Any one else remember these?

Oryk Zinyo

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This just popped up on my local craigslist and I am considering buying it. I remember one of these outside the cafeteria in high school. Any one else ever use one of these?

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The pens came in a cardboard tube that was just the right size to fit a plastic tack. Yeah, I remember those. :D
 
They STILL have that machine at my daughter's elementary school.

Nice afterthought on the thumbtack blowdart gun - now I have one more thing to worry about with my kids :(

J/K

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Huh - never saw one of those before. We always had a "school store" that was staffed by students and seemed to be open for 3 hours every 4 weeks.
 
We had a school store as well, but it was only open before school started. This (along with the soda machines that sold fruity, non-carbonated drinks only) was available all day long.
 
We had a school store as well, but it was only open before school started. This (along with the soda machines that sold fruity, non-carbonated drinks only) was available all day long.

Alas, we didn't even have a soda machine. What a deprived childhood I led!
 
That may have had something to do with school size. My senior class had over 2000 students in it. We only had 1046 graduate. Things were simpler back then...

Man, I can't fathom having a class that big. My entire senior class was only about 92 people, and ours was the biggest. You pretty much knew everyone. Of course, I went to a private school, but I don't think the public schools in our area were anywhere near that big either.
 
That may have had something to do with school size. My senior class had over 2000 students in it.

Maybe so -- my graduating class was 220 or so IIRC.


My senior class had over 2000 students in it. We only had 1046 graduate. Things were simpler back then...

Yup! Apparently the people were too! :D
 
My senior class had 23 students in a K-12 school just shy of 400 students total. 1975 was the lowest birth year after the baby boom. We had a school store and I bought a tasmanian devil eraser there.

I graduated in 93 and we still used a ditto machine. And the school computers were commodore 64s and apple ][s, which was a step from the PETs we originally had!
 
Maybe so -- my graduating class was 220 or so IIRC.




Yup! Apparently the people were too! :D


Most of the students were just lazy. The vast maority of failures was because of not submitting their final project in senior english. If a teacher failed over 50% of his class today he'd get fired, and possibly lynched...
 
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