Harpo
Getting away with it
The Space Shuttle’s teleprinter weighed 59 pounds, adding over a million dollars to the cost of each flight.
I believe I had an identical phone to that. It had the distinction for me that I drove over it (with a car) and it survived in good shape. FULL DISCLOSURE there was snow on the ground.Only 23 years ago
Those Nikes are now worth far more than the boombox ever was.
The only problem is the date it's before STNG, but I think I now know where the idea for Geordi La Forge's "glasses" came from.Looks like a meeting of the Geordi La Forge Appreciation Society...
That wouldn't do much for his suit trousers and shoes!
I thought that too.That wouldn't do much for his suit trousers and shoes!
Here in Ontario I've seen pick up trucks with the adapters required to do this. Used for maintenance purposes (of the line and surrounding infrastructure) rather than for transport.1950's rail/road bus from Germany. It normally ran on rails, using two detachable bogies, but could be dismounted to run on the road to places with no railway tracks. Ran from 1952 until 1967, when the last was scrapped, apart from one retained in the Transport Museum in Nuremberg.