entrycoupling
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I still can recall that we do have " Game Boy" and Atari for my younger brother. Yes, that was between the 70's to 90's.
What was your favorite tech gadget as a kid?
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Nice thread, it really a best tech gadget as a kid.
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Raoul Duke
I loved those things, don't think I want to know now what chemicals were inside that thing
I also loved a Texas Instruments calculator that had red led digits, you could play a game to land a rocket. The calculator gave you the distance to the ground and the descent rate. You had to get it to land without destroying it. All you got were the red digits and to push a couple of buttons
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Raoul Duke
Our TV also had tubes and it used to be a joy to be the one to get the bad tube, go to the store, plug it into the tube tester, buy the new one and see the TV come back to life. Did the crystal radio thing, built a buzzer to learn Morse code (components plugged into a 'breadboard') Had a chemistry set and a microscope as well. Interesting now that I've actually used an electron microscope.
I had a chemistry set and microscope too. I mowed lawns all over the neighborhood to earn money to buy the chemistry set.
mcborge
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I got my chemistry sets and microscope for christmas and birthdays... always salter science chemistry sets and so was the microscope. Now I have a little hand held veho digital microscope... Its great for checking skin moles.
BMAN61
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When I was a youngster; there wasn't any "tech" to be had, but around the time that I was my teens, a then new company (Atari) came out with Pong.
Nothing like staring into a B/W TV screen playing a round of B/W tennis...yee haw!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
Nothing like staring into a B/W TV screen playing a round of B/W tennis...yee haw!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
Does this count as a tech gadget? http://www.thevintageknob.org/pioneer-SA-9800.html
I loved that device when I was young and had it for many, many years.
I loved that device when I was young and had it for many, many years.
captaincranky
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I've tried those old Atari 2600 games on a computer. I have a CD with most of them on it.
The trouble with "Pong" and "Breakout", using a joystick (rudder axis (twist)) in place of a paddle controller, is pretty much uncontrollable and inaccurate enough to take all the fun out of the game.
The Atari game CD, even has the original version of "Chess" on it. Yup, the screen blinks and flashes all kinds of crazy colors while it's 'thinking" about its next move, the same as the original cartridge did..
Ah yes, good times.
I had a pair of these bad boys, JBL D-130 with 075 ring radiators:
The cabinets were homemade though, 5CF reflex. The noise a pair of those D-130's can put out is ungodly. I think after you got done extrapolating JBL's SPL measurements to today's standard, they were 105Db @ 1 watt @ 1 meter! (And I live in a row house).
They might be responsible for the touch of tinnitus which I suffer from now. But thinking back, and now that you've brought stuff from that era up, yeah, they were probably my favorite tech toy ever...(y)
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Jon William
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When I was a child,our family has the first television on our village.
That was the best time in my childhood,all the kids sat a front of the TV,laughing,talking,even dancing.
Haha,time flies.I grew up and we never met.
That was the best time in my childhood,all the kids sat a front of the TV,laughing,talking,even dancing.
Haha,time flies.I grew up and we never met.
Mirob
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The best Christmas present I ever got was a C-64. I got a tape drive some time later. The disk drive I didn't get until I got a job and bought it myself. I recall some program called turbo tape. It was great. Also after I bought my drive there was a cartridge from Epix? I should go dig it out. It's in a box. I even replaced the RAM after it died and replaced the ROM with a EPROM with a different font from Speedscript. To do it had to program in both 6502 and 8086. I made an interface on a bread board that connected the C-64 to a PC so I could save the file and burn the new ROM. I was smarter when I was 15 than at 45. Not as wise though.
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mcborge
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The C-64 was my 8bit weapon of choice as well, it was also the first computer I learned to repair. I didn't start hardware hacking until I got into the Amiga though, upgrading rom chips and registering fast ram as chip ram also building Parallel network cables for networking my Amiga's to a CDTV for cdrom access. Them was the days...
90's Hand Pixel Games are my favourite game
Cycloid Torus
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After all this time.....my spud gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun
BrookeHarper
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I vividly remember playing Contra on a NES gaming console. Those were the days! 
Andrew Caldwell
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I'm more into music as a kid, so I'd always bring my Sony Walkman everywhere. The good times!
PaulineGreening
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Nice thread! I used to play pokemon on my gameboy color, I remember that I had the purple/lavender one that's almost see through.
I always bring my Game Boy anywhere and I also my portable Sony CD-Player. Good times, good times!
andy06shake
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I loved my Action Replay.
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