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  • October 31, 2010 at 2:42 AM #625775
    Coronita
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    When we were growing up? Some of us are still working on that….

    Funny you should ask, because I was just in the middle of unpacking my crap and inventory-ing it….after my parents gave me the ultimatum…”Now that you have your own home, move your crap out of ours, or Goodwill here we come”….Yup, apparently I’m a pack-rat.

    Bad news for my daughter. She gets a lot of hands-me-down….Most of which are boy toys.

    So…Here’s a trip down memory lane….
    Note: to relive a similar childhood hands-on, I’m charging $5 admissions/hour 🙂

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    Favorite Toys (non electronics):

    1. ……Parents never let me and my sibling have a real dog. We got this instead…

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    Made in USA and currently “in service”

    2. …..Rubber ducky, you’re the one… You make bathtime so much fun…

    [img_assist|nid=14147|title=rubber ducky|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Made in USA and currently “in service”

    3. …Back when Olympics had ONE mascot per host country….Not the 7-8 retarded looking ones from the Bejing games…

    [img_assist|nid=14148|title=sam|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=267|height=400]

    4 ….Tribute to my old Mr. Potatohead, whose plastic disintegrated while in storage for the past decades…I will miss you, Original Mr. Potatohead…Especially because you didn’t have leaded paint…RIP…Shown below is the $5 Made in China Amazon.com special, of course…

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    Made in China, currently in service…(Lead tested)

    ——– —-

    Boy toys:

    1…..My first toolset…. Hmmm, I wonder which one I can use to unbolt an Audi coilpack.. Unfortunately the nails and green wrench has seen better days..

    Side note: if anyone is aware of a company/facility that can do injection molds that are open to general consumers, let me know. It would be interesting to have someone remake the wrench and nails…

    [img_assist|nid=14150|title=toolset|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Made in Usa… In service…

    2. Space Shuttle. Since at one point my dad worked for defense/space and comm. Back then, toys like this were made in usa….just like our space program….Today, toys are made overseas, outsourced to companies that are the lowest bidders….just like our space program… Oh, the irony….

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    Made in Usa… In service…

    3… Got this, with someone telling me…”One day, you’ll be able to afford a real one”….Fvcker lied…Affording a Porsche cup car hasn’t come around yet 30 years later….

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    Made in Hong Kong. On display of workbench..

    4. This thing is cool. It works on air..You pump it up, and the air pressure propels the wheels…It was working fine…until my daughter pulled the pump apart…last week 🙁

    [img_assist|nid=14153|title=air jammer|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Made in USA… Currently in workshop being repaired.

    5… HotWheels/Matchbox stuff (Missing my Hotwheels car collection…)

    I wanted a “Super cliff hanger” racetrack.. But this was much cooler, because the purpose was to crash as many cars as you can…. I bent a few Hot Wheels playing with this.

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    Misc Hot Wheels/Matchbox playsets…

    [img_assist|nid=14155|title=hw city|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Made in Hong Kong…In service.

    6…Tonka.Tonka.Tonka…..

    Back then, toys were made to last, just like our cars. Now, toys are made out of cheap plastic that fall apart quickly…Just like our cars….

    [img_assist|nid=14156|title=tonka|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    7. Missing. Collection of original Transformers…Bought with my allowances…I’ll be mad if I can’t find them….

    ——————–

    Things that go beep…..

    1. Radio Shack science kit…Back then, Radio Shack was cool for geeks since you could find crap like this…Needless to say, I’m surprised Radio Shack is still around with a business model like that ….

    [img_assist|nid=14157|title=science kit|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Made in Taiwan…

    2…Forget the Atari 2600…This predates everything….. “Coleco Telstar Alpha”….Game console featuring “Pong” (color not available)….

    [img_assist|nid=14158|title=coleco|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Made in Usa…Still works great with my sony Bravia LCD….

    3…Missing Atari 2600 + cartridges. It’s in my garage somewhere and it still works…

    4….Retro-computing anyone? Back then…Macs were cool, IBM pc’s suck, and Apple stock was at an all time high….Hmmmm…deja-vu…..

    [img_assist|nid=14159|title=apple|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Center: Apple IIe/64k memory 80 column text card, super serial card, FAST 300baud modem…with TWO “new” Disk II 5.25″ floppy drives, one made in Japan compact drive..Monitor sold separately…

    Far Left: Mac SE-30/Featuring 8mbram/80HD with the super fast MC68030/16mhz…

    Left: Mac IIsi 8mbram/80HD featuring MC68030/20mhz and a VideoSpigot video capture card!!!!

    Far Right: Symantec C++ for mac….I hated that thing….

    Most of this was made in USA with parts overseas…

    5…The reason I won’t ever buy something not Canon. Side note: if only my dad like Leica’s….

    [img_assist|nid=14160|title=canon|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]
    Left: Canon QL17 belonged to my pops…Taught me how to take pictures on it and got me started on a otherwise very expensive hobby..

    Right: Canon AE-1P from Papa that I used while school head photog.. Still works.

    Both made in japan..

    —————–
    Absent from anywhere is anything related to audio gear.. For some reason, never was an audiophile.

    October 31, 2010 at 10:10 AM #624749
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    October 31, 2010 at 10:10 AM #624832
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    October 31, 2010 at 10:10 AM #625388
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    October 31, 2010 at 10:10 AM #625512
    eavesdropper
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    October 31, 2010 at 10:10 AM #625824
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    October 31, 2010 at 10:12 AM #624754
    scaredyclassic
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    I loved my red bike and my baseball glove which I used so much it was fairly shredded. We played all the time.

    October 31, 2010 at 10:12 AM #624837
    scaredyclassic
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    I loved my red bike and my baseball glove which I used so much it was fairly shredded. We played all the time.

    October 31, 2010 at 10:12 AM #625393
    scaredyclassic
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    I loved my red bike and my baseball glove which I used so much it was fairly shredded. We played all the time.

    October 31, 2010 at 10:12 AM #625516
    scaredyclassic
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    I loved my red bike and my baseball glove which I used so much it was fairly shredded. We played all the time.

    October 31, 2010 at 10:12 AM #625829
    scaredyclassic
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    I loved my red bike and my baseball glove which I used so much it was fairly shredded. We played all the time.

    October 31, 2010 at 11:41 AM #624774
    bearishgurl
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    [quote=flu]. . . 4….Retro-computing anyone? Back then…Macs were cool, IBM pc’s suck, and Apple stock was at an all time high….Hmmmm…deja-vu…..

    [img_assist|nid=14159|title=apple|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Center: Apple IIe/64k memory 80 column text card, super serial card, FAST 300baud modem…with TWO “new” Disk II 5.25″ floppy drives, one made in Japan compact drive..Monitor sold separately…

    Far Left: Mac SE-30/Featuring 8mbram/80HD with the super fast MC68030/16mhz…

    Left: Mac IIsi 8mbram/80HD featuring MC68030/20mhz and a VideoSpigot video capture card!!!!

    Far Right: Symantec C++ for mac….I hated that thing….

    Most of this was made in USA with parts overseas…[/quote]

    LOL, flu, I had the Mac SE-30 (One pc. incl B/W monitor) which ran on “System 6.” I also have a Quadra 610 with a “super-drive” (which plays IBM-PC floppies as well), was network-ready and ran on System 7 (System 8 is a “stretch” dep on hdwre upgrades). I LOVED the Quadra in the 90’s but when I tried to get it up on “cable” internet as late as 2001, it took up to 45 mins. to download some pages. I still have this immaculate machine, which is built by Motorola as heavy-duty and top quality! Mine was spruced up with ultra-wide SCSI, a 2 gig SCSI HD, maxed out in RAM SIMMS and video RAM, and had a matching 2x SCSI external CD drive and (still mint) Apple (Sony Trinitron) monitor. With all its hardware and software, I probably had about $4500 in it, lol. All that stuff was the latest and the greatest back in the early nineties before the Power PC’s came out!

    IMO, most PC’s are empty boxes of crap compared to a Mac.

    I haven’t had a Mac since but my kids have Macbooks.

    Also used to own Apple stock but (stupidly) sold it before its value went thru the roof.

    October 31, 2010 at 11:41 AM #624857
    bearishgurl
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    [quote=flu]. . . 4….Retro-computing anyone? Back then…Macs were cool, IBM pc’s suck, and Apple stock was at an all time high….Hmmmm…deja-vu…..

    [img_assist|nid=14159|title=apple|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Center: Apple IIe/64k memory 80 column text card, super serial card, FAST 300baud modem…with TWO “new” Disk II 5.25″ floppy drives, one made in Japan compact drive..Monitor sold separately…

    Far Left: Mac SE-30/Featuring 8mbram/80HD with the super fast MC68030/16mhz…

    Left: Mac IIsi 8mbram/80HD featuring MC68030/20mhz and a VideoSpigot video capture card!!!!

    Far Right: Symantec C++ for mac….I hated that thing….

    Most of this was made in USA with parts overseas…[/quote]

    LOL, flu, I had the Mac SE-30 (One pc. incl B/W monitor) which ran on “System 6.” I also have a Quadra 610 with a “super-drive” (which plays IBM-PC floppies as well), was network-ready and ran on System 7 (System 8 is a “stretch” dep on hdwre upgrades). I LOVED the Quadra in the 90’s but when I tried to get it up on “cable” internet as late as 2001, it took up to 45 mins. to download some pages. I still have this immaculate machine, which is built by Motorola as heavy-duty and top quality! Mine was spruced up with ultra-wide SCSI, a 2 gig SCSI HD, maxed out in RAM SIMMS and video RAM, and had a matching 2x SCSI external CD drive and (still mint) Apple (Sony Trinitron) monitor. With all its hardware and software, I probably had about $4500 in it, lol. All that stuff was the latest and the greatest back in the early nineties before the Power PC’s came out!

    IMO, most PC’s are empty boxes of crap compared to a Mac.

    I haven’t had a Mac since but my kids have Macbooks.

    Also used to own Apple stock but (stupidly) sold it before its value went thru the roof.

    October 31, 2010 at 11:41 AM #625413
    bearishgurl
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    [quote=flu]. . . 4….Retro-computing anyone? Back then…Macs were cool, IBM pc’s suck, and Apple stock was at an all time high….Hmmmm…deja-vu…..

    [img_assist|nid=14159|title=apple|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Center: Apple IIe/64k memory 80 column text card, super serial card, FAST 300baud modem…with TWO “new” Disk II 5.25″ floppy drives, one made in Japan compact drive..Monitor sold separately…

    Far Left: Mac SE-30/Featuring 8mbram/80HD with the super fast MC68030/16mhz…

    Left: Mac IIsi 8mbram/80HD featuring MC68030/20mhz and a VideoSpigot video capture card!!!!

    Far Right: Symantec C++ for mac….I hated that thing….

    Most of this was made in USA with parts overseas…[/quote]

    LOL, flu, I had the Mac SE-30 (One pc. incl B/W monitor) which ran on “System 6.” I also have a Quadra 610 with a “super-drive” (which plays IBM-PC floppies as well), was network-ready and ran on System 7 (System 8 is a “stretch” dep on hdwre upgrades). I LOVED the Quadra in the 90’s but when I tried to get it up on “cable” internet as late as 2001, it took up to 45 mins. to download some pages. I still have this immaculate machine, which is built by Motorola as heavy-duty and top quality! Mine was spruced up with ultra-wide SCSI, a 2 gig SCSI HD, maxed out in RAM SIMMS and video RAM, and had a matching 2x SCSI external CD drive and (still mint) Apple (Sony Trinitron) monitor. With all its hardware and software, I probably had about $4500 in it, lol. All that stuff was the latest and the greatest back in the early nineties before the Power PC’s came out!

    IMO, most PC’s are empty boxes of crap compared to a Mac.

    I haven’t had a Mac since but my kids have Macbooks.

    Also used to own Apple stock but (stupidly) sold it before its value went thru the roof.

    October 31, 2010 at 11:41 AM #625536
    bearishgurl
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    [quote=flu]. . . 4….Retro-computing anyone? Back then…Macs were cool, IBM pc’s suck, and Apple stock was at an all time high….Hmmmm…deja-vu…..

    [img_assist|nid=14159|title=apple|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=400|height=267]

    Center: Apple IIe/64k memory 80 column text card, super serial card, FAST 300baud modem…with TWO “new” Disk II 5.25″ floppy drives, one made in Japan compact drive..Monitor sold separately…

    Far Left: Mac SE-30/Featuring 8mbram/80HD with the super fast MC68030/16mhz…

    Left: Mac IIsi 8mbram/80HD featuring MC68030/20mhz and a VideoSpigot video capture card!!!!

    Far Right: Symantec C++ for mac….I hated that thing….

    Most of this was made in USA with parts overseas…[/quote]

    LOL, flu, I had the Mac SE-30 (One pc. incl B/W monitor) which ran on “System 6.” I also have a Quadra 610 with a “super-drive” (which plays IBM-PC floppies as well), was network-ready and ran on System 7 (System 8 is a “stretch” dep on hdwre upgrades). I LOVED the Quadra in the 90’s but when I tried to get it up on “cable” internet as late as 2001, it took up to 45 mins. to download some pages. I still have this immaculate machine, which is built by Motorola as heavy-duty and top quality! Mine was spruced up with ultra-wide SCSI, a 2 gig SCSI HD, maxed out in RAM SIMMS and video RAM, and had a matching 2x SCSI external CD drive and (still mint) Apple (Sony Trinitron) monitor. With all its hardware and software, I probably had about $4500 in it, lol. All that stuff was the latest and the greatest back in the early nineties before the Power PC’s came out!

    IMO, most PC’s are empty boxes of crap compared to a Mac.

    I haven’t had a Mac since but my kids have Macbooks.

    Also used to own Apple stock but (stupidly) sold it before its value went thru the roof.

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