<p>We had party lines at a vacation home on Cape Cod in the early 1970s. I don’t know when we stopped having it though. </p>
<p>Who had pong for their TVs?</p>
<p>^My neighbor won the very first one in the community in a church raffle!</p>
<p>UCSD_UCLA Dad:</p>
<p>I thought I was going to kill him. Probably 400 hours worth of work gone… it was a program that simulated a baseball game - based on the game strat-o-matic. </p>
<p>I wrote code for a living for 15 years - and never wrote anything that was more challenging given the limitations of the TRS-80.</p>
<p>We had a party line too.
It was when we lived in the suburbs of Seattle.</p>
<p>My brother played pong on a portable Tv.<br>
The first video game ( only) set that H & I had, was Intellivision. ( I think we still have it)</p>
<p>I remember that the family I worked for as a nanny, sold TI-computers- like Tupperware.
I believe they had tape storage.</p>
<p>cartera, that’s good! I never heard of those!</p>
<p>8-track tapes, anyone?</p>
<p>I remember the dial phone & the Fuller Brush man.
The bookmobile ( we weren’t rural, really- I lived in * Kirkland*, going to the Milk Barn to buy bottled milk & what a big deal a transistor radio was.
( my parents were so cheap- I had to go to my great aunts, to use the box of 64 crayons.)</p>
<p>I have no idea what happened to all my 45rpm records
But oh!
Pearl Jam is releasing their 1998 Magnuson Park concert on vinyl!</p>
<p>I still have all my old 45’s in a box in the basement. I’d love to get them on a cd. There are songs on there I haven’t heard since 1975.</p>
<p>My D got a record player that will burn the records directly to CD for Christmas this year. We got it at Target for a $100. </p>
<p>When we got Prodigy I thought it was the coolest thing EVER. I wasted endless hours of high school talking about General Hospital on the usenet board.</p>