10 technological blasts from the past

waynegohl said:
I have 8-track cassettes. I have the portable entertainment system in a case (turntable,cassette deck and radio). I have a reel to reel tape recorder. I have a Canon Palmtronic LE-10 Calculator. Now we talking old.
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Have you heard TV comes in colour now?;)
Lawn mowers are also coming out with motors
 
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This sounds like the family who live underwater in a cave, eat gravel for supper and get thrashed within an inch of their life by their pa every night. Their clothes are made of cardboard. Times were hard then
 
Tun@ said:
Have you heard TV comes in colour now?;)
Lawn mowers are also coming out with motors
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liar!

If that happens it will just a fad like Rock & Roll and that Hippity Hoppity music the young ones listen to today.
 
Peder said:
what did the commodores tapes sound like in audio?
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Spot Lionel Ritchie

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waynegohl said:
liar!

If that happens it will just a fad like Rock & Roll and that Hippity Hoppity music the young ones listen to today.
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yeah i reckon too
Who needs TV when you can have one of these
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I wonder how many of these can be bought new?

I saw a cassette the other day - and I think one can still buy a modem, a Polaroid and a calculator watch?
 
chrisc4290 said:
What about telephone answering machines. I repaired a Sinclair ZX80 the other day, Replaced the modulator and it gives a fair image on a TV. Bit of pixel crawl up the vertical bars though. Awful keyboard
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If anyone has a clean ZX80 for sale, please let me know. Or any other home computer from the same 70's / 80's era.

Would even consider a swap for a modern touch screen smartphone. :)
 
aah yes, good old days... used to wait about 50 odd minutes for a game to load up on tape on Commodore64.... less than 60Kb... now we get impatient waiting more than a minute for newest games to load up :-)
how many remember spending hours writing a basic game in BASIC on C64 or Spectravideo328.... or those computer magazines with the program code printed that you had to enter pages & pages of code and characters, and hope there is not some bug in there.....man! we were content with very little those days :-)
At least we got to practice typing skills! Peek and Poke is not a facebook thing :-)
Still got C128 with many games on floppy disk somewhere in the garage. Maybe I should introduce it to my kids
Come to think of it... i wonder where is my Spectravideo328? Probly still in all the boxes of crap from my childhood, when I scrounge around in the garage looking for something, every now&then one of the tape games pop up
 
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CeeBee said:
aah yes, good old days... used to wait about 50 odd minutes for a game to load up on tape on Commodore64.... less than 60Kb... now we get impatient waiting more than a minute for newest games to load up :-)
how many remember spending hours writing a basic game in BASIC on C64 or Spectravideo328.... or those computer magazines with the program code printed that you had to enter pages & pages of code and characters, and hope there is not some bug in there.....man! we were content with very little those days :-)
At least we got to practice typing skills! Peek and Poke is not a facebook thing :-)
Still got C128 with many games on floppy disk somewhere in the garage. Maybe I should introduce it to my kids
Come to think of it... i wonder where is my Spectravideo328? Probly still in all the boxes of crap from my childhood, when I scrounge around in the garage looking for something, every now&then one of the tape games pop up
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See my post above if you want to sell/swap. :)
 
chrisc4290 said:
This sounds like the family who live underwater in a cave, eat gravel for supper and get thrashed within an inch of their life by their pa every night. Their clothes are made of cardboard. Times were hard then
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Have you ever rented a movie on 16mm film? You had to really want to see that movie.
 
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