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Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus (Post 1898938)

Nope, but I do have Raid Over Bungling Bay for my CCommodore 64.

I remember playing some skiing game endlessly on a Mac SE. Then we'd go fight King Hippo on NES:rofl:

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Originally Posted by Mike Mercury (Post 1898940)

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The way back machine:seasix:

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Originally Posted by Mike Mercury (Post 1898940)

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Mister Peabody was a pipe hittin', kick ass mofo.

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Originally Posted by ZipZap (Post 1898941)

I remember playing some skiing game endlessly on a Mac SE. Then we'd go fight King Hippo on NES:rofl:

I still have a working original NES and Puncchout, too :funnier:

Here, you might like this link.
https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2020/...lators-for-pc/

from Wikipee

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The Wayback Machine or WABAC Machine is a fictional time machine from the segment "Peabody's Improbable History", a recurring feature of the 1960s cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

The Wayback Machine is a plot device used to transport the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman back in time to visit important events in human history.

The Wayback machine was a central element of the "Peabody's Improbable History" cartoon segment. The machine was invented by Mr. Peabody, a genius, polymath, and bow tie-wearing beagle, as a birthday gift for his adopted pet boy, Sherman. By allowing them to visit famous historical people or events, the Wayback provided educational adventures for Sherman. At the request of Mr. Peabody ("Sherman, set the Wayback machine to ..."), Sherman would set the Wayback controls to a time and place of historical importance, and by walking through a door in the Wayback machine, they would be instantly transported there. Examples of places or people visited are the Marquess of Queensberry and the rules of boxing, the imprisonment and memoirs of Casanova, and Jim Bowie and the Bowie knife. The machine apparently later returned Mr. Peabody and Sherman to the present, although the return trip was never shown. The segment traditionally ended with a pun.

The Wayback has two main quirks. Firstly, it automatically translates all languages into English for their convenience. Secondly (and more critically), the historical figures and situations that they encounter are distorted in some crucial way. The main focus of the shorts is thus the restoration of historical events to their proper course, albeit in a characteristically frivolous and anachronistic way.

Either of the names Wayback or WABAC are in common usage, with the term "WAYBACK" explicitly indicated during the segment in which Mr. Peabody and Sherman visit the "Charge of the Light Brigade". The precise meaning of the acronym WABAC is unknown. According to Gerard Baldwin, one of the show's directors, the name "WABAC" is a reference to the UNIVAC I. Mid-century, large-sized computers often had names that ended in "AC" (generally for "Automatic/Analogue Computer" or similar), such as ENIAC or UNIVAC. The term "Wayback" suggests the common expression "way back in [some former time]."

The movie studio DreamWorks Animation announced in 2006 and again in 2012 that they were creating an animated movie entitled Mr. Peabody & Sherman, which was released March 7, 2014. The WABAC machine is a central element to the plot. In the movie, the acronym is revealed to be Wavelength Acceleration Bidirectional Asynchronous Controller (WABAC).

I started back in the '80s. I collected DOS versions for awhile and then tossed them lol. I think I still have some old software versions of Word Perfect, Quattro Pro, Harvard Graphics, etc...

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Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus (Post 1898925)

It's the rotary phone of computer storage disks.

Here, this is what a rotary phone looks like. Extra points if you can guess what that yellow book next to the phone is.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...Eb3uA&usqp=CAU

Instruction manual for the rotary phone, gives all the input codes to reach various people.:yesnod:

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Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus (Post 1898945)

I still have a working original NES and Puncchout, too :funnier:

Here, you might like this link.
https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2020/...lators-for-pc/

I need to hook my stuff up and play Duck Hunt on a 65" TV:rofl:

And, yes, that's R.O.B:rofl:

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Originally Posted by ZipZap (Post 1898965)

I need to hook my stuff up and play Duck Hunt on a 65" TV:rofl:

And, yes, that's R.O.B:rofl:

I think I still have the power pad and a dual game cartridge with Duck Hunt and Track & Field.

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Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus (Post 1898968)

I think I still have the power pad and a dual game cartridge with Duck Hunt and Track & Field.

Track and Field:rofl: We built little tools with a pencil, rubber bands and a drill to make them dudes go supersonic:rofl:

When I went from film editing to video editing (which I hated) the system had to be booted up with floppy disks :syf:

I actually owned a copy of the CAM software in the OP. I also had a BigmOuth board. :yesnod:

I like that the labels were printed on a dot matrix printer.

I 'may' still have an 8" floppy buried somewhere.

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Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus (Post 1898945)

I still have a working original NES and Puncchout, too :funnier:

007-373-5963
Burned into my adolescent mind.

When I was a kid our local exchange was Y-down 3.

Having said that, at least we didn't have a party line like Gene probably had growing up.

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Originally Posted by bill_daniels (Post 1899137)

When I was a kid our local exchange was Y-down 3.

Having said that, at least we didn't have a party line like Gene probably had growing up.

What do you think this forum basically is?

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Originally Posted by bill_daniels (Post 1899137)

When I was a kid our local exchange was Y-down 3.

Having said that, at least we didn't have a party line like Gene probably had growing up.

Had one...

We also played a game where you dialed up the "Time" number (555-1212) and spoke between the beeps to other folks dialing in.

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