Name that thing of the past
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You mean romper stomper bomper boo? Tell me tell me tell me true? Children tv gone wild, 40 years+ and syndication isn't too shabby. Mr Rogers and Captain Kangaroo, eat your heart out.
Good call on the id, but not the single word name,
One buddy who had the biggest record collection in the gang had one of these, handled a stack of 8 45's, which he recently told me he got rid of, when his childhood house was demolished for condos back in 2005. Couldn't handle the memories.
I remember it all started in the early to mid 70's, when it was said that the average 60 year old Swede was in the same physical shape as the average 30 year old canadian.
Commodore VIC-20, teh first commercial home computer. No monitor, you were supposed to run the RF output to a television and no OS as we know them. A massive 8K of RAM, and you either played games from a ROM cartridge or learned BASIC.
It's a disk of colour film negatives, after processing, launched by a Kodak competitor (Ansco?, GAF?). I think it was called something like the SunDisk, the aim was to miniaturize the camera, and be more convenient than roll film by using a flat cassette you could load in daylight.
Commodore PET, the first commercial desktop computer. Jack Tramiel started Commodore Business Machines from his typewriter repair shop in downtown Toronto.
One word;
I saw something on t.v. recently where they were showing them to young people on the street (25 and under I think). Most could not say what they were. lol I feel old....
Coin dispenser: quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies.
Push the lever at the front to pop a coin out the bottom. Filling them was trickier.
How about this item, commonly worn on the belt, back when a buck was a buck
Occasionally one still sees them on commuter rail conductors when they are on routes where the ticket office is only open at peak hours.
I have one pretty much like it although mine has an entirely brass lid.
An Inkwell from the mid-nineteenth century.
Can you find a pic of the inkwell-filler that looked like a long spouted watering can that the trusted Inkwell Monitor took from desk to desk in the classroom?
