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Old 07-02-2009, 06:16 PM   #71
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oh yeah, we had a reel-to-reel too... and later we had a tape recorder like this:
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Old 07-02-2009, 06:25 PM   #72
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I just like to think of how that kid's kids are going to react to iPods 30 years from now. I'm guessing they will laugh at it's ridiculously dated features.
The funny thing is that it was only a few years ago when I got my first iPod and I remember trying to explain to people what it was and why it was cool.
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Old 07-02-2009, 07:39 PM   #73
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The funny thing is that it was only a few years ago when I got my first iPod and I remember trying to explain to people what it was and why it was cool.
I had that experience with an ATM card. I lived in KC and had ATM's all over the place. moved back home to small town MO. and was asking the banks if they offered ATM cards and they looked at me like I was crazy. they'd never heard of them before.
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oh yeah, we had a reel-to-reel too... and later we had a tape recorder like this:
Used to have a whole bunch of games for the Apple ][, run off of one of those... ah, memories
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oh yeah, we had a reel-to-reel too... and later we had a tape recorder like this:
we used to have the texas instruments Ti994a. awesome computer for the time, had to use a tape recorder like that to run certain programs though



after this puppy i moved on to the iconic IBM pc 80808 with a badass mcga green screen i eventually converted into a cheap television set. used to have a picture somewhere of me watching the matrix on it.
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:17 PM   #76
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I had that experience with an ATM card. I lived in KC and had ATM's all over the place. moved back home to small town MO. and was asking the banks if they offered ATM cards and they looked at me like I was crazy. they'd never heard of them before.
I remember when you used to be able to get $5 from an ATM.
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:26 PM   #77
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we used to have the texas instruments Ti994a. awesome computer for the time, had to use a tape recorder like that to run certain programs though

after this puppy i moved on to the iconic IBM pc 80808 with a badass mcga green screen i eventually converted into a cheap television set. used to have a picture somewhere of me watching the matrix on it.
I've still got a Timex Sinclair in a drawer somewhere
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Old 07-03-2009, 09:59 AM   #78
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I've still got a Timex Sinclair in a drawer somewhere
we've supposedly got one as well, the really funny thing is after i inhereted the 80808 it was still the only ''internet capable'' pc we had at the time. Was always a trip watching my dad dialup the bbs at his office to adjust his schedule and that was probably a good 5-10 years before normal people knew there even was a net
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