You're right - the first was a keypunch machine, the second was a card reader, and the third was a tape read/write machine. Yours... the first is a slide rule, and the looks like a decoder ring, but I don't know where from. Here's an old-tech item -- ...that usually was paired with these -- and these.
Fun times The second item was a Captain Midnight secret decoder ring. WAAY before my time. Slapper bars, Air ride shocks, and Cragar Mags? Good for tuning your hole-shot. You must be building a gasser. Skipping a little later in time with these...
Er, I got 19. I had praise the lord and pass the meatballs...hey, it sounded right... Great quiz... OK, for extra points: what was the name of Beaver Cleaver's brother's best friend's name? -)))
A Kangol hat and fat laces - you weren't a genuine B-boy without them! I can't think of a way to present this, other than to say "Remember this?" -- [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifS2nP53Zs&feature=related]Fireball XL5[/ame]
Sorry, that was before my time. I do remember this one, tho': [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GpxAyM6yc"]BJ And The Bear Opening Theme - YouTube[/ame]
Hmmm... did you ever have one of these as a child? I had one of these as a kid (BTW - This is hyperlinked from the C.I.A. website! Cool, eh!?) Or, did you ever get to play with these?
Lawn darts FTW! I did. Remember these? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8eejlhadk"]70's Evel Knievel Toy Commercial IDEAL - YouTube[/ame]
One of the kids in the neighborhood had an Evel Knievel toy like that - he used to get at one end of the driveway, crank the **** out of it, and turn it loose. Their dog would go insane trying to chase it down the driveway! The toy got run over by a car - I forget the circumstances - but I remember that was the end of that. BTW - The top item I posted was a genuine "Man From U.N.C.L.E." pistol/carbine. The bottom one was a "Thrush" (their opposition) rifle. On a sidebar here -- I found a bookstore in Tennessee that sells old magazines, and I've begun buying old issues of Playboy - I not only enjoy looking at the pictures of the girls/women I remember from my youth, but I especially enjoy seeing the advertisements from then. The new Ford Maverick or the AMC Javelin, the Columbia Record and Tape Club, BSA & Triumph motorcycles, and the extremely ugly clothes we wore (plaid bellbottoms - what were we thinking? ) But... the magazines also have an unforseen downside. I was browsing through the January 1968 issue recently, looking at the pictures and reading the magazine, and I came across an article about one of Playboy's staff cartoonists going to Hollywood and making some drawings of what he saw. There were some cartoon drawings, accompaning text, and some pictures in the article. One of the pictures shows the cartoonist visiting a hair salon in Hollywood, and getting his beard trimmed by a hairstylist named Jay Sebring. And with that I close the magazine and put it away, because I know that name, and more over, I know what happens to him about a year and a half after this issue came out. So while it's neat to look at the old magazines, they also can bring back bad memories. Memories of things best forgotten...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7coJTpyLPI8"]OLD COMMERCIALS #2 (the 70's) - YouTube[/ame] A trip in the way-back machine
