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Old is Relative

Woe is me who remembers TV only in black & white, color TV was a dream until I was a teenager. HD who would have thought? Portable video players never!

Music was only on Vinyl records 33, 45 and 78. Dad built his own turntable, speaker cabinet and tube amplifier. With that corner speaker, a cassette player and a ten watt tube amp to blow away my dorm buddies cool Marantz stereo. Amazing the power I could get out of a 12” woofer and horn tweeter. Now we have ipods and iceKUBE IT-20 speakers.

Phones were rotary dialed and plugged into the wall talked to my girlfriend on a 15’ extension so I could have privacy. Wireless extension phones were awesome but now we have cell phones. Who would have thought back then that I could walk downtown while talking to my girl the whole time?

Evolution and adaptation keep me from being the dinosaur I could be. Today I can’t live without broadband, MP3 players and my Xbox360. I maybe slow but even the old coot could get into Pokemon back in the day. Grow young as you age.

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