So ... I guess I am a fogey

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In '74 I bought a monoral cassette machine from Radio Shack for a hundred bucks! 'Twas a good machine, though. (Cartooniverse, I’m with you on how the place has gone to hell. Don’t suppose you ever tried to etch your own printed circuit boards, did ya? Alas, nowadays, they’d rather sell elaborate cellphone contracts than a two-buck headphone adapter.)
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Never tried that, but the breaking point for me was when I couldn’t build a basic circuit I needed to build. Nothing fancy. They simply didn’t have the bits. :o

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I remember when radio stations would sign-off around midnight or so, and then sign-on again in the early morning.

I also remember getting up early in the morning and seeing the test-pattern on our (black and white) tv, and the next thing to come on (after the national anthem) would be the Farm Report.

Do they still have Weekly Reader in schools?