Holy Moly, I remember that...

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  • nightengale7
    nightengale7 Posts: 563 Member
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  • TXtstorm
    TXtstorm Posts: 163 Member
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    Good grief! I had that exact set as a kid!
  • xxghost
    xxghost Posts: 4,697 Member
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  • TXtstorm
    TXtstorm Posts: 163 Member
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    Okay, even more "good grief"! I had a job where one of our DEC systems actually booted from one of those giant floppies. That was in the early 90's. I believe I sold that machine as scrap to a company that extracted precious metals (like gold) from old computing equipment.
  • TXtstorm
    TXtstorm Posts: 163 Member
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    Or my favorite, Zork.

    "It is dark here.
    You walk straight into the jaws of a slavering grue.

    *** You have died. ***
    *** You have died. ***
    *** You have died. ***"

    The strangest part? I have copies of both of these games on 3.5" floppy disks sitting on my desk right now.
  • TXtstorm
    TXtstorm Posts: 163 Member
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    ACK!! This at an even older job, circa 1985. It was how we loaded the daily data processing programs. The service guys who came out to repair the punch card reader when it (frequently) broke down had literally been brought back out of retirement by IBM just to keep the dinosaurs running!
  • MikeyD1280
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  • yager8725
    yager8725 Posts: 267 Member
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    now you are talking my kind of TV!!
  • Bump for later ^_^
  • ChristineS_51
    ChristineS_51 Posts: 872 Member
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500

    Amiga .... we threw ours out in 2006 and my daughter has not forgiven me to this day - despite the fact it didn't work any more ...
  • ClairBears84
    ClairBears84 Posts: 531 Member
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    DAWIE DIE KABOUTER!
  • GarySteadman
    GarySteadman Posts: 5 Member
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    -We called them "phones", children.

    -But... how do you download apps to it?
    That's not a phone... THIS is a phone! Comes complete with a "party line". Do you remember what that was?? :noway: nbp4ba.jpg
  • ClairBears84
    ClairBears84 Posts: 531 Member
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    I remeember this too!

    I loved this!
  • I did a thesis using punch cards for my data....187 characters per line...had to space out the words so you didn't hyphenate any words....obviously no wrap around text
  • terrappyn
    terrappyn Posts: 324 Member
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    But who remembers this? No one I work with in their late 30's early 40s remembers but I do!
  • XopherReed
    XopherReed Posts: 14 Member
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    I had the book this show was based on and holy crap I used to love reading the damn thing as a kid.
  • terrappyn
    terrappyn Posts: 324 Member
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    Good grief! I had that exact set as a kid!

    I've been looking for a set just like that . The ones out there today just arent the same!
  • GarySteadman
    GarySteadman Posts: 5 Member
    Big Mac promotion... If you could rattle off the Big Mac recipe/jingle in less than 3 seconds you got a free burger. I did that... "Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsandasesameseedbun"!
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  • LilacDreamer
    LilacDreamer Posts: 1,364 Member
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  • CandiceScott69
    CandiceScott69 Posts: 81 Member
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  • MikeyD1280
    MikeyD1280 Posts: 5,257
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  • Dauntlessness
    Dauntlessness Posts: 1,489 Member
    80s teased hairstyles and super puffy dresses

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    Garbage Pale kids
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  • SeaRunner26
    SeaRunner26 Posts: 5,143 Member
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    Space Invaders!!!

    (tick tick tick tick tick tick tick....)
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    That's not a phone... THIS is a phone! Comes complete with a "party line". Do you remember what that was?? :noway: nbp4ba.jpg

    i would kill for one of these that works with the modern phone system.

    i hate the flimsy, cheap, plastic pieces of junk that now pass themselves off as desk phones.

    i want something solid like that old phone, that stays put on the desk even if i swivel my chair while i'm talking on the phone. also, there was something satisfying about dialing those old rotary phones, as well as the sound they made when the dial moved back to its original position.
  • for the Canadians...

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    If you remember Mr Dressup then you must remember The Friendly Giant. I even learned to speak some french by watching "Chez Helene". (Found pics of friendly giant, but clueless to posting them)
  • MikeyD1280
    MikeyD1280 Posts: 5,257
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    when my parents generation weren't bishes and let us be kids...
  • AngryDiet
    AngryDiet Posts: 1,349 Member
    One of my friends had this, and I was soooo jealous.

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    Interestingly my daughter gets to play dodgeball at school. She's 6.