What we wanted for Xmas 1976

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:30 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -live.html

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:08 pm

I was too young for any of that crap

dgs49 · Post by **dgs49** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:10 pm

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.

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:11 pm

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.

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:20 pm

Are you saying those ads made you Gay?

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:24 pm

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

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:21 am

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!

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:20 am

One can STILL purchase the yellow Tonka...

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:41 am

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

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:43 am

I had a bullworker and a chest expander.

Bunch of wank the pair of them.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:51 am

You used a MAN-styler, Scoot?

How the heck old are you, anyway?!?

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:01 am

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.

loCAtek · Post by **loCAtek** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:28 am

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.

The Hen · Post by **The Hen** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:35 am

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. .

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:20 pm

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

Daisy · Post by **Daisy** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:31 pm

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.

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:10 pm

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?

quaddriver · Post by **quaddriver** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:03 pm

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

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:50 pm

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:

dales · Post by **dales** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:10 pm

What amazes me is that:

So many here were children in the 1970's.

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