Can you Rember when?

[Pickles]

Originally posted by Icosahedron:
I remember when you could get lead figures for 20p each.

I remember the lead figure standard: "Let's see, £2 to see a film, that's 8 or 10 figures ... nah, I'm off to Taylor & Mcenna's!" (I remember when Beatties were called T&M's).

I remember when 2000AD was 9p and set in the future.

 

[Jame]

I remember when there were green-screen computers that you needed a floppy disk to run, and when there were no such things as cell phones or compact discs. That's right, people, I remember Long Plays!

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I remember it being safe to play in the street.

I remember *wanting* to play in the street, rather than sitting in front of a screen.

I remember when video games were things you only saw in arcades.

I remember being scared shitless by Dr Who.

I remember Jimmy Carter being elected (when you're 7, peanut farmers are funny).

I remember queuing round the block to see Star Wars.

I remember buying 2000AD #3, but my Mum being freaked by the cover and not letting me buy it again for ages.

I remember waving at the Queen as she drove past on her Silver Jubilee.

I remember when terrorists had Irish accents.

I remember when music came on black vinyl discs, and sounded funny at the wrong speed.

I remember the SAS storming the Iranian embassy.

I remember being blown away by Cosmos.

I remember watching Columbia's launch on TV.

I remember a rich friend getting a ZX-81 computer, and wishing I could have one one day.

I remember being excited when my country went to war, even though I'd never heard of the Falkland Islands.

I remember being scared shitless of nuclear war.

I remember buying Traveller...

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Originally posted by Jame:
I remember when there were green-screen computers that you needed a floppy disk to run, and when there were no such things as cell phones or compact discs. That's right, people, I remember Long Plays!

I remember Monochrome colored screens.
I "Owned" a Vic 20 computer (before comadore 64 came out) that used casset tapes to load programs (before floppy discs came out).
Man! I wish I had that thing now. It would be worth Big$$$

I had a car with a phone just like what was in peoples homes (hard wire phones).

 

[RandyT0001]

I remember sitting on the floor in front of the B/W TV and seeing the live shot of Neil walking on the moon.

 

[Straybow]

I remember when my younger bro had saved up $600, half the cost of a new Apple II with 48k and a cassette drive.

We played a game called Battleship Orion, a blatant copy of Star Trek ships in turn-based combat. I garnered the nickname "Klatu Killer" (their version of the Klingons).

After he got a disk drive (for maybe $400) he got Alien Typhoon, a clone of Galaxian (NOT Galaga). It was the first computer game that was as tough as a "real" video game instead of a cheap, buggy knock-off.

Yeah, I wonder how much that old thing would be worth to a collector today.

 

[JAFARR]

Sorry guys, those old computers don't bring very much at all on E-bay.

 

[Saxondog]

I remember the moon shot. Was young enough to think I could go outside and see the rocket going by.

Got a C-64 and Atari 2600 that work. Doubt I would part with them though. I still like to hook them up from time to time.

Gave an old sinclair to a buddy a few years ago. Think it was worth a few bucks.

 

[ravells]

Ahhh back in those days you had to pretty much know how a computer worked and to program (at least in BASIC) to get any mileage out of them - no plug 'n play then.

We used to write our own little games in Basic. One of them involved being on the death-star and fighting off the rebellion. We drew this huge circular map of the deathstar and used the computer to plot the rebellion's moves. Part of the fun was using sticks to push the counters around a la the Battle of Britain control rooms.

We played the Empire, of course!

Ravs

 

[vegascat]

What memories are you getting now that you will remember when you are 80?