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Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 3, 2015 at 5:29 pm
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:18 am (This post was last modified: June 4, 2015 at 1:22 am by SteelCurtain.)
My first gaming console was this magical item:
[Image: fbd9b135296a1a1c0a825fc584530b70.jpg]

The Socrates gaming console for learning! V-Tech was making shit back in 1991!


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June 4, 2015 at 1:37 am
First console?  A "pong" knockoff, some time around 1976-77.
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June 4, 2015 at 2:28 am
We had an Atari, but I was really little. We got a Commodore Amiga when I was about nine. My mom was internet savvy before it was a thing; I remember having an account on Prodigy when I was about... thirteen? I've only ever been into "simple" games though, my favorites over the years being backgammon (on, and off line), Tetris, Mancala (offline), Tiger Woods for PS2 (I still play, although I have to keep buying used versions because I've kicked so many versions' asses), and poker, which I suck at.
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June 4, 2015 at 2:30 am
I remember when Pong first came out.  We thought it was a big deal.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 4:12 am
I remember dad buying a calculator! It was about $200 and had the basic arithmetic functions only.
I remember putting in simple things like eg: 21+32 just to test if it was accurate! hehe
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June 4, 2015 at 4:39 am
The first calculator my parents had was one of these (the lighter of the two):

[Image: EarlyL1.jpg]

although I don't think it was called a Datamath over here. It was big and clunky, you could probably choke a horse with it. If that's your idea of a good time. It could only do the basic mathematical operations - percentages was as complex as it got. But it was a little plastic box of magic to our 1970-something's eyes.

Far as I know they've still got it somewhere. Hope so, it was always a favourite of mine.
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June 4, 2015 at 4:42 am
technology = magic! (at all levels of advancement)
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June 4, 2015 at 1:07 pm
<sigh>







Before this, we used to sit in the dorm and play cards and actually talk to each other!
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:10 pm
(June 2, 2015 at 6:20 am)Violet Wrote: Dude, not worth. Slaves with opposable thumbs are a real bleeding hassle to manage. It's the 21st century: gotta go robo; save the hobo!
There just has to be a way to get those thumbs on the same page.
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