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keith wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:44 am Cars, as far as I know, still have pushbutton radios. I know mine does and its pretty new. I suppose there are some that only have a computer screen these days, but that is not all of them.

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:04 am

keith wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:44 am Cars, as far as I know, still have pushbutton radios. I know mine does and its pretty new. I suppose there are some that only have a computer screen these days, but that is not all of them.

I suppose my car can be referred to as having a push-button radio, but those buttons are on the steering wheel. The main radio itself is a touch screen, and there are some voice-activated controls as well, but I just end up swearing at it when it is slow or does not understand (it is an older version so does not have Google Assistant or Android Auto). The mute is also a button in the physical volume control.

Nowadays, you have to worry about pushing/saying the wrong thing, and instead of changing the channel, your car goes into reverse or the tailgate opens. In town, I stick to WFMT (public radio with Classical music) so I save myself the danger of touching that dial and opening my moonroof in a rainstorm.

keith wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:44 am
Cars, as far as I know, still have pushbutton radios. I know mine does and its pretty new. I suppose there are some that only have a computer screen these days, but that is not all of them.

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:41 pm I'm expecting that my system will eventually say "get your eyes on the road" if I even glance at it to which I will respond by habit, "sorry mom." At least I do avoid the danger of launching a cassette tape from the player where it promptly lands under my feet.

I remember my dad mentioning how my grandmother had issues with push-button transmissions.

(Wikipedia)

Hires Root Beer is a root beer marketed by Keurig Dr Pepper. Introduced in 1876, it is (WAS?) the longest continuously made soft drink in the United States.

Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires. The official story is that Hires first tasted root beer, a traditional American beverage dating back to the colonial era, while on his honeymoon in 1875. However, historical accounts vary and the actual time and place of the discovery may never be known. By 1876, Hires had developed his own recipe and was marketing 25-cent packets of powder which each yielded five US gallons (19 l) of root beer. At Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition in 1876, he cultivated new customers by giving away free glasses of root beer. Hires marketed it as a solid concentrate of 16 wild roots and berries. It claimed to purify the blood and make rosy cheeks. In 1884, he began producing a liquid extract and a syrup for use in soda fountains, and was soon shipping root beer in kegs and producing a special fountain dispenser called the "Hires Automatic Munimaker." In 1890, the Charles E. Hires Company incorporated and began supplying Hires root beer in small bottles claiming over a million bottles sold by 1891.

pjhimself wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:40 am First to sell a billion burgers (“sliders” which were five cents each back when):

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:49 pm

pjhimself wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:40 am First to sell a billion burgers (“sliders” which were five cents each back when):

I miss hammering about 2 dozen of these down at 3am after a night of Rocky Horror Picture Show late night movie viewing.