After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. There are thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.

MegaCon 2012: Emerald Rose (5) - Red-Haired MaryEmerald Rose performs "Red-Haired Mary" at MegaCon 2012 in Orlando, Florida.Emerald Rose was a Celtic folk/rock band that played both original and traditional Celtic themed music. They were formed in 1995 and disbanded in 2018. As far as I know, you'll have to search eBay or other places for used physical media as I don't think it is still available new anywhere. You can find links to various places where you can stream their music on their website here:

After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. There are thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.

Cover of the December 1987 issue of Computer Gaming WorldComputer Gaming World was really the best computer gaming magazine available for most of its life. In its earlier days it covered multiple platforms but eventually became a PC only magazine. The December 1987 issue includes:

After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. There are thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.

Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer (not to be confused with Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator which was released a couple of years later) was developed by Spectrum Holobyte and released by Electronic Arts for the IBM PC and Commodore 64 in 1988. Chuck Yeager may not be as well known of a name as it used to be, but he was a World War II fighter ace and famous test pilot. Among other things Chuck Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier (in the X-1), flew experimental rocket powered airplanes, and flew more than 360 type of aircraft over a 70 year career. Chuck Yeager died in 2020.