Rememeber When.......

[the deta]

Seeing the old computers in the other thread made me think about how fast technology evolves, and how silly some of the old stuff looks . What were some of the old school technomologies you had, or wanted?

When i was a kid i got this bad boy for my birthday one year.

The PXL 2000....

http://www.labguysworld.com/PXL-2000_005.jpg

[KungFuJesus]

holy crap... i remember commercials for those. Never had one though. I think a buddy of mine got one.

[Nickenheiser]

awesome thread ed!


i wanted one of these for a LONG TIME as a tyke

http://videogame2play.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/virtualboy.jpg

this is what it looked like in the goggles
http://nintendocommunity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/mario-tennis-virtual-boy.jpg

my folks finally got me one... i played it for about 2 days and never touched it again... gave me THE WORST headache and my vision would be all fucked for about an hour after i stopped playing.

[djb]

Remember when it took days to make one stick of butter?

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/84/64/23376484.jpg

Ed, This really is a great thread. I'll drum up something real when I'm not at work.

[the deta]

Did the viewer have a strap? Or did it have to be on that stand?

I have a similar story. I was all psyched up to get this portable video game sytem when i was a kid, got it and played it for a day or two tops.

THE LINX!

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/lynx99_large.jpg

FYI- The two games i had were Blue lightning, and Electrocop.

[djb]

I remember the LINX. My local toy/hobby store had a display with a surfing game on it. I played it at the store for about 15 minutes and got tired of it. I think it cost around $250 bucks.

(edit) the one I'm thinking about was one of the earliest handhelds with a color screen.

http://www.ataritimes.com/images/lynx/californiagames_surfing.gif

[Spooner]

This was the big techmology I wanted as a kid--and when it came out, it was closer to my kid bro's birthday, so he wound up getting it, and I pretty much used it more 'an he did (and used it for playing 8-track tapes). It used the four buttons of the 8-track to answer trivia questions about different shit, and if you were wrong, it would trigger some response telling you you're a really dumb fuckin' kid. I dug it.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9296/2xlis8.png (http://imageshack.us)

[PeggyLove]

Great thread, Ed.

This was the first computer my family bought and I could even get on the interwebs on this bad boy.

http://www.aresluna.org/attached/pics/computerhistory/articles/macintoshbytereview/photo1.big.jpg

[the deta]

Is that an Apple II ? That was the first coputer i ever use. We hd them in elementry school. Wow... this is a crazy memory... Besides their main function, to do math problems and spelling games on, there was this one disk that had a bunch of pictures and after we did our work, we could print these pics out and color them or some shit. I remember printing out this owl that looked like the "FLy By Night" cover. You must have been able to ad text to it because i remember it saying "fly by night." I colored it all sweet and hung it on my wall at home. Kinda freaky that i would have been listening to rush back then.

[djb]

That's an original Apple Macintosh Ed.

[djb]

Here's my first two.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/pet2001-black.jpg

and

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/trs80-i.jpg

[the deta]

Wow i had no idea cassette tapes had such a role in cearly computers.

[Howards Turn]

Heres Bill O'Reilly doin a news report on Nintendo from 1988.

"Jack Mayhoffer."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGFRi_ueq-M
yGFRi_ueq-M

[djb]

Wow i had no idea cassette tapes had such a role in cearly computers.

Yeah and these bad boys had 4K of RAM and 1 - 2Mhz processors. They were real screamers.

[the deta]

lmao lmao that oreilly video is great. YOu cant beat that dude who worked at the call center with that mega mullet. Ididnt know nintendo had the call in tip lines, I remember calling the sega help line for tips back in the day. That was awesome, free advice and tips, who woulda think!??!?! 1-800-USA-SEGA.

[Spooner]

Check out Billy Mitchell's doppelganger at 3:19. That guy's awesome. (Edit: Ed pointed it out also as I was typing this. Anyway, that guy's even slicker than Billy Mitchell. Wait. That's not possible.)


DJ: That Radio Shack pic of yours is the exact model I was referring to. Unbelievable to see it again.

[djb]

in 1968, I received one of these. It used it's own proprietary cartridges that contained 2 songs each. Mine came with 2 cartridges, Neil Diamond and 3 Dog Night. Those same 4 songs got old pretty fast but at least it didn't switch tracks mid song like on some 8-track tapes.

http://i29.tinypic.com/nvtvmw.jpg

[Howards Turn]

Check out Billy Mitchell's doppelganger at 3:19. That guy's awesome.

He looks like a humourless Dokken fan.

Did hair just grow naturally like that in the 80's or what?

[Spooner]

I think blowdryers were suckin' a lotta wattage.

Boy, we really need a good Billy Mitchell thread/shrine here. I bet there's LOADS of great stuff to unearth about that guy. He's almost as fascinating as Derren Brown.

[Nickenheiser]

BTI youve seen king of kong right?

[Dr. P]

He's offline, but yeah, he has.

[TheWagesofSin]

Seeing the old computers in the other thread made me think about how fast technology evolves, and how silly some of the old stuff looks . What were some of the old school technomologies you had, or wanted?

When i was a kid i got this bad boy for my birthday one year.

The PXL 2000....

http://www.labguysworld.com/PXL-2000_005.jpg

That's awesome, Ed. I remember it was exciting as hell when my best friend got one of those for x-mas. We immediately started filming short movies that were, of course, shit.

Interestingly (or not) I've heard that there's a whole subculture of artsy-fartsy types who still use the PXL 2000. I've seen a good number of clips on youtube but nothing worth posting here.

[Howards Turn]

I think blowdryers were suckin' a lotta wattage.

Boy, we really need a good Billy Mitchell thread/shrine here. I bet there's LOADS of great stuff to unearth about that guy. He's almost as fascinating as Derren Brown.

The sad thing is there isn't a lot of stuff out there about him asides from the movie.

Here he his talkin about his perfect pacman score.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SKZxvDQryA
6SKZxvDQryA

[Jdiggity Dee]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/IBM_PC_5150_Image.jpg/225px-IBM_PC_5150_Image.jpg

IBM PC with a single 5 1/2 inch floppy, 128 k ram
pimped up with a 13 inch Gold monochrome monitor & Volkswriter for word processing.

[the deta]

That's awesome, Ed. I remember it was exciting as hell when my best friend got one of those for x-mas. We immediately started filming short movies that were, of course, shit.

Interestingly (or not) I've heard that there's a whole subculture of artsy-fartsy types who still use the PXL 2000. I've seen a good number of clips on youtube but nothing worth posting here.

FOund this on the wiki when i was looking this up earlier....

The PXL2000 was used by Richard Linklater in his 1991 debut film Slacker, during the bar scene.
Filmmaker Sadie Benning has also used the PXL2000 in some of her video works.
It was also used by Michael Almereyda for three of his films: the 1992 film Another Girl Another Planet, which was entirely shot with a PXL2000, his 1993 short Aliens, and his 1994 film Nadja, in which the PXL2000 was used for point of view shots of the title character. Ethan Hawke's character in Hamlet can also be seen with one.

[Spooner]

"Hey, Pac-Man!"

"That's Mister Pac-Man to YOU."

I don't think there's a greater quote in all of Bartlett's. That's really fucked about there not being more B. Mitchell shit out there. I've got a fever...

[TheWagesofSin]

Him shoving the competitor's hot sauce back behind his own brand=:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[moneymaker]

Here was my first game console. It came with several games like: doubles (two sticks), field hockey (four sticks), etc.

http://www.sirgalahad.org/paul/sw/winlock/img/pong.png

[Dr. P]

I grew up on pong. I'll see if I can find "the" picture.

[KungFuJesus]

You people are old as fuck.

[Spooner]

^^Shore are. Any a you guys ever get shocked trying to screw those TV connector wires to the back of the set as a kid? I did once and flew back about three feet (as it appears in my memory).

[Booze]

Hey, Ed... ever have one of these? :poke:

http://i30.tinypic.com/xbzc08.jpg

[the deta]

Hey, Ed... ever have one of these? :poke:

http://i30.tinypic.com/xbzc08.jpg

Hell noe.

[Pinch One Off]

Jeesus, I'm older than all of you put together.

http://i31.tinypic.com/209pvv5.jpg

This is all they had when I was a kid.

[Hole In Face]

http://www.248am.com/images/simonsays.jpg

Simon was the shit! I can remember it if it was like yesterday when I got it on chritsmas morning. I literally played it all day and never got tired of it. If you had this toy you had a love/hate relationship with it. lmao You wanted to beat the game so bad, but it got extremely fucking hard as it went on, especially if you were a dumb little kid younger then 8.

[the deta]

Couold you actually "beat" Simon? I figure it just kept going on an on and on endlessly.

[Nickenheiser]

yeah i thought simon kept going till you missed a hit

[Dr. P]

It was the old Guitar Hero.

[The Sav]

I had these when I was a kid...

http://http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/5154/vic20lk4.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/3603/commodore64boxhe2.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/4993/classicminiarcadeif7.jpg

[Spooner]

^^Shit, Sav... if I was 10 or 11 when THOSE two things came out, I would've never left the house. Those were beyond even the garbage Atari versions.

[Demiurge]

We had a system that used some giant cartridges that you had to put into the consoles, but I have no idea what the system was. It wasn't ColecoVision. Something makes me think it was some type of RadioShack Tandy gaming system.

I distinctly remember Shooting Gallery...

http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/shooting_gallery.gif

[The Sav]

I had Donkey Kong, Joust and Pacman too. I remember getting DK and Frogger back in 1982 on my 8th birthday. Probably the greatest gifts I ever had. And the local arcade must have hated my guts for it.... neighborhood kids were at my pad everyday. lmao

[Hole In Face]

We had a system that used some giant cartridges that you had to put into the consoles, but I have no idea what the system was. It wasn't ColecoVision. Something makes me think it was some type of RadioShack Tandy gaming system.

I distinctly remember Shooting Gallery...

http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/shooting_gallery.gif

:larry:

[KungFuJesus]

I played NES Mario Bros. (not super mario) on the wii today... it cost 500 points. Totally worth it. That game is hard as shit after level 10 or so.

[Spooner]

How do you get/buy points for that thing, Fu? You gotta sign up and buy 'em online, or can you do it from the console? If I can find (and play) the old "Caveman Games" for the NES, it's over. That was the best game I can remember--it was banned, even.

[KungFuJesus]

How do you get/buy points for that thing, Fu? You gotta sign up and buy 'em online, or can you do it from the console? If I can find (and play) the old "Caveman Games" for the NES, it's over. That was the best game I can remember--it was banned, even.

When the wii came out, you could only buy points on cards at stores. Now you can buy points directly from the console with a credit card.

$10 = 1000pts

You can order in increments of 10, 20, 30, etc.

[The Sav]

Xbox's points purchasing system is really fucking stupid.... $12.50 for 600 points are something like that. I don't remember. But leave it to Microsoft to make things as complicated as they can possibly make it, instead of simply doing it in a way that makes sense.

They should have it set up like Nintendo does...

1000 for $10 and so on. Why is that so hard?

[Spooner]

Yeah, I think those cocksuckers do that deliberately to fool most of the choads who use 'em, knowing these dumbass kids can't do the math in their heads. I also think there should be a diminishing scale as you buy higher, which there fucking ain't. I've dropped at least $250 on those gay points since I bought this bitch. (I *do* love that I can buy them with one click of the A button though.)


Oh, hey: I can't fucking figure this out for the LIFE of me!! Does *anyone* know how to remove a profile from that retarded dashboard?!! I've looked EVERYWHERE and can't take my asshole friends' temporary profiles off my shit. :tip:

[the deta]

Yeah, I think those cocksuckers do that deliberately to fool most of the choads who use 'em, knowing these dumbass kids can't do the math in their heads. I also think there should be a diminishing scale as you buy higher, which there fucking ain't. I've dropped at least $250 on those gay points since I bought this bitch. (I *do* love that I can buy them with one click of the A button though.)


Oh, hey: I can't fucking figure this out for the LIFE of me!! Does *anyone* know how to remove a profile from that retarded dashboard?!! I've looked EVERYWHERE and can't take my asshole friends' temporary profiles off my shit. :tip:

Fuck you pal, i can read between the lines!

[Booze]

Sav, I had a C64 as well. Had that thing for years, & I'm well nostalgic for some of those games. Especially the Boulderdash construction kit, or whatever it was called, where you could build your own maps. Great stuff, back in '87.

[Franks n Beans]

I remember the first time somebody showed me how to make double bullets on Space Invaders for the Atari.
I was quite amazed.

[moneymaker]

I remember the first time somebody showed me how to make double bullets on Space Invaders for the Atari.
I was quite amazed.

Were you and the fellas in a circle, when you learned how to make "double bullets". Beans?

[Spooner]

^^http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2577/chucklinpuppetsbm9.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Franks n Beans]

Figures you'd think that's funny

[Spooner]

Oh, I think it'll be more than me, Beans. Call it a hunch.

[Dr. P]

Were you and the fellas in a circle, when you learned how to make "double bullets". Beans?

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[Franks n Beans]

yea ok

[TheWagesofSin]

Were you and the fellas in a circle, when you learned how to make "double bullets". Beans?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :score:



Seriously, though, Beans: how does one do "double bullets" on Space Invaders? I never knew you could do that.

[Jdiggity Dee]

^^^^^

You jam your finger in the back of the unit behind the joy stick.

Beans

[TheWagesofSin]

thanks for clarifying that, JD. Though I have a sneaking suspicion you're trying to make a funny.


:poke: sorta

[The Sav]

You jam your finger in the back of the unit behind the joy stick.

yAMl4F49MXY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAMl4F49MXY&feature=related)

[Franks n Beans]

ahhh haaaa!! You're on "Kicked in the nuts"