For those of a certain age

[nsd_user663_59305]

This makes you think!

[nsd_user663_59305]

wasn't it "pong" or something silly like that?

[nsd_user663_59305]

I think it was Atari

[nsd_user663_61170]

Hi all

I had an Amstrad, it was great fun lol.

[nsd_user663_59305]

I was really techy in those days, I had a Spectrum 128/48k to help with my Computer Studies

[nsd_user663_60964]

It was Atari

We had one. You could play tennis at 2 speeds. Normal and vaguely fast. It was great.

[nsd_user663_60964]

LOL!!

And we thought it was SO sophisticated

The young people today would never believe it...

Does anyone remember party-line phones? We had one when I was little. I tried to explain the concept to someone I worked with recently and her face was a picture. She obviously thought I was completely barking.

[nsd_user663_60964]

Gosh, yes, CB radio! It was a positive craze in the late 70's and early 80's wasn't it? I had forgotten all about that.

Party lines were quite common in rural areas (I grew up in a village). Basically, you shared your phone line with a neigbour (or several neighbours) so you couldn't make a call if someone else was using the phone. On the plus side, you could listen in on your neighbour's conversations

My parents were very happy when the GPO put in more lines

[nsd_user663_59305]

I remember party lines Any one remember the film Pillow Talk :cool: that was all about a party line

[nsd_user663_59305]

Gosh, yes, CB radio! It was a positive craze in the late 70's and early 80's wasn't it? I had forgotten all about that.

Party lines were quite common in rural areas (I grew up in a village). Basically, you shared your phone line with a neigbour (or several neighbours) so you couldn't make a call if someone else was using the phone. On the plus side, you could listen in on your neighbour's conversations

My parents were very happy when the GPO put in more lines

10 - 4 Rubber Duckie

[nsd_user663_59305]

Here is one for people of a certain age :D

They are both having a post coital smoke if you can't see it

Very clever, great play on words :D:D

[clarey33]

I was really techy in those days, I had a Spectrum 128/48k to help with my Computer Studies

Me too! OMG that brings back memories 😂

[nsd_user663_54332]

I was really techy in those days, I had a Spectrum 128/48k to help with my Computer Studies

Lol, I can remember being in year 3 and we got a proper computer - those RM Nimbus thingies if anyone around my age remembers? -my phone is loads more powerful than that now, but back then it was magic!!

[nsd_user663_2681]

Here is one for people of a certain age :D

They are both having a post coital smoke if you can't see it

Hahaha if you showed that pic to kids they would no way understand the connection, did u also put Sellotape over the top so u could tape over it? I remember taping the charts and sitting there pausing it when the DJ talked who I believe at the time was the Canadian DJ...god I can't think of his name now....blonde fella....

[nsd_user663_54332]

Here is one for people of a certain age :D

They are both having a post coital smoke if you can't see it

*remembers only very dimly*

[nsd_user663_2681]

Hahaha if you showed that pic to kids they would no way understand the connection, did u also put Sellotape over the top so u could tape over it? I remember taping the charts and sitting there pausing it when the DJ talked who I believe at the time was the Canadian DJ...god I can't think of his name now....blonde fella....

Got it! David Jensen ( I think?)

[nsd_user663_2681]

That's him. Known as Kid Jensen back then

Indeed

[nsd_user663_59305]

Hahaha if you showed that pic to kids they would no way understand the connection, did u also put Sellotape over the top so u could tape over it? I remember taping the charts and sitting there pausing it when the DJ talked who I believe at the time was the Canadian DJ...god I can't think of his name now....blonde fella....

Did you then spend forever playing and pausing to learn the words too? My parents had the most wonderful "Music Centre" way before midi systems came out - it was huge, about the size of a desk and we'd spend Sunday morning listening to records because there was nothing on the telly until after lunch - the days of four channels, all that used to go off air after midnight :rolleyes:

[nsd_user663_2681]

Did you then spend forever playing and pausing to learn the words too? My parents had the most wonderful "Music Centre" way before midi systems came out - it was huge, about the size of a desk and we'd spend Sunday morning listening to records because there was nothing on the telly until after lunch - the days of four channels, all that used to go off air after midnight :rolleyes:

Ha do you mean the music centres with the big glass door? pmsl we had one of them too

[__steve__]

Ha do you mean the music centres with the big glass door? pmsl we had one of them too

Glass? Ours was wooden and played 78s :eek:

[nsd_user663_2681]

Glass? Ours was wooden and played 78s :eek:

Wooden doors you say? Very Abigail's party

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[nsd_user663_2681]

OH WOW!! What a fantastic clip. That's what I call real beauty...the cigarette lighting part of course, not the dress!

It is SOO very funny that film even though it's not meant to be.....I remember me and my friends doing impressions of her when we were younger... Who'd of thought she would end up as Pamelaaaah and Ange would be one of the swingers from Benidorm

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

Did you then spend forever playing and pausing to learn the words too? My parents had the most wonderful "Music Centre" way before midi systems came out - it was huge, about the size of a desk and we'd spend Sunday morning listening to records because there was nothing on the telly until after lunch - the days of four channels, all that used to go off air after midnight :rolleyes:

Did anyone else have a record player in a suitcase? We uses to stick coins to the stylus arm to stop it jumping.

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[nsd_user663_18145]

Omg

We had a record player like that

Used to put loads of singles on it at once

Hehe still have my singles and albums

But no record player :rolleyes: :cool:

Oh and taping the top 20 countdown on Sundays telling everyone to shhhhhh

Brilliant trip down memory lane :D.

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

To be fair it also originally belonged to my older sisters who are 10 & 12 years older than me. One got married at 19 and with her wages at 18 the other got a stereo record player which IIRC was a mucky orange colour and made of plastic from that point on the suitcase record player lived in my cupboard and I would play Summer Nights (from Grease) or Pinky & Perky's The Pushbike Song/Jack in a Box or Puff the magic dragon in wonderful mono.

One of my friends would play his dad's Gary Glitter singles and I remember him drumming on a toy drum kit to I Love You Love Me Love..... Ahhhh days of innocence..... Who would have thought things would turn out as they did :eek:

[nsd_user663_2681]

Did you then spend forever playing and pausing to learn the words too? My parents had the most wonderful "Music Centre" way before midi systems came out - it was huge, about the size of a desk and we'd spend Sunday morning listening to records because there was nothing on the telly until after lunch - the days of four channels, all that used to go off air after midnight :rolleyes:

Indeed I did the pause and rewind thing to learn the words as kids we were so much more innocent then