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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 21 Dec 2024 07:37:31 GMT
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:59:06 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-12-21, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVhY2-gNG9k
>>
>> That one brought back memories.  I had a Lionel train set but nothing
>> as elaborate as that one. There were little pellets you dropped in the
>> smokestack to create the smoke effect. They probably contained 17
>> different carcinogens but those were more innocent times.
> 
> Back then, everybody was smoking so much that a few smoke pellets were
> neglegible.

When we went on a trip my father would break open a carton of Luckies and 
spread a few packs on the dashboard for easy access. I was getting as bad 
in my 20s. One day my lead tech asked for a cigarette. I gave her the pack 
and told her to keep it. The hard part wasn't the nicotine but if you 
stopped to talk to some one in the shop you both lit up, if you got a cup 
of coffee, you lit a cigarette. If you went to the crapper...  

Still alive, I guess.