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#6. That came out about 1980 to where I lived. One of my buddies had it. We used to knock him off the mainframe by calling his house, which would interrupt his modem. We would then proceed to dial in...NERDS!
#10. There were remotes. Our cable box had a big long wire for changing the channel! One thing was, even with 30 channels, there was nothing on during daytime. You really needed to be sick to stay home during the week. Daytime TV was a waste land of bad talkshows, soap operas, gameshows and dialing for dollars...
#12. Microwave ovens were definitely around. We were the last ones in our neighborhood to get one, around 1978.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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