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Post by funkdooby on Dec 2, 2006 21:49:22 GMT
I well remember closedown (and the national anthem), manual doors, penny sweets that really cost a penny (or less), proper cola bottles, full size shrimps, swizzle sticks, moon dust and Curly Whirlies that were literally two foot long. And yes, I am Robin Askwith. Wahahahey!
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Post by Stan Butler on Dec 2, 2006 22:51:44 GMT
I well remember penny sweets that really cost a penny... That's one of the few things that have never had a price increase! Curly Whirlies that were literally two foot long. That was in the days when 'Monster Munch' were f*ckin massive. Now they're more like p*ssin 'Krunchi Puffs' p.s. - I was a member of the 'Curly Wurly' club y'know. It didn't last long though. I should've joined the 'Beano Club' instead!
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Post by Conrad Poohs on Apr 29, 2007 15:29:34 GMT
Let's see, entertainment pre-Computer Age/Internet/E-Mail... let me fire up the old brain cells and go back... back... back....
Climb trees Play Capture the Flag Make bows and arrows with a pocketknife Stomp through our fields and woods (we owned six acres of land) Ice skate Play Dodgeball, Four-Square, Tag, Freeze Tag Have a seance Read Play Star Trek (this was long before I knew what an RPG was... I was Dr McCoy) Watch way too much TV Play with dolls (I was weird... a girl geek, tomboy, and I played with dollies too) Make things with Tinker Toys Rockhound (collect rocks)
I used a computer for the first time in April 1979, when I was 17. I was at a little Star Trek event and met a guy who had his own computer, which I thought was great and that he must be fabulously rich to have his OWN computer. He had an Apple IIc. A TV set was the monitor. He had not one but TWO floppy drives, which was almost unheard-of.
I had fun telling the next generation (my son and my nephew) about the old days, when computers didn't have hard drives. I remember when the TRS-80 (I think it was that one) came out with a hard drive with ONE MEG on it. I was stunned, ONE MEGABYTE?? OMG! I tried to explain to them about my b/f's floppy drives, how you'd have to put in a disc to do anything, and it was almost inconceivable to them, a computer without an internal drive. And using a TV for a MONITOR? Buwhahahahaha!
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