Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:36:27 +0100, D wrote:

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.

Most fireworks were illegal where I grew up but we had them anyway. Much
later I brought some back from a trip to the south and wound up arrested
for possession of explosives and deadly weapons in my home town by a cop I
went to school with. My future brother in law was a silver tongued devil
that could turn any situation to shit. Years later he was killed by
lightning so he may have pissed the Gods off too.

I was a big kid and the liquor stores weren't too particular. As a joke
one year I bought one of those nip bottles of gin for a Mothers Day gift.
That led to an interrogation of where I got it.

One problem of being a kid in a town of about 2000 is everybody knows
everybody. Pill something really outrageous and the news would get home
before you did.