Anybody else out of work due to the beer disease?

[sgtsandman]

This thread took a strange turn...

 

[Snoranger]

Time to find an Atari for the old TV and buy a new one for cable.

I’ve got one... I also have an original Nintendo, Sega master system, TurboGrafx16, and a few others.
Corona party at Rusty’s?

 

[fastpakr]

Nice. Throw in a colecovision, neo Geo, and a TI99/4A and we're in business.

 

[Snoranger]

Nice. Throw in a colecovision, neo Geo, and a TI99/4A and we're in business.

The TI99-4A is at my moms house in the attic.

 

[RonD]

I have a TRS-80 with cassette tape memory storage, party time

 

[don4331]

My trash 80 was upgraded at the end to include a 5.25" floppy - that was big time step up - spinning the tape back and forth was PIA.

Roommate hated it when I ran my FEA matrix solving program - about every 15 minutes, it would fire up the dot matrix printer, hammer out a line and go back to calculating, but 16 hours later, you would have your page of results.

 

[Snoranger]

Nice. Throw in a colecovision, neo Geo, and a TI99/4A and we're in business.

I can probably even dig up the Atari Supercharger... It plugged in like a regular game cartridge and plugged into the line output on a cassette deck (you could use the headphone jack, but you had to adjust the volume right.) They sold games on cassettes to go with it.

 

[fastpakr]

That's quite a collection. I have great memories of using a TI99/4A at a friend's house in the late 80's. Given the opportunity I'd love to snatch one up at some point.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I should dig my 8 track player out

 

[fastpakr]

Funny you mention that. My grandfather flew a Lear 23 for many years and met with Bill Lear multiple times as they went through some teething issues with the new jet. At some point, Bill gave him a new 8 track unit soon after inventing the thing with Lear Jet branding on it. I grew up listening to that in his shop building in the back yard. The last time I saw it, the thing still looked brand new. Somewhere in the process of moving my grandparents into assisted living, it disappeared. I'd really hoped to hang onto it as a vivid memory of my time with him.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Funny you mention that. My grandfather flew a Lear 23 for many years and met with Bill Lear multiple times as they went through some teething issues with the new jet. At some point, Bill gave him a new 8 track unit soon after inventing the thing with Lear Jet branding on it. I grew up listening to that in his shop building in the back yard. The last time I saw it, the thing still looked brand new. Somewhere in the process of moving my grandparents into assisted living, it disappeared. I'd really hoped to hang onto it as a vivid memory of my time with him.

I crashed many a Learjet 35 on MS flight simulator as a kid.

It is harder to fly inverted between the two poles on top the skyscraper by Meigs field than you would think...

 

[Curious Hound]

Wow. Just observed something good coming out of all this.

Children playing outside.

Yes. I said it. I see them right now, having fun, inventing games with a couple tennis balls. They're not in the house staring at the TV or video game toys or computer screens. They are outside getting exercise and fresh air.

I didn't think kids did that any more.

 

[Curious Hound]

I crashed many a Learjet 35 on MS flight simulator as a kid.

It is harder to fly inverted between the two poles on top the skyscraper by Meigs field than you would think...

I had a lot of "bad landings" with that, too.

 

[fastpakr]

I crashed many a Learjet 35 on MS flight simulator as a kid.

It is harder to fly inverted between the two poles on top the skyscraper by Meigs field than you would think...

My time playing with Lears on flight sims never went well. Supposedly the 23 was the hardest of them all in real life (the reason they were only produced for a year or so before the design was modified, and why something like half of them ultimately crashed).

My grandfather never had any equipment related issues that I'm aware of, but he did have a double bird strike leading to a dead stick landing. I'm sure that involved some clenching.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

My time playing with Lears on flight sims never went well. Supposedly the 23 was the hardest of them all in real life (the reason they were only produced for a year or so before the design was modified, and why something like half of them ultimately crashed).

My grandfather never had any equipment related issues that I'm aware of, but he did have a double bird strike leading to a dead stick landing. I'm sure that involved some clenching.

Thats exactly why i prefer ground transportation.

My 8 track is radioshack or montgomery wards branded. I dont remember.