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Really?

So it came on the same time as it did here?

Right?

One of the best modern TV shows ever. Glad it was good, I can't wait to add it to my pineapple of the complete series.

I didn't even know about it. We love that show! I hope they do more movies.

Never was an athlete. I just lost the genetic lottery.

Surgery technically went well. But, given the condition of my cartilage, he doubts this will do much to reduce my pain.

Next stop: unicompartmental arthroplasty. Needed on both knees so we'll have to work on prioritization. He has a colleague who performs about 200 of those a year, so I'll probably see that guy next and relatively soon.

Glad to hear the anesthesia went well and you didn't have any problems. The result sounds a lot like the thyroid surgery I had earlier this year, where even though you have the surgery and go through the long recovery process it still doesn't really fix the problem. In my case I'm going to have to get what amounts to a single dose chemo treatment to nuke what's left of my thyroid tissue, but it sounds like your knee treatment is going to be a lot longer and more complicated.

Based on the documents referred to in the big Studio II thread, it appears RCA were convinced it would sell like hot cakes and pave way for the Studio III, IV and eventually V.

It did sell quickly...when RadioShack liquidated the remaining units.

My gameboy is dead =/

I'm as sure as I am able to be. I've run out of places to look online. I've had others contacting me to see if I had a schematic. Meadows Bombs Away circa 1976.

I'll likely stop once I've found the part of the circuit that's causing the failure. Other than the small amount understanding I'm gaining about how this and discrete logic games in general work, it's just drudgery.

Just Woz and that guy who says "Bazinga" a lot.

Maybe when I was 10 or so, my dad drug home several big boxes of stuff for me. Someone he knew had taken an electronics correspondence course. As he already knew a lot about electronics, he didn't build a lot of the circuits. I didn't really know what to do with all the stuff at the time, but I had already been tearing stuff apart and playing with electronics. I'm pretty sure that's where these chips came from.

I collected a fair number of electronic parts as a kid, too, mostly from taking apart broken computers and appliances. I wish I'd kept that stuff, but it got lost somewhere during our various moves. I only started getting back into electronics in the last seven years or so.

Thank you for using the word "vintage" correctly.

U guys are making me hungry...

I like the jalapeno ones paired with a nice Italian sub.

I like the Utz smokey and sweet kettle BBQ chips.

At least Atari did right by 7800 Asteroids

The simultaneous multiplayer is definitely the draw with the 400/800 version. It's a pretty clunky game otherwise. Dark green was a terrible choice for the P1 ship.

I liked it when I played it. It looked plain, but it was fun. Space Rocks is better though.

Sounds really spacey!

will need to play Spacechase next. Or not. lol

To say that it's 1977 vintage just means that it was manufactured in that period.

But, to answer your question: yes. And a person from 1965 is way old.

what table ?

Roy Clark "The" Entertainer

hopefully not a stroke

Not good. Do you think you have it managed?

haven't seen him post for a while either. he's probably busy with work and family stuff

I don't even want to look at when I joined.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana"

Was hoping you'd say Big-Traks!

Heh. No such luck. I never had one of those, but one of my friends did.

Should be relatively easy to build one of those these days.

My friend had a Big Trak, I had a Star Bird!

Those cocktail pins are swell!

They're great on space. Plus, you get to use the pun "playing a 'little' pinball".

haha, good one! lol I'll have to look, but may still have the original promo flyers for most of these cocktail pins

Well a crook or ID thief would not want to give out his phone number, see? But I hear ya.

And this isn't phishing?

Elon Musk is crooked

yes_it_ is, that's awesome!

It sure USED to be fun. You know, back when Nolan Bushnell was in the business.

out local one is nice and has updated games

We never had a Chuck E Cheese, but back in '79 we had a Shakey's which I recall as being similar...First place I ever saw an Asteroids machine!

There was no wanting. Just doing.

Get those helping hands, or something similar that looks like the forklift tongs from Aliens.

I have little helping hands alligator clip thingies. Nothing that will handle an 11"x14.5" board though.

Don't know the Aliens reference.

Looked up picture. Yeah, Panavise pcb holder looks like that. Not sure I want to cough up what it will cost for one of those to handle this board. I may just keep wrestling with it.

You can get your AARP membership at 50

They sent me an AARP card in the mail once, and I was in my 30's! So I hung it up on the fridge after writing OLD BASTARD under my name...Funny cuz now I am heading to age 50

Oh and the card is still on my fridge...

How big is your carbon footprint?

...we have the technology.

Sorry, no. My first car did not cost approximately $545,454.55

DURF!!

Why would you want tiles that look like concrete?!

I guess so that you can have a crappy looking bathroom and still have that satisfying richy feeling that you spent a bunch of money on it.

RT++

Jeff Spicoli coined the term many years before Bill & Ted. He was also much cooler.

Nope. Just more contamination from Bill and Ted.

Fun Fact: Every bag of Skittles contains a secret 54-digit number.

wire colors mean absolutely nothing, they can and will change depending on what hour they were made

That is the same order as resistors are marked.

Yeah, that thing ain't taking up much space. I guess it all depends on how much use it's getting. Me, I prefer the AGS-101.

Same here Jess. I love the aesthetics and pocketable form factor of the Micro (even in a padded case it still fits in your pocket!) but I too prefer the bigger screen of an AGS-101 GBA SP for general use. =)

Well, I forgot that I owned it if that tells you anything about the usage.