Quoted from fuseholder:except for the cars.
Yup. That's what I always say.
For the most part anyway, the cars sucked.
There were some exceptions, of course.
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Quoted from Darcy:Also the arcades filled with EM pinball machines.
They were everywhere! By the end of the decade, I thought I'd never see another one. Who woulda thunk it?
Quoted from FrankJ:The decade when I got my first Machine!
My brother (also Frank J.) got his
"Subway" in '77 (still has it), and I got my first pin, "Hearts and Spades" a bit later. It's long gone.
Do you still have your first game, and what was it?
Quoted from LTG:I've seen that guy.
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Wuz gonna say, Jeff Spicoli!
Quoted from Vino:Two things quickly come to mind...
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Still can find Hamm's. Same looking can too.
Quoted from dontfeed:Z-Brick and wood paneling everywhere.
Wish I could find me some Z-brick.
Brick is always in style.
Quoted from o-din:I know we've all seen the movie and played the pinball machine, but pretty damn amazing story considering the technology of the day.
The nation and perhaps the whole world was holding it's breath.[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
I remember when that thing came down too. We were in a bar that had a "Space Mission" pinball, and we went outside at a particular time, and looked at a specific point in the sky and we could see the Sky Lab re-entering the atmosphere as it came crashing back to Earth.
Still have my original Bowmar Brain pocket calculator which I found lying in a bunch of tall grass while walking to my high school job around 1974.
It was probably a $150 unit at the time, and that was a lot of scratch back then.
The internal nicads are long gone, but I bet it still would work if I replaced them. It's sitting in a drawer somewhere.
Huh. Didn’t know it was still available because I don't see it in any of the home improvement stores. Not that I was actively looking for it, so maybe HD or Lowe's might have it.
Quoted from mooch:I had this Bowmar Brain in '75 or '76. This one was something like 50 or 100 bucks-- I don't remember.
I didn't like it because it made annoying clicking sounds when you pressed the buttons, which could be heard throughout a dead silent school room during an exam.
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Fished out the old Bowmar Brain. This is a very early model; maybe their first.
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