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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Back when young women were PRETTY. No purple hair, no nose rings, etc.
This was a Christmas gift when I was a pre-teen:
My brother got the missile game:
My brother got the missile game:
I had one of those for a short time back in the 80s, IIRC.I still have my Casio fx-451, in working order. Posted before. You just had to make sure not to bend it backwards. The sales rep couldn't tell me how long the solar cells would last. I can report that it's at least 40 years, although with minimal usage.I want to say that it cost me $12 although somebody on Reddit remembers that it might have been $27. I didn't have $27.
This Texas Instruments TI-36x Solar, I've had mine since the 90s. Still use it every day without issue. The color on the buttons has faded some with heavy use, but it still keeps on ticking.
This calculator, which I purchased in the mid-80s during college, is still alive and kicking.
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I still have this with the slip case but haven't tested it. Basically, you had to get the guy from one side to the other without getting eaten by dinosaurs. I guess it's supposed to say Cave Man but doesn't. Played it obsessively.
I can see how if you were using it a lot, the touch pad button side wasn't very practical.
Nice that you still have the slip cover and quick reference card. So do I.
Speaking of early electronic games, this picture is an intertube find, but...
I still have one of these, and the box, which looks just about this beat up.
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I still have one of these, and the box, which looks just about this beat up.
Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game - Wikipedia
Things You Don't See Anymore: The Carvin catalog in my mailbox...
(This was the first one I ever got... and they kept coming for two decades, despite me only ever making that very first parts order...)
(This was the first one I ever got... and they kept coming for two decades, despite me only ever making that very first parts order...)
