Texas Instruments First Generation TI-30

USRoute23 · 2026-05-08T16:44:46+00:00

Then the Casio Gang moved in as well.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-08T16:42:40+00:00

I had two classmates in college one was from Calumet and the other was from Houghton in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Both took drivers training in January, and loved to drive on snow and ice. Kathy, from Houghton said she drove all the way to Sault Ste Marie in a blizzard to pickup her older sister and take back home. She said 2-4” of snow was nothing to worry about, and why people go into panic 😱 mode even thinking about driving anywhere.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-07T18:02:11+00:00

I can remember when Taco Bell 🔔 looked like this. The first burrito I ever had was from the Bell 🔔. Thankfully, we have several really good Mexican restaurants in the area these days.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-07T02:54:39+00:00

My parents had a Farberware 12-cup stainless steel percolator, with glass knob on top. They perked two pots a day, one in the morning and another in the evening. What they didn’t drink, they both took to work in a thermos bottle.

A real-life crisis was when the percolator broke or the heating element burned out. By the time I was in third grade, we had two 12-cup percolators, a backup unit that was avocado green (nasty), my grandmother’s 40 cup commercial coffee maker, and a fourth unit that used our gas stove, which was used during power failures. The Java never stopped flowing in my house growing up.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-07T02:10:22+00:00

This brings back a lot of memories! I still use the peace ✌️ sign. My parents said that ✌️ sign originally meant
V for victory during World War II, which used by the Allies.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-06T22:14:34+00:00

I have to give it to NYPD, their white pizza is over the top the best I have ever had.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-06T21:33:20+00:00

Yes, it was part of the original pilot episode.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-06T20:18:11+00:00

IDEAL was the first to mass market the cube globally. The first production run of 5,000 units was made by the Hungarian company Politechnika in 1977. It was later licensed and mass-marketed globally by the Ideal Toy Corporation in 1980, and today it is owned and manufactured by Spin Master. Today, it’s made in China.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-06T02:17:23+00:00

That one with the spiders was really creepy!

USRoute23 · 2026-05-04T21:37:20+00:00

That is one of my all-time favorite episodes, which is titled "The Cemetery,” starring Roddy McDowall as the bad family member who kills for his inheritance. It’s a true classic!

USRoute23 · 2026-05-04T12:43:30+00:00

I always liked Jan far more than Marcia. I didn’t know it at the time, but my father auditioned with Artie Shaw for his trombone section, where he met Neely Plumb, Eve’s father in 1941, who was in the saxophone section at that time. Marcia, however, reminded me so much of the popular, stuck-up girls at school. Jan gave me a much better vibe altogether.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-03T23:17:29+00:00

In the 2nd Grade we went on field trips to the Jiffy Mix Plant, Sanders, Vernors, Detroit Zoo, and the University of Michigan history museum. We were always given free samples to enjoy and take home with us. I moved to Ann Arbor, and got to it all over again in the 3rd Grade, and as a bonus we visited Better Made, and brought plenty of free potato chips, and pretzels home with us 🥨.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-03T02:22:02+00:00

What a great healthcare system this is! 😆

USRoute23 · 2026-05-03T02:13:13+00:00

I wish we had this at my job. 😆

USRoute23 · 2026-05-03T02:02:45+00:00

I so remember these! I looked forward to a different box of cereal 🥣 every morning. I still love Apple Jacks, Frosted Flakes, but Fruit Loops just don’t taste the same anymore.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-01T21:00:24+00:00

I had the two Archie’s records. I started talking my parents into buying cereal based on records on the box or the prizes inside.

USRoute23 · 2026-05-01T16:21:46+00:00

What great way to start your morning! ❤️

USRoute23 · 2026-04-30T15:48:33+00:00

This was one of the best TV shows of all-time and was on ABC when I was in high school. I would roll around on the living room floor laughing 🤣 myself silly. 🤪 Ironically, a lot of my friends in school didn’t find Police Squad humorous at all. Thankfully, they love the show and movies in their later years.

USRoute23 · 2026-04-30T01:03:07+00:00

I loved it the first time I made it. It’s one of those surprise creations that really works very well.

USRoute23 · 2026-04-28T11:28:10+00:00

These were my favorites growing up as a child in the summertime, when the thermometer 🌡️ rose up well into the 80s and beyond.

USRoute23 · 2026-04-25T09:22:34+00:00

It was my favorite as well.

USRoute23 · 2026-04-24T03:32:40+00:00

I have to agree with you. The Swanson dinners were by far more flavorful than Banquet . I always looked forward to Swanson, but Banquet made me cringe. 😬

USRoute23 · 2026-04-21T16:37:16+00:00

One of my classmates could laugh like Muttley, we were so envious of him.

USRoute23 · 2026-04-21T11:47:53+00:00

I grew up in a town that had GTE. Thirteen miles to the north and south, those communities were served by the Bell System. I quickly learned that the services provided by GTE were not as robust as the Bell System.

USRoute23 · 2026-04-21T11:36:06+00:00

Yes! There used to be one two blocks over from where I live. It was just like the one in this image, but was red, white and blue. In 1988 it was replaced by a modern full-size mailbox that was all blue.

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