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…it wasn’t all bad :joyous: .
OK, the calculator dates from 1984-5 but I was still using it in 1989… & still use it today.
The Oysterquartz dates from 1987 - but initially sold in Jan 1989.
The album was released in 1989.
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Crummy iPhone picture: Dieter Rams calculator for Braun, Aldo Rossi Momento for Alessi and Sony SW transistor.
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For some reason, I thought the calculator would say 'BOOBS'.
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A bit like Zelig?
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Why didn't I think of that ???Quote:
Originally Posted by barneygumble
...I would have in the 1980s :glee:
Excellent - That would never have occurred to me - I missed an opportunity there!Quote:
Originally Posted by BillyCasper
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Bee Gees was another word you could create.
....and BOOBIES
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Originally Posted by Wallasey Runner
For some reason in my school it was always BOOBLESSQuote:
Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli
Yep, ours too.Quote:
Originally Posted by enndriz
I absolutely loved my Sony ICF-SW1. A real James Bond piece of kit.Quote:
Originally Posted by BillyCasper
Can’t for the life of me think what happened to mine. I did look on eBay a while ago and complete good condition ones are well north of £100.
That doesn't strike me as too bad, they were pretty expensive 30 odd years ago. Capacitors dry out, so mine replaced recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by David_D
Yes, decent value. Who changed your capacitors? Just looked on eBay and some are sold with a loudspeaker issue which I think might be caused by that. Might be tempted to get one for old time’s sake!Quote:
Originally Posted by BillyCasper
An eBay seller called dextermogg. Cost £46, but I love the radio so it was worth it to me.
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The telltale sign of a capacitor problem is the sound, referred to as a rough motor boat noise.
Thanks. I might just see if I can find a nice one and get it fixed if necessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by BillyCasper
I was hoping someone might post one of those calculator watches with the game where you have to press the numbers as they appear on the screen to delete them. Sounds boring but I'm fairly sure I found it preferable to Maths.
I had a Texas Instruments TI-59 LED programmable calculator that featured some sort of mathematical game that the user played against the machine. If the computer won it displayed: 55178, if it lost: 3507.1
Excellent!
Bliss and I lose.
A lot of midnight oil was burnt coming up with those. Love the attention to detail.
I'll see your calculator, and raise you a TI99/4A and a 1980 G10 Fatboy.
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Excellent - that’s what I was hoping for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetlee
…we have he beginnings of a thread.
Maybe time to dust off the BBC Model B ?
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I spent yesterday afternoon clearing out my office and found an old box of commodore 64 books and games. If the prices on e-bay are to be believed I could get myself a nice Tudor for what they seem to be worth.
I had both a calculator and a watch with the 'matching numbers' game on them when younger, I remember my dad and mates loved playing.
Commodore 64 now selling for money? God I remember having one the games taking forever to load. One of my friends had a ZX Spectrum he was like king of the hill with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by julian2002
Bought my only keeper in 1984, lots of memories . . .
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Precista issued 1984, CWC on right issued 1983 . . .
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Still a 1977 design with development starting in the early 70s though - and all the better for it!Quote:
Originally Posted by zelig
The Americans is great for catching that early 80s vibe, and for further nostalgia, Physical on Apple TV is great at catching the transition from the 70s to the 80s where both decades were happening at the same time, a really good show.
[nerd] Just off to brush up on my 6502 Assembly language, and where did I leave that UK101? [/nerd]
All Boys School?Quote:
Originally Posted by enndriz
We had SHELL.OIL, so even more dullQuote:
Originally Posted by enndriz
ESSO.OIL too!Quote:
Originally Posted by thenikjones
Yeah one of the bits of software I have is up on e-bay for £107 and some of the books are a good £30-100. Yeah the standard C64 loading was dog slow but quick loaders became prevalent after a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by robert75
My C64 had a serial number of iirc 0000109 which would make it worth megabucks (S00007017 is up for £3.5k), sadly I sold off all the hardware I had for a few quid decades ago. Now I can share in the feels of someone who sold their blue nautilus for under rrp a few years ago.
Anyway to haul this back to horology... I had one of these in the 80's spent one of my first pay cheques on it.
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Got this for a birthday in the 80s.
Still have it, still working fine.
WRT 6502 Assembler. I got a book about it in 1984 but I never even turned a page (I got into COBOL instead). One of my retirement aims is to teach myself Assembler. I have my BBC Micro in the loft, but I'm sure there will be an emulator on the PC for it.
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Haha I had almost forgotten about that one - the calculator bantz was pretty crazy in those days!Quote:
Originally Posted by thenikjones
You could also play the odd recognisable tune on touch-tone phones of the era, for instance, 45545, 456-5-4 played the first two bars of 'Strangers in the night'....
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FFS I never realised that until now - thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingstepper
2 of my minor regrets in life is not keeping the Timex I had as a child (1970s) and leaving my TI calculator at my old workplace (from ~1985) - nothing special but the designs have stayed with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by enndriz
I did COBOL at collage but never used it in anger all I can really remember about it is pic x. Taught myself 6502 assembler but aside from a few abandoned projects never went anywhere with it. Fell in love with 68000 assembler though, just so easy to write for and had many games published written in 68k assembler before I moved on to C.Quote:
Originally Posted by sish101
Thinking about it I did have a couple of games published on the SNES which was a 65816 (a 6502 with some 16 bit op codes tacked on) so there was that...
My contribution....... The BRAUN still running original SONY batteries. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7fc52ae605.jpg
Maybe ignore this post, I just checked the HEUER's papers, seems it was born in 1991 ..............
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It was a happy day when I discovered that my Commodore 64 disk drive could do this.Quote:
Originally Posted by BEZELBOY
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Nice idea. All acquired new by myself in the '80s. A Fender Stratocaster guitar (1982), a Pentax Program A with 50mm lens (1987), a Rolex GMT (1986) and a Casio fx451 (1985).
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I had forgotten about the FX451. My first scientific calculator. Brings back memories of primary school.Quote:
Originally Posted by monogroover
^ classics - all 3 of them ^
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Loved my FX451, so much so that my OH found me a mint replacement one a few years ago so i could keep the magic alive.Quote:
Originally Posted by monogroover
Mr Curta, those Seiko A829's are by far the coolest digital watches ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Curta
If I could pick up a good one I think my collecting days will be over.
Lovely watch [emoji106]
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Not so cool… but a very ‘80s Tissot Stylist …
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Saturday nights are retro night for me these days.
Plenty of 80's here for you.
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