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I was too young for any of that crap

I was in a training session this morning and in a discussion of the design of a keyboard and its relationship with carpal tunnel syndrome, it came out that about half the class had NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN A TYPEWRITER.

The scary part is, in 1976 I had hair much like the guy in the ad and used a hair dryer much like that one to style it.

Are you saying those ads made you Gay?

LOL - no, that would have been the men's underwear section of the Sears Catalog

Scooter wrote:The scary part is, in 1976 I had hair much like the guy in the ad and used a hair dryer much like that one to style it.

Then Scooter, I am afraid I have bad news: you are perilously close to the status of being an OLD FART!

One can STILL purchase the yellow Tonka...

I had a Timpo train but not that one. I think it was called the Midnight Express or something like that...

I had a bullworker and a chest expander.

Bunch of wank the pair of them.

You used a MAN-styler, Scoot?

How the heck old are you, anyway?!?

I didn't use that particular model. I used one that looked very much like it that belonged to my sister. And I was only 11.

I think that was around the time I discovered Micronauts, I don't see them, there. I loved the toys, and was a loyal follower of the comics.

I always wanted either an Olivetti or a Remington typewriter.

Ultimate cool.

I remeber my Mum having the Ablec Massage Machine. I dont know WHAT she thought it would achieve, but it didn't. .

I had a Smith-Corona portable electric that got heavy use all the way through college. Although the last few years I used UNIX w/ vi and nroff-troff for formatting but the papers were then printed by a line printer, very fast but poor text quality, or sometimes an IBM selectric set up to print online (too loud to be in the same room with).

yrs,
rubato

I got a Lilliput typewriter in 1976 that I loved and used for many years. It saw me right through to the end of school.

I always wanted one of those hoodie hairdryers though.

That's not the 1976 that I remember (although quite truthfully, 1976 is probably a year best forgotten). Where are the disco mirror-balls, platform shoes, leisure suits, Qiana shirts and fat gold chains with coke spoons on them?

had the verti bird, had the ricochet racers (you can shoot your siblings with matchbox cars from 20ft away)

been moving a lot of tonka, nylint, buddyL and structo of late. the 70's stuff is starting to come in its own

Sue U wrote:That's not the 1976 that I remember (although quite truthfully, 1976 is probably a year best forgotten). Where are the disco mirror-balls, platform shoes, leisure suits, Qiana shirts and fat gold chains with coke spoons on them?

For those of us in elementary school back then, no where.

I may have had that Braun curling iron, but don't see the Breyers horses that I had quite a collection of in the 70s. My favorite -- the great filly Ruffian:

What amazes me is that:









So many here were children in the 1970's.