Members bp Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 [YOUTUBE]JxdmfrJE4Yk[/YOUTUBE] Get down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 That rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bp Posted November 1, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 Tim Pace made a R2D2 from sat parts and put it on tour with Frampton to take a guitar out during his set. Lucas screwed him with a court order. It was great. R2D2 brought the guitar out to Peter during his set (Frampton Comes Alive Tour). Tim's R2D2 was featured during the Jon Stewart Mall event yesterday. It ran over Jon's foot! Tim usd to run lights for Hendrix, the Kinks, Rush and many other folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 The Radio Shack TRS-80 computer wasn't in every RS store until 1979. At that time , here in Canada, you couldn't even buy one for $500. It was $800 for that computer back then. IT ONLY HAD AS MUCH MEMORY AS THOSE $10 EPHONE & EADDRESS BOOKS, ....... about 4k . Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 I have an original TRS-80 that my dad bought in '78, hoping to explore the potentials of desktop computing for his business. (He ended up with a POS [er, point of sale, it was actually a pretty nice rig] and inventory tracking system for his irrigation supply outfit [jillions of parts from many manufacturers] that ran on a desk-sized leased mini. ) It cost him about $500 just to get the RAM upgrade from 4K to 16K. I remember finding the receipt for the upgrade c. 1985 or so and thinking, OMG! There's more RAM on a toy wristwatch these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members michaelhigh Posted November 2, 2010 Members Share Posted November 2, 2010 That money bought me a Gibson Thunderbird Bicentennial Commemorative Bass the year before. This was the first of only a handful of brand new instruments I have EVER bought out of the more than 40 or so I've owned since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members share Posted November 2, 2010 Members Share Posted November 2, 2010 That is really cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MERCO Posted November 6, 2010 Moderators Share Posted November 6, 2010 I bought my '77 Gibson SG !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fuzzlabs Posted November 8, 2010 Members Share Posted November 8, 2010 Well, I could have bout a couple of 50's Teles, or a n early 60's Strat and an amp. I could have bought a 57 Chevy Belair with money left over.... What it did buy was half a semester of college, including dorm, books and expenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 8, 2010 Members Share Posted November 8, 2010 I paid $500 for my first synthesizer in 1980. That seemed like a lot of money to me at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lukenskywalker Posted November 8, 2010 Members Share Posted November 8, 2010 In '79 I bought my Walnut Gibson 'The SG'... still have it...gets almost daily play, it retailed for 500 bucks, I paid $289 new. In late I979 I bought a new Musicman 210 seventy five new, for less than 500 dollars. I still have that too. They sound so sweet together...it was my main club rig for almost 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yump Posted November 9, 2010 Members Share Posted November 9, 2010 mint 68' twin reverb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted November 9, 2010 Members Share Posted November 9, 2010 I paid $500 for my first synthesizer in 1980. That seemed like a lot of money to me at the time. What synthesizer was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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