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[Homercidal]

Pics, or GTFO!

(LOL! Like you kept that stuff after all these years!)

 

[Revvy]

Pics, or GTFO!

(LOL! Like you kept that stuff after all these years!)

Actually there's a lot of pics of me from that era, college radio, public radio, and music event producing.

Early 80's college radio, black parachute pants, heavy metal cowboy boots, skinny tie and baggy sportcoat from value village.

A couple years later.... I think technically that was a mullet, even though it was a "stylish" one.

Yeah, a Mullet...Timeline wise, this pic should be in the middle of the three. If the first pic was 84-85ish, this would be somewhere around 86, and the pic above would prolly be about 88-89

 

[JeepDiver]

A couple years later.... I think technically that was a mullet, even though it was a "stylish" one.

According to my SWMBO, there is no such thing as a stylish mullet. We have had the conversation a few times looking back at my yearbooks

 

[Homercidal]

Actually there's a lot of pics of me from that era, college radio, public radio, and music event producing.

LOL! Stop!

Some things are better left in the past!

I also had a mullet at one time. But it won't ever show up on here...

Looks like you were having the time of your life back then. When I was a kid I wanted to be a DJ.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Revvy that is simply amazing.

 

[Homercidal]

I'll have a packet of these, and a can of Coke to go...

 

[Revvy]

I'll have a packet of these, and a can of Coke to go...

That's what they say killed "Mikey."



Only it really didn't.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

This was so awesome. I remember sending this thing down the patio stairs and having it fly all over the place, only to land back on its wheels and speed away.

 

[iaefebs]

 

[Hang Glider]

THANK YOU !

some of this stuff was getting to "new" for me -
we didn't have anything computerized (even Pong at home, and PacMan in the Godfather's Pizza) until I was over 20

 

[Huaco]

RIP Mr. Clark.

 

[Homercidal]

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Spuds McKenzie was the dogs name, right?

 

[brewingmeister]

Spuds McKenzie was the dogs name, right?

I don't normally like any type of terrier but when they wear aprons and pour brews...I guess I can make an exception.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

I don't normally like any type of terrier but when they wear aprons and pour brews...I guess I can make an exception.

Who could say no to that?

 

[copyright1997]

Yep

When I first started working (long time ago), an associate at work had one of these in his office. The two of us were working on a software project together that took lots of time and effort (eventually resulted in one of the earliest software patents in the USA post the 1981 supreme court decision that allowed SW patents on process, see: Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981)). Anyway, other people would stop by his office to ask questions, which would interupt our work. So, whenever someone came in, I would pick up Stretch Armstrong and start to pull and twist the $%@% out of it. This worked wonders to reduce/eliminate people coming by to ask needless crap.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

These commercials were on constantly when I was a kid, especially during The Price is Right.

 

[machinelf]

No inflated edges, no landing zone... you just suddenly ended up in the grass and mud!

 

[JonM]

These commercials were on constantly when I was a kid, especially during The Price is Right.

I remember that! It's kind of like Spanish Sesame Street. My high school Spanish teacher would occasionally show us clips from that because a little kids' show does a good job of teaching basic basic Spanish words/grammar to beginner students.

 

[KayaBrew]

Spuds McKenzie was the dogs name, right?

Anyone remember the Stroh's dog? I think his name was Alex...

Here he is:

 

[KingPin]

i dont know how old some of you are -- or how long you've been into computers.... But you may or may not remember

or

 

[PistolsAtDawn]

 

[CreamyGoodness]

If your reputation went negative enough you could raid other outposts. Of course, James as a middle schooler fought even in all its forms: real and virtual.

Friend of mine figured out how to use an editor and gave himself several thousand fighters, tons of cash etc. Administrator of the school server threw an absolute FIT! Ha!

i dont know how old some of you are -- or how long you've been into computers.... But you may or may not remember

or

 

[Homercidal]

i dont know how old some of you are -- or how long you've been into computers.... But you may or may not remember

OH SHT! My BIL and I would play this ALL the TIME. (Actually it was TW2000...)

We hit up the local BBS and run through our turns if we were lucky enough to get in on the one phone line the BBS had. We would excitedly upgrade the modem because every upgrade meant more chances at getting all of our turns in.

I met the brother of the SYSOP where I used to work and accused him of cheating because he was always top of the game. He laughed and said he didn't cheat, but I should see the "server" running the system.

It was a motherboard hanging by a nail on the wall of his brother's closet, with the hard drive and PSU sitting on a shelf next to it.

Later I bought the house this guy lived in and evicted him, but he became a very close friend and we still get together and play games and go backpacking etc. His brother, the SYSOP even brews beer once in a while.

Sorry to ramble, I never thought anyone else in the world played that game!

I sucked at it, BTW...

 

[quick5pnt0]

 

[quick5pnt0]

 

[mountainman13]

I had that exact one:rockin:

 

[Revvy]

i dont know how old some of you are -- or how long you've been into computers.... But you may or may not remember
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This was my first computer I had access to back in Jr.High
(if you could call it that)

You used punch cards to store data, wrote programs in basic. It smelled of oil and that cheap rough brown re-cycled paper. You dropped a phone into the modem coupler and you could play some version of star trek with folks across the school district.

Those were the days... Of what a baud rate of 45?

This Was my first home computer.

Then when I graduated highschool I got one of these.

That was hot **** back then.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

My first cornpooper was a 286 with a FULL MB of ram. 40MB hard drive. VGA monitor (non interlaced ftw), upgraded every couple months from DOS 3.0 to DOS 4.0 to DOS whatever it was next.

Y'know what that old girl never did once? Crash.

 

[JeffoC6]

I still wear these...Green and Gold, Red and Black, and Royal Blue. Bang!