Kind of a fun game

[AirbornePathogen]

Some say I'm part of the younger crowd here, but I have a few.

Cheap gas- cheapest I remember seeing it was 96 cents a gallon at Fort Bragg in 01.
Bricks of .22 LR for ten bucks or less, and 100 rounds of Winchester white box 9mm for 10-11 bucks.
Corded phones with no caller ID.
Cars with ashtrays built in. Last vehicle I had with an ashtray was my 01 Jeep Wrangler, when I traded it in on an 05 Wrangler it was gone.
Walkman! When I was a kid, you were cool if you had a portable CD player.
Dial up internet, pagers, cell phones that would only make calls. My grandma still had a rotary phone, I remember thinking it was the weirdest thing.
Since I mentioned Bragg and the Army, shining boots and pressing uniforms. We wore the BDUs when I was on active duty.
If you left the barracks when you were on recall, having to leave a phone number for where you'd be, and getting a cell phone so you could just leave that number and go wherever.
Cell phones- "Call me back after nine so I don't burn my minutes!"

[Rucker61]

You're thinking of something else...like a video projector that is mounted overhead.

Overhead projectors usually had the resolution of a felt tip pen.

At HP, we called this the ScribbleJet.

[O2HeN2]

ASR33 with an acoustic coupler (300 baud modem, or about 30 characters/bytes a second).

You could get it to throw fits and print garbage by whistling at just the correct frequency.

The acoustic coupler would replace the grey panel with the red button to the right of the keyboard/printer.

The ASR33 is the classic "news sound" (chick-chick-chick-chick) that used to be played in the background of the openings to some newscasts.

O2

[TFOGGER]

O hell yes! I still have programs saved on paper tape, hundreds of lines of BASIC...

[BladesNBarrels]

Colorado Motor Scooter License at age 14.
Cushman, Vespa, and Lambretta scooters lined up at Wheat Ridge Jr. High.
Even the term Jr. High vs Middle School

[SAnd]

100 watt incandescent bulb

Perhaps too soon to say never on this one...


The first thing I look for @ estate sales.

I bought a 4 pack at Lowes yesterday.

[Irving]

Colorado Motor Scooter License at age 14.
Cushman, Vespa, and Lambretta scooters lined up at Wheat Ridge Jr. High.
Even the term Jr. High vs Middle School

Is there even a Wheat Ridge Middle? Because I went to Everett.

[BladesNBarrels]

Is there even a Wheat Ridge Middle? Because I went to Everett.

The Wheat Ridge 5-8 Middle School closed in 2016.

I was at Wheat Ridge Jr. High in 1959-1961 and we moved with the principal, Don Solem, to the new Wheat Ridge High School the next year.
A few of the 9th Graders had motor scooters

[Rucker61]

ASR33 with an acoustic coupler (300 baud modem, or about 30 characters/bytes a second).

You could get it to throw fits and print garbage by whistling at just the correct frequency.

The acoustic coupler would replace the grey panel with the red button to the right of the keyboard/printer.

The ASR33 is the classic "news sound" (chick-chick-chick-chick) that used to be played in the background of the openings to some newscasts.

O2

I did a lot of programming in high school on one of these, and played a lot of "Hunt The Wumpus".

[GilpinGuy]

I had a Tandy computer that would save data on cassette tapes. Like music cassette tapes. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.