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OT: pong

Black an white TV with only a few channels (actually having an antenna on
the TV set that had to be moved every time you changed channels to get
better receptions.. (old skool TV trick : S.O.S Pads heheh). Vinyl 45" where
the HIP records to own... Pong!! hell anyone recall tank-wars?

ATS - not old, but old enough to remember - Patrick Bureau


-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of T Berk
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:42 PM
To: Kevin Collins
Cc: Allyn; scirocco list
Subject: Re: OT: pong


Kevin Collins wrote:
>
> Allyn wrote:
>
> > for those who loved it back in the day:
>
> Back in the day, the ORIGINAL, hand-built Pong game was installed in the
> coffee shop at Tressider Memorial Union at Stanford University.  As
12-yr-old
> or so kid, me and some buddies used to regularly ride our bikes over there
> and play the thing.
<snip>
> Shit am I that old??  :0
> Kevin Collins


Yes, yes you are.  8P

Hi-Fi sets (w/ Tubes!), black & white TV, throwing things off the top of
Hoover Tower, American cars with V8s standard, Foreign cars (not
imports) from France and Italy, Oh wait- Mini Skirts!, Ah, those were
the days.

Damn Kev, I'm old but not as old as YOU.   LOL!

TBerk

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