Anyone besides me fall for these "incredible" (at the time) must have at any cost coolest thing ever toys/gimmicks? (even going against death threats for "looking" at the 'ol mans silver dollar collection)
Dang! I thought that it was going to be another "Mary Ann" thread.
Yes, slingshotss, capguns, air rifles, Cox airplanes, Estes rockets, mini-mikes, bicycles, skate boards, yz-80. Tennis shoes could make you run faster.
I miss those days. Thanks for the remind!
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I bought an "Amazing Wrist Radio" off the back of a comic book just like is shown in the ad above.?ÿ It was a 'crystal' radio (Google it) that used no power source capable of tuning in AM radio stations.?ÿ But instead of a piece of galena as a detector it used a 1N34A diode which was light years ahead of a chunk of crystal tickled with a sewing needle.
It had one drawback, it needed a ground.?ÿ It came with a 2' or 3' ground wire that had an alligator clip on th end.?ÿ I found out it worked really good at school if I grounded it to the iron heater radiator.?ÿ My radio was confiscated when the teacher sneaked up on me.
A few years later I found another really good use for that alligator clip...?ÿ
Where is the Amazon link you click? These are just images. ???? ?ÿ
Ah yes, the good ??ol days of ranch Doritos with Hershey??s chocolate sauce. ?????ÿ
Ah yes, the good ??ol days of ranch Doritos with Hershey??s chocolate sauce. ?????ÿ
I was fond of saltines with onion dig and grape jelly.?ÿ I discovered that recipe late one night when that's all there was to eat at my buddy's house.?ÿ
To this day I can't listen to any cut on the Led Zeppelin II album without hankerin' for some crackers and the above described accouterments?ÿ
I think I bought the hypnosis coin and countless jack-knives, all with coins taped inside an envelope
I remember buying the "100 pc. set of soldiers" that included tanks, jeeps, battleships and all sorts of OD green pieces.?ÿ It really did come in a footlocker that looked just like the ad.?ÿ What a bargain!?
If the footlocker was 3"x5" it definitely wasn't any bigger.?ÿ The soldier figures would sit comfortably on the eraser of a pencil.?ÿ None of the jeeps, tanks or battleships were to any sort of scale.?ÿ A soldier on top of a battleship looked eerily like a scene from Gulliver's Travels.
Just one of the many lessons I learned growing up.?ÿ First lesson that comes to mind mentions something about a fool and his money.. ????ÿ
a fool and his money..
Include that right along with "x-ray glasses" for young perverts in the midst of puberty. ?????ÿ
Include that right along with "x-ray glasses" for young perverts in the midst of puberty. ?????ÿ
I was fortunate at those tender years to have 2 brothers that worked at the corner gas station where a few years later I joined the ranks of the gainfully employed.
The station had a men's and women's restroom accessed from the side of the building.?ÿ Both inside walls were shared with a stockroom. Behind a stack of brand new snow tires was a precisely drilled hole in the mortar of the women's restroom.?ÿ No x-ray glasses needed.
All of a young pubescent male's questions about the fairer sex could be answered there on full display. I have prayed penance for my transgressions every night since then....well, almost every night. ;)?ÿ
The only class I ever made over a "C" in was the semester in Health class where we studied human anatomy.
Here's one for you "Geeks" Out there... ????
Heck, I was old when they came out. I started in the 8088 era. Still fascinated by them though. Now you can buy a decent web browser type computer for $100 ?????ÿ
https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-400-desktop-computer-kit.html
I was working with my father in the very early '80s when he purchased his TRS-80.?ÿ He loved it. Me? Not so much.?ÿ The big floppies were cumbersome and it was nightmarishly slow.
But it worked.?ÿ He wrote a slick routine for inputting and adjusting traverses.?ÿ I did love that.
We were working on a job preparing construction prints for replacement of about 25K feet of potable water distribution on a military base.?ÿ Near the end of the project (we had been paid about 75%) we discovered the final deliverables would include a Hardy Cross flow analysis of the system.?ÿ Pops burned the midnight oil and wrote the program for his TRS-80.?ÿ I think he later sold his work to a CE in Florida that was writing engineering software.
Pops was big on Radio Shack's TRSDOS.?ÿ As the years went by he eventually had to drink the Kool-Aid and saddle up with Gates and MicroSoft.?ÿ I think that hurt him a lot.?ÿ
I was happy with early Windows and the games.?ÿ 😉
TRS-80 nicknamed Trash 80 by some funny guy.?ÿ I used them a little bit in the mid-1980's and wrote several programs for private use.?ÿ Had one computer course that focused on using them to sort through data very rapidly.?ÿ Never applied it, though.
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I remember 8088s!!!!!!!!!!! I feel old. I have been "online" since 1991. That's how I met Wendell! ????
