Holy Moly, I remember that...

Good grief! I had that exact set as a kid!

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.

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!

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now you are talking my kind of TV!!

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 ...

-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:

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

I had the book this show was based on and holy crap I used to love reading the damn thing as a kid.

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"!

Bump

80s teased hairstyles and super puffy dresses



Garbage Pale kids

That's not a phone... THIS is a phone! Comes complete with a "party line". Do you remember what that was?? :noway:

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...

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)

One of my friends had this, and I was soooo jealous.




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