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beargonewild -> Comments made in the year 1955! (1/14/2009 8:17:35 AM)

'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.


'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2, 000.00 will only buy a used one.


'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 25 cents a pack is ridiculous.


'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 10 cents just to mail a letter


'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.


'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.


'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.


'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in  Texas  .


'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.


'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.


'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.


'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.


'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.


'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.


'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.


'There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.


'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'


'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'



GreedyTop -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/14/2009 9:03:06 AM)

sad but true



Termyn8or -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/14/2009 11:55:24 AM)

I remember something about a quote "Why would anyone ever want a computer in their home ?" and IIRC is was the head of IBM. Something like that.

T



BlackPhx -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/14/2009 5:56:29 PM)

everything old is new again, and history repeats itself over and over again...I sued to swear I would never spend 21K for a car unless it had a bathroom and kitchen in it...and now....

poenkitten



Musicmystery -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/14/2009 8:14:43 PM)

Now compare this to today's college freshmen, who can only remember two presidents, Clinton and Bush the younger.



persephonee -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/15/2009 5:26:31 AM)

thats all the good weed....[:D]



DarkSteven -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/15/2009 5:49:45 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

I remember something about a quote "Why would anyone ever want a computer in their home ?" and IIRC is was the head of IBM. Something like that.

T


Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were both working for HP.  They proposed a home computer, and HP management derided them for such a stupid, impractical idea.  Woz got a signed statement from management stating that HP had no interest in a home computer, after which the two started Apple.

And the statement about the man on the moon - I call bunk.  The idea did not exist until Kennedy pushed it in his Presidency, which began in 1960.  In the movie The Right Stuff, LBJ is shown to have wrangled getting NASA put in Houston.

In the book Rocket Boys (made into the movie October Sky, one of my faves), Homer Hickam takes credit for having planted the idea about the man on the moon to JFK during a Q&A session in a campaign speech.



StrongSpirit -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/15/2009 6:41:43 PM)

No computer professional (HP, IBM or otherwise) EVER said that a 'home computer' was a bad idea.

But Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp in  1977 did say something very similar to the quote above.  It was taken out of context.  He was discussing radical, moronic 'home of the future ideas', that had a computer controlling everything - doing things like turning lights on and off, cooking meals, etc. all with the human being unable to control it except by going o the computer control room and typing things in.

He clearly meant that "No one would ever want to let a computer control their home", although he did word it badly.

As for corporation's rejecting Jobs' business plan for Apple - they rejected it because he was charging more than IBM and other PC clone makers were charging.  At the time, they were two unknown people, not a strong brand name known for quality.   Apple continues to be expensive - they make the high end, luxury model, not the low end cheap one.



BlackPhx -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/16/2009 7:12:30 AM)

Actually DarkSteven..in the 1950's there was a healthy interest in space exploration and a man on the moon. One of my favorite children's books was named The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor, illustrated by Marian Parry was first published in 1956 and is back in print from http://www.purplehousepress.com/daily.htm . I can still recite some of the poems from it but here are two from the publishers site, I recommend this book to anyone with UM's.

Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep,
The radar has failed to find them.
They'll all, face to face,
Meet in parallel space,
Preceding their leaders behind them.

Little Jack Horner
Sits in a corner
Extracting cube roots to infinity,
An assignment for boys
That will minimize noise
And produce a more peaceful vicinity.


and the movie Forbidden Planet was released in 1956. Metropolis was released in 1927 and predated I, Robot the story by Issac Asimov by 23 years as the book I, Robot was released in 1950.  Space travel has been speculated about ever since man built missiles that could span miles aimed for another target. By 1926, Goddard had constructed and tested successfully the first rocket using liquid fuel. (http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/general/goddard/goddard.htm) You might find this link interesting http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrockethistory1.htm .

Kennedy funded and pushed what was already in process and progress.

Yep you might have heard 'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in  Texas. There was a lot going on besides NASA in the development of space travel. NASA just became the OFFICIAL government project.

poenkitten



FourQ -> RE: Comments made in the year 1955! (1/17/2009 5:45:04 PM)

Thanks Bear.
Certainly sounds like happier days.

StrongSpirit, what's wrong with automated homes?  I firmly believe if the Um's bedroom light didn't dim down 5% every 5 minutes after his bedtime he'd still be wanting to go to bed at 2am! 



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