We used beta at work because it was a superior product. * Archived Message
Posted by BoCool on March 11, 2024, 16:37:51, in reply to "To not be able to rent a VHS movie because all your parents had was Beta..."
Previous Message to spin off JFG's comment from below.
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- Let’s play ‘I’m old enough’ - TarheelIllini March 10, 2024, 6:42:48
- To remember when I thought Chop Suey was the only kind of Chinese food* - TarheelIllini March 11, 2024, 18:51:40
- It wasn’t our primary one, but my family had a black and white tv* - Franklin March 11, 2024, 16:02:18
- I'm old enough to remember the Big Ten Fan Forums, Prodigy live game chats, and the Olympics Board - RSMBob March 11, 2024, 15:27:59
- I'm old enough to remember when NFL referees knew WTF a catch was* - ATL March 11, 2024, 14:58:04
- I'm old enough to remember doing "duck and cover" nuclear drills in grammar school* - MtHoodIllini March 11, 2024, 14:56:11
- I'm old enough to remember using a partyline to get deuce-like chats happening* - timmer March 11, 2024, 14:52:42
- I'm old enough to remember when a rival high school called Pekin had a crazy racist mascot* - Sounder March 11, 2024, 12:22:29
- You could buy new music in Reel to Reel format* - jfinsocal March 11, 2024, 11:46:01
- I remember using an aluminum bat as an antennae for our black and white basement TV - illini March 11, 2024, 9:49:45
- Couldn't figure out why there are 2 different water drinking fountains. - illinicolt March 11, 2024, 9:00:20
- To not be able to rent a VHS movie because all your parents had was Beta... - EffinIllini March 11, 2024, 8:54:36
- The cheapest gas price I ever recall - $0.69 per gallon in northern California.* - EffinIllini March 11, 2024, 8:38:07
- I remember when gas stations had to sell gas by the liter because the pumps couldn't register.... - Illiniphil March 11, 2024, 16:20:56
- 27 cents during our drive to Minnesota. I guess it was a war but I was too young to care. * - BoCool March 11, 2024, 12:21:32
- You're just a youngster. - Memlie March 11, 2024, 9:30:50
- I remember 87 cents a gallon in Bushnell, Ill., in the mid 90s. * - illini March 11, 2024, 9:16:37
- nice* - VIV March 11, 2024, 9:14:44
- nice* - bbonb March 11, 2024, 9:07:34
- a cable box with a channel slider - ATL March 11, 2024, 8:37:21
- To remember my HS computer teacher talking about 'Multimedia"... - EffinIllini March 11, 2024, 8:36:04
- Self serve at the gas station wasn't an option. "Fill 'er up with regular and check the oil, please* - Tuscy March 11, 2024, 8:34:25
- TV station sign off and waiting for 6 a.m. on Saturday morning for the broadcast to resume.* - Tuscy March 11, 2024, 8:33:22
- to remember when conservatives hated the Russians and would never worship a former KGB agent* - VIV March 11, 2024, 8:32:42
- Is Grog's Pizza around? I remember when it started and you could get - ibdoc March 11, 2024, 7:55:27
- battle of the network stars (the real ones) and laff a lympics* - torinese March 11, 2024, 7:52:20
- Carbon paper * - TarheelIllini March 11, 2024, 6:49:28
- To see Lonnie Perrin play for Bob Blackman. * - BoCool March 10, 2024, 13:58:15
- Flying Tomato Brothers* - memyselfandillini March 10, 2024, 13:53:15
- Rolling a pen-shaped thing over a map to calculate distances* - SatoshiEaterOfSouls March 10, 2024, 13:47:16
- First rotisserie league in 1991. Same time back from then 1958* - JeffFrank March 10, 2024, 12:54:08
- Rotary dial phones * - jdl March 10, 2024, 12:11:32
- Those manual slide credit card receipt things.* - DT March 10, 2024, 11:48:49
- To see a game with Gary Moeller as the illinois hc* - bulldogmba March 10, 2024, 11:46:19
- To worry not to put leaded gas in my unleaded car.* - ibdoc March 10, 2024, 11:45:21
- to have walked past the Beta section to get to the VHS section at the local movie rental place.* - JFG March 10, 2024, 11:38:04
- ..to use correction paper when typing. Not a ribbon, but the little sheets. You tried to - Philo March 10, 2024, 11:38:02
- to remember when people were GRATEFUL for lukewarm showers* - Herman Blume March 10, 2024, 11:31:42
- Ditto* - TarheelIllini March 10, 2024, 12:44:05
- …to hang my book bag in the cloakroom at the start of the school day. And to be excused to - Philo March 10, 2024, 11:31:18
- Dave Kingman was one of my first baseball heroes. (nm) - Jack McMurdo March 10, 2024, 11:30:09
- to remember when Michael Jackson was black * - ATL March 10, 2024, 10:24:00
- …to know when cars had ONLY two rear brake lights - timmer March 10, 2024, 10:23:00
- Seatbelts in cars didn’t have the shoulder strap* - bjl63 March 10, 2024, 8:38:14
- JFK shot* - Stu March 10, 2024, 8:03:21
- 8 track players* - PapaDels March 10, 2024, 8:02:14
- the white spot* - complainant March 10, 2024, 7:58:43
- conservative conservatives* - complainant March 10, 2024, 7:57:31
- I’m old enough to remember when girls were required to wear swimming caps. Heck - TarheelIllini March 10, 2024, 6:55:49
- I’m old enough to remember pull tab aluminum cans and cigarette lighters in cars.* - DT March 10, 2024, 6:48:47
- I’ll start…To remember when there were magazines on airplanes - TarheelIllini March 10, 2024, 6:43:43
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