How many of you are old enough to know what these are for?

[victorm]

good point - I was looking for an emulator the other day - it seems that my old software for calculating antenna gain in ULW written on C64 is now required for my SON's college project, and I would hate to know he went through all the trouble to implement the formulas. there's a nifty script out there that can take C64 code and import in Mathematica (the formulae part, not everything though...)

 

[spacejamz]

where are all the Commodore 64's?

no Vic 20 love???

 

[Rubycon]

no Vic 20 love???

Peek me this, poke me that.

 

[BoomerD]

Oh my goodness!

Common in the '70s but something sounds wrong today, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkVuT5pw1g

:awe:

ROFL! I remember those. They tasted like shit...probably why they worked so well.
When AIDS "came out" after Rock Hudson died of it, they tried changing their name...but it didn't help.

 

[dawp]

With my extreme pleasure!

"Poverty Train" @ the Monterey Pop Festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWVOSSmPpc&feature=related -- stay with it 'till they zoom in and this song comes on @ 1:15 or so if you're the ADD type

"Save the Country" on a vid so bad, it looks like Kinescope, but no matter, she SHINES right on through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdowef1oKE

"Stoned Soul Picnic" (Yeah, she wrote it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSNbC9zK-w&feature=related

"Eli's Coming": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuOxSmqn44I&feature=related

Not only could she write and compose her own damn songs at a world class (imho) level, she could flat out SING!

Around 1971 or so, she got together with Patti LaBelle's (Philly represent) backup band LaBelle to record a whole gaggle of classic "Motown" rocking soul songs, in sweet, loving and tender homage to an influence she obviously grew up with.

So did I, THIS album, which I possess to this very day on vinyl, is just one of the gosh darned (no sarcasm) loveliest records ever . . . again, imho.

Some cuts:

"The Bells": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_Z56rtdRw

Medley of "Monkey Time", "Dancing in the Street" and "Spanish Harlem" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxRUOYMwG0A&feature=related

"I Met Him On a Sunday" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nkZfrFxQhc

The original of "I Met Him On a Sunday" by the Shirelles, for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHcROtzeks&feature=related

Lol, I didn't know Laura Nyro from nuttin', but my freshman college roommate had her albums from his older sister and the first really good stereo I'd actually "lived" with!

Naturally, I went out and bought all her albums and the next year my friend John so loved them that he borrowed them ALL for the entire school year and then returned them me utterly ruined by the blunt pressure of the crappy needle/arm assembly on the low-fi on which he'd played them every day, all year long -- shakes palsied fist in the air in abject futility -- I forgave him. ()

looks like she died in '97 at the age of 49, of ovarian cancer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Nyro

 

[Rubycon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxykKezaCBY&

Busting balls is fun!

 

[IronWing]

And these?

 

[keird]

And these?

These are often mistaken for toll booths or gay rest areas.

 

[lxskllr]

And these?
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2708/4136067051_31d6074f7b_m.jpg

Is that the right color you remember? Ours were yellow.

 

[Fritzo]

And these?

All the Photomats we had around here were converted into "Lottery and cigarette" drive through booths. One I saw now makes keys.

 

[shortylickens]

And these?

Really? After two and a half years?

 

[IronWing]

Really? After two and a half years?

Were your's still Fotomats or something else? In my area they stopped being Fotomats 20+ years ago.

 

[Lifted]

And these?

Haven't seen one in ages, but I was just describing these to my nephews last week. Thanks for the pic.