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Technology That You Loved from the 70/80/90's?

Posted by Cliff on from the gadgets-that-you-wouldn't-be-caught-dead-with-today dept.

modi123 asks: "I was spending a large chunk last weekend watching VH1's I love the 80's: Strikes Back with a couple of friends. We would comment and laugh at all the dreadful things we were into, and then the topic shifted towards old tech and gadgets from then. I brought up my old 486 Packard Bell (DOS 6.0, Windows 3.1, Doom, all for $3700.00), and it spiraled out from there. The usual things cropped up: Nintendos, Sega Master Systems, Apple II Gs, and so forth. Then it delved into more weird items: Rob The Nintendo Playing Robot, HyperCard, cell phones with 50 lb batteries, and the pager craze. I am curious what the /. community remembers as their favorite technology from previous decades (be it 70's, 80's or 90's). Perhaps we can even chart a timeline if people toss in when they first remember it."

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  1. 100 Minute Cassetes by gambit3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ahh... being able to create my own mixes for the first time... making one HUGE cassette of the songs that I liked.

    I didn't see how it could get any better than that...

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  2. Re:this by Deanasc · · Score: 2, Funny
    10 print "Radio Shack Sucks! ";


    20 goto 10


    run

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  3. Free porn by Ratbert42 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am curious what the /. community remembers as their favorite technology from previous decades (be it 70's, 80's or 90's).

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  4. Re:1K of awesome power! by The+Cydonian · · Score: 3, Funny
    Heh, I still have my Sinclair ZX Spectrum + somewhere at my parents' home, and often hook it up to a television for old time's sake.

    Let's just say my 10 year old cousin didn't quite see the point of listening to screeching noises for half an hour only to play a text adventure game with shoddy fonts. :-)

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  5. Re:Capsella by littlerubberfeet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did one worse as a kid....old enough to be dangerous, but yound enough not to have any grasp of the conceptual difference between AC and DC current, and voltage for that matter.

    In my kit, the batteries were in one 'bubble', and the motors in another. I noticed that the power cord from some old radio fit in the Capsella motor plug, so I plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the wall. My little 'car' made a nice pop and went the fastest three feet of it's (short) life. Oops.

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  6. Re:Capsella by RomulusNR · · Score: 2, Funny

    I noticed that the power cord from some old radio fit in the Capsella motor plug, so I plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the wall. My little 'car' made a nice pop and went the fastest three feet of it's (short) life.

    I think you're my new hero.

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  7. Re:Capsella by RomulusNR · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially those damned small connectors. "Get, *OOF!* off!" *THUCK-BANG!*

    Which is why mine had so many little dents in them. From teeth.

    Just like most of my old Legos did, come to think of it. Stubborn little f**kers.

    (And also probably why I ended up with assorted little chips in my teeth. Bah, the price you pay for a productive childhood.)

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