Can't remember the name, but who remembers the game with the blue, green, red and yellow lights you had to follow in sequence. It might have been early 80's though.
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Calling all 70's retro toy experts...
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Ah, but once you get into the 80s, I seem to recall the appearance of the Rubik's Cube………
Still, lovely thread, which brings back some very nice memories.
Simon in the 80's didn't have the silver bit on the bottom. I don't recall a cube like one unless your referring to the battery powered rubik cube. Hmm
Talking about rubik's. I had the clock that was great...
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No, no batteries in my Rubik's Cube; just a splendidly solid six-sided square-shaped educational toy that was deceptively simple and extraordinarily interesting.
I wrote a Mastermind program in Tiny Basic, which ran on the computer we had at the college's microcomputer club. It played the "guesser" or the "hider" role, depending on what you told it. That computer was... an Imsai 8080 that I'd helped assemble. I helped modify the Tiny Basic interpreter, too.
At the time, we used a cassette tape storage system, whose name I can't recall, except it wasn't Tarbell or even Tarbell-compatible. I'd probably recognize it if I saw it, but no way can I remember it.
[oneupmanship]The first time I saw S-100 BASIC, it was on an Altair 8080 in about '76. The display was a big B/W TV on a tall rolling stand for classroom use, and the keyboard snagged on my trousers because of the solder points on the back of its bare circuit board. BASIC was loaded into the computer with a high-speed paper-tape drive, like the one we had on the ASR at school. It was awesome.[/oneupmanship]
Do not get me started on the Burroughs E4000 we had in the classroom ...
