{"id":3112,"date":"2022-09-12T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2022-09-16T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:20:47","slug":"on-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"On LEGO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s take a (short) break from quantum-computing and retro-computing. LEGO sets have been an important part of my childhood. I believe I started having fun with LEGO bricks while I was around 4-5 years old, but it really accelerated at the end of the 70’s \/ very early 80’s with the classic LEGO Space<\/a> sets. So much memories. So much fun !<\/p>\n

In the mid-80’s, I was getting older and micro-computing arrived. Bags and bags of bricks … took retirement in my parent’s attic. By the early 2000’s I passed the torch to my little nephew and offered him these bags. <\/p>\n

And then, forty years later, with COVID-19 lockdown, and bit of nostalgia … a very efficient LEGO marketing triggered a new wave of LEGO fever !<\/p>\n

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MY VERY FIRST LEGO SETS<\/span>
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I believe my very first LEGO sets where these ones (#661 and #565):<\/p>\n

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I barely remember the first one. I believe the “Spirit of St. Louis<\/strong>” was offered to me by my parents during vacations (summer 1976 ?), on a train going to Italy.<\/p>\n

Strangely, I remember very clearly the second one (“Moon Landing<\/strong>“). I was 5, so building this set was a bit of a challenge. A few months later, the set was broken by accident and unfortunately, the instructions booklet was lost. So, I started building my crude little LEGO creations with its bricks.<\/p>\n

Time went by, the Lego collection slowly grew. And… everything accelerated when the classic LEGO Space<\/a> sets were published, triggering my first wave of LEGO fever<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Oh boy, I loved them !<\/strong> In the end, by 82-83, I think I had collected and built all these sets:<\/p>\n