
21-10-2011, 18:17
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Onto a New Chapter...
AKA: Kim O'Toole Eckhardt
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Framingham, MA
Posts: 1,467
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Re: Back in my day...
Back in MY day... - Gas was 99cents/gallon!
- I programmed robots in PBasic
- Holy cripes drivetrains were hard (there was no kitbot!)
- Drill motors rocked! (or smoked!)
- The Placebo was our favorite Robot
- Tigerbolt was the best robot in town
- Chief Delphi was the biggest cheese
- Matches were 3 robots - no alliances!
- I wrote papers in Wordperfect with no Spellcheck!
- Pen up Pen down Forward 3 Right 5 Pen up was how we learned to program!
- The Championship Tournament bracket fit on one 11x17 sheet of paper
- Slap bracelets rocked
- Hexagons and Torroids and Ladders were FIRST Games!
- Pinning was legal!
- Parts falling off robots didn't cause a penalty!
- Kids with a Sony Playstation or Nintendo GameBoy were the BOMB!
- No one I knew owned a cell phone
- Walkmen were the best source of portable music!
- Epcot was all ours!!
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