I think you've told me this story before...it never gets old!
Friday OT #2 - Missing the Magic
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Whenever my brother brings up that he asked me if we could work out going to the first Insite Bowl back in the day and I said I couldn't and then future Mrs. Velo and I ended up going and calling him from the stadium...I have something to retort with.I think you've told me this story before...it never gets old!
I missed the KSU comeback game because of work. Thought I could just get books done and be outta there and drive up to Ames and get a ticket. Nooo. I had to do two days worth of books, and it was for Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I couldn't get anything to balance, and I was at work for 10.5 hours. I sat in my car and cried I was so frustrated with just that job. (Just finishing up my 2nd month) I fell asleep before the game was over on TV, so I was scrolling through Twitter the next morning to see if we won.
Well that's pretty hoity toity maybe Julia Roberts will be there.
Whatever Iowa game it was we won on a Cole Netten FG, I was on the 7th hole of the golf course because my dad couldn't stand to watch another half of bad football and "knew we were going to lose"
I literally did not miss a game in-person from about 1978-1992. Then came the apathy and complete hopelessness of the end of the Walden era. Dad woke me up to leave for a game and I just couldn't do it. Had an opportunity to get some hours in at work and just couldn't justify in my mind a four hour round trip to see the Cyclones get pounded. It was the Marv Seiler game.
I got to go to the Marv game in 92 because my uncle thought like many that we would get trounced and stayed home to do stuff on his farm and I went in his place.
I missed the 2003 loss that ended the 5 year streak to Iowa because I negotiated half price lasik surgery but it had to be done that weekend.
I can't describe it. Here's a primer.
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So how was the polo match? Did you help push the divots back in? If you got there 3 hours early is it high class tailgating? I picked up a little sunburn at Jack Trice but it never got hot and tanned by today.
Yeah it was essentially just old slaved terminals with the mainframe in the basement, or at least thats how i remember it. It was considered kinda old in 1992. Iirc, it was a monitor and keyboard combined unit, monochrome screen. Like something from WarGames.I can't describe it. Here's a primer.
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The 5 ounce phone i type this msg on prob has 10,000 times more power. Crazy.
It was good, I would definitely do it again. England won the match as they had a really good fourth chukker, scoring 4-6 points I think. We ended up only arriving one and a half hour before the match as we weren't sure if our three year old niece would be occupied long enough for three hours. It was busy when we arrived and were lucky to get good seats. We did do the divot stomp, the niece loved that.
Regarding tailgating, yes, people do high class tailgating. One side of the field is dedicated solely to cars/tents right up again the field for tailgating (they have lines that define a box of like 10-15 feet for a reserved space). People dress up; think Kentucky derby as women were in sun/summer dresses and men in casual suit coats, pants, while wearing Sperry type shoes. Food was to the tune of charcuterie boards and similar type of affair. But this description is for the people who were more in to it. There were plenty of people who brought a cooler with sandwiches and stuff, which is what we did.
Also, regarding food, every game, there is a theme for a contest for tailgating. This games theme 'Go full English.' So who ever had the best tailgate setup based on the theme won 5 bottles of wine.
Overall, I would do it again, but not during a Cyclones game.
Late 80's, went the UNI game. Left when we were down 38-21 IIRC and found out when I got home that we won 39-38 or something like that.
Digital DECWriter II - Printer - Computing History
The LA36 DECwriter II was the companys first commercially successful keyboard terminal and became the de facto market standard. The LA36 DECwriter II was the company's first commercially successful...
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This is the terminal I used at my job at Wazzu back in the late 70s. It was slaved to the campus mainframe via hardwire. No monitor...just reading what you typed on that wide green-striped paper that was fed through it on a tractor roll.
Three years later at a job in San Francisco, I handed my hand written data to the data entry operators who were enclosed in a glass walled room with a computer that used tapes. The computer was the size of a couple of cargo vans placed end to end.
In 1984 I started working at ISU, and used a "data recorder" - a second gen keypunch that allowed you to verify your entry before it punched the holes. Then the cards had to be schlepped across campus to Durham and later in the afternoon a return trip to pick up a gigantor stack of papers.
And y'all mock me for my on-line skills...!
(sorry for the mini thread derail, @Angie !)
Missed the epic K-State come back game a few years back. We were there tailgating and then my son had massive mud butt right before the game so we had to go home.
