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Do you guys remember a mid 60s wagon that had a two tiered roof with a very small windshield in the roof, maybe 2-4" high? I think it was a Chev.
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Link .Not the one I was thinking of, but.
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I remember watching Jack Paar, the host of the Tonight Show, whom I thought was the most urbane funny guy and far better than Johnny Carson, who came later, or any of the current late-night hosts, except Bill Maher. Agree. Paar WAS more urbane and sophisticated. I was also a fan of Paar's predecessor on the Tonight show, Steve Allen (Hi Ho Steverino), who did a late night show of his own after the Tonight Show. I did become a Carson fan, but haven't been able to tolerate any late night host since.
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I'm (not) so old, (but old enough that) I remember... - having to peel my legs from the vinyl bench seat of the family station wagon in the summer.
- Oregon Trail and Number Munchers.
- renting a VCR with the VHS tapes from video rental stores.
- when handheld video games had rectangular LEDs for pixels.
- having the freedom to roam unsupervised as a kid.
- when most families made do with one car.
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I'm so old that when we were kids, parents never plastered us with some strange goop called sunblock every time we went to play outside.
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Peter, your item #2 reminded me for some reason of the LOGO programming language and Turtle graphics. Hadn't even thought of that in years. Funny how some things that likely shaped you somehow get lost in your mind. Could be a thread of its own there...
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I was going to mention logo. Computers definitely had a huge influence on the way my brain functions. 
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I used to know how to do that stuff. Now I can't seem to find the attention span... 
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LOGO programming language When the Super Expander cartridge came out for the VIC-20, I wrote a version of "LOGO" that sat on top of the S.E.'s graphic abilities and let you use the familiar LOGO commands and syntax (and used degrees instead of radians!). I also wrote a "Blazing Paddles" type bitmap editor, but since I was 9, my SAVE SCREEN routine would use an insane amount of tape space. I didn't quite grasp packing 2 colour nybbles into a byte and writing it to tape. So I wrote the ASCII numeric value linefeed delineated instead. Where you could pack, say, two decimal "5" nybbles into one character ((5*16)+5)=85 or a "U" in PetASCII, I would write it as: (space)5(lf)(space)5(lf) - taking 6-8 times more space than necessary. Bren R.
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