You sir, are now my slashdot hero. I too, am pushing 40. Remember tying programs (PEEK or POKE) out of the back of Computer Gazzette for the C64. I would spend many days typing (sometimes just to make a mistake at the end) just for a few minutes of glorious gameplay. Remember intellivision? For sheer gameplay, that football game is hard to beat. Oh yes, soemthing like Zork would make the fanbois of today retroactively explode.
Well here is a whole http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=68 8422 (including my self) who disagree. I believe that as I type, four have been "liberated" from various BB's around the country. The thread starter is now also claming that he has The Fifth Element BDA disc.
p.s how do I post links as words here?
Dana340, it sounds like you are describing the original MaxHeadroom, as shown on CineMax in the early 80's. Originally it was produced for the BBC I think. Much like the Turtles, it was horribly changed for mass North American dumsumption.
Are you sure about SNET? I thought they were part of Bell Atlantic, specifically excluding what later became Nynex, before that whole mess became Verizon.
Extra credit & totally unrelated. What were the original names of Agilent & Accenture?
Oh, by the way, whatever became of navaho-tel?
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Actually, the earliest documented long distance telephone call (two little towns in Kansas about 13 miles apart) was setup up by some employees of the Southern Pacific Railroad (as opposed to using a telegraph). If you got a call, a runner (young boy) would sprint to your house & tell you to come down to the office & take the call. Soon, it just became known as the "sprint" office. You can figure out where this it going.
Constructabots!!!!! Damn I almost forgot about them. Ok of all us...er um 29.5 somethings..who wants to see UltraMan! I would get a second mortgage on my house to see a realistic Dr. Gordy.
Yes, Please!!!
Actually it was not WPAB (which was SAC Command) but the Monsanto Mound works. Of the few companies in the US that made detonators for our nuclear arsenal that was one of them. I can't rembmer the street name but it was near the Fischer body plant & the closed DP&L Hutchinson power station.
They had some model airplane parks right across the street that my Dad took me to back in the early 70's.
Ok I am down on Dayton. I grew up there & bacically it is a crappy little place. However it is the crappy little place where I come from so it holds fond memeories....of crap
Damn Rick yo ubeat me too it.:) I remember that big one, was that '74? I could see it from my porch on Smith Street (Just about a mile for St E just south of the Litte Miami River) scared the beejessus out of me!
Ok I grew up in the Gem City (as we like to call our selves & furthermore we got robbed in the NCCA regionals in 1985 but that is another story) & that area is approx 1 mile square. But the population density is nothing. There are approx 1M people in Montgomery County, but Dayton the city proper is gotta be bordering on barely above 100,000. now.
Dayton is a heavy gm town. It used to be that just about every Fischer body, as well as every brake assm. that was on any GM vehicle as well as all DELCO (Dayton Electronics & yes Dayton Tires of gangster "Daytons" came from there to) but now there is only the S-10 plant where they make Trailblazers & Colorados left. The main population centers are in South Montgomery County, the Greene County/Montgomery County line & North West Montgomery County (Trotwood, Englewood, Vandallia etc) & they are all several miles from downtown. As amatter of fact, this area in the article is comprised of moslty what is known as East Dayton. In the best of times, they were not exectly the target demograpic group & nowadays... fugedaboutit.
The Oregon distctict (literally about 800ft of the REBUILT cobblestone streets) is where the Wright Brothers had their bicycle shop & basically you only go that way as a short cut from say, 4th st on your way to Kettering {Patterson BLVD, Welcome Stadium, Stewart Street etc)
You forgot the most important part. How EVERY TV STATION IN AMERICA went off the air. Just static. Usualll around Midnight in whatever time zone you happen to be in. Then back on at 0430 to 0530. Star Spangled Banner both times. I think it was the fall of 1980 when WHIO (Channel 7 in the Gem City) stayed on through the night (only on weekends though at first). , I stayed up all night just watching the farm report, 4H, the 700 club(like) & other local crap. I thought I was in Heaven.
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It's already out for just about a month or so. Check out Best Buy or even CompUSA. 1100.00USD & it is HDMI 1.3 to boot.
Actually, while flipping through last Friday morning, I could of sworn that I saw the afore-mentioned heavy woman in full 1080i glory.
You sir, are now my slashdot hero. I too, am pushing 40. Remember tying programs (PEEK or POKE) out of the back of Computer Gazzette for the C64. I would spend many days typing (sometimes just to make a mistake at the end) just for a few minutes of glorious gameplay. Remember intellivision? For sheer gameplay, that football game is hard to beat. Oh yes, soemthing like Zork would make the fanbois of today retroactively explode.
Well start eating. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=68 8422
Well here is a whole http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=68 8422 (including my self) who disagree. I believe that as I type, four have been "liberated" from various BB's around the country. The thread starter is now also claming that he has The Fifth Element BDA disc.
p.s how do I post links as words here?
It was a lot different in the early 80's.
Hey I grew up in Trotwood. You are the second slashdotter that I know of from the Miami Valley :)
Heaven help is if Alcasmell & *hitco get toghether. That could only mean that Norsmell is not far behind
Dana340, it sounds like you are describing the original MaxHeadroom, as shown on CineMax in the early 80's. Originally it was produced for the BBC I think. Much like the Turtles, it was horribly changed for mass North American dumsumption.
Are you sure about SNET? I thought they were part of Bell Atlantic, specifically excluding what later became Nynex, before that whole mess became Verizon. Extra credit & totally unrelated. What were the original names of Agilent & Accenture? Oh, by the way, whatever became of navaho-tel?
Actually, the earliest documented long distance telephone call (two little towns in Kansas about 13 miles apart) was setup up by some employees of the Southern Pacific Railroad (as opposed to using a telegraph). If you got a call, a runner (young boy) would sprint to your house & tell you to come down to the office & take the call. Soon, it just became known as the "sprint" office. You can figure out where this it going.
Good Grief! Do you work for BT?
Yeah, right just dig it into the guy from the Greater Dayton Metro Area... :)
I can't believe that none of you guys had Cinemax, circa 82' or so; or you guys from the UK don't remember the original Max Headroom!!
Constructabots!!!!! Damn I almost forgot about them. Ok of all us...er um 29.5 somethings..who wants to see UltraMan! I would get a second mortgage on my house to see a realistic Dr. Gordy. Yes, Please!!!
hmmmm..20 years out of High School & you are the first person I have ever met from the same place as me. Small World! :)
What part? I grew up in Rotwood.
Troy (seen any Hobart professional cookware lately?) is not JUST north.
ummm my Pops would disagree with you mightly. Dayton had been trying to annex Madison Township since about 81' or so. Trotwood beat them to it.
Actually it was not WPAB (which was SAC Command) but the Monsanto Mound works. Of the few companies in the US that made detonators for our nuclear arsenal that was one of them. I can't rembmer the street name but it was near the Fischer body plant & the closed DP&L Hutchinson power station. They had some model airplane parks right across the street that my Dad took me to back in the early 70's.
Ok I am down on Dayton. I grew up there & bacically it is a crappy little place. However it is the crappy little place where I come from so it holds fond memeories....of crap
Damn Rick yo ubeat me too it. :) I remember that big one, was that '74? I could see it from my porch on Smith Street (Just about a mile for St E just south of the Litte Miami River) scared the beejessus out of me!
Ok I grew up in the Gem City (as we like to call our selves & furthermore we got robbed in the NCCA regionals in 1985 but that is another story) & that area is approx 1 mile square. But the population density is nothing. There are approx 1M people in Montgomery County, but Dayton the city proper is gotta be bordering on barely above 100,000. now. Dayton is a heavy gm town. It used to be that just about every Fischer body, as well as every brake assm. that was on any GM vehicle as well as all DELCO (Dayton Electronics & yes Dayton Tires of gangster "Daytons" came from there to) but now there is only the S-10 plant where they make Trailblazers & Colorados left. The main population centers are in South Montgomery County, the Greene County/Montgomery County line & North West Montgomery County (Trotwood, Englewood, Vandallia etc) & they are all several miles from downtown. As amatter of fact, this area in the article is comprised of moslty what is known as East Dayton. In the best of times, they were not exectly the target demograpic group & nowadays... fugedaboutit. The Oregon distctict (literally about 800ft of the REBUILT cobblestone streets) is where the Wright Brothers had their bicycle shop & basically you only go that way as a short cut from say, 4th st on your way to Kettering {Patterson BLVD, Welcome Stadium, Stewart Street etc)
You forgot the most important part. How EVERY TV STATION IN AMERICA went off the air. Just static. Usualll around Midnight in whatever time zone you happen to be in. Then back on at 0430 to 0530. Star Spangled Banner both times. I think it was the fall of 1980 when WHIO (Channel 7 in the Gem City) stayed on through the night (only on weekends though at first). , I stayed up all night just watching the farm report, 4H, the 700 club(like) & other local crap. I thought I was in Heaven.
Actually I think there is a Federal Law (Google is ur friend) that specifically forbids landlords from doing that.