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Ben2World 
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Posted on: Dec. 21 2012, 3:17 pm |
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This website has collected hundreds of advertisements of electronic gadgets and games over the past decades -- all scrollable on one very, very long webpage! Here're two of them:
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. -- St. Augustine
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bbobb169
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Posted on: Dec. 22 2012, 12:50 am |
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Hah, those calculators are cheap. I remember my Dad buying me the first Texas Instrument calculator for over $100.00. All it could do was add, subtract, multiply, divide and sq roots.
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JRinGeorgia
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Posted on: Dec. 22 2012, 9:14 am |
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Ha! Remember the Bowmar Brain? Also over a hundred bucks, but it could add 2 plus 2 like nobody's business.
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TJCeeJay
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Posted on: Dec. 24 2012, 1:49 am |
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My first Computer. Even came with a 16 KB external ram module!
Sinclair 1000 by Cory Lindsay, on Flickr
Cheers!
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MAY THE WIND BE ALWAYS AT YOUR BACK, AND THE PATH ALWAYS RISE UP TO MEET YOUR FEET.
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swimswithtrout
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If you're talking memory lane, this is what I used to use before calculators.
I was already in college when the first calculator that could do anything more than add/subtract/multiple/ divide came out and we were forbidden to use one in class .
This ancient device did everything, and cost only a few bucks.
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Ben2World
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Posted on: Dec. 24 2012, 2:18 am |
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TJ:
I had one of those too (Sinclair). Even got a printer for it. Thermal paper. Don't see that much anymore.
Trout:
My class was the first in my high school to allow calculator use in class and to dispense with:
o winter swimming
o learning slide rule
1977 was a good year. Even back then, I loved gadgets and hated the cold. I wouldn't have minded learning the slide rule though.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. -- St. Augustine
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Chuck D
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Posted on: Dec. 24 2012, 11:48 am |
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I still have my Post Versalog slide rule, along with a couple of others.
I've always been an HP calculator user, RPN all the way. Paid over $300 for an HP35 in 1974, used it well into the 90's. The last time I sent it in for repair HP called and said they couldn't fix it and did I want it back, I said yes, when I got it back they also sent me a new calculator.
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IAJeff
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Posted on: Dec. 25 2012, 7:41 pm |
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Holy Cow, I remember a lot of that stuff. That football game was cool. Little red dashes were the players. And the Little Professor owl calculator. Thanks for post. Brings back a few memories.
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