80's Gadgets

[M.TEX]

Ummm I know few kids here won't be able to say much about this one but
I think at some point we all got to see some old cool gadget from the 80's

My first Watch was a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LED WATCH . I know it was from the 70's
but that's how the search for gadgets got started.

Few years later on my way to school I saw a bunch kids and I got closer to find out what
was going one...This kid was playing with his watch...a CASIO GAME 20 Yes that one with
spaceships....Wow that was cool and also very expensive ! I never could get one...

Plus all the other stuff like ATARI, and Sony Walkman, portable Tv's and stuff
living in a 3rd world country was tough....I never could get many of these gadgets but I had
a chance to use these electronics from friends....they were very nice...

Today I look back in time and I see that technology been called RETRO...or Vintage sometimes..
What kind 70's 80's gadgets bring good memory to you ?
I know I could go on and on but this just give you idea of my childhood...

M.TEX

[Goliath]

None, because I'm only 19 :lolhammer:

Those ledwatches are really cool tho, would really like to have an original one in good shape.

[pipedreams]

Coleco Electronic Quarterback. BTW, this has been re-released recently.

todd

[M.TEX]

Goliath



None, because I'm only 19

You can find at Ebay...but a mint one will cost some good $$$$

[porkchop]

Pipedreams I recently found my Coleco football game recently while going through a bunch of stuff at my Mom's house.

IT STILL WORKS!!! With a new battery of course. ;)

My wife thinks I'm nuts obsessing over "old" stuff.

Also found my Red Ryder BB Gun, as well.

[wolf]

Coleco Electronic Quarterback. BTW, this has been re-released recently.

todd


Wow. I had one of those - toatlly forgot about it.

[alwilliam]

Here is a pic of a few items I still have from the late 1970s. ;D

My old school LED watch and leather band ;D

mini camera I ordered from a comic ad..it took OK pics.

old packet wtch compass .

timex led watch it works great still.


Here are my EDC pics from 1980-1985

http://edcforums.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=201.0;id=12;image

http://edcforums.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=201.0;id=13;image

http://edcforums.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=201.0;id=14;image

[webley445]

Like totally Awesome!
This thread takes me back.
I remember those football games, saw lots of guys get busted by teachers because they were chiroing in the back of the classroom.

First time I saw a led watch was in the Bond movie"Live and Let Die" in the begining. When he lit up that watch in the dark EVERYONE in the rheatre gasped out loud in unison. My mom went out and got one for my dad's birthday. It was a Bulova and cost $300+.
It was big and heavy and would be considered ancient technology today, but back then it was the F-bomb.

I remember Tekna knives. The dive knife with a thumb latch that could be strapped to leg or arm. And they had a "credit card" type knife too that you depressed a button and extended the blade out. Had one of those, wasn't that well made and I broke it doing the "wrist flick' to assist it in faster opening.

I remember that the Buck 110 was the last word in folders at the time. You had to learn how to grip the blade just right to get your thumb in place to push the blade open and flick it fast. There was a little item that could be bought that was a piece of spring steel that clipped onto the blade and offered the fore runner of today's thumb stud.
There was also a sheqath/holster that was an unGodly skeletal design, very bulky, that held the knife withblade a little open and made so that you undid a snap and lifted up and out of the holster so that the blade would be open when drawn. Fore runner of today's waved blades.

I recently aquired a Gerber Mark II, I always liked the Mark I myself. Sold it for over $120 on Ebay. That was a collector's item.

Ahh, high cap mags for .22 Rugers and the survival rifle that broke down and stored in the plastic stock, what were they called?

I could go on for hours...

Saw alot of cool stuff in Soldier of Fortune magazine (when they first came out). Back then you usually had to mail order stuff from magazine ads and I was always leery after a few rip off buys, but they had cool stuff in their ads to look at.

[alwilliam]

the survival rifle that broke down and stored in the plastic stock, what were they called?

I had a armalite take down .22 AR-7 as my 2nd rifle ...but it was my dads and it was from the 1960s.

[webley445]

Thats it O0
AR-7, I know that Henry Rifles also makes one.

there was a broom handle kit that was made for it also, along with 50 rd mags

[Gadget Guy]

Coleco Electronic Quarterback.* BTW, this has been re-released recently.

todd


I still love those old games! It brings me back to another time when I play them. I was probably 10 when they were popular, but I can't believe they would reissue them as the younger generation will think they are junk! I guess they did it for us old timers...

GG

[ToolFool]

porkchop! Red Ryder BB Gun?!! Careful, Man!!!.....You'll shoot your eye out! Ha ha ha!!







(Please tell me you've seen the movie "A Christmas Story")

[Gadget Guy]

porkchop! Red Ryder BB Gun?!! Careful, Man!!!.....You'll shoot your eye out!* Ha ha ha!!







(Please tell me you've seen the movie "A Christmas Story")


Soap Poisoning! ;D

GG

[Deaths Head]

I've seen a lot of those old electronic games being sold at Target and Wal-Mart for just a few bucks. They look exactly the way they did 20 years ago.

[Gadget Guy]

They work great too! I bought the baseball & football versions and I played them till I got bored then gave them away...

GG

[Jim101]

I had the first Pong TV game. I bought a Seiko divers watch in the 70's and still have it and it still runs...I also and remember a friend that had the first TI calculator,way to expensive to buy one.....The breakdown .22 AR-7, who remembers the first movie it was in? George C. Scott was in it........

Jim

[unterhund]

Stepping back just a few years before this thread, my oldest two sons are now using my official Boy Scouts of America Silva orienteering compass, the one I bought in 1976. Not only does it still work perfectly, I still have the original receipt!

[Gadget Guy]

Here is a pic of a few items I still have from the late 1970s. ;D

My old school LED watch and leather band ;D

mini camera I ordered from a comic ad..it took OK pics.

old packet wtch compass .

timex led watch it works great still.


Here are my EDC pics from 1980-1985

http://edcforums.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=201.0;id=12;image

http://edcforums.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=201.0;id=13;image

http://edcforums.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=201.0;id=14;image




Love that old Timex Al...

GG

[webley445]

I had the first Pong TV game. I bought a Seiko divers watch in the 70's and still have it and it still runs...I also and remember a friend that had the first TI calculator,way to expensive to buy one.....The breakdown .22 AR-7, who remembers the first movie it was in?* George C. Scott was in it........

Jim


Actually it was originally seen in a Bond flick, From Russia with Love. But that was originaly incarnation with wooden stock.
I recal the flick you're refering to ,but can't remember the name...

[webley445]

BTW.....

Where's the Beef !! :P

[Jim101]

Webley,


"Rage"..............I'll never forget that movie....

Jim

[Deaths Head]

The Police Acadamy movies and Rocky I-IV! Who else loved those movies?