That was a fun read. I'd lost track of the black world after the Aurora mess. Thanks T.

When I was in high school, 11th grade, micro computers were becoming available to the rich. I wanted to know how to work one so I took the ONLY computer class my (wealthy!) school offered. Introduction to Electronic Data Processing. IEDP. You know what I learned? Punch cards. How to read and manipulate Hollerenth…

A generation is said to be 20 years.

It wasn't happy music ya dummy it was hedonistic music and that gets old fast.

Gen X is most often said to be 1962 to 1982, I've seen 1960 or 1964 but most often 1962. Also we are the 13th American generation in history. It's funny, the guys who wrote Generations, the absolute experts on this topic, said we 13ers were in for a life of toil and hard work for less to show for it. They wrote this…

Most often: Gen y

I'll wait for the Klipsch S4 M2's to go on Amazon sale again for $17 referb'd.

Maybe we could build the entire thing in the image of an old steam train.

I LOVED my Gameboy. I had dozens of games for it. I was a Nintendo fanboy before they even existed. Now I don't own any Nintendo product. What are they doing right? Nothing.

Not on my Moto X it don't. It must be more or less OK Google Now.. or nothing. Can't retrain it either.

Not 6 MORE inches! Well, just call me Mr Aardvaark.

They'll find them at the bottom of the pile in near perfect condition under a thick layer of brand new never opened Virtual Boys still in their boxes.

Every tweeker in New Mexico is shamballing there.. Hope they brought crossbows.

Rumor has it that the carts were disassembled and the cases reused. The small PC boards were what was dumped. If that is so rust will have killed most of them by now.

At the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown LA. I was there for that one!

Con's back in the 70's and 80's weren't just an excuse to sell thousands of tshirts to the masses. You met neat smart people there who you kept as friends, and more, for years.

Pocahontas means "Little Hellion". She enjoyed doing nude cartwheels to bother the English. It did. The real girl was NOTHING like the Disney cartoon.

The best line in Robocop was spoken by an unwilling cyborg convert to a hurt human: They'll fix you. They fix everything.

Must be plugged into the OBD2 port inside the car. Oh wake me when they can do some of these hacks using OnStar.

And a few years later Dioxin was found to not be very toxic at all. So much for knee-jerk reactions.