Florida was like that in 79. The passengers could drink but not the driver. Some of the bars and liquor stores had drive up windows.And in some parts of the country (TX), you could drive with an open container in your car.
Florida was like that in 79. The passengers could drink but not the driver. Some of the bars and liquor stores had drive up windows.And in some parts of the country (TX), you could drive with an open container in your car.
I remember people saying how worthless the Brat was... and guess what? Hyundai just came out with a mini pickup, and I bet some others do too. Those bed-mounted jump seats were scary...
I'm pretty sure drive up liquor stores are still legal in some states. They didn't get banned in NM until 1998.Florida was like that in 79. The passengers could drink but not the driver. Some of the bars and liquor stores had drive up windows.
Two of our liquor stores in PartsUnknown, KY have drive-up windows. Another would have done so, I'm sure, had there been room on the property.Florida was like that in 79. The passengers could drink but not the driver. Some of the bars and liquor stores had drive up windows.
Yesterday I was at the grocers. The woman in front of me, a few or more years older than I, used a debit card to pay for her purchase. I watched as she then took out her checkbook, copied it to a blank check and record it in the register.
I can't remember the last time I wrote a check. My bank started doing bill pay; at first they mailed checks, now it's all electronic. Other stuff that needs to by paid by check, I go to the bank and get a cashier's check. They're free, and the money comes out of the account immediately (don't have to wait for check to clear to balance account).Yesterday I was at the grocers. The woman in front of me, a few or more years older than I, used a debit card to pay for her purchase. I watched as she then took out her checkbook, copied it to a blank check and record it in the register.
I quit writing checks so long ago, I still have 199 checks left out of the last 200 I purchased.
We control the horizontal. We control the vertical...TVs with vertical and horizontal hold knobs.
That was '63-'65...We control the horizontal. We control the vertical...
But it was so cool.That was '63-'65...
Home away from home when I was in school...
I was at one, one time when I was 5ish it mostly sold those stupid STEM kits, but it closed like a month later…Home away from home when I was in school...
I was at one, one time when I was 5ish it mostly sold those stupid STEM kits, but it closed like a month later…
Ps what did it sell back then?
That sounds like fun! Like an egg timer!Sinclair ZX-80. Enough memory for, as I recall, 40 lines of code. I assembled one from a kit. Hundreds of pins to solder, no IC sockets, just straight to the chip. Miraculously, it worked. For what it was worth. As I recall, it came with 1k memory and the expansion was 4. TV for a monitor, but not all TVs worked. No wonder I didn't become a programmer.
update:
OOPS! The ZX-80 missed the '70s by 29 days, according to Wikipedia.
Probably. It's hard to buy a µC today that doesn't*. Not that Eggtimer needs any more than a ZX-80 could give, but in 1980 you couldn't have fit what Eggtimer needs into a small enough space.Ps I wonder if the egg timer actually has more processing power?
You lost me at ASCll encoder?I worked selling electronics in a shop from when I was 15 years old. Started there in '77. I remember selling the ZX-80, and later the ZX-81 computers by Sinclair. We didn't sell them in kit form. They used to crash a lot and you had to key in the program again. The "keyboard" had terrible tactile touch too.
I had already built the computer that came out in Radio Electronics magazine in early '78. Much more capable than the ZX80, but you had to solder it all together yourself. Chips etc onto a bare PCB, build power supply, modify b&w TV for direct video input, make an ASCII encoder for the keyboard, etc
Probably. It's hard to buy a µC today that doesn't*. Not that Eggtimer needs any more than a ZX-80 could give, but in 1980 you couldn't have fit what Eggtimer needs into a small enough space.
* Actually, old design µP chips are still available, but the processing cores of today's cheap µCs outperform them, and that's aside from the onboard memory and I/O. And for less money.
https://www.jameco.com/z/Z80-CPU-Major-Brands-IC-Z80-CPU-2-5MHz-DIP-40-pin_35561.html
https://www.jameco.com/z/R6502-Rockwell-6502-Microprocessor-8-bit-1-MHz-DIP-40_43191.html
https://www.jameco.com/z/MC6809P-Motorola-IC-6809P-8-Bit-Microprocessing-Unit-1-MHz-DIP-40_43545.html
You lost me at ASCll encoder?
Ok I looked it up, it seems like something that is part of low level software not hardware?You lost me at ASCll encoder?
Ok I looked it up, it seems like something that is part of low level software not hardware?
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