I Officially Feel Old

[barefoot serpent]

regular8, not even Super8 /oldenough2byurgranddad

[Sheldonrs]

My sister has our family collection of 8mm reels of us as kids.
It might be interesting to see those again.

There are companies that convert 8mm to digital for a high fee.

[glatt]

years ago I set up our camcorder on a tripod, aimed it at the screen, and played all the family's old super 8 movies. I filled two videotapes. Then years after that, my brother converted those VHS tapes to DVD.

I wonder if my parents still have a working projector and if the reels are in decent shape? I bet my digital camera would make a better transfer than the VHS tapes were.

[Cicero]

Aaah. You should watch them on the projector, it's just not the same...I like projectors. I wish I had a working one, of any age.

[glatt]

That would be the fun of doing another transfer. I'd get to watch them on the projector again while I was doing it.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

regular8, not even Super8 /oldenough2byurgranddad

Duh! There's no Y in oldenough2burgranddad . You old folks, tring to act cool, so lame...

Mind you, oldenough2burygranddad works. :p

[Scriveyn]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

In a friend's family's garage I saw some 1950s Reader's Digests.

I mostly remember the add for chlorine .... to paraphrase (very loosely):

This 4 mile irrigation pipe was blocked with weeds and algae. The technicians from XXXX company added pure chlorine until saturation level was reached, and now the pipe flows clear and smooth. Chlorine, wonder chemical of the modern era - also a crucial component of the new insecticide DDT! Safe and effective!


Errrrrrrmmmm.....

Popular Science mag (1939): Have Fun With Quicksilver

"Mercury, the Liquid Mystery Metal, Offers a Fascinating Field of Experiment to Amateur-Chemistry Enthusiasts ...."

Scaaary!


Edit: Apropos de "chlorine", there is more: Fun with the halogens

" .... Uniting bromine with hydrogen yields hydrogen bromide, or hydrobromic acid just as chlorine and hydrogen form hydrogen chloride, or hydrochloric acid. Hydrobromic acid reacts with substances to form bromides, as does its better-known relative, hydrochloric acid, to form chlorides.
...
To make hydrogen bromide, place a half ounce of potassium bromide or sodium bromide in an Erlenmeyer flask or a retort, with a capacity of sixty to 200 cubic centimeters (two to seven fluid ounces). Cover the chemical to a depth of an eighth of an inch or so with strong phosphoric acid, which you can buy at any drug store under the name of eighty-five-percent, or sirupy, phosphoric acid. ...."

[Scriveyn]

Originally Posted by Juniper

...
Now...you KNOW you're getting old when you go to the history museum and some of the stuff on display is just like the one you had as a kid. In a MUSEUM. (sigh)

Happened to me a few years ago. There was a display of kitchen utensils hardly anyone alive would recognize, some of which I have actually used myself at my grandmother's.

Also I took some of my grandfather's collection of 1932+1936 Olympics picture albums to the antique shop only a few weeks ago.