ST1100Y
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Old Enough To Remember?
- Thread starter Shuey
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... handled carefully I managed to get 38 exposures of a 36 roll...
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... the first Roling Stones concert...
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... awe... 
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Help please!
Anyone got a charger for a Nokia 6110?
Must have lost mine in '99 and now I'm down to just one bar...
Pleeezze!
Anyone got a charger for a Nokia 6110?
Must have lost mine in '99 and now I'm down to just one bar...
Pleeezze!
ST1100Y
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I had one of these back in the 1960s as well as a gyroscope that balanced on a model of the Eiffel Tower.
or a double exposure... handled carefully I managed to get 38 exposures of a 36 roll...
billo
17 years on a ST
and we were so bored we actually played with it...
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Well, I folded "roads" out a used cash register roll and played on them with my Matchbox cars...
This was my very first model kit which I was given when I was 6 or 7
Mom was NOT impressed.
I took a bath towel, drew the Superman logo on it with crayons, tied it around my neck as a cape and "flew" around the house.Well, I folded "roads" out a used cash register roll and played on them with my Matchbox cars...
Mom was NOT impressed.
ST1100Y
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At least you didn't try to fly from the rooftop...
Hmmm... second story apartment with a balcony at that time... lucky for me it was winter & too cold outside.
ST1100Y
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Well, we had wits, common sense...Hmmm... second story apartment with a balcony at that time... lucky for me if was winter & too cold outside.
And we knew how to build and play with simple things, kept ourselves occupied for hours...
Uncle Phil
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I think that is a real issue today - we made a lot of our toys, played with our toys, and used our brains to figure things out.
Nowadays, kids push a button or click an icon and watch their toys play from the comfort of their IPhone ...
ST1100Y
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From what I observe do they simply have too many toys... then they sit in a pile of them, confused, overwhelmed of what to choose or use next... then resignation and "...I'm bored..."I think that is a real issue today - we made a lot of our toys, played with our toys, and used our brains to figure things out.
Nowadays, kids push a button or click an icon and watch their toys play from the comfort of their IPhone ...
And those phones and tablets only dull imagination and diminish any attention span...
We had like a hand full of stuff... and books... those were great...
I'm so old I remember multiplication was called "Times Tables".
I remember "42"
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... and where your towel is...