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30 year anniversary of Back to the Future.

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Soon it's the 30th anniversary of Marty's journey using Doc Brown's invention of the flux I tought I make a happy birthday thread. :)

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Six days to go and we'll see if Marty really does show up.
 
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I used to own that specific model. :D

(manual eject on the external floppy drive? That seems so wrong...)
 
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APlotdevice said:
manual eject on the external floppy drive? That seems so wrong...)
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Funny enough, even though it looks like a standard manual eject PC drive, it is actually an automatic eject drive. It's also auto-insert like a proper Mac floppy drive. I suppose that the button just pushes on the manual eject tab present on all Macintosh floppy drives but normally needs a paperclip to actuate

As you probably know, Mac and PC floppy drives are not at all compatible with each other-the differences are both mechanical and electrical, and this one works exactly like a Mac drive.

Admittedly, though, the most valuable piece in that whole set up is the HD20, something which I doubt anyone in 1987 would have forseen(working HD20s are scarce, and I was fortunate to get that one for free).
 
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Planning to watch Back To The Future Part II next Wednesday, October 21, 2015. All three are on my phone now and I've seen Part 1 and 2 at least 100x or more since I was 9. BTTF Trilogy is easily my favorite movie franchise of all-time even though I don't like Part III very much. It is pretty good and I love the ending but all that regret Doc said about time traveling ruining history and lives became moot once you saw that locomotive time machine. Part III had this major plothole that always bothered me. Where was DeLorean that Doc traveled back with to 1885? What was the whole point of that train sequence if Marty's DeLorean he got in 1955 ran out of gas?

I was wondering if I could still watch BTTF Part II (my fav of the series) ten years from now seeing how alot of the future envisioned 26 years ago are inaccurate now. I think I will. It has a lasting charm to it that endures and my love for them isn't solely based on nostalgia. Like Final Fantasy VII with the outdated graphics now. Helluva alot better than watching any BTTF than crap like Pixels (2015), Elf (2003), and that overrated Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) with an acting hack like Michael Cera! That guy has a personality that makes Frodo and Threepio look macho!

For the poster who said BTTF was overrated - Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Any movie can be called OVERRATED, BUTTHEAD! Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption, etc. Any of them can be called overrated by distractors and all movies have them. And the ones with low scores probably deserved it,so don't hype up crap like Donnie Darko, boring Chris Nolan films, or The Matrix to me anymore. Alot of crap become cult classics.

Anyhoo, why don't the BTTF haters make like a tree and leave? Hit a manure truck while you're at it. :p
 
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Planning to watch Back To The Future Part II next Wednesday, October 21, 2015. All three are on my phone now and I've seen Part 1 and 2 at least 100x or more since I was 9. BTTF Trilogy is easily my favorite movie franchise of all-time even though I don't like Part III very much. It is pretty good and I love the ending but all that regret Doc said about time traveling ruining history and lives became moot once you saw that locomotive time machine. Part III had this major plothole that always bothered me. Where was DeLorean that Doc traveled back with to 1885? What was the whole point of that train sequence if Marty's DeLorean he got in 1955 ran out of gas?

I was wondering if I could still watch BTTF Part II (my fav of the series) ten years from now seeing how alot of the future envisioned 26 years ago are inaccurate now. I think I will. It has a lasting charm to it that endures and my love for them isn't solely based on nostalgia. Like Final Fantasy VII with the outdated graphics now. Helluva alot better than watching any BTTF than crap like Pixels (2015), Elf (2003), and that overrated Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) with an acting hack like Michael Cera! That guy has a personality that makes Frodo and Threepio look macho!

For the poster who said BTTF was overrated - Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Any movie can be called OVERRATED, BUTTHEAD! Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption, etc. Any of them can be called overrated by distractors and all movies have them. And the ones with low scores probably deserved it,so don't hype up crap like Donnie Darko, boring Chris Nolan films, or The Matrix to me anymore. Alot of crap become cult classics.

Anyhoo, why don't the BTTF haters make like a tree and leave? Hit a manure truck while you're at it. :p
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Oh, dear.

Why the splenetic post and the cascade of emotionally charged capital letters? By the bleeding nails of Christ, it is only a movie.

If @rdowns doesn't care for BTTF so what? Some do rather like it, some love it, some (such as myself ) have never actually seen it…..and some dislike it or think it over-rated. Personally, I think that anything with either Tom Hanks or Kevin Costner should be vaporised into oblivion, but that is just me.

Now, my sense - from what I have read and heard about it - is that it is a charming, harmless entertaining and rather inventive movie.
 
I never said I don't care for it or didn't like it (however, part 3 was a steaming pile of ****) but said it's overrated.
 
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Oh, dear.

Why the splenetic post and the cascade of emotionally charged capital letters? By the bleeding nails of Christ, it is only a movie.

If @rdowns doesn't care for BTTF so what? Some do rather like it, some love it, some (such as myself ) have never actually seen it…..and some dislike it or think it over-rated. Personally, I think that anything with either Tom Hanks or Kevin Costner should be vaporised into oblivion, but that is just me.

Now, my sense - from what I have read and heard about it - is that it is a charming, harmless entertaining and rather inventive movie.
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You should watch it. It's a timeless classic for all age groups.

Also 'Mr Brooks' with Kevin Costner was actually a very good movie.
 
Meister said:
You should watch it. It's a timeless classic for all age groups.

Also 'Mr Brooks' with Kevin Costner was actually a very good movie.
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Perhaps some day I will watch it.

Re Mr Costner, the adjective 'wooden' comes to mind, - the mildest of those I habitually used to hurl whenever I saw his entitled yet immobile features anywhere - and that state of mind that philosophers of theatre (or movies) term 'the willing suspension of disbelief' (i.e. although you know what you are watching is pretence, and people pretending to be other people, you are willing to forego all that and lose yourself in imagining that it is for real) becomes an absolute impossibility whenever his face graces a screen.
 
Ahhh I love Back to the Future. I haven't watched it in years, but may need to put it on tonight.

My neighbor Natasha would come over to babysit my siblings and me and watch this trilogy (on VHS of course). Monopoly or Twister was always involved. Those were the days...
 
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Ahhh I love Back to the Future. I haven't watched it in years, but may need to put it on tonight.

My neighbor Natasha would come over to babysit my siblings and me and watch this trilogy (on VHS of course). Monopoly or Twister was always involved. Those were the days...
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I'd like to hear more about you playing twister with your babysitter. Pics?
 
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