Category: Toys
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Genesis Incunabula Exordium
I’m thinking about taking my blog in a different direction. It’s been a really big deal for me to step out and toss my scribblings out into the ether. I’ve been writing on and off since I was a kid .I liked writing papers back in my college days. I love researching and learning. I’ve…
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The Magical Musical Thing
It might have been a Christmas gift or it might have been purchased at one of the many garage sales my mom frequented back in the day. The details of its arrival are fuzzy, however I remember its departure from our lives with great clarity. It sounded like an off key dying wildebeest from Mutual…
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The Little Professor
I didn’t have one but my friend did. I remember the bright golden yellow color and the red LED screen. I was jealous. It was so cool and fancy. The Little Professor was a backward functioning calculator that was released in 1976 by Texas Instruments. It would ask a question and you’d answer. 3 +…
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How I Got Here
I wanted to start a blog for a good long time. I spent ages thinking up all sorts of technology things I wanted to chat about from Gen-X childhood toys like Little Professor to trying to build my own iOS app. Names bounced around in my head from ‘Coffee over COBOL’ (limited scope) to Aunt…
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