If you are reading this and you were born either in the 70s and were able to enjoy the 80's and all its glory... you are a magnificent piece of art. Our childhood was like no other. Toys, cartoons, video games, devices, school, music, walkmans, relationships, etc... There will never be a time like ours ever again. I salute 🫡 you all. Its been an honor serving with you all.
That is pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing. It would be neat to figure out how to make the car drive around a track with software that can define a cutout pattern for the tape.
As an 80s kid, these toys look so familliar. It's amazing how these types of toys were like everywhere. I remember these little stunt cars with a shift stick on top that woukd perform differents crashes. They were quite complex. Also Mask or Starcom toys😮
I remember in the 80s, there were smaller slot car versions of these where the car came with a real-life car key that you’d insert in the back of the car, and it would go just as fun.
My wife had a Hasbro Baby go Bye Bye with the programmable car in the 60s. This system was likely better, but she said the doll had a round card that went inside the car body and also a loom of patch wires that programmed the pattern.
Some of the earliest ROM goes back to the 5th century Europe with big cog logs that turned and trip wedges hammered into various places to cause factory hammers to strike hot metal, pound grain or bells in church towers to ring. Think music box. First mention of it in writing was a monastery that caught fire and some of the brothers ran for the well while some ran for the clock....it was an automated water clock. Modern computers come out of the pattern cards for French looms in the 18th century that used hard paper punch cards stitched together....then punched paper tape rolls like player pianos.
@@smorrismlbco So you had that problem too then, If I had it now I could probably find something to fix it or keep it going. I think at the time we were trying to revive the rubber, but eventually age won out.
I'm 59 years old. My father bought me two of these for Christmas one year. Lots of fun
If you are reading this and you were born either in the 70s and were able to enjoy the 80's and all its glory... you are a magnificent piece of art. Our childhood was like no other. Toys, cartoons, video games, devices, school, music, walkmans, relationships, etc... There will never be a time like ours ever again. I salute 🫡 you all. Its been an honor serving with you all.
I had and loved this toy!
That pretty ingenious in terms of engineering.
It takes complete genius to design something so simple.
That is pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing. It would be neat to figure out how to make the car drive around a track with software that can define a cutout pattern for the tape.
I was just thinking that, thanks for commenting for me.😂😂
As an 80s kid, these toys look so familliar. It's amazing how these types of toys were like everywhere. I remember these little stunt cars with a shift stick on top that woukd perform differents crashes. They were quite complex. Also Mask or Starcom toys😮
Retro awesomeness
I remember in the 80s, there were smaller slot car versions of these where the car came with a real-life car key that you’d insert in the back of the car, and it would go just as fun.
It still works after 50+ years!!
That's interesting, never knew about these.
My wife had a Hasbro Baby go Bye Bye with the programmable car in the 60s. This system was likely better, but she said the doll had a round card that went inside the car body and also a loom of patch wires that programmed the pattern.
That's pretty Neet. Never saw one with the card switch. But I did have a couple that had various shaped cams you'd install which changed the steering.
Thank you for making this
Had one of these as a kid in the '60's. Worked great! If you made small cuts in the strip, you could use the strips again and again.
An amazing thing when ROM was all but unattainable.
Some of the earliest ROM goes back to the 5th century Europe with big cog logs that turned and trip wedges hammered into various places to cause factory hammers to strike hot metal, pound grain or bells in church towers to ring. Think music box.
First mention of it in writing was a monastery that caught fire and some of the brothers ran for the well while some ran for the clock....it was an automated water clock.
Modern computers come out of the pattern cards for French looms in the 18th century that used hard paper punch cards stitched together....then punched paper tape rolls like player pianos.
COOL! Thanks for video
Wow I remember having that when I was just a kid
Now they have nuero controlled cars crazy how far technology has come. Thats pretty cool though.
In the European market these were called Computacar - I had a Ford GT40!
So cool!
I still have mine, got it for Christmas in the 70s. Very clever how it works as it could go forward and reverse.
that is so cool!
That is crazy good.
Give it black stripes and it’ll double as a movieverse Bumblebee
I have one in very good condition still boxed! I'm thinking about putting it on ebay or something as I don't want it
When I was a kid i got a box of the programs. Whah, whah, whah. The person who purchased them thought it was the car.😢 I'll never forget it.
I don't understand. You got a box of programs, and then you sold them?
It looks kind of like a cross between a Corvette Stingray (C3 generation) and a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona.
That was actually based on a real concept by Dodge. The Dodge Charger III.
@@1ChilledDude Ooh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
I had one.
Dude that's cool. I wonder if new "programs" could be made with a 3D printer?
They can just be cut out of sheet plastic or a good shoebox cardboard so long as you had a few cards to copy.
cardboard is all you needed...
Cool, I had the Chevy Astrovette The rubber wheel that drives the card gets brittle & eventually crumbles. :(
On my car I replaced the degraded rubber wheel with a sandpaper covered cylinder. Anything less wouldn't keep the card moving.
@@smorrismlbco So you had that problem too then, If I had it now I could probably find something to fix it or keep it going. I think at the time we were trying to revive the rubber, but eventually age won out.
almost like a cox dune buggy
no nothing like a cox dune buggy...
Japan have somting like that.
Still today with race on special make maze.
And that the computer in the toy have to go out the maze
I'd worry about your real car, that one hell of a oil stain.
Same