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[mac63]

#1 - 9/10




You beat me to it... LOL!!

I was just gonna post a pic of the 1st computer I worked with... the IBM 360/70:

This looks almost exactly like our computer room back then,
except for the bank of HUGE disc drives that would have been off-screen to the left...​

We had a mod 50.
We actually had a dumb terminal and used the hard copy mainly as a backup and for the syslog. The tape drives in the pics look like manual loaders - we had a few of those but mostly auto load. Did you ever get to smell burnt disk after a DASD crash?

 

[RaceGun59]

9-11 #2
These lost out to Lego. These made such kewl bunkers for my G. I. Joes.

 

[angelphyre]

9/11
#1 - This was my favorite doll when I was a kid...I bet some of you know why I particularly like this one!

 

[kathi17]

The Sears Christmas catalog. It was so exciting! I also had Tressy. You pushed a button on her stomach and made her hair longer. To make it shorter, you wound it up with the button on her back.

 

[jj2]

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[jj2]

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[RaceGun59]

9-11
They say they have a wish book, but it's not anything like the real wish book.

 

[liblue1]

9/11 #1
A Projection Screen...for all of those movies in school.......

 

[spacekitty]

#1 - 9/11

We had a mod 50.
We actually had a dumb terminal and used the hard copy mainly as a backup and for the syslog. The tape drives in the pics look like manual loaders - we had a few of those but mostly auto load. Did you ever get to smell burnt disk after a DASD crash?

Yes, they were manual... and no, I never had the pleasure of experiencing that smell... LOL!!
(we had a tape library of over 5,000 tapes, and when we got new ones in, I had to manually put the BOF/EOF markers on each one manually, too)

And speaking of manual, these are what I learned on in school... the good old 'unit record equipment'!!
Thank goodness we didn't have to actually do that on the job...

(yes, I'm that old... lmao!!)​

 

[Thayamax]

9/11
#1

Back in the day every kid had at least one.

 

[Reddhott]

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[spacekitty]

#2 - 9/11

And thinking about smells... how many of you remember doing this??!!

 

[Reddhott]

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[CountBoredom]

9/11 #1
Mimeographs. Remember the smell?

EDIT: Doh, Kitty beat me to it!

 

[angelphyre]

9/11
#2 - I remember shopping here as a kid...

 

[CountBoredom]

9/11 #2
Filmstrip viewer: You listened to a cassette and advanced the filmstrip a single frame at a time when you heard a tone (some did this automatically, others were manual).

 

[spacekitty]

9/11 #1
Mimeographs. Remember the smell?

EDIT: Doh, Kitty beat me to it!

LMAO!!! We even have the same pic...

 

[Thayamax]

9/11
#2

Video stores used to be everywhere.

 

[liblue1]

9/11 #2
This went completely digital in 2005. Although they were almost identical for each publication....the book is no longer in print...

 

[Uncle]

Obsolete products from your generation! . . .

THE "BOOM BOX"