Invisible wrote:
 
> So what's the best gift you ever received as a kid? Can you actually
> *remember* back when driving a plastic car with flashing lights on it
> seemed like the pinacle of enjoyment? What neat stuff did you get?

There were two I especially remember

The first was a book about programming in BASIC - it was written for the 
"basica" interpreter that came with DOS 3.3 if I remember right. Man did I 
ever spend hours and hours with that and the old IBM-PC...

The other was when I was rather younger, it was a blue Chevrolet C-10 model 
that was about as big as an adult's hand. My dad had a -real- C-10 Chev at 
that time (+- 1979 - 1981), and it was just too uber-cool to play around 
with DAD's PICKUP!!!!! I almost wet met pants when I got it.

Then also of course Lego and "Playmobile" (anybody remember those?) Had a 
big Lego helicopter one christmas, and also a Lego "moonscape" set with moon 
dunes on it and so forth. 

Still remember those, even today, decades later!
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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