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1. AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:44:27 JST AmigaLove

   Remember when white-soled boat shoe "sperry" loafers were the shit? (look at their feet) And how 'bout them "monitors"?

   This would have been mid-80s, say 1987ish.

   #80s #nostalgia #retrocomputing #atari #coding

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   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:49:45 JST AmigaLove

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     • George Haritonidis

     @georgeharito lol!

   • George Haritonidis (georgeharito@mastodon.au)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:49:46 JST George Haritonidis

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     @amigalove “Sir, my monitor isn’t showing any picture”
     “Change it to channel 3”

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:51:31 JST AmigaLove

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I would've thought that, too, but maybe this school just was strapped for $. I'll see if I can find the original source again but that's what the guy said. And those TVs!

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:51:32 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     @amigalove Atari 800s? I think this is much likely earlier. I’d say maybe early 80s.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:52:38 JST AmigaLove

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs That being said there does seem to be a handful of monitors on the back wall but I can't identify them.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:53:50 JST AmigaLove

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     • HFtoUHF

     @hftouhf Nah man, we liked our shoes nice and ripe. (phew!)

   • HFtoUHF (hftouhf@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:53:51 JST HFtoUHF

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     @amigalove Razor cut deck shoes, I thought this was in Scandinavia but they're not wearing socks.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:55:37 JST AmigaLove

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     • HFtoUHF

     @hftouhf

     USA

   • HFtoUHF (hftouhf@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 09:55:38 JST HFtoUHF

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     @amigalove Oh, where are you then? My Norwegian gf at the time wore them and just called the "decks" but she lived in England at the time :)

   • overstrike (overstrike@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 10:06:48 JST overstrike

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     @amigalove I do not actually remember those shoes — maybe an east coast phenom?, but I do remember seeing Atari 800’s in the 80’s. This might be an official Atari computer camp in the early 1980’s. It can’t possibly be as late as 1987.

   • Kaelef :welp: (kaelef@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 10:08:34 JST Kaelef :welp:

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @amigalove @thomasfuchs No way this is that late. I bet it’s no later than 1983. Also, it looks like it might be a TRS-80 monitor in the back wall towards the left.

   • Kaelef :welp: (kaelef@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 10:17:19 JST Kaelef :welp:

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @amigalove @thomasfuchs Atari 800’s weren’t cheap in their day, and these all have disk drives and relatively large color TVs. The kids are well dressed. This is an affluent school in the early 80’s

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 11:35:40 JST AmigaLove

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Kaelef :welp:

     @kaelef @thomasfuchs

     1985. That wasn't the point of my post at all but here's the date.

   • JohannessNilsson (johannessnilsson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 12:18:57 JST JohannessNilsson

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     @amigalove I still wear Sperry loafers. But my monitors have come a long way since then.

   • AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:19:46 JST AmigaLove

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     • John Carlsen 4 Harris&Walz🇺🇸

     @johnlogic the photo was actually taken in 1985 in Miami, Florida.

   • John Carlsen 4 Harris&Walz🇺🇸 (johnlogic@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:19:47 JST John Carlsen 4 Harris&Walz🇺🇸

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     @amigalove

     It looks like Sperry was bought in 1979. I think the new owner popularized the Top-Sider shoes.

     The #Atari800 came out that year, and was replaced by the 1200XL in 1983.

     I'd guess the picture was from about 1982.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry_Top-Sider