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    Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology

    Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think

    The Polaroid Ring

    Steve Jobs: "If You Have any Further Questions, Please Call or Write"

    This Is Not a Photoshop

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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    11/24/09

    In reply to What to Do with an Original 1984 Macintosh?
    Try and install Leopard. That should keep you busy for a while. Hint. You might need just more memory.
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    11/23/09

    In reply to Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think

    One more thing, we rent some space out to a friend of ours that rebuilds, repairs, and sells pinball machines, juke boxes and video games. Here's a pic of some of the machines he has. We have plenty of fun on breaks around here!
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
    I've always loved pinball. I still have the Gottlieb "wedge-head" Cowpoke machine that was the first one my dad ever bought. It takes dimes and it still is really fun to play. It's funny how people's tastes change and it just isn't popular any more.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    It looks like the two youngest kids had their bangs trimmed using the same bowl...
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: That brings back bad memories of having my hair cut like that, heh
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    Image of d1gw33d d1gw33d
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: And the Dad looks like he borrowed that mouth from Sloth (The Goonies.)
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    Image of fakejezuzdiaz fakejezuzdiaz
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    This was a British publication, right?

    I mean, judging by the year and the dental set-up of the dad in the back, I'm going to have to go with British. Definitely British.

    Let the wapping begin!
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    Image of Mayor McRib Mayor McRib
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    I lived these ads, minus the whole parental interaction part. I logged time on a TRS-80 at school until you could get the TI-99 4A for $50. Most adults were terrified of computers back then and the computer games pretty much sucked except for Chisholm Trail...Explaining extended basic to your parents was the equivalent of your parents explaining sex to you when you were 3.
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    Forget about bringing the computer, just bring a fifth of bourbon.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    I always make the OK sign while watching video games!

    It shows how I overwhelmingly approve of what my kids are playing and works to mitigate the risk of the game console coming to life and killing us in our sleep!

    OK!!
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    11/23/09

    @#c17038122:[www.youtube.com]
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    What's with the dumb and dumber haircuts on the kids?
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    "booted from the TV" ??
    Pfft, wannabe geek! I had the Commodore color monitor for my C64, complete with composite video input (which I later hooked up to my first VCR to watch movies in my room!)
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    11/23/09

    @Kirkaiya: Ha!
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    11/23/09

    In reply to Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
    Even if the game system emitted nitrous oxide, dispensed cheeseburgers, AND printed money, I do not think that it would make me THAT happy. That's some serious crazy going on there!
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    Image of infmom infmom
    11/22/09

    In reply to Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
    When I was in college, some friends of mine discovered (I can only imagine how) that if you picked up one corner of one of the pinball machines at the student union and dropped it at just the right velocity, it'd give you a free replay. Of course, there was very little leeway between "free game" and "tilt," but after enough practicing they could play the machine for free all night.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    11/21/09

    In reply to Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
    How does the WGTTC problem exist? What benefit could a deaf dumb and blind kid get out of going to the cinema?
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    Image of madog madog
    11/21/09

    In reply to Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
    Back when my family had money, we had 2 arcades and a pinball machine. Pong, The Blob, and Evil Knevil(sp?). I thought it was the greatest thing ever when I was a kid until a family built a house across the street and had an indoor baseball court and a basement with about a dozen arcades (Moonwalker!).

    We kept the pinball machine for decades, until my brother got married last year and had to make room. It wasn't until it it was gone that I really appreciated all those things in retrospect (though they weren't for me, I have 4 siblings).

    Ah, those were the days.
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    Image of KassiaHaoe KassiaHaoe
    11/21/09

    @madog: What the hell?
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    Image of BlueToast BlueToast
    11/21/09

    @madog: Indoor baseball court?
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    Image of ipodrulz ipodrulz
    11/21/09

    @madog: Recession? I know how you feel :(
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    Image of Yuri Dambyotch: don't need no stinkin' star Yuri Dambyotch: don't need no stinkin' star
    11/21/09

    @KassiaHaoe: By 'arcades', I think he means 'video game consoles' such as Defender, Galaga, Pac-Man, Dragon's Lair, and Spy Hunter. I could be wrong though(I'm reeeal high right now), my friend Jim's parents owned an arcade around the corner from where we lived in Anaheim....we used to steal quarters all the time to buy ice cream and candy from Thrifty Drug store.
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    Image of RipRapRob RipRapRob
    11/22/09

    @madog: "Evel Knievel", an American motorcycle daredevil, had a lot of games (on different platforms - can we view 'pinball' a platform?) named after him, but I think most everybody pronounces his name "Evil" as you wrote it. I know we - me and my friends - did, when we were kids, and played a Evil/Evel Knievel gameon my C64.
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    Image of madog madog
    11/22/09

    @BlueToast: "BASKETBALL"! Yeah I see how that could have been confusing.

    #tips
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    11/22/09

    @ipodrulz: Not really. More of a: Grandpa sells family business from underneath his son, my father, who had been running it for 20 years then my father starting up a similar business and doing the same thing to me and my brothers. We got fired through a text message from our dad! I suppose it was due to the recession though. Times were slowing down.

    You know, that old story.

    I hope My children aren't doomed to the same fate.

    #tips
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    11/22/09

    @KassiaHaoe: Just the ramblings of an old man about a past long encased deep down inside his subconscious. The kind that usually end in a friendly fire shooting spree in Modern Warfare.

    #tips
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    Image of madog madog
    11/22/09

    @RipRapRob: +1 for info.

    #tips
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    11/22/09

    @Yuri Dambyotch: Yes. "standing game contraption" if you will. Not arcade in what some may think as a "business full of several standing game contraptions".

    #tips
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    Image of ipodrulz ipodrulz
    11/22/09

    @madog: Aww man. Sorry to hear. Things will look up!
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    Image of madog madog
    11/23/09

    @ipodrulz: Can't complain! Not like I'm on the street or anything. I have a computer with broadband access so I'm happy. Oh, and a healthy wife and daughter, but, you know.... broadband.

    #tips
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    11/18/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs: "If You Have any Further Questions, Please Call or Write"
    Of course the really impressive thing here is the fact that Steve could type, on a typewriter, with almost no mistakes. Typewriters were evil.
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