Stuff you have because you've played Twilight:2000

[Adm.Lee]

Somewhere inside, I have one of those survivalist guys-- he must be the one that got me to play T2k and Morrow Project way back when. Sometimes, I will see stuff like camping gear, and think, "ooh, that would be useful!"-- except I never go camping or hunting, or much of anything in the wild, as I have pretty stiff allergies.

One thing that I did hang onto, just in case, you know, was a slide rule. My father and grandfather were both engineering school graduates in the days before calculators or desktop computers. Someone apparently gave Grandpap a slide rule, likely some salesman, since there is a company name stamped on the casing. Grandpap probably had one already, since this one is still in its original box, with some faded instructions still inside. I think I picked it up when we were cleaning out the house. Pop didn't want to see one of those ever again, and I had no idea how to use it. "Why not?" I figured, and stuck it in my own desk drawer, to be forgotten about. "If we ever get hit with an EMP, I could be the best-equipped nerd around!"

This weekend, my science-mad 8-year old found it (I was dumping out desk drawers, looking for something else), and wanted to know what it was. Now, he is trying to figure it out, alternating between bouts of tears and joy.

Anyone else have something really old and marginally useful?