you nostalgia you lose

We didnt do the shuttle launch, which would have been interesting, but we stopped lessons so we could all be bored and watch the recovery of some rotten lump of wood from the bottom of the channel...

I think they spiced it up with the breaking rig thing on purpose.

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Hobzy said:

spdpug98 said:

Have been trying to keep up with the thread, not sure is this has been posted yet:

I posted it last night Dave but don't worry biggrin

The awesomeness of this thread means no one cares wink

This is the first thread that my missus has with and read without getting bored and walking off! I think she has said "no way, I had one of those" at least 20 times so far...

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100-200 and 500 hole

Edited by sday12 on Thursday 21st January 08:36

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miniman said:

I used to repair those, and the 9512 and it's successor. Dixons sold millions of them.

Very popular and it was amazing what peripherals were available for them. I'm pretty sure the first scanner I ever saw in the flesh so to speak was plugged into one of these.

Also, to work on them, after you took the back off you had to discharge the CRT. Many a customer ran from the room when it sparked!!

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TubbyTommy said:

I always thought these were a '70s invention but on a recent visit to Hopetown House they've got a reeeeaaaally old one. Don't know how old exactly, but it looks antique'ish'.

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davido140 said:

andy400 said:

tossbag said:

They stopped school so we could all watch the Mary Rose get raised on TV in the assembly hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGpJkvC-pQo&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neorsG8b-3I&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHwcG8z1B-8&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibIwr0s6Zcs&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzorL6ZISg&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_x_mliSNE&fea...

And at my school! Did the same for the first shuttle launch as well.

We didnt do the shuttle launch, which would have been interesting, but we stopped lessons so we could all be bored and watch the recovery of some rotten lump of wood from the bottom of the channel...

I think they spiced it up with the breaking rig thing on purpose.

You may be right. Was certainly the only interesting bit to my 8 year old mind!

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I've always wanted one of these - Siku Mega-Lifter:

They still make them, but I keep talking myself out of buying one, reminding myself that I'm an adult. However, I now have a son and the excuse I need.

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davido140 said:

andy400 said:

tossbag said:

They stopped school so we could all watch the Mary Rose get raised on TV in the assembly hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGpJkvC-pQo&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neorsG8b-3I&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHwcG8z1B-8&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibIwr0s6Zcs&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzorL6ZISg&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_x_mliSNE&fea...

And at my school! Did the same for the first shuttle launch as well.

We didnt do the shuttle launch, which would have been interesting, but we stopped lessons so we could all be bored and watch the recovery of some rotten lump of wood from the bottom of the channel...

I think they spiced it up with the breaking rig thing on purpose.

You youngsters biglaugh

I remember sitting in front of my primary school's only TV (wheeled in on a trolley specially by one of the nuns) so we could all watch the first flight of Concorde.

IIRC, all of us boys were suddenly supersonic planes in the playground afterwards, instead of the usual Spitfires & Me109s - the difference being that you put your arms out behind you and made wooshing noises! laugh

Ah, them was the days.

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Watch out, watch out - there's a Humphrey about!

It's frothy man...

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Hobzy said:

spdpug98 said:

Have been trying to keep up with the thread, not sure is this has been posted yet:

I posted it last night Dave but don't worry biggrin

The awesomeness of this thread means no one cares wink

....and I posted it on page 3.

But the awesomeness of this thread forgives many sins.

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Who can forget Mr Frosty!

Fuzzy Felt...

and finally.....

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billybuds said:

Is there still a Wimpy at one of the services on the M6?

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I bet not too many people had one of these (and that was the problem)....

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Originally born out of the domino-toppling-world-record craze of the late 80s - as seen, ad nauseam, on Blue Peter etc.

I never had 'Domino Rally', had to make do with the ten or so sets of dominos my parents had collected over the course of their marriage. (Weird really as we never once played dominos......)

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A couple of my early toys...