[CTS] Re: XBox 360
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:50:05 -0600
I'm not the same age group but I can remember how cool it was going from a
BW Motorola TV to a color Zenith in 62, the year I started Kindergarten and
how stations went off totally or went to test patterns around 11pm. An hour
of TV a day was considered really being an addict then.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Murray Reid
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:45 PM
> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [CTS] Re: XBox 360
>
>
> When I was a teenager we didn't have a Television (They weren't on the
> market yet!!) LOL. Joe can probably say
> the same thing.!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:12 PM
> Subject: [CTS] Re: XBox 360
>
>
> >I was in my late teens before I even saw a pong game and then it
> was a coin
> > op one at an arcade. I've done my share of dropping money into a pinball
> > machine but it got boring real quick. Video games and PC games don't
> > thrill
> > me much either - would rather put on hiking gear and go for a
> walk in the
> > woods.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Eric C. Vogel
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:08 PM
> >> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [CTS] Re: XBox 360
> >>
> >>
> >> Hey, Mommy and Daddy give them the money. Or with the $200-$600
> >> week/bi-week/month allowance, hey, you can get what you want. I
> >> went most my
> >> life as a kid without one. Was 5 cents up to 25 cents then back down to
> >> nothing.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cuffy
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:39 PM
> >> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [CTS] Re: XBox 360
> >>
> >> Where in hell are these kids getting $400 to buy these things ?
> >>
> >> =================
> >>
> >> Russ Blakeman wrote:
> >>
> >> >And to think I've had my hands on dozens of them doing upgrades of the
> >> >kiosk machines at area Walmart stores - they don't seem like much more
> >> >than a PC with high end sound and graphics to me though.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>-----Original Message-----
> >> >>From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >>[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cuffy
> >> >>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:35 PM
> >> >>To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >>Subject: [CTS] XBox 360
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123634,tk,dn112205X,00.asp
> >> >>
> >> >>People waited 13 1/2 hours to buy one of these at midnight
> last night.
> >> >>Long lines with lots of kids and then the store only had 48 of them
> >> >>when the doors opened. Yeah, you got it......... with a capital P.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
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