It was a golden time, everything was possible and even if you are a child.
When you would go back to those times, you would bore yourself to death.
No Internet, no iPhone and not even a DIYAudio forum.
Hans
>When you would go back to those times, you would bore yourself to death.
>No Internet, no iPhone and not even a DIYAudio forum.
>Hans
With boredom being the cheif motivator for actually doing something. When the TV has 3 channels vs 300, you were kinda forced to look elsewhere more often...
Such a double edged sword as it were.
>No Internet, no iPhone and not even a DIYAudio forum.
>Hans
With boredom being the cheif motivator for actually doing something. When the TV has 3 channels vs 300, you were kinda forced to look elsewhere more often...
Such a double edged sword as it were.
I have lots of rose-tinted childhood memories of coming home from my summer job mowing lawns around the neighborhood, stretching out on the floor between the speakers of the Zenith Console Stereo in the living room, and listening to Yes, or Elton John, or any number of other classics.
Even decades later, when the weather gets warm and the scent of fresh-cut grass fills the air, I find myself listening to Fragile or Tumbleweed Connection. But do I pine for the dulcet tones of that '70s appliance-store audio technology? Hell no.
Even decades later, when the weather gets warm and the scent of fresh-cut grass fills the air, I find myself listening to Fragile or Tumbleweed Connection. But do I pine for the dulcet tones of that '70s appliance-store audio technology? Hell no.
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When you would go back to those times, you would bore yourself to death.
No Internet, no iPhone and not even a DIYAudio forum.
Hans
There were OPAMPS!!!!!
And I had a soldering iron, a junk box . . . What more could you want!
So True!
I would hazard a supposition that most OFs (Old Farts) in this group got their start in electronics as a hobbyist in lieu of staring at a cell phone as it seems most young uns do these days....I couldn't wait for school (or track/xcountry) to end so I could go home to my basement shop and either work on some circuit, dig into surplus gear or do ham radio...until my Mom called me for dinner, sometimes by stamping on the floor above the shop.
I don't know if I cold have resisted the attractive nuisance of the Internet at that age...
Cheers!
Howie
You're wrong, in those days there was rock music, low prices, all-accessibility, and now there are only iPhones, rap and now the coronavirus.When you would go back to those times, you would bore yourself to death.
No Internet, no iPhone and not even a DIYAudio forum.
Hans
And you, too, had only three channels on TV like in the USSR?
I remember that everything was in the library, next to the house. The fiction of Stanislav Lem and the Sturugatsky Brothers was incomparable. Oh, by the way, now in this place where there was a library, or a wine or grocery store.
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I would love to watch any film based on any book by Stanislav Lem. But I haven't found it yet.
The Inhabited Island of the Strugatsky Brothers is a very good book and a good film very close to the original.
Besides Solaris, both films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh are both excellent.
The Inhabited Island of the Strugatsky Brothers is a very good book and a good film very close to the original.
Besides Solaris, both films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh are both excellent.
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8 Science Fiction Films Adapted from Lem | Article | Culture.pl
Andrei Tarkowski's Solaris is of course one of my favorites. The Hollywood remake from 2002 was not my kind of thing, though.
Another one I liked is Inquest of Pilot Pirx (Poland/USSR 1979): Дознание пилота Пиркса (Таллинфильм, 1978 г.)
Finally, I saw Der schweigende Stern (The Silent Star) a DEFA (GdR) movie from 1959 which is a bit bland and propaganda-loaded, based on Planet of Death. Still nice within the context of its time and age.
Andrei Tarkowski's Solaris is of course one of my favorites. The Hollywood remake from 2002 was not my kind of thing, though.
Another one I liked is Inquest of Pilot Pirx (Poland/USSR 1979): Дознание пилота Пиркса (Таллинфильм, 1978 г.)
Finally, I saw Der schweigende Stern (The Silent Star) a DEFA (GdR) movie from 1959 which is a bit bland and propaganda-loaded, based on Planet of Death. Still nice within the context of its time and age.
Stalker, by the same A. Tarkovsky, loosely based on Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky Brothers. A masterpiece, and likely the most hated Tarkovsky film, by the USSR censorship.
Wonderland never checked, we had a favorite restaurant in Chinatown, Song Hee which we nicknamed Flung Dungs. We ate there for dinner, played poker all night and went back for breakfast. They closed for 24hr. every year to clean up.