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Posted
5 minutes ago, The Dean said:

 

 

Iodine's ugly and dangerous step sister.

We had that in the medicine cabinet. The bottle was probably older than me.  Never used it.  Must have a  great immune system. A little neosporin and a bandaid. Never goy an infected cut.

Posted
12 minutes ago, The Dean said:

 

 

Iodine's ugly and dangerous step sister.

 

Wait, that wasn't supposed to be for huffing?

I must have had the wrong brown bottle......

Posted
11 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

Old school credit card machine | Minute by minute

This sat on the desk / table in the office of the service station where I began working in the mid 70s.  Cash was guarded carefully, excess amounts stashed in the back room, or kept in the floor safe.  The merchant portions of the charge card slips were kept in a Dutch Masters cigar box on the desk mentioned above, available to anyone in the room.  Amazing how susceptible to fraud this same information is today.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

Does the Montgomery Ward in Syracuse still display tube tv's and vcr's?


I don’t think that’s open anymore.

Posted
6 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Beta!

 

When I bought my first VCR, I had to decided whether to go with Beta or VHS. Good thing I went with VHS. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Just Jack said:

 

When I bought my first VCR, I had to decided whether to go with Beta or VHS. Good thing I went with VHS. 

 

Betamax quality is much better though. I'm betting on Beta!

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On 4/12/2020 at 3:43 PM, PastaJoe said:

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When I worked on the F-15 (twin engine) at McDonnell-Douglas, the folks used to refer to the F-16 (single engine) as "lawn darts".

 

Put them to the test, they said: "go up to 40,000 feet and turn off one engine!"

 

Hence the lawn dart reference.

 

Posted
4 hours ago, Just Jack said:

 

When I bought my first VCR, I had to decided whether to go with Beta or VHS. Good thing I went with VHS. 


guy I used to work with went all in on Beta. He got the state of the art Betamax player for like $1000 when it came out!

 

speaking of, anyone remember going to the video store and you could get the VHS on the shelf or the Beta right behind it? 

Posted
3 hours ago, The Dean said:

 

Betamax quality is much better though. I'm betting on Beta!

 

That was part of my choice. Beta had the better quality, but a blank VHS tape could do up to 6 hours of recording, versus only 5 for Beta.

 

 

23 minutes ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:

speaking of, anyone remember going to the video store and you could get the VHS on the shelf or the Beta right behind it? 

 

Yep, locally our second video rental in our small town (Video Voyage) had separate VHS and Beta sections. The first video rental "place" (it was Rite Aid pharmacy) only carried VHS, and only one copy of each movie. 

Posted
6 hours ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:

speaking of, anyone remember going to the video store and you could get the VHS on the shelf or the Beta right behind it? 

 

Or that special catalog they kept under the counter you had to be over 18 to browse

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