Papist Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/114132-1980s-had-the-best-music-ever/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 This game I played a lot. Also, I want in the worst way a vintage Spirograph for my son. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I was thinking of Spirograph but couldn't remember the name. That was the NEATEST thing!!! (Early nerdly tendencies....) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lKhdwoytQ This is for ARFink.... watch but NO DO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzk0Gqzs5RI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I've seen these sorts of homemade laser spiros before, they are extremely clever and this example is very well made. I've been curious about making a custom spirograph set with the laser. I can cut acrylic gears without too much difficulty once I have shapefiles generated. I wonder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 ooooohhhhh..... !!!!! Finkograph!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I know that I used to have that spirograph at my mom's house. I'm pretty sure she still has it. :| eta: I bet she never plays with it anymore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I bet she does and then hides it. That's what I would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Do you see how avvesome that set is? They used to trust 6 year olds with pins! We also had this later set (which must have been bought for me, the other one being my older brother's). See how already the pins were replaced by those stupid orange plastic things that don't really do anything?? <sigh> Nothing more frustrating than getting halfway through a beautiful spirograph only to have the wheel slip! :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 There are some for sale on the internet, but expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I know! Crazy, right? I should do a little digging at Mom's this weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Let me know how it goes, and I will PM you my mailing address. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaD2006 Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Dot Matrix printing Still around but not in the capacity it used to be. No one makes dot matrix banners with sheets of connected printer paper anymore. Yes they do ... there are some long dot matrix printers at work, and yep. You can order the paper. OK... back in the mid-1980's, I spent money for my FIRST personal WORD PROCESSOR... and almost a laptop prototype! It was pretty cutting edge in the mid 1980s -- a functional word processor that you could move around like a small compact typewriter!!! (There's a retractable handle in the front and center.... weighed about 8 lbs... not bad.... These things were big back then if you couldn't afford a new apple or compac or whatever.... It literally let you store about a page or two on a little disk (NOT a 3.5 inch standard disk, mind you, but a 3 inch one. Not compatible with anything else! And THAT was the big drawback!) (pictures and more info in link below....). BUT, you could link the discs with a code combo that told lthe machine to hold on, I'm putting in another disc.... and that way do a 25 page paper pretty easily! Even handled FOOTNOTES! Higher level geeks might find whole article interesting..... but makes me sad.... http://cromwell-intl.com/technical/quickdisk-recovery.html BUT -- it did beautiful work, you could change typefaces and even type sizes... even if you did have to put IN the hard return each line and add other fomatting codes, it still worked pretty well. Got me thru the end of my BA degree -- but now we would laugh at it... and of course it was about a 3 minute per page print time, too.... I haven't been able to make myself part with mine.... but the article (above) tells me that even if it is in pristine, working condition (it was when last turned on) it won't work. I figgured it probably wasn't usable, but it was a pretty nifty idea for the time. And I still have my disks (which they called 'discs') too.... SO... I got me a high-tech doorstop with a handle --with accessories -- in my basement! What do YOU have in YOUR basements? I HAD ONE OF THOSE ... it sure helped me do papers in college (until I was able to get onto a computer with word on it). But mine was the word processor/typewriter combo that Smith Corona had. Two separate things. It was GREAT. I think mine did use 3.5 inch floppies in their own propriatery format. And yep, couldn't afford my own computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 (edited) I used one of those... and seriously considered the 'next step up' - the separate screen and printer! I know what you mean about not being able to afford the first computers -- they were the cost of several MONTHS of salary!!!!! The PWP was only about a week's salary.... more than what we just paid for a 4G laptop with all the bells and whistles available in 2012! I seriously considered getting that, but decided I liked the all-in-one design. It was a little smaller and you could actually put batteries in it and move it around separately from the printer! Lighter! Mobile! I fantasized using it in the PARK!!!!! But at that point I was about to enter a convent & had been told I could bring this one. Didn't end up doing that... but LOVED the thing. I still do... it's sitting behind me but after reading the link, I have a fear it is just coroded whatevers inside of it.... but it was a GREAT little word processor!!! No bells, no whistles, but what it was supposed to do it did FLAWLESSLY. Great on forms, great for addressing repeating letters. Just a good all-around word processor. Sigh.... Here's a great link to the whole progression... like watching the 1960-s through 80's on one page.... I feel a little older when I see it is called the 'virtual typewriter museum'... https://www.smithcorona.com/blog/smith-corona-virtual-typewriter-museum/electonic-typewriters-gadgets-printers-and-word-processors/ Edited December 20, 2012 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I thought I was old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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