You might be a child in the 70s if:

[K'Tesh]

When your Bond, James Bond was "Saint" Roger

 

[MALBAR 70]

When you couldn't afford to buy the music you loved because your allowance was not nearly enough to cover the cost of the vinyl.

Mowing lawns to be able to finally afford said vinyl.

 

[K'Tesh]

Mowing lawns to be able to finally afford said vinyl.

When you were too young to be mowing lawns

 

[kuririn]

Moving out of the house and renting your first apartment.
Then moving back a couple of months later when you ran out of money.

 

[MALBAR 70]

When you were too young to be mowing lawns

I was mowing a couple of lawns in the neighborhood when I was nine, that was in '79.

 

[Art Upton]

When your Bond, James Bond was "Saint" Roger


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Sean Connery in "Diamonds Are Forever" with Jill Saint John

 

[That Rocket Man]

You remember 8 track tapes.

How do I post here rather than just reply?

 

[That Rocket Man]

You flew one of these:

 

[That Rocket Man]

How do I post here rather than just reply?

Figured it out.

 

[Rocketjunkie]

40xx series CMOS logic from RCA (my dad worked at the Sarnoff labs) and COSMAC computers. Why RCA didn't make the 40xx series pin-for-pin compatible with the 74xx series, I'll never understand. Later supplanted by the 54xx series CMOS, which is backward compatible with the 74s.

54 series was MIL-spec (-40 to 125 C) 74 is commercial (-40 to 85 C) 4000 series worked at 5V but with very low performance. Later came 74HC and 74AC compatible CMOS. I was interested in these as they worked at 1.5V. However, ended up using a 3.3V micro controller and a micro power boost converter for the project.

 

[K'Tesh]

You flew one of these:

Unfortunately, I didn't even know model rockets existed until the 1980s, and by the time I did, the Omega was almost done with its run in the catalog (besides the fact I wouldn't have been able to afford it even if it was in the hobby shops I frequented).

 

[That Rocket Man]

I built one in '77 I think. It was my favorite. Second stage never failed to ignite. For the life of me I can't remember what happened to it.

 

[K'Tesh]

I built one in '77 I think. It was my favorite. Second stage never failed to ignite. For the life of me I can't remember what happened to it.

Did you and I talk about a storage unit that got sold out from under you with the kit being sold on ebay to someone (me) in China?

 

[That Rocket Man]

Not me. But it would have been sad if it had happened.

 

[K'Tesh]

Not me. But it would have been sad if it had happened.

The person I spoke to recovered the booster in a subsequent ebay auction, and cloned the sustainer... I still have the original's sustainer, and need to build a booster (with plans to do so, when I get back stateside with it).

 

[That Rocket Man]

Let me know if you need a copy of the original instructions.

 

[BEC]

owned quadraphonic stereo gear

Never did but did have a couple of records that were QS encoded. Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy (aka Larry Fast). Still one of my favorite albums of all time.

I took a college girl acquaintance to see Logan’s Run on our first date. We’ve been married for nearly 46 years now.

 

[John Kemker]

Never did but did have a couple of records that were QS encoded. Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy (aka Larry Fast). Still one of my favorite albums of all time.

I have that album. I prefer Cords over ERfRO, myself, but do like it a lot! (Still have both, along with several other Synergy LPs in vinyl.)

 

[BEC]

I have that album. I prefer Cords over ERfRO, myself, but do like it a lot! (Still have both, along with several other Synergy LPs in vinyl.)

Cords has its place, as do the others. I think I have them all on vinyl, all the way through Metropolitan Suite and all but Computer Experiments Vol. 1 (don’t really care for that one all that much) on CD, as well as Reconstructed Artifacts which, so far as I know was never released on vinyl. That latter has digital synth re-recordings of pieces from several of the albums, though it is dominated by tracks from ERRO. It has a killer live version of Flight of the Looking Glass originally on Audion.

The first four Synergy albums are on topic for this thread….

 

[John Kemker]

Cords has its place, as do the others. I think I have them all on vinyl, all the way through Metropolitan Suite and all but Computer Experiments Vol. 1 (don’t really care for that one all that much) on CD, as well as Reconstructed Artifacts which, so far as I know was never released on vinyl. That latter has digital synth re-recordings of pieces from several of the albums, though it is dominated by tracks from ERRO. It has a killer live version of Flight of the Looking Glass originally on Audion.

The first four Synergy albums are on topic for this thread….

Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra
Sequencer
Cords
Games

I own them all on vinyl. Bought the first three in the 70s, but Games came later.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Vinyl...
*sigh*
Sheffield Lab - Thelma Houston and Pressure Cooker "I've Got the Music in Me"

https://sheffieldlab.com/item.php?item_id=38

Listening to it on Norman Labs speakers

https://community.classicspeakerpages.net/topic/673-norman-labs/

 

[Sooner Boomer]

And there's "Smokey and the Bandit", which started a craze for black Firebirds with T-tops. Actually, T-tops were kinda nice. I had a 76 Gran Prix with T-tops. It was nice to cruise on a cold evening with the tops off and the heater going full.

 

[prfesser]

-you sincerely hoped that 'dodgeball' wasn't on the docket for Gym day in Junior High (PE and Middle School are today's terms) or high school. There was also the appropriately named 'murderball': six balls, not one or two. Likewise with 'free swim' or 'water polo' (AKA drown-a-geek) on swim day. Physical education and I did not agree too well until three or four decades later.
-you ran behind the mosquito control truck as a kid, inhaling the fumes because what's not to like about breathing chlorinated carbon compounds?
Okay, we were not terribly well-informed...

 

[kuririn]

-you sincerely hoped that 'dodgeball' wasn't on the docket for Gym day in Junior High (PE and Middle School are today's terms) or high school. There was also the appropriately named 'murderball': six balls, not one or two. Likewise with 'free swim' or 'water polo' (AKA drown-a-geek) on swim day. Physical education and I did not agree too well until three or four decades later.
-you ran behind the mosquito control truck as a kid, inhaling the fumes because what's not to like about breathing chlorinated carbon compounds?
Okay, we were not terribly well-informed...

You would have "loved" sham battle in the gym.

 

[cerving]

owned quadraphonic stereo gear

The biggest problem with quad (besides having to spend twice as much on audio gear) was that very little was recorded in it. Notable exception: ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. The end of Karn Evil 9 Third Impression was awesome in quad... the sound just circled around the room faster and faster. Mind blowing... haven't heard anything like that since.

 

[cerving]

Moving out of the house and renting your first apartment.
Then moving back a couple of months later when you ran out of money.

My parents kicked me out of the house when THEY moved... no way I was going to be going back. Sink or swim... mostly treading water for a couple of years.

 

[Cape Byron]

The biggest problem with quad (besides having to spend twice as much on audio gear) was that very little was recorded in it. Notable exception: ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. The end of Karn Evil 9 Third Impression was awesome in quad... the sound just circled around the room faster and faster. Mind blowing... haven't heard anything like that since.

Personal favourite.

 

[teepot]

When your Bond, James Bond was "Saint" Roger


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In Vegas. I love watching Diamonds are Forever. Comparing Vegas then to now is amazing.

 

[teepot]

This should make all of you laugh. This is me in high school. 12th grade in 1974. And I'm not asleep. I was in my favorite class. American history. If my parents had approved I would have been an American History teacher.

 

[Art Upton]

In Vegas. I love watching Diamonds are Forever. Comparing Vegas then to now is amazing.

"Sheriff Sheriff" said the deputy pointing to a Red car. I love 1972 Mustang Mach 1s. You must know about the impossible car tilt then while Bond was escaping the Sheriff.