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  Scented Erasers

  Kids used to - and still do - like to collect anything and everything (remember Lucky Trolls?). So, when smelly rubbers hit the school scene in the 80s, they became a coveted collectible. Not only did your mum not mind ...

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  Scratch and sniff

  There was a whole craze for stationery that smelt fruity. I went through an apple phase, with apple glue paste (bought in France - probably wouldn't have been allowed in the UK), an apple note pad and then even got ...

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  Sharp MZ80K

  Remember paying £575 for one of these around 1980. First exposure to home computing. The machine had 48KB of RAM, 32KB of which was available for programmes. Had BASIC and Assembler which was loaded from the cassette into RAM before ...

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  Sinclair C5

  Surely you remember these? They were so iconic, and such a visible icon of reaching for the sun, and falling well short.Sir Clive Sinclair (yes, Sir!) launched the Sinclair C5 on 10 January 1985. It was a vehicle that he ...

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  Sound-effects Keyring

  I don't know what they were called. There were two types of sound-effects keyring. They were both small plastic boxes that could fit in the palm of your hand and the first type had 6 small grey buttons on one ...