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Madam Alexander International Dolls

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JeeperDon said:
Don't think it's been mentioned here, but Zip Codes in the USA were started on July 1, 1963. My original home address was...

My Family
19511 Pelkey
Detroit 5, Michigan

The '5' meant the '5th' PO building in the Detroit area.
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Our postcodes were introduced into the UK in 1959... but not atually used nationwide until 1974...

When we were kids we'd read Comics like Spiderman which had the American address of the company at the very bottom, and we as kids were always facinated by this ''zip code''.. we had no idea what it was or what it meant ... we thought it was yet another exotic American thing... :D
 

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Grampa Don said:
No, but I have one of these. It's also reverse polish notation and still works.

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That's even more of a dinosaur! :ROFLMAO: Apparently, these old calculators are now collector's items.

I was wondering how a calculator that I bought in the '80s can perform calculations effortlessly while my "smart" phone hangs while trying to do the exact same thing.
 
HermitHogan said:
That's even more of a dinosaur! :ROFLMAO: Apparently, these old calculators are now collector's items.

I was wondering how a calculator that I bought in the '80s can perform calculations effortlessly while my "smart" phone hangs while trying to do the exact same thing.
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The Corvus is fun to watch because it uses its display register when it's calculating. So, you can see it thinking.
 
When I went to visit my relatives in the country penny candies still existed but were a little less sophisticated than what we had in the city. In the country teaberry gum was very popular and I loved it and learned how to make it from wild teaberry. Sour apple gum was pretty awesome too. It woke your tastebuds up and you could wash it away with the tiny wax coated sippy drinks. We had such fun. :)

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HermitHogan said:
Here's one from the '90s. It cost about $150 and was required for some of the classes I was taking. I haven't had any need for a graphing calculator since then so it's just been collecting dust.
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brwsh.JPG This was my tech equipment for my job. I would tape band practices with it. Then practice on my own to get my parts right. I have no idea on how they go about making music any more. I see video's of people using computers and even Smartphones to make songs. They are being shared all over the internet. You don't even need another person, and presto...a cool song to share with your peeps. :)
 
Paco Dennis said:
View attachment 374511 This was my tech equipment for my job. I would tape band practices with it. Then practice on my own to get my parts right. I have no idea on how they go about making music any more. I see video's of people using computers and even Smartphones to make songs. They are being shared all over the internet. You don't even need another person, and presto...a cool song to share with your peeps. :)
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I used to have one of those. It was just "Panasonic" — not "National Panasonic," so it must have been a newer model. I didn't have a stereo so that's what I used to play music on.
 
Anyone else remember what map software came on floppies?

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I had a later one, more detailed for the entire continental US. It took up a whole box of floppies you installed from.

There was no Google Maps and Internet access was slow and dial-up for basically everyone.
 
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