I'm so old I Remember when:

[Sally PB]

I'll see your Legos and raise you Jacks

My mom got us jacks to play with one summer. I think there were 10? in the package. The rule was you counted ALL 10 back into the package when you were done playing with them!

 

[Sally PB]

Radio Shack TRS-80

Trash 80!

 

[CedarLane]

I got a Light Bright as a kid. It was cool, but you could only use a piece of paper once (for the background) because after that it would have holes in it.

That was the downside...I was just going to post about that. My mom didn't buy the replacement sheets so then I just had to use my imagination....and I wasn't artistically creative on my own...needed to know which colors to use and where to use them...LOL

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Our cousins had all the cool toys. Lincoln Logs, Lite Brite, Etch A Sketch, Tinker Toys Erector Set. We quickly got bored with it when we visited them. We had bicycles and bricks and scraps of lumber and partial sheets of plywood Dad would bring home from his construction jobs. We had a blast with that stuff and never felt shortchanged. Later we got a ping pong table, THAT was way cool!

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Our cousins had all the cool toys. Lincoln Logs, Lite Brite, Etch A Sketch, Tinker Toys Erector Set. We quickly got bored with it when we visited them. We had bicycles and bricks and scraps of lumber and partial sheets of plywood Dad would bring home from his construction jobs. We had a blast with that stuff and never felt shortchanged. Later we got a ping pong table, THAT was way cool!

When I was little my Uncle renovated his house and was cutting about a foot off a bunch of 2X4's. My Dad brought them home and honestly, I had as much fun building things with those as my Lincoln Logs.

 

[tripletfeb]

When I was little my Uncle renovated his house and was cutting about a foot off a bunch of 2X4's. My Dad brought them home and honestly, I had as much fun building things with those as my Lincoln Logs.

My nephew got a bunch of scrap lumber like that for Christmas once( he was young and thought he was Bob The Builder) but he said it was a life sized Jenga set! All the cousins had a blast with them

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I had one of these VAC-U-FORM's. Crazy, the surface got hot enough to almost melt the plastic sheets. What was a few blisters back in the 60's?

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Here's one for ya, my first home computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80, that you used a cassette tape to load up programs.

My first computer was more advanced (slightly). I got a Commodore 64 for my elect. contracting business. When I got home I would turn it on and after it warmed up, the screen said "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE". I was more advanced and had a hard drive to boot up.
Now wait. Go to the bathroom, make a sandwich, read a magazine article. Okay, were booted up. All to use a word processor.
The "internet" was called a "Billboard" and WAY too complicated for me.

I always wanted the "portable" version. The 80's laptop.

 

[chrissynemetz]

 

[R2elk]

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Very true.