What's a nostalgic purchase you have made for the heck of it?

[pRICE cUBE]

Ombligo wrote:
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Maybe I will track down ones of these:
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Danny,

Then you will appreciate what I have. The Times was throwing them into the trash sometime around 2005, I grabbed it for old times sake. I used one like it in 98-99, including throughout Nicaragua and Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. I sent photos back using Transmit on a Powerbook 5300.


I would love to have one as museum piece. Then I can tell all those young whippersnappers about how we had to haul a mortar brick with us when we used to shoot digital.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Will Collier wrote:
They released recreations of the old Mattel hand-held sports games a few years back. I snapped up Football II.

I bought one of those on eBay to give as a gift for a '70s-themed costume party a decade or so ago. The guy who won it was so happy he actually teared up.

[jh]

My older brother got a Lionel O gauge steam locomotive train set shortly after WWII. We used to get the train set down from the attic each Christmas and once or twice during the summer and I remember as a small kid in the 50's having a heck of of a time watching it go around the tracks in our den. When we grew up he took the train set with him to where he now lives and once told me he kept it in a storage building and the train/weather ruined it. Stuff is probably worth some money now.

[Racer X]

Rainier beer.

[RAMd®d]

6" S&W Mod. 28.

[Bill in NC]

portable typewriter.

[mrbigstuff]

I've always wanted a180mm ED Nikon from the 80s, as that was the news photog lens to have

[davemchine]

I found my high school boombox on eBay. Sony CFS-DW60 Mega Bass Boombox. Lots of fond memories of listening to it on the back porch playing ping pong with friends (I also bought a ping pong table). The tape bays don't work properly but I don't have any tapes to play anyway. I keep it in the garage attached to an airport express for music. The sound is better than I expected as long as I keep the volume reasonable.

[freeradical]

A set of Ultraman DVD's.

I think I watched one or two episodes.

[Ombligo]

mrbigstuff wrote:
I've always wanted a180mm ED Nikon from the 80s, as that was the news photog lens to have

The pre-Ed 180 was the lens to have, I use to love that lens. I used the same lens from 1979 to 1990, when it was stolen with almost all me gear It was a costly lens, around $600 in the late 70's (when EPOI was the US Nikon distributor and jacked up the prices). When the ED version came out, it was quickly supplanted by the 80-200 ED (later IF-ED). The ED was still a nice lens, but not as well balanced as the earlier version, nor as versatile as the zoom.