ok an innuendo laced thread title, but i figure it works heck we had a fs/ft thread title of looking for head lol and another thread saying i cant find the hole so title fits lol. ANYHOO purpose of thread its kinda a guessing game too. what you do is list
1. list favorite childhood toy
2. list current electronic/s from childhood
3. list current ( at time of childhood) musicians you listened to. and see if someone can get close to year of birth or say " you were a child of the 70s"  ill begin:
1. toy of childhood. ( METAL lawn darts)
2. electronics. i was around for the vhs betamax wars lol. found a couple workable machines at thrift store. , and have my intellivision since new, also a vintage working PONG machine.
Oh found one of these still in its original box.
A tandy 1100fd laptop. and yes it does work. ( borrowed a charger to test.)
birth of atari 2600 ( still have it operable lol 50+ games)
funny thing is EVERY GAME ATARI ever made and an emulator will fit on ONE cdr
3. musicians/groups: i vaguely remember the first rap songs lol. ( rappers delight?/sugarhill gang) i listened to multiple genres of music , including (country) merle haggard, don williams, didnt care much for willie nelson at time ( until duet with ray charles) CCR ( selling LPs and 8 tracks via tv ads) there was also tg sheppard in the country scene. youd say WTFH if you look at my music stash. quite ecclectic or eccentric lol . you know youre getting old when current music from childhood makes it to oldies station.
any guesses? (ill allow up to 10 years.)
Aaron

You're from the U.S., potentially from the southwest, and were born in thev1960s?

1. Adidas Tango
2. Dual CS 505 - NAD 3020 - KEF Coda
3. Rory Gallagher

No was born in 75. so most of this stuff we acquired between 79 and 85. ( best years of childhood imho)

Wow! Did you have an influence, an older brother?

naah. just dad . he managed a camera shop in chicago. a salesman comes in drops off an atari 2600 ( to demo) we kept it. and acquired games over the years. forgot to mention the sinclair16 and commodore 64 lol. this ancient stuff still works because planned obsolescence  i dont think was even a thought then. the metal lawn darts are 100% safe (as long as youre not UNDERNEATH them as they come down . lol
Aaron

Did you ever own a Six Million Dollar Man action figure with a bionic eye (a magnifying glass) and a bionic arm (spring loaded grip plus I-beam to grasp and throw)?

Friend of mine had that action figure! Envy envy! Bastard! Lol

1. Smash up Derby set
2. Intellivision console,! 64/128 with the 5.25" floppy drive, TRS80 repair project, 8x speed cdrom drive (fastest avail) in 286/16 IBM (mid teens)
3. Fleetwood mac, Blondie, Slim Dusty

And sorry Rally but apart from Gallagher name in fuzzy general I don't even know those things of yours

ahaha the 6 million dollar man. sh*t i forgot about that one. when i was younger my great aunt and uncle were AVID yard salers. they had a basement full of cool toys. ( pre ebay lol) they would let me pick something to take home to west chicago ( from their place in glenview) got that figure, an original gi joe in the wooden box with the pieces. still have those. ( in storage in home. have to remember where lol) and a don post stormtrooper helmet. ( that ones in basement somewhere.) one thing i REALLY wanted was this 3ft tall bodysnatcher statue. they would NOT let that one go. sadly theyre both passed on .. they left glenview IL for peoria az in 1994. while i was at MMI i lived 2 miles from their home. i visited often. that statue teased me lol. but id say son got it and whatever else . which is cool. sorry i did it again. almost jacked thread MY OWN THREAD lol. but dates, i THINK out of those items, the 6 million dollar man, is within my early childhood. or slightly before. the body snatcher predates me lol the don post helmet DEFINATELY within my lifetime albeit early. i KNOW gi joe predates me by a decade if not longer. man i wish i could have raided that house again. in 94 they had i think a 6 month long yardsale. cleared basement out lol. ( netted 600k) if they waited til ebay/online sales came into being WHOA.  but seriously in that basement were toys from everyones childhood. well up to 1990 Or so. on a sidenote, been hunting a micro cassette recorder (royal memocalc) with a calculator. ( going to try to acquire it by may for fathers birthday) he had one of these and i think i broke it years back. been hunting G1 transformers. i lack optimus prime $$$ and megatron. and jetfire had these as a kid lol. frig ebay is PROUD of them. found a slightly yellowed jetfire on ebay for 40.
back on tech also looking for a sharp pocket computer pc-1430 i found one in a bargain box nearly 2 decades ago in a pawnshop. learned how to program basic. which got me into trouble in highschool. i figured out how to make graphing calculators drop repeated f bombs. can do this with modern era calcs too such as a ti84c lol. caught hell cause i did this to 10 of them. sci teacher was NOT amused. next day programmed one to say "all hail the ice queen" i spent rest of day in office lol.

Janx101: 1980

Yeah, I'm thinking janx was 80s, too

Steve Austin and the android version of Oscar Goldman both had their own action figures. Great stuff.

Nobody knows what an Adidas Tango is, or a NAD 3020?!

aye a HIGHLY  rated Integrated  home theatre/ stereo amplifier. but heck it had a 2 decade run lol its on my short list lol.
Aaron

It was the "must" amp of the time. The "must" bike was the Honda C50; those with a decent summer job could get a car, frequently a Citroen 2CV (and presumably, a progressive girlfriend that attended disarmament rallies).

80's?!? Aww shucks fellas I'm flattered! .. the things I listed were far back as I could easy remember. .. but I'm a 71 vintage! .. which is REALLY annoying sometimes..  t shirts with  emblem/ logo in front, (you know like New York '95 or Pennzoil series' 75) ... '68 heaps, '69 sometimes, '70 yep seen them! ..... ..... '72 of course! Etc etc. ..

No feckin '71 anywhere or anything!! .. you see any then let me know! ... we can PayPal some sorta deal together!

Quote from: Rallyfan on October 23, 2015, 12:34:50 PM
It was the "must" amp of the time. The "must" bike was the Honda C50; those with a decent summer job could get a car, frequently a Citroen 2CV (and presumably, a progressive girlfriend that attended disarmament rallies).

theres a mono NAD sub amp back at the goodwill in the junk closet ive got to go pick up. works but was returned a humming noise which i had demonstrated could be dealt with by crossing lines at 90deg. i mean for 3 bux geez. shielded cables work as well. course i had took home the monsters . my yam has 2 sub feeds (7.2) kinda want another 12" amped polk or ideally 2 of same thing. just not in any shape to do the subwoofer crawl atm. but this is on my wish list. as is that NAD. ( and a c50 lol). now hmm '71 lets see what i can find.
Aaron

Quote from: Janx101 on October 23, 2015, 09:26:30 PM
80's?!? Aww shucks fellas I'm flattered! .. the things I listed were far back as I could easy remember. .. but I'm a 71 vintage! .. which is REALLY annoying sometimes..  t shirts with  emblem/ logo in front, (you know like New York '95 or Pennzoil series' 75) ... '68 heaps, '69 sometimes, '70 yep seen them! ..... ..... '72 of course! Etc etc. ..

No feckin '71 anywhere or anything!! .. you see any then let me know! ... we can PayPal some sorta deal together!

a tad pricy here but theres this
www.cafepress.com/mf/87104096/vintage-1971_tshirt?productId=1253326252
ill keep looking

www.allposters.com/-sp/Led-Zeppelin-Tokyo-71-Posters_i9384100_.htm
still looking
btw to answer the original question american yes, not from sw tho. (regards to first reply)
Aaron

Quote from: Rallyfan on October 23, 2015, 10:09:44 AM
Steve Austin and the android version of Oscar Goldman both had their own action figures. Great stuff.

Nobody knows what an Adidas Tango is, or a NAD 3020?!

Nad 3020 LOL yea, I had a 3090, awesome amp. I had a burned solder trace in it. I wire jumpered the thing and got it working. Its a little bit of a POS internally, the main power amp board was single sided solder. You can easily peel off whole freaking sections off.

But I am a vintage audio nut.
No clue what adidas tango is.

Anyway I have owned Pioneer sx1250's X 3, Technics SA1000, still have an 800, B&W 802's, PCS8/FCM8 set, and 1000 other bits of one and newish audio, as well as fix lots and lots of em.

Cool.
Buddha.

The Adidas Tango is a ball, with a characteristic pattern, introduced at the 1978 World Cup and still around today.

The C50 has now been cloned in several places outside Japan, and is still putting along.

1970. The stuff I described was peaking from late 70s to mid 80s -- my childhood.

I'm from my childhood but I'm stuck here and I can never go back.