The Grey Room

I remember the look on my daughters face when she saw me play a record. She was about 3 or 4. She allready had seen a cd, so she was amazed there was sound coming out.

aaahhh, the smell of librarys .

Bastille Dude wrote: I'm closing in on 40 soon, I'll be turning 39 this January, May I join the club? I have grey hair and I like to reminisce about the good old days.

Edited by mystic fred - September 19 2006 at 06:29

mystic fred wrote: On the subject of Libraries (they wouldn't dream of covering this in VR3), at my College we now have to refer to the Library as the "Learning Centre" or "Resource Centre", my local Library has computers and cd's for hire, there are many books but in the future i assume they will run the books down and increase computer availability.

My local library used to hire out LPs - it's now more like an internet cafe; all the PCs well used & deepening dust around the bookshelves...

Here you go - this'll show you how old I am; I took maths & physics O levels... and wasn't allowed to use a calculator!
    

That lovely brushed gold effect facia... of course, if you were skint, like me, your amp was a Solavox.

Bob Greece wrote: Jim Garten wrote:  My local library used to hire out LPs        Ah yes, happy memories! I borrowed Rush, Genesis and Hawkwind albums from the library amongst other bands.

    
The only LP I remember getting was Firesign Theater "How Can You Be Two Places at Once, When You're Not Anywhere at All." Funny stuff.

Geck0 wrote: Now you're making me feel old!  My brother had a ZX81 and later on, an Acorn Electron.  My first PC was a 386... actually, that was the family machine, my first PC was an AMD K5 133MHz. I had - and still have - an Atari ST 520, which cost over £300 at the time. I went to school when the Internet was barely in existence, so I didn't have the advantage of being able to find information at a click of a button.  Yes, I had to go a building called a library!

Jim Garten wrote: mystic fred wrote: On the subject of Libraries (they wouldn't dream of covering this in VR3), at my College we now have to refer to the Library as the "Learning Centre" or "Resource Centre", my local Library has computers and cd's for hire, there are many books but in the future i assume they will run the books down and increase computer availability. My local library used to hire out LPs - it's now more like an internet cafe; all the PCs well used & deepening dust around the bookshelves... Here you go - this'll show you how old I am; I took maths & physics O levels... and wasn't allowed to use a calculator!

Edited by mystic fred - September 19 2006 at 08:13

Jim Garten wrote: Another indication of my particular vintage - anyone remember when VCRs were the only appliance with a remote control... and even that was attached by a wire!

Yours had a remote control? Wow!

Speaking of old sound companies, remember this?

Oh, wow!

Can I join the grey room please? I'm not an old man (grumpy or otherwise) but I do remember "The Hammy" (and St.Albans City Hall Jim!) I had a ZXSpectrum, and I was totally shocked this morning when I heard on the radio that 95% of 12 year olds have a mobile phone (probably with more gadgets and gizmos than imne!) WHO do they need to call, the survey said "most children said it helped their social lives"...............sheeeesh, tree climbing wasn't that tricky when I was 12!

Sorry, off topic! I remember as a student my boyfriends Mum used to send us £5 every week, on a friday night that bought us 2 pints each, a packet of marlboro (when they were RED and made you cough!) AND a kebab from the scary wagon on the way home............................. sometimes there was enough left over for a pint of milk (yes sorry Mum we knew it was for groceries REALLY! )

But you know, today is my son's 12th birthday, I had a fabulous childhood, I saw his face this morning though, and I hope that he will grow up to say "when I was a lad.........." our kids are healthy and happy, he is excited by a new book, and can make me laugh, he enjoys school and eats brown bread and cabbage (not together!) I don't think the kids are doing too badly........... they all keep us on our toes, but it's not such a bad thing...........god only knows how he will afford to sneak out of his bedroom window and jump on a train to London to some gig in a couple of years time the way I did though!
(ah...................nothing is as sticky as the Marquee floor!)

Right...............if I can have Grey status I will return later!

P-C x
    

Edited by prog-chick - September 19 2006 at 09:48