Moments

I recently had a discussion with a friend about working in an office in the 1980s. I recalled an experience in 1983 when our word processors were shared IBM terminals.   I was writing a fairly detailed summary of how our field support offices would be brought up to speed with docs and training before the release of the next software release for our computerized PABX product.  I was called away for a moment, then returned and completed the report, saved the file, then sent to the noisy shared teletype 80s, All, Anecdotes, Moments, Rolm

Shortly after moving from the San Francisco Peninsula to Bloomington, Indiana, I needed to set up refills for some prescriptions. I made an appointment with a local doctor's office and was checking in with his assistant. She was facing down, looking over my forms, asking me questions and filling in my info. It was difficult to understand her because of other noises in the area. At one point it sounded like this: "And your (mumble) dressed?" To which I plucked at my shirt and exclaimed, "I sure hope so!" The 00s, All, Anecdotes, Life, Moments

Our neighborhood is served by a community mailbox where all of our mailboxes are contained in one large box on a pedestal where the mail carrier delivers our mail. Since most snail mail is junk mail, I normally walk up there twice a week: Wednesdays and Saturdays. Most of our neighbors know my routine. Neighbor George F. likes to kid me about my peculiar habit, and today was no exception as he pulled his car over when he saw me walking our dog. "Today's Wednesday so I s'pose you've picked 10s, All, Anecdotes, Moments

I was in the Army in the mid-60s, stationed in Berlin as a telephone repairman / switchboard operator. Our outfit was a Signal company, which included any job pertaining to communications - telephone, radio, microwave, crypto, whatever. Our sergeants and officers were not the the strict gung-ho types you see in war movies or accounts of life in the Infantry. We bunked three to a room. Each of us had a tall closet and a footlocker, where all our worldly possessions were kept. Every Saturday morning we peons headed to 60s, Decades, Germany, Humor, Moments