Piggs, what were your fav gadgets growing up??

[bearishgurl]

[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.

[bearishgurl]

I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[bearishgurl]

I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[bearishgurl]

I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[bearishgurl]

I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[bearishgurl]

I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl]I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

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Sooooo much better than TruckNutz.

BG, didn’t you say that you were a military spouse for many years? Do you mean to tell me that you managed to hold onto a set of clackers through all those moves?

Actually I had forgotten all about these things (I was never affluent enough for a pair of my own Clackers. Those and white go-go boots. Fvcked me up for life.) Hmmm, a lot of the craziness I’m seeing in members of my generation these days can probably be traced to these things (Clacker-induced TBI).

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl]I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[/quote]

Sooooo much better than TruckNutz.

BG, didn’t you say that you were a military spouse for many years? Do you mean to tell me that you managed to hold onto a set of clackers through all those moves?

Actually I had forgotten all about these things (I was never affluent enough for a pair of my own Clackers. Those and white go-go boots. Fvcked me up for life.) Hmmm, a lot of the craziness I’m seeing in members of my generation these days can probably be traced to these things (Clacker-induced TBI).

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl]I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[/quote]

Sooooo much better than TruckNutz.

BG, didn’t you say that you were a military spouse for many years? Do you mean to tell me that you managed to hold onto a set of clackers through all those moves?

Actually I had forgotten all about these things (I was never affluent enough for a pair of my own Clackers. Those and white go-go boots. Fvcked me up for life.) Hmmm, a lot of the craziness I’m seeing in members of my generation these days can probably be traced to these things (Clacker-induced TBI).

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl]I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[/quote]

Sooooo much better than TruckNutz.

BG, didn’t you say that you were a military spouse for many years? Do you mean to tell me that you managed to hold onto a set of clackers through all those moves?

Actually I had forgotten all about these things (I was never affluent enough for a pair of my own Clackers. Those and white go-go boots. Fvcked me up for life.) Hmmm, a lot of the craziness I’m seeing in members of my generation these days can probably be traced to these things (Clacker-induced TBI).

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl]I also loved playing with clackers (they developed hand-eye coordination) and still have an orange pair. They were later “recalled” because people were getting concussions with them (user and bystanders).

http://vintagegoodness.blogspot.com/2010/04/vintage-70s-clackers-toy-garage-sale.html

. . . First, I was digging through a filing cabinet earlier today and came across these:

[img_assist|nid=14164|title=Clackers|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=318|height=320]

Never opened, still in their original packaging Win Industries Clackers from 1971! I found them a while back and listed them on eBay, but the listing got pulled because they are a recalled toy – apparently kids were banging themselves up pretty good with them back in the day!

[/quote]

Sooooo much better than TruckNutz.

BG, didn’t you say that you were a military spouse for many years? Do you mean to tell me that you managed to hold onto a set of clackers through all those moves?

Actually I had forgotten all about these things (I was never affluent enough for a pair of my own Clackers. Those and white go-go boots. Fvcked me up for life.) Hmmm, a lot of the craziness I’m seeing in members of my generation these days can probably be traced to these things (Clacker-induced TBI).

[faterikcartman]

The Canon TL QL given to me by my grandfather whilst I was in elementary school. I still have that camera in mint condition other than the sticky meter needle.

[faterikcartman]

The Canon TL QL given to me by my grandfather whilst I was in elementary school. I still have that camera in mint condition other than the sticky meter needle.

[faterikcartman]

The Canon TL QL given to me by my grandfather whilst I was in elementary school. I still have that camera in mint condition other than the sticky meter needle.

[faterikcartman]

The Canon TL QL given to me by my grandfather whilst I was in elementary school. I still have that camera in mint condition other than the sticky meter needle.

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