Re: Who used to own this bad boy?
 

Well actually...... Daddy SageofAges had one, that I liked to play with. He showed me how to use it...and then took it away so I wouldn't break it (he needed it in his AF job fixing airplanes).

Geez I remember saving up all my money one summer to give him a new fangled calculator for Christmas when I was 16. It cost $150. The same thing today cost $9 at Walmart and my son uses it in his 7th grade math class :)

Times they are arollin' along.

I remember using a slide rule as calculators weren't allowed. The reasoning was for certain professions if you were in the field you couldn't always rely on batteries or solar power.

However, my mother is still rocking her BETAMAX. This thing is huge, and she buys blank tapes at flea markets and such as she finds the quality better for recording off the television, and the tapes are smaller than VHS.

Storytime!

When I was in high school (a few years ago), I used to work at a senior center close to my house. My first day there, they decided to have me make new labels for their file cabinets. While I was wondering which of the two vacant computers they would have me use to complete the task, the manager handed me a package of labels and said "You can go ahead and get started-- you'll be using the typewriter in the corner." I was like :eek: since I had never even seen a typewriter before, much less ever used one! They thought it was downright hilarious that I hadn't seen or used one before (and I thought they were incredibly outdated and strange for still having one). :)

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for.

But I do know that one and one is two,
And if this one could be with you,
What a wonderful world this would be.

Now i don't claim to be an "A" student,
But I'm trying to be.
'Coz maybe by being an "A" student baby
I can win your love for me.

This was my first computer:
http://www.eskimo.com/~peteyboy/applsys.gif

Are you sure that's not a pepper mill?

Believe it or not, that's what people caled Curtas - peppermills! :D

That takes me back to my grade school days, playing Oregon Trail all day long.

My grade school later sold all the old Apples in a school yard sale and I bought one for around $30, including Oregon Trail and some other software. However, my mom gave it away when I went to college.

My mom found one out in the garage yesterday. That was my suggestion for it:).

Oh, I was all about that Oregon Trail. I used to purposely starve to death because I just couldn't bring myself to shoot that buffalo. He looked so sad, like he was pleading with me, who was I to tell him 'no'?

Who still has one of these? Mine's out in the garage.
http://www.liderdigital.com/imagenes...3/nintendo.jpg

Hey, it's not that old, but you know what? You have a blast from your past...I have mine:D

That phone is ginormous. It's what I refer to as the Zach Morris phone.


I remember having an Adam computer and playing Buck Rogers on it. LOL

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/adam-box.jpg

now that last calculator was scary. i, too, had a slide rule and learned to type "old school."
you can appreciate where we are now, if you look back to the then.

I didn't get a computer with a printer until 9th grade or so. So I used one of those for quite some time. I HATED it because the delete key never worked properly. My parents still have it somewhere I'm sure.

Man... Duck Hunt was the shit... :) ;)

My grandfather had like six or eight of these in his basement that we found after he passed away.

My mom sold them on ebay, they went for like over a grand each. Seriously my mom couldn't believe what people were willing to pay for them and some weren't even in good condition.

On the typewriters, sometimes you still need to use them b/c some documents (like government ones) you have to print out and then type onto the form.