OK wait.... I remember the twenty-seven cent gas. I was pumping it!.... One cent electricity?? I want some of that!
Especially when it "increases the circulation" and "purifies the blood". What a "shocking" good bargain!
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OK wait.... I remember the twenty-seven cent gas. I was pumping it!.... One cent electricity?? I want some of that!
I think I had one of those. A giraffe chair with wheels.... What could possibly go wrong??
What? You don't have one in your living room?
They just don't make them like this anymore or maybe it's just us that grew up with them. Anyway, these are the games I miss the most and don't see anymore. From Sierra Games
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I started my computer programming career in 1975 using one of these things. Type your program into the keyboard, it comes out onto the punched paper tape on the side, then read the paper tape into the tape reader next time you want to run the program. Ahhh... the good old days.
I started my computer programming career in 1975 using one of these things. Type your program into the keyboard, it comes out onto the punched paper tape on the side, then read the paper tape into the tape reader next time you want to run the program. Ahhh... the good old days.
I still have a copy of a dungeon game called "Hunt The Wumpus" (in BASIC) saved on paper tape somewhere from my college days.I started my computer programming career in 1975 using one of these things. Type your program into the keyboard, it comes out onto the punched paper tape on the side, then read the paper tape into the tape reader next time you want to run the program. Ahhh... the good old days.
HA... What is scary is my wife ran a board not too dissimilar from this for the state in the early 1980's.Operators
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That is just wrong.