You might be a child in the 70s if:

[RocketDestroyer]

Here is an obscure one for our friends down under...

Watching "The Box" on the Ten Network.

 

[DHays]

Cars with a bench seat up front. Could actually get your arm around your date.

And the big old cars that you could actually sleep in the back window on the self. And no seat belt laws.

 

[DHays]

TV show, Hee Haw, BR549, if it has not been mentioned.

 

[Rob Campbell]

TV show, Hee Haw, BR549, if it has not been mentioned.

Isn't BR549 a new strain of COVID. Symptoms include weight gain, affinity for country music and the desire to open a used car lot.

 

[DHays]

Isn't BR549 a new strain of COVID. Symptoms include weight gain, affinity for country music and the desire to open a used car lot.

Lol!! boy isn't that the truth.

 

[John Kemker]

"Empty Arms Motel!"

 

[Art Upton]

and the desire to open a used car lot.

"Just 97 miles past the Tasty Freeze"

Over the years when asked for a phone number at a store using a computer system I would say "BR549". Sometimes a lady would laugh...

 

[Mugs914]

I tried to use it as a password once, but no dice...

 

[cwbullet]

 

[Art Upton]

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Yes the original Apple I needed you to make your own case for it

 

[DHays]

Having to mow your yard with the old 3 wheel swisher riding mower, (Ride King) with the 6HP Tecumseh engine with the hand crank starter on it. Flip the small lever, crank the larger lever to build up spring tension, and then flip the small lever to spin the engine over, hoping that it would start on the first try. Not to mention the hard metal seat with no cushion.

 

[John Kemker]

Having to mow your yard with the old 3 wheel swisher riding mower, (Ride King) with the 6HP Tecumseh engine with the hand crank starter on it. Flip the small lever, crank the larger lever to build up spring tension, and then flip the small lever to spin the engine over, hoping that it would start on the first try. Not to mention the hard metal seat with no cushion.

That reminds me of my Dad's old Briggs with the same sort of starter! It was painted orange, peeling in most spots. Had a little knob you twisted to let the spring try to crank the engine.

 

[Capt. Eric]

Having one of the first digital watches. You had to push the button to see the time on the red LED display. National Semiconductor was the brand.
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Today I dug out my National Semiconductor watch. My father gave it to me in the 1970's. It was one of the first digital watches that you didn't have to press the button to read the time. My brothers had those, but I had the LCD one and man were they jealous!

So anyway, it's been decades since it worked. I threw a couple of batteries in it (can't believe I had the right ones). Yes - I said "couple". And lo and behold, it works!

By the way, it does NOT have a light. My brothers claimed that theirs were better because they could read the time at night. I knew better.

 

[MarsLander]

You built one of these the year they were released:

NO.	K#	Name
	31	Star Blazer
	45	Beta
1246	46	Shrike
1249	49	Sprint
	52	Omega
1200	52P	Omega
	53	Stinger
1255	55	Goblin
1412		Cineroc
1413		Cineroc & Omega Combo
800	TK-123	Mini-Brute Fleet Pack
	TK-1	Mosquito
802	TK-2	Screamer
803	TK-3	Mini Bertha
1202	2A	Mark II
	47	Cherokee-D
1248	48	Bandit
1250	50	Interceptor
1251	51	Sandhawk
1254	54	Saros
1256	56	Alpha III
	57	Sky Dart
1258	58	Demon
804	TK-4	Hornet
805	TK-5	Mini-Bomarc
	TK-31	Star Blazer
831		Star Blazer
	TK-40	Midget
	TK-44	Birdie
845	TK-45	Beta
1101	KL-1	Scamp
1102	KL-2	Yankee 5 (Gamma)
1103	KL-3	Marauder (Polaris)
1104	KL-4	Honest John
1105	KL-5	Teros
1106	KL-6	Shark (Stiletto)
1108		Scamp (Flight Pak)
1259	59	SPEV
	KC-1	Quasar
651	KC-2	Der Red Max
652	KC-3	Patriot
653	KC-4	Starship Vega
654	KC-5	Bomarc
701		Vampire
703		Banshee
704		Vampire
705		X-15
815		Super Flea/Javelin
815		Super Flea/Javelin
816		Wolverine
817		Aero-Hi
818		Rogue
819		Little John
820		Viper
850		Star Snoop
851		Cloud Hopper
852		Galaxy Guppy
853		Zoom Broom
854		Missile Toe
855		Sky Shriek
1110		Marauder (Flight Pak)
1111		Shark (Flight Pak)
1112		Yankee 5 (Flight Pak)
1207	7B	Phantom
821		Firecat
1265		Scissor-Wing Transport
1266		Camroc Carrier
1267		Maxi V-2
1268		Maxi Pershing-1A
650		Quasar
801		Mosquito
1220		Mars Snooper II
1223		Big Bertha
1225		Alpha
1247		Cherokee-D
1269		Maxi Honest John
1270		Nike-X
1271		Renegade
1272		Vostok
1273		USS Andromeda
1274		Klingon Battle Cruiser
1275		Starship Enterprise
1276		Antares
1277		Icarus
1278		Vigilante
1279		Nike-Ajax
1280		Firefly
1281		Alien Invader
1282		Photon Disruptor
1283		USS Atlantis
1284		Space Shuttle
806		Pegasus
807		Condor
1285		Teros
1286		Scamp
1287		LTV Scout
1288		Starlab
1289		Odyssey
1290		Sky Raider
1291		Maxi Alpha
657		Bomarc
716		X-15
1292		Wizard
1293		Black Brant 3
1294		Cobra 1500
1295		Mean Machine
1296		Satellite Interceptor
1297		Solar Sailer
1298		X-Wing Fighter
1299		TIE Fighter
1301		R2-D2
1302		Maxi X-Wing Fighter
1403		Der Big Red Max Starter Set
1977		Der Big Red Max
1310		Colonial Viper
1311		Laser Torpedo
1313		Cylon Raider
1314		Viper / Laser Torpedo Combo
1318		Viper plus Cylon Raider
1320		Starship Vega
1321		Maxi Alpha III
1322		Delta Star
1323		Stiletto
1324		Polaris
1325		Gamma
1326		Colossus
1327		Astrocam 110
1328		Kadet
1329		Multi Roc

 

[Hobie1dog]

You wanted a six-wheel ATV like the" Banana Splits" had.

 

[cerving]

That reminds me of my Dad's old Briggs with the same sort of starter! It was painted orange, peeling in most spots. Had a little knob you twisted to let the spring try to crank the engine.

Yeah, my dad had a Montgomery Ward mower with that impulse starter. Pretty sure my right arm got a lot stronger than my left one because of it...

 

[goose_in_co]

Playing video games on a Magnavox Odyssey.
It was a color game when you put the colored plastic sheets on your TV and they stuck with the static charge of the picture tube.
Came out before Pong.

 

[Jeff Lassahn]

That one time when suddenly there were really good pictures of the planet Jupiter.
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-voyager-took/

 

[teepot]

Windsor Canada wasn't far away. Besides the three US channels we got two Canadian. One of those showed old movies. I remember vividly the first time I saw a color TV. This was the early 60's and I was helping my dad deliver milk. I took an order up to a house and the lady there gave me a brownie. Behind her I say a TV with Rocky and Bullwinkle and Bullwinkle was purple. Gas wars in Detroit. Saw gas at 18 cents. Plus you got something. We had 3 sets of Apollo glasses. Still have one. The Arab gas shortage. Gas went from 25 cents to 50 cents almost overnight. In 77 I traded my Torino for a 76 VW Scirocco because I read in Car & Driver it was the poor mans Porsche. That car nearly killed me. Should have kept the Torino but it had fatal rust from salt on the road. Joined the Air Force in 1979. Here is something to make you all laugh. It's my Senior picture. I still have all my Year books.

 

[Art Upton]

Playing video games on a Magnavox Odyssey.
It was a color game when you put the colored plastic sheets on your TV and they stuck with the static charge of the picture tube.
Came out before Pong.

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The originals had to be hard wired into the Magnavox TV insides by a trained repairman. A friend down the block had one.

 

[BrendanH69]

Were fortuitously located half way between NYC and Philly, so we got seven New York channels and on a good day four from Philadelphia. Other than that, the same.

Yeah, I forgot about that factor.
Where we were living in N.Ireland, some houses could point another roof-top antenna southwards and get one extra TV channel from RTE, the Southern Irish broadcaster. Houses in Belfast could get it too as the signal reflected off the huge cranes at the Harland & Wolff shipyards. We couldn't get it, but the houses immediately either side of us could!

 

[OverTheTop]

Minolta SRT-101, as someone mentioned upthread.

 

[OverTheTop]

74 series TTL logic (my first databook was TTL logic in 1972. I was 10.)

74LS series later in the decade.

 

[BrendanH69]

Dave Allen was so much funnier than Benny IMHO.

True, Dave Allen was clever and a different genre though. However, The Benny Hill Show kept the peace in numerous jails more than most other shows... so I've read.

 

[OverTheTop]

Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man.

 

[bobby_hamill]

HR Puff and stuff and Land of the lost
Are you being served on PBS

 

[bobby_hamill]

The more transistors you had in the back of your transistor radio the cooler you were

 

[cwbullet]

GPS - U.S. Navy invented it in 1978.​

 

[cvanc]

 

[cwbullet]

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Great one.

Manufacturer: Cromemco
Year: 1975​

First digital camera with a image of 32 pixels by 32 pixels.