Nostalgia Corner

[the_lyniezian]

And as for log tables, by the time I was at school, they were usually used for one thing- propping up wobbly desks.

I do remember the teacher giving then out to the kids who'd forgotten their calculators, and when thet happened to me once, I couldn't really use it as it seemsed not accurate enough, or to work with the numbers I had in the question.

[the_lyniezian]

Not only do i remember TVs with wooden casings, I remember when we actually had to get up off our arses when we wanted to change the channel! Not that you had to do it all that often, with only three channels to choose from. No videos, no DVDs.

Wooden casings aside, that was our experience prior to 1991. Except for the addition of Channel 4 of course. One of them was still blakc-and-white and had an old tuning knob- the scary things being that a. it was bought in 1980 (parents' wedding present) and b. it still works even though the later colour one conked out several years ago....

[PS_RalphW]

1962 vintage here. I still have my slide rule sitting on my desk. Can still work it Don't know what happened to my log tables.

I remember our drafty old Victorian house being fitted with night storage radiators. Made negligible difference to the temperature. A single coal fire was the only other heating.

Groceries were delivered by van. The milk on an electric float. Cars without seatbelts. I once stood in the street in our town for 15 minutes before a car came along, at 9 in the morning. (Sundays were dead boring).

Mostly I remember the new technology - calculators, the digital watches, the space rockets, tomorrow's world etc. But also Thunderbirds, which almost always had a plot line of some whizzy new technology going wrong and nearly causing Armageddon. I think I leant a lot from that.

[JohnB]

I remember our drafty old Victorian house being fitted with night storage radiators. Made negligible difference to the temperature. A single coal fire was the only other heating.

My dad did better than that in our 20s house. He installed electric warm air heating, with one big storage heater. Installing the ducting caused much chaos! It didn't last many years, as it was crap, and got replaced with a gas boiler and radiators. The cast iron blocks out of the storage heater were useful!

[RenewableCandy]

Ah I remember Tomorrow's World...they don't make Future like that any more!

[Catweazle]

Ah I remember Tomorrow's World...they don't make Future like that any more!

" This is what Scientists say we could be driving in the year 2000 " and a mock up of an impractical looking hover-car with a huge jet engine on the back

[kenneal - lagger]

Thank god scientists don't get to design the stuff we have to use. They come up with the mind boggling technology and engineers, technicians and designers make it work.

Most architects are akin to scientists then.