R3DD

[Joseph S.]

Saw a cool license plate today. Thought I'd share it. Senior citizen lady was driving.

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

And a RED car!
RED employee most probably.

 

[HyderBilgrami]

lol VV has nothing to do with RED though !!

 

[Joseph S.]

I'm sure the R3DD license plate has nothing to do with the R3D we know. Just a coincidence. I do wonder what that means though.

It was just pretty cool to see it.

 

[Joseph S.]

Hey folks!!!!!!!!!! I just realized something all RED owners probably know already.

R3D is RED, with the E written as a hacked 3. Boy I feel dumb for just realizing that after all these years.

I swear, I'm really not that slow

 

[Martin Weiss]

Joseph,

Welcome to the world of the Internet and License Plate Lingo

(Sorry, just couldn't resist...)

 

[Paul Lee]

Hey, if you're a n00b, don't get pwned by a l33t reduser

 

[Joseph S.]

I'm from the days of 300 baud modem's, 4bit porn, and Timex Sinclair 1000's
with a tape recorder as a hard drive. I was gaining access to people's computers in '96.

But how stupid can I be not to see R3D as RED. Just goes to show you
when the obvious is right in front of your eyes, you sometimes miss the obvious.

 

[Martin Weiss]

Well in Norwegian "to reduce" means "reduser". So everytime I read an ad with a heading about "reducing (this or that)" I first think of this very forum

And I also remember having the Datasette for the Commodore 64 (actually, I first tried to build one myself, but that did not quite work out.)

 

[Paul Lee]

I'm from the days of 300 baud modem's, 4bit porn, and Timex Sinclair 1000's
with a tape recorder as a hard drive. I was gaining access to people's computers in '96

Bad Ass! Much respect. I didn't see the half-nakes woman on REDcine for the longest time myself...

 

[Joseph S.]

Bad Ass! Much respect. I didn't see the half-nakes woman on REDcine for the longest time myself...

i remember the old 4 bit porn was when her head was square (one color), and the two cool things below her neck were squares of a different color.

 

[David Wyatt]

And I also remember having the Datasette for the Commodore 64 (actually, I first tried to build one myself, but that did not quite work out.)

I had a Dragon 32...wish I still had that...great games :001_smile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32

By the way for all you gadget nostalgics out there there's a great series on BBC4 called "Electric Dreams" where they put a family through the changing life of gadgets from the 70's to the 90's (sounds naff but it's actually pretty good!):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n1j8n/Electric_Dreams_1970s/