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I Remember when.......
I remember when athe first pocket calculator came out, it was about 5 inches wide, 1 1/2 inches deep and 8 inches long, it ran on 4 aa batteries and
only did the 4 basic functions, and it cost about $10, that's when the adult wage was only about $50 a week.
I remember when the first video game came out, it was tennis, 2 ping pong type bats hitting a ball, in B/W, with up and down control only, made by
Sheen I think...
I remember when Tandy released the 4k machine, yeah, 4k of Ram, huge hey...
I remember when a video recorder was a huge reel to reel job that they had at school...speaking of reel to reel, I still have a 7" reel to reel tape
recorder up in the loft....anlong with the 2 commadore 64's and the 3 commadore Amiga's. out in the shed is an old 8088, and they all still work! I
gave away the old Apple II e as spare parts, but the tape drive still works on the 64..
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Jonny Rubber
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Lol I sort of miss the screaching noises when the game was loading, I also remember everybody copying games was very easy tape to tape, unfortunately
a lot of them wouldn't work.
Ahhhhh the Amiga the hours I wasted on that machine.........the good old days :D
Atari consoles with indistructable joysticks:D
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Big Diesel
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dang now all the old guys are gunna come out of the wood works posting stuff like.........
" I remember when I had to walk to school in 5 ft of snow with no shoes"
"I remember when I saw the very first Model -T driving down the street"
"I remember when all I had to play with was a stick and stone"
"I remember taking the horse and buggy to the farmers market"
LMAO....sorry eagle nothing against you m8 just had to go there for some humor.
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No probs Mate, but your just not old enough yet, lol...
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I wrote this on Christmas day.
I remember when Dad was a superhero !!!
I remember when Mom could make the pain go away with a kiss.
I remember when my Big brother would defend me to the death !!! (In the school yard)
I remember when my Little brother would spin on his head to make me laugh.
I remember a beautiful dog named Satan, back when I didnt know who or what Satan was.
I remember the first time I tied my own shoes.
I remember the first girl I ever kissed. And the last, my wife.
I remember when Christmas was so amazing. One year we each got Dad one gift, but oddly enough it was just that, enough.
I remember the first video games. Pong ruled !!!
I remember the smell of Old Spice on my dad's neck as he carried me to bed after I fell asleep under the Christmas tree.
I remember thinking that my Dad was still holding the bike seat as I traveled down the street.
I sit and think now that I have had a great life, dispite all the close calls, and tragedies.
Merry Christmas to all of you, I hope this brings back some fond memories.
I'm gonna go hug my sons.
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I still have my slide rule, we where not allowed to use calc in exams as only the rich kids had them (I can still work the SR faster than the kids on
a calc)
Rem JFK assination, Tom Dooley hitting the charts, When there was no TV and listened to GunSmoke on the Radio, it was siisy to ware shoes on frosty
mornings to school, when the Mimi skirt and Bihini came out.:D
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chrislew200
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I remember nothing because i drank so much over christmas i killed 95% of my brain cells and cant think that far back
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Jonny Rubber
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So that leaves you with 0.5 then:D
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I remember when the only Online Gaming was done over the phone talking to your boy about how he got past that ClownKing on Atari's "Journey" game. Sad
that a rock group had a game out way back then.
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well.........
I dont remember what this game was, i just played alot of it....it was the frog who had to hope across the road?....without being run over?.... or was
it logs in the water?
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evil
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you mean frogger ??..lol. how about dig dug, pole pisition, joust , donkey jong, asteriods, missle command, and so on. some of us remember a console
called the coleco vision. any one old enough to remember that?
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peebs
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I'm only 14 but I remember if you didn't have a Super NES, with Mario you were a loser :P
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Prophet
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Coleco was the BOOM!!! But we have to look back a lil futher to Commodore 64/ Vic 20's with the lil car game that came with it back in the late 70's.
LMAO any1 remember the first way to say a computer game was on "Diskette's?"
Games save on a cassette?
Now that was gaming!!! Sad thing is I still have a diskette or 2, and my Vic20!
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Jonny Rubber
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Anybody think that the old games where more addictive in a basic sort of way?
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peebs
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I do.. Somtimes I would rather play MK III (Mortal Kombat) then and of these new fighting games..
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Space Invaders ...............oh my god ............how much time did I waste on that:D
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peebs
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lol! On my cellphone I have somthing just like that :P
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Jonny Rubber
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Not quite the same though............... for a start I'm not 13 any more:D
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hmmmm so you are 14 than? :D:D
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I remember the first TV I ever saw. It was in a store wiindow. The first time I ever sat down and watched a TV program was over at my Granddaddy and
Grandma's house. They were one of the first people to get one in my hometown. I think this was around 1952. I don't recall what program I saw.
I was home from school sick in November, 1963. My mom was gone to take my little sister to the Dr. I turned on my radio to listen to some music and
the announcer was talkiing about President Kennedy being shot in Dallas. I literally ran to the living room and turned on the TV. Walter Cronkite
was giving the news that the president was dead. And then he choked up as if he was going to cry.
I remember sitting in front of the TV and watching the Beatles first appearance on Ed Sullivan.
I remember before I was born, my mamma was bending over planting onions in the garden and I was pulling them up behind her.
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Wow you old timer :P.. j/k.. It went from what you just said to 400 channels and 68 inch screens
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Steptoe
I still have my slide rule, we where not allowed to use calc in exams as only the rich kids had them (I can still work the SR faster than the kids on
a calc)
Rem JFK assination, Tom Dooley hitting the charts, When there was no TV and listened to GunSmoke on the Radio, it was siisy to ware shoes on frosty
mornings to school, when the Mimi skirt and Bihini came out.:D |
Hey Step, I still have mine as well, it's in the kichen at the moment, and would you believe, I still know how it works. lol
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evil
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actually my first computer was the adam computer made by coleco. it took cassates , not floppys. it was quite the system to do nothing with in its
day..lol. but it was kinda cool then. this had to be in the real early 80s.
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yeah i remember them,along with the zx spectrum button bashers (dam they were great except when the load screwed up and you had to rewind the tape and
start again ),
amiga a1200 (dam fine machine) only just binned it three months ago along with 4 disk boxes full of games (needed the space  )
i think it was mentioned before....... the all time favorite atari
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I remeber when the mouse had a ball too it!! jeez leweez was all heavy and in akurat(g. bush speak)
I still play the original zelda on NES, best game ever.
I remeber how racist bugs bunny cartoons were.
I remeber how much wood the wood chuck did chuck since back then wood chucks could chuck wood...amazing
Closed in protest to DFB :P
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