Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

Ashley Carder wacarder at usit.net
Mon Sep 20 22:42:37 CDT 2004


John "Methuselah" Lawson said:

>    Lissen up, young'un!  When I was a kid, I had to git up offa the couch
> and walk *all the way across the living room* - in my stockinged feet,
> mind you! - allllll that way over to th' durn TeeVee just to change th'
> channel! None o' yer fancy-schmancy re-motes back in *my* day!
>
>    THEN: I hadda walk all that way back agin.  And you know
> what!?!?  Nine
> times outta ten, my goldarn pig of a little sister ate up all my Popcorn
> afore I could get back and watch another Lost in Space. Prime
> Time, doncha know!!!

Lost in Space?  That's one of my all time favorite TV shows from way
back when I also had to get up and walk across the room to turn on the
TV and adjust the vertical hold button and the rabbit ears.  Sometimes
I had to fiddle with the contrast and brightness to make that black-and-
white picture a little less fuzzy.  More of my favorites were The Outer
Limits, Twilight Zone, and Superman with George Reeves.

Methuselah II








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