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Quoted from jrpinball: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.
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.
Plus it didn't do square roots.
bowmar_mx55 (resized).jpgQuoted from o-din:Us in betweeners are just suburban robots that monitor reality.
Common stock, we work around the clock.
We shove the poles in the holes…
14784545512_422ee72acd_b (resized).jpgQuoted from tullster:Anybody remember KAAY 1090 AM out of Little Rock?
50,000 watts that would cover east of the rockies from Canada to Cuba at night. In
the late 60's early 70's, they had a late night "underground" Radio Show called Beaker Street. It pre-dated Album Rock on FM and there's an interesting section about Beaker Street on Wikipedia. There's also some shows preserved on Youtube.
Spent many nights listening to it when I should have been sleeping and remember hearing Hendrix, Cream, Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, etc. I will never forget hearing a killer version of "House of the Rising Sun" and having it stuck in my head for years until I finally discovered it was done by Frijid Pink.
Likewise, there was an "underground" type radio show I used to listen to in Chicago in the early 70's called "Triad." One night they played a cover version of " I Am The Walrus" that blew me away. Found out later it was done by Spooky Tooth.
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