Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:18:36 +0100, D wrote:
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Children today are over protected, and this is destroying an entire
generation. There are always exceptions, those are what give me hope,
but the vast majority are quite sad.

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I feel sorry when I see them being loaded into the backseat of a car in
their escape pods. My preferred location was standing on the passenger
side floor with my hands on the solid steel dash of the '51 Chevy so I
could see where we were going. The gray paint of the dash had two hand
prints where it had been worn down to the red primer. Probably red lead,
come to think of it.
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If bicycle helmets existed I never saw one. Some kids didn't survive for
one reason or the other but life went on.
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Yes... bicycle helmets where completely unknown during my childhood as well. For entertainment we had fireworks, firecrackers (now illegal in sweden), dismantling old electronic waste to see what's inside, running around on the streets of central stockholm without supervision, smoke bombs, the occasional beer sold to minors from where discrete and hidden small shops.
Being young today sounds so extremely boring in comparison! I do hope (but do not know) that all of these things still happen, unknown to me, but something tells me this is not quite the case.