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Old technology you have to explain to kids
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Hank_Scorpio
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Had the Mattel football game, along with the basketball and baseball ones.
This was a pretty cool game too. Something like nine different games.
This was a pretty cool game too. Something like nine different games.
novelist_wannabe
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Buck said:Vastly superior to Coleco version:
Actually found this and the baseball game at Wal-Mart 6-7 years ago for $12 apiece. Of course, I bought them. They'd modified the battery housing to take AAs.
Great fun. They both got lost. I really want them back.
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ColdCat said:and thus, children of today do not get why this class is sniffing the paper in "Fast Times at Ridgemonet High
The smell made me want to puke
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spikechiquet
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Winner!schiezainc said:
Wait, so does the term "STOP THE PRESSES" mean jack to kids then?!
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Smasher_Sloan
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novelist_wannabe said:Buck said:Vastly superior to Coleco version:
Actually found this and the baseball game at Wal-Mart 6-7 years ago for $12 apiece. Of course, I bought them. They'd modified the battery housing to take AAs.
Great fun. They both got lost. I really want them back.
Have you checked the bathroom?
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What's with all this "used to" business? I used one of these on the way to work this morning!Beef03 said:My brother, who is 17, doesn't understand this is how I used to play music in my car.Hank_Scorpio said:
Anyone ever use one of these to play CDs in the car?
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Ever see/use a mechanical calculator?
This isn't exactly like the one I played with as a kid, but it's close. My father and grandfather had bought a small business, and two vintage calculators were included. I'd hang out after school, before my father went home, and play with the bigger of the two. You'd enter numbers in, then tell it to add, subtract whatever. If you gave it a complex operation, the numbers on the display (that row up toward the top) would spin while it thought out the answer. When it finally had it, the numbers would stop in a big, noisy "kachunk!" and there the answer would be. Once I divided some huge number by some other huge number and it took maybe 20 minutes to come up with an answer.
This isn't exactly like the one I played with as a kid, but it's close. My father and grandfather had bought a small business, and two vintage calculators were included. I'd hang out after school, before my father went home, and play with the bigger of the two. You'd enter numbers in, then tell it to add, subtract whatever. If you gave it a complex operation, the numbers on the display (that row up toward the top) would spin while it thought out the answer. When it finally had it, the numbers would stop in a big, noisy "kachunk!" and there the answer would be. Once I divided some huge number by some other huge number and it took maybe 20 minutes to come up with an answer.
