lazycrockett said:

this thing?

what was that one that was a circle with segments in red, green, yellow and red and I think you pressed them?

5" floppy disks

Heiress said:

they were still in use when I entered the workforce!
how old are you?

Teddy Ruxpin! The Teddy bear which moved its mouth and had a tape deck as a stomach and you'd stick a Teddy Ruxpin in and it would tell of wonderful talez

As Sammi said, BETA...OMG MEMORIES OF BETA!! Watching 'The Making of Thriller' on Beta video!! It was my must-see get-excited shh don't disturb me video for me between 1983 and 1986!

Type-writers...i used to think they were soooo cool!!

Chicken drumsticks at Mc Donalds- at least here in Oz anyway!! It came off market in 1986 and boy was I not happy when my dad ordered me those chicken Mcnuggets with BBQ sauce!

nilegettolrahc said:

You're thinking of the handheld game called 'simon'

Nikster said:

THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to think of that thing fo months, couldn't google cause I did not know it's name!

and what did it do actually?

charlottegelin said:

Well...



http://bigredtoybox.com/c...simonindex

charlottegelin said:

by the time i went to work, "floppy" disks were no longer truly floppy... that was in 1989, and i was 18. i'm 35 now.

Discipline

Any hope that I would one day be able to lead a normal, happy life.

TMPletz said:

I still have mine, and several emulator programs. They are nowhere near becoming obsolete, people are still for instance making demos for the C64.

It's not obsolete, damnit! I refuse to believe that.

The interesting thing about typewriters, almost every office I've been in still has one on hand.


I was thinking in opposite....things we didn't have but now we can't live with out like the remote control. I lost the one for my bedroom and had a damn fit but remember getting up and turning the tv when I was a kid.

Or the microwave, cell phone.....etc.

Is microfiche still used?

Asses Up!

Bus Pass

Film Reels


Boot, Run


Velcro Laces

my virginity

Anx said:

oooohhhh sookiesookie now

remember those manual copy machines in school that the teachers would use? i can't find a picture but it had a handle that the person would turn and the copies would come out blue. during class sometimes id see one of my teachers turning this thing to make 30 or 40 copies and they would always come out somewhat blotchy

Mimeographs!
With that blue carbon-copy paper stuff. Your fingers got all blue from it.




Yeah, I'm old. Either that, or our school was WAY behind the times.

minneapolisgenius said:

i dunno, cause when i transferred to a grammar school i was 11 which was in '85 and they had those machines. i think they just couldn't afford the 'new' copy machines that were just coming out.

i remember bumpersickers for MS-DOS when i was about five or so.
i was unclear about the concept then and i'm still unclear about it now.

i remember thos huge movie disk players. i forget the name, but they were almost like primitive DVDs. They were preVHS and were freakin' huge!

nilegettolrahc said:

I could play Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" on mine.

lilmissmissy said:

hey I still have mine along with that answer box.....but I can't find the tapes to go with it or his little vest

I can't think of anything else right now that's obsolete.....maybe y'all are just old

brownsugar said:

Ok, so we're not that old then. We are around the same age.

minneapolisgenius said:

oh, how i used to love sniffing those papers.

Laserdisc.

JasmineFire said:

ahh..laser discs..there were two versions i think. the older version, before vhs, had the disc encased in hard protective case that loaded when you put it in the machiine. the newer, which didn't get discontinued until around 1999-2000 when the dvd players took off, just looked like LP sized cd's or dvd's. i still have mine hooked up to my bigscreen because it plays cd's/cd-r's and cd-rw's and a lot of stuff that came out on laser disc hasn't made it to dvd yet (3 chains of gold, lots of older great concerts) ican burn the laser discs to my dvd recorder now, so i'm phasing it out...slowly

Anx said:

me too

brownsugar said:

Yeah, I didn't want to admit that when I mentioned mimeographs above, cause I thought everyone would think I was

Garbage Pail Kids, 2nd series was hard as hell to find in the stores

Wacky Wall Walkers

Slime (the kind you would get from the vending machines for 25 cents)

Those sunglasses with the red LED lights (Like in the Blondie Rapture video)

listening to funkytown on a 45