Re: Amazing What They Put Into Cereal Boxes!

"Jim Backus" (jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
On Sun, 21 May 2006 22:53:31 UTC, "K `Sleep" <ksleep@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So last Summer packed inside Kellogg's Cereal Boxes was Electronic
Pedometers, complete with 2-3AG batteries, in the shapes of Tony Tiger,
Snap Crackle and Pop...etc......
THIS SUMMER, its a Electronic Digital Bicycle Computer that Calculates
Distance, Time, Trip Memory...and other functions, again including 2-3AG
batteries.

Bet we don't get that offer in Blighty!

But you have all those magazines that include things taped to the
front. Obviously nowadays there are the common CDs on the music magazines
and the DVDs on the Linux magazines, but I can remember decades ago getting
Practical Electronics and they had things like small circuit boards, wire
bending jigs, schematic drawing templates, and more than I can remember.

Michael

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