Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

part 2

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On the creepier side of that era, thereā€™s still https://www.heavensgate.com/.

Trigger warning: Especially creepy is the contrast between Our Position Against Suicide and: Exit Press Release

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I had one of these, it was fun :slight_smile:

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I did too, but I completely forgot it existed until I saw this picture.

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ā€œBack in the days when I was a teenager
When I had status and when I had a pagerā€

I never had either but but I still have that record

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Missing the good 'ol IBM mainframe, Assembler and COBOL.

Not really.

Butā€¦ Security is getting so tight, itā€™s making it very difficult for me to do my job. It was a lot easier back then to get access to the data I needed.

Ransomware and The Cloud - this is why we canā€™t have nice things!

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Yes, this is how computer operators looked in the 1960ies.

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Today kids will also never know that even when there was Grand Theft Auto ā€¦ it was this:

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This whole filmā€¦

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That was very interesting. I have never seen the second type of Spirograph.

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I never got rid of my Spirograph, but 2 wheels have been missing since 1978. Stuck forever in a floor vent at my grandparents place.

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Maybe you can replace them with 3D printing? :thinking:

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Oh keep an eye out in thrift stores. There could be another box with different missing pieces.

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Youā€™d have to know the exact size and gearing to replace them faithfully, but there are certainly a number of 3D printable spirograph and spirograph adjacent models out there:

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Me neither.

I think that was the fate of so many, there were empty slots in ours too.

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