List of things you don't see nowadays...

[sirja]

Lotus 123
Wordperfect
Foxpro databases
Netscape Browsers
Dot matrix printers
OS2
Visual Interdev(What a waste of space that was)
MTS

[mudskipper]

Lotus 123
Wordperfect
Foxpro databases
Netscape Browsers
Dot matrix printers
OS2
Visual Interdev(What a waste of space that was)
MTS

You still get dot matrix printers anywhere that uses multipart stationery - garages are a good example. I've also still got one in my upstairs cupboard if anyone would like to give it a good home.

[EternalOptimist]

Excellent.

Me too.

And I've got shedloads of those old wirelesses that take an age to warm up.

In the olden days, before the transistor, electronics used valves. They had a plate that would emit electrons when it was very hot.
So when the oldsters said they were waiting for the radio to warm up, they meant it literally


(I know ZG knows this better than me)

[d000hg]

you are thinking of liquorice bark. sticks of woody stuff that you could chew for a week without the flavour going

in Liverpool we called it 'sticky lice'

Oh, I do remember trying that too as a very small child but I was just thinking of regular 'soft' liquorice back in the days that took a good half hour to gnaw through. Modern soft liquorice is about the same toughness as chicken

I saw some of those little boxes of "sweet cigarettes" in a shop the other day. You know, the white things about three inches long with red dye on one end.

They've ditched the red dye and just call them "candy sticks" now, so sweet cigarettes can be added to the list, though their pure white ghost lingers on

Ah, memories. Trying to look cool by having a fake cigarette!

[Uncle Albert]

Top of the Pops
Mix tapes
The test card
Telly that you had to get off your arse to change channel
The white dot fading in the centre of the screen when you turned the telly off

[hyperD]

Typhoid

[DimPrawn]

Well paid IT contracts.

[sirja]

You still get dot matrix printers anywhere that uses multipart stationery - garages are a good example. I've also still got one in my upstairs cupboard if anyone would like to give it a good home.

I stand corrected!

[BoredBloke]

Pinball machines in pubs - I'm tulip at pool but could make a quid last ages on a pinball machine. I'm tempted to buy one but we have nowhere to put it. It'll be on the list if we get our house extended!

[SimonMac]

You still get dot matrix printers anywhere that uses multipart stationery - garages are a good example. I've also still got one in my upstairs cupboard if anyone would like to give it a good home.

Don't forget airports, lots of them there