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OT: Retro programmable makes comeback.
Message #1 Posted by Egan Ford on 26 Jan 2010, 11:33 p.m.

http://www.bigtrakisback.com/index_2.htm

Originally released in '79 with 16 programming steps this 2010 replica will have 32 programming steps! Replica also 1/2 scale.

Perhaps another '79 programmable will make a come back.

      
Re: OT: Retro programmable makes comeback.
Message #2 Posted by Bruce Bergman on 26 Jan 2010, 11:49 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Egan Ford

I had one of these when I was a teen. I loved it! It was the coolest!

Thanks for the link!

bruce

      
Re: OT: Retro programmable makes comeback.
Message #3 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 27 Jan 2010, 7:49 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Egan Ford

These were great. While I was no teen (30 at the Time), I had one with the dump trailor given to me for Christmas. I took it to work and programmed it to go from my desk to my secretary's desk where it would stop, flash lights and make siren sound, dump its trailor and then return to my desk. I would put whatever I wanted to deliver to my secrtary and use the truck to deliver it. Needless to say, not much work actually got done as eveyone would sit around and watch it do its thing.

Thanks for the link and the memory.

Bill

Edited: 27 Jan 2010, 7:51 a.m.


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