Good point.  I have my share of old phones lurking around in a kitchen drawer.  You're right, years ago, people would just do the math to finish the sale if the till was messed up and move on.  Today, it's impossible.  Even when I was in high school working a retail job at a department store, that till had to be reconciled after closing before it was turned in at the credit office.  If your till was off, you had to keep working on it because everything had to match up.  This was still a time where cash was used a lot too.

A betting office would be big cash, wow!!

Geffers G said:

Web Diva said:

A betting office would be big cash, wow!!

Back in the day when I earned just £25 weekly often daily turnover could be £1000.  Great atmosphere though, enjoyed it.

Geffers

£25 per week, and worth the atmosphere, sounds like a fun job.  I'm trying to think how much I made per week in high school, not much for me either... however, the clothing discounts were awesome. I think I spent a lot of my pay check on the clothes in the mall where I worked.  Fun times, I wouldn't trade for anything

That's such a huge difference in price from 1969 to present. Wow, a £1 ....huge increase.  Inflation now is unbelievable here in the states.  My dh and I like watching old programs, like the original Hawaii 5-0.  Occasionally, we will catch prices of the times and on one episode, they were discussing the value of gold, which during that season that episode was made was around $30 per ounce.  Now it's nearing $2400.00 per ounce.

Geffers G said:

Web Diva said:

My dh and I like watching old programs, like the original Hawaii 5-0.  Occasionally, we will catch prices of the times and on one episode, they were discussing the value of gold, which during that season that episode was made was around $30 per ounce.  Now it's nearing $2400.00 per ounce.

Not sure if I mentioned before but if you like old movies  and you have a Rumble user account  then follow MovieMagic - there are lots of old classic movies available for free.  I know the Rumble app is available on Roku and Firestick, probably Google TV so watchable on full size TV screen.

Geffers

 

I don't have a Rumble account but I have viewed many videos on Rumble that were really funny....actually forgot about even creating an account.  I'll take a look at MovieMagic, thanks for the tip.  We don't have Roku, Firestick or Google TV but have also been meaning to change from our current provider we've been using for years to switch to Google TV.

Geffers G said:

I've been a fan of Firesticks for a few years now but amazon are developing a new operating system (they currently use android) for their devices so its user usability may be affected - if I was buying new I'd go for the Chromecast, just plugs in to HDMI socket and turns any TV (even old ones) into a super modern streaming device.

There are two versions, a 4K and a HD version, the latter being very reasonably priced.  If you generally watch older movies I'd go for the cheaper version.  I bought my daughter the 4K version for Chritmas, she is well pleased with it.

https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv?hl=en-US&pli=1

Geffers

 

Oh, very cool to learn about Chromecast.  Love that you can just plug it in.  Makes it so simple and no one has to come to your house and hook it all up.  Love that!

Wow, that's great that your Firestick and Chromcast system works with an older TV.  I have an old Vizio TV, vintage, 2005 or so, I use in my work out room.  It's still going, but the screen is getting a bit funky.  Do you think I if I tried your system in this one room, will work independently and  bypass the current service provider I use?

Thanks Geffers, for the instructions.  We do have the HDMI thing on this smaller TV.  I'll look into it some more.  I should be able to fiddle with it and have success, thanks to your instructions. Saves me having to call customer service somewhere for assistance....we know how that always go...lol.

Sure thing, Geffers.  I think we would need that adapter.