I'm so old I Remember when:

[RoyalChick]

Actually, all six of us girls still have our Cabbage Patch dolls. We loved them, my mom and dad had to save so much money to buy us all dolls for Christmas that year. 1984. My mom has mentioned how it was THE toy to buy and they had to wait in huge lines to get them. Before we got those dolls, all the other dolls we had were handmade by my mom. Yes, we still have those too

I never had Cabbage Patch (I think I am too old) but I do have several dolls that my mother made for me. And amazingly I have one her mother made for her.

 

[RoyalChick]

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At least it worked on the TV. Not so much on people I find!

 

[notabitail]

At least it worked on the TV. Not so much on people I find!

Sometimes works on siblings.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'd sure like a bottle of real RC Cola and a bag of salty Spanish Peanuts. All in the same bottle.

 

[NanaK]

I'd sure like a bottle of real RC Cola and a bag of salty Spanish Peanuts. All in the same bottle.

I have not had this in about 40 years. What a treat on really hot days.

Seems like the colas bought back then were so much colder than today.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I still use percussive maintenance on some of my electronics.

I suspect it worked on the old TVs and radios because it knocked the dust off the vacuum tubes.
Today you have to turn it off, then back on to re-boot them.

 

[notabitail]

I suspect it worked on the old TVs and radios because it knocked the dust off the vacuum tubes.
Today you have to turn it off, then back on to re-boot them.

That usually works better. Though I did find out that at least two of the computers I have need a fist to the top of the computer if I want the CD drive to open.

 

[pertnear09]

I've noticed that my remotes have to be banged against my knuckles to function once the battery starts getting weak.

 

[Nomadicus]

I still use percussive maintenance on some of my electronics.

You just triggered an old memory that I will post on tomorrow night. I'm to far gone with nightly meds to get it right posting on it tonight.

 

[Nomadicus]

OK, now for that old memory. Shortly after Y2K was over a friend of mine was getting a PC worked on that he used for his business. The tech that was doing it was a retiree from NASA. The tech was telling us stories that don't make the news of the goings on back then at the space center. The space center had a room with a mainframe that was finicky and needed a little special treatment every so often. One day during a tour by some of the big wigs from DC who were voting to fund NASA while they were observing what the Mainframe could do it went on strike. That's when this retired tech told us about how in order to wake it up sometimes he simply had to find a special spot in the floor and jump up in the air and land really hard a few times and that would get the mainframe running again. That was heavy duty on the percussive persuasion effort but it worked.