TV that didn't work, was made out of wood, and was the size of a cabinet
-My first gaming system was a hand-me-down Atari 2600 (that i still have)
-I learned to drive a stick shift while checking cows
-My first bicycle was from Western Auto
-When Super Mario Bros 3 came out, i put it on lay-away for $5, and paid it off by mowing for my grandmother