Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Thursday Portrait.....





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Oooops....
I have a small confession to make.
Yesterday?
My post?
It was all Bull-Shit!!
There were no personal computers in the late 60's!!!
We still used SLIDE-RULES for Pete's Sake !!
The Commadore 64 came out in the 80's!!
The last pic is a Commadore 55, but it's a 70's calculator!!
The middle 2 pics are also Commadore 55's, but they are
nothing more than model cars...
I hope this doesn't ruin my credibility...hehehehe.
All this 55 talk is reminding me that...That...Shoot, I forgot!
See Ya Friday...(Or 8:00PM EST Thursday)
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17 comments:

  1. joannaFebruary 16, 2011 at 8:20:00 PM EST

    ah you are just a futuristic kind of guy -- dreaming about what was to come.....I shouldn't tell but I worked in a large computer room in the late 60"s for a toy manufacturer we designed 'new' toys It took a whole room to produce some data, from punch cards that were typed in and that room was darn cold.

    joanny

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  2. BubbaFebruary 16, 2011 at 8:55:00 PM EST

    I knew better, but I figured you had something up your sleeve, G-Man.

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  3. One Stop - The Place For Poets, Writers and ArtistsFebruary 16, 2011 at 9:29:00 PM EST

    Ha- I didn't comment yesterday ya know why? growing up in Silicon Valley (down the street from the famous HP garage)I kinda know computer history - though I dont know main frame in the midwest in someone's house hmmm possible

    my kids were given one of the first Mac's by one of the many who made a mint in the early Apple Days



    Nice Try though

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  4. SerenaFebruary 16, 2011 at 10:21:00 PM EST

    But they had singing Commodores in the 70s. I'm going to try to actually see Thursday evening morph into Friday tomorrow night.:P

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  5. Brian MillerFebruary 16, 2011 at 10:32:00 PM EST

    nice...it was the 64 we had...commodore 55s eh...hmm...

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  6. clean and crazyFebruary 16, 2011 at 10:59:00 PM EST

    i would have never known!!! but i love the simple honesty in this post, well done galen!! hope to post a fff this week. the roofers are coming tomorow

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  7. KBFebruary 16, 2011 at 11:56:00 PM EST

    Shall we change your name to Mr Bull-Shit? Hehe.

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  8. the walking manFebruary 17, 2011 at 6:12:00 AM EST

    Dude you used a slide rule, my old man used a slide rule and as far as i know everyone in America used a slide rule---except for me. I got knocked down 55 times for not being able to use a slide rule. At least i thought it was 55 times...i had no way of knowing because they didn't have calculators back then. They had Commodores.

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  9. AkelamaluFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:18:00 AM EST

    I nearly choked when I read KB's comment. LOL

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  10. TALONFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:49:00 AM EST

    I didn't even think of the decade - just remembered the machines. And now you mentioned slide-rulers and I'm getting hives (I'm allergic to math)!

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  11. MonaFebruary 17, 2011 at 3:58:00 PM EST

    Is there really a car that sounds like commode!

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  12. StrangerFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:48:00 PM EST

    Whew! I knew that but wasn't going to correct you. I was taught to always respect your elders.

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  13. Lulda CasadagaFebruary 17, 2011 at 6:21:00 PM EST

    Sometimes we need to take poetic license...and you are surely entitled to a little! ;)

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  14. JannaFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:59:00 PM EST

    When I was a teenager in the 80's, we couldn't afford a Commodore 64 so we got the wimpier version-- a Commodore Vic-20.

    OMG.

    I have no idea how anyone was ever able to accomplish anything on those.

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  15. secret agent womanFebruary 18, 2011 at 4:44:00 PM EST

    I didn't even notice the date in that last post. I got my first laptop in 1992.

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  16. limeFebruary 18, 2011 at 10:13:00 PM EST

    i was gonna say....i remember when the 64 came out. i was in high school.

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  17. Doctor FTSEFebruary 19, 2011 at 3:04:00 AM EST

    We had 2 Vic 20's, 2 C64's, 2 Commosore disc drives and an Amiga - before Commodore went bust and we moved on to Macs. The University department I worked in (late 70's) was full of Commodore Pets . . some with as much as 32K (that's K) of storage. I remember at one Faculty Meeting, during the usual battle for research funds, a colleague in Electrical Engineering saying "How can the Mechanical Engineers possibly claim they need more than 16K storage" Those were the days!

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