Who's old enough here to remember when

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Was this before they invented steam engines and talkies? 😀

We had to walk to school in snowstorms uphill both ways! 😛

(I'm 50.)

 

[Hyperlite]

OP needs a lurker award

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite
OP needs a lurker award

There are much lower post count lurkers than the OP. Async just won the last round of 'Ultimate Lurker'.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Maiora
You could go to the corner drug store and test your tubes?

I used to go with my dad for both his stereo and the TV tubes back in the 70s. But they were on their way out even then as "solid state" was the big new thing.

 

[jjones]

While I never did it myself (too young), I remember going with my father.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: RossMAN
32 here

really? that's it.

;p

:brokenheart:

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Maiora
You could go to the corner drug store and test your tubes?

I'm, old enough to remember everything, Ross.😀

I owned a Radio Shack store and we had one of those tube testers in plain view for our customers to use.

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: NightDarker
I need some new tubes for my guitar amp.

I need a pair of new tubes for my Korg Electribe EMX-1 I go through them like hot butter!

 

[olds]

We used to test them at the grocery store where we returned our glass soda bottles.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
32 here

14 here.

 

[dennilfloss]

It's a geezer love fest!:laugh:

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
It's a geezer love fest!:laugh:

:heart:

 

[dennilfloss]

OK. Who stole my dentures? :|

:shocked:

 

[RiverDog]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Was this before they invented steam engines and talkies? 😀

We had to walk to school in snowstorms uphill both ways! 😛

(I'm 50.)

I'm nearly 57. We had to RUN to school in snowstorms uphill both ways.🙂

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

:shocked:

Wow, this thread is a breath of fresh air... Oh wait its the other way around 😛

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: RiverDog

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Was this before they invented steam engines and talkies? 😀

We had to walk to school in snowstorms uphill both ways! 😛

(I'm 50.)

I'm nearly 57. We had to RUN to school in snowstorms uphill both ways.🙂

Lucky you, we didn't have running when I was a kid.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
:shocked:

Wow, this thread is a breath of fresh air... Oh wait its the other way around 😛

This breath of fresh air is a thread?

 

[stinger25]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: Hyperlite
OP needs a lurker award

There are much lower post count lurkers than the OP. Async just won the last round of 'Ultimate Lurker'.

Can I get 2nd place? 😛

 

[compman25]

i remember.

 

[BoomerD]

Oh hell yes. Drug stores, grocery stores, hardware stores ALL had tube testers, and the BETTER ones had a decent supply of replacement tubes. Occasionally, you'd have to go to a real TV repair shop to get some "special tube", but not often.


/me is so old, I can remember when the air was clean, and sex was dirty...😉

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Maiora
You could go to the corner drug store and test your tubes?

I remember the last time I tried to do that in 1985 and received a really odd look from the 16 year old girl behind the counter when I asked where the tube tester was located. 😱

 

[nutxo]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Oh hell yes. Drug stores, grocery stores, hardware stores ALL had tube testers, and the BETTER ones had a decent supply of replacement tubes. Occasionally, you'd have to go to a real TV repair shop to get some "special tube", but not often.


/me is so old, I can remember when the air was clean, and sex was dirty...😉

Grocery store.

Our TV broke and my dad ran up to Tom Thumb and got a set of stickers. There were like 50 stickers on a sheet and 2 of each number. He came home and put one sticker on each tube and the matching sticker on the socket it came from. He pulled all the tubes and took em up to the store and tested em till he found a bad tube and then got a replacement from the bottom cabinet of the test machine.

He came home and popped all the tubes back in, including the new tube and the TV was fixed.

Im 42.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: So
I don't, but I know what you're talking about. That's what I get from listening to the old guys who I pay to teach me about electronics. 😉

same here, i always get those speeches when im fixing the computer for an old geez... err i mean older person. 😛



(and im 37)

 

[Anghang]

:thumbsup: for the contents of this thread...i got 2.5 hrs of sleep last night and was about to pass out at my desk, strangely this thread has woken me up 🙂

 

[Brutuskend]

I've done that many many times.

Now it's DAMN hard to find a tube tester ANYWHERE.

But then, it's DAMN hard to find anything that still uses tubes for that matter. 😉