And not just the PC, the wonderful green-screen monitor too, if you could afford it. And the tape player.

And tapes. Lots of very-long-to-load tapes. :nope:

Was anything else so perfectly matched? :hmmm:

Wasn't the "Manual Fast-Winding Stick" created for that purpose?

And then some brainiac decided to put some graphite in the middle, and an eraser on the other end...

But...but...I thought that was to help guide it into the hole.

What's an "eraser"? Isn't that something to chew on when you're not winding? Oh, maybe it's to erase the gunk from your teeth...

ha, I know the answer to Kongo Otto's riddle:
You can use the pencil to write the name of the mp3's, that you burned on that tape, on the white, blank space! :know:

Do I get a cookie?

Nope. That's what pens are for.

Pens? Ha! You crazy young sports used pens for your tapes! :haha:
We used to carve the band names in stone and then stick it onto the tapes! :know:

Pha, at least you had tapes and pencils, I grew up in the Balkans :doh:

Any kid with a tape splicer was a god amongst their peer group :DL

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/tapec...ette-block.jpg

http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachm...plane-f104.gif

? :hmmm:

Back in the day we called that one the "Missile With a Man In It".

The pilots I knew locally called this one a "Lawn Dart".

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...Steve/F-16.jpg

We used to call that the Falling Falcon.

In FY 82 half of the US F-16 crashes in the world occurred at Hill AFB, UT. Lakeside Military Center to be exact.

We in EOD got a lot of practice scrapping them up off the desert.

They were falling long before that. When they first came to Hill the controversy was over whether it was the fly-by-wire system that was putting them down. The Air Force denied it, but nobody could guess that it would be anything else. That was why we called them 'lawn darts'.