Thread: Do do do you remember?

That old phone reminds me. My mother, in her aged and demented state, got angry and hit me in the mouth with a cordless phone. First thing I thought was that I was glad technology had progressed and I did not get clobbered with one of those old heavy Bell handsets. I would have lost a tooth or two!

Originally Posted by misskit

That old phone reminds me. My mother, in her aged and demented state, got angry and hit me in the mouth with a cordless phone. First thing I thought was that I was glad technology had progressed and I did not get clobbered with one of those old heavy Bell handsets. I would have lost a tooth or two!

Your phone there is missing a 'Q' and a 'Z'.

But, it had “operator.”

The coolest "toy" I ever brought back to the states. I stopped in Tokyo as a planned stop home on my 2nd trip here. Picked up one of these and was shocked at the reaction I got back in San Francisco when I used it out on the streets, buses, and cable cars going to work. 1979. Wish I still had it just to have it.

browns, greens and yellows, the colours of yesteryear

sadly we never had avocados

Originally Posted by Headworx

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I had a holden 3 on the tree - double the clutch crash it into gear.
You could turn the steering wheel 180 degrees and it would go - straight.

when we stayed up all night to watch space missions in black and white.

Originally Posted by david44

recuperating

Hopefully you will have recuperated soon.

Hope thats a surfa sam.

TV FIRST BLACK AND WHITE AND RTE PLUS A FEW UK CHANNELS HARLECH BBC ETC, COLOR CAME MID 70S FOR ME, GOLF AND SNOOKER WERE BROADCAST IN BALCK AND WHITE REALLY I KID YOU NOT.

UK TV LITTLE BETTER ENDLESS SOAPS CORONATION STREET , CROSSROADS MY FREND WAS IN A RADIO SERIES WAGONERS WALK, SOME LIKE BBC SOAP ARCHERS I BELIVE STILL RUNNING.

FAWLTY TOWERS PYTHON LAST OF 1946 SHOW WERE MUST WATCH AND TIZWAZ WITH LENNY HENRY , BOB CAROLGEES SPIT THE DOG , BONZO DOG BAND VIV STANSHALL BUT PRE VIDEO YOU OFTEN HAD ONE OP TO WATCH. LUCKILY WITH SO FEW CHANNELS IT WAS A NO BRAINER.

COMEDIANS ANOTHER THREAD ?



OF THAT ERA ONLY PORRIDGE AND OPEN ALL HOURS STILL MAKE ME LAUGH EVEN PYTHNS SEEM STALE PERHAPS TASTE MATURES

Originally Posted by panama hat

Hopefully you will have recuperated soon.

CHEERS BUDDY , NOT FATAL HOPE TO BE OUT AND ABOUT IN A WEEK

^ CAPITAL

Most motels in the US used to have these available in their rooms.

I have one of these guys now.

I have the Operation game in my bar.

My kids brought back Etch a Sketch from a holiday when they were 6. Used them till both broken around 9. Even learned to share when the first one broke. Good memories.

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

I have the Operation game in my bar.

I have it also.

Just got this for our upcoming holiday too...

Originally Posted by Joe 90

We broke into a remote signal hut on a railway and found loads of giant caps that were placed on the tracks to warn railway workers that a train was coming.


Needless to say we lined them all up on the track under a bridge for cover and hid.

That brings back a long lost memory of when I was at school in the early 70's. In those days making explosives was in the chemistry books and putting theory into practice was a prerequisite for every avid chemistry student. Ammonia nitrate, diesel fuel and sugar were the ingredients and so we relieved the nearest farm of a couple of bags of fertilizer, diesel from the tractor, and someone helped themselves to a bag of sugar from the school kitchen. We assembled the ingredients on the kick-off divot of the school rugby field and ran to the sidelines. Nothing happened for what seemed like ages, and then, Kaboom!! Luckily, not contained so not a great deal of damage to the pitch.

^ we used to make them and get hold of cast iron drain pipe and pack it in - quite impressive

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Funnily enough, I refer to this game when talking about a specaiised aircraft application I've been working on over the last decade or so.

First computer games played? For me it was in the 70's while studying Coral66 (CORAL - Wikipedia) a language I still used professionally well into the 90's.

The microcomputer computer/server we used in those days used to have two text base games. One was the Lunar Landing module (Eagle) game where you had to enter fuel burn each iteration to slow down the module for landing. The other, much more exciting game, was Star Trek where you used short and long range sensors to locate and destroy klingon space ships before they ganged up on you and took you out with coke cans.

This was easily my favourite game, anyone remember it?

We put a Volkswagon engine block in the camp fire once. Then poured water on it. Its a good light show.