This gadget is older than Nairaland, itself

I remember rocking Awilo - Macosa on it in 2000.

ophilly:
Can someone tell me the brand name?

Sunca. There was another you're with different shadow and configuration which was less popular called Carnival. It's is ugly heh, it has no aesthetics, so people don't own it much. But for the Sunca brand, it was da bomb!

I bought it and sent to my mum in the village and i remember she wrote me a letter because Gsm has not come into existence then ie year 2000.In the letter she told me about several things happenning in the family etc but she specically told me that she wrote the letter around 2am and that it was made possible by this type of lamp that i bought for her and it really gladdened my heart. because its normally a very happy experience to realise that your gift has made so much difference in someone's life.

imsuboi:

y u thief am la?

Well well

bushdoc9919:
Yes....works for two hours on a good day.

And one had to buy batteries for the thing tire!

But...on the plus side....listening to VOA Music mix on AM radio.....yeah...good times.

NEPA bring back our light!

Buy batteries? The thing was rechargeable. I rocked the first one in the picture well well, then I later got a metallic binatone one that was the cynosure of all eyes. Kai! School days. This has sent me spiralling down memory lane.

Last last.. I don dey old ooo ..I bin so use that lamp

I was a bit young then....



My Pale dey take am hear *Koko inu iwe iroyin* dat tym

space booked, im coming back

This stuff will invite all the insects to you at night when you are in class. Pisses me off back then.

I stopped taking it to class and whenever there was no power supply in Uniport,

I would just read in my corner with this piece of wonderful engineering.

Also, we used the flashlight to bother each other from one hostel block to another.

Some even came with annoying alarms like Police Sirens.

Good old times.

I can remember using it to play 2face and styl plus collections in my university days.

It served me well.

Used it in 2005, I wonder how it just left the market.



Wetin students come take dey read for nyt now for school

my family had two mehn it's was NEPA younger broda

ichidodo:
Yeah....Enuff evils was done with that gadget in attendance back in the scrummy grounds of FGC Odogbolu...f**king hell…mine got stolen..

Meeeehn! Guy u gat it... FGC odogbolu was d home of dis tin... So sad biodun ojuri (niger house) seized my 1st

What set?

ichidodo:
Yeah....Enuff evils was done with that gadget in attendance back in the scrummy grounds of FGC Odogbolu...f**king hell…mine got stolen..

FGC odogbolu, thats where i also came across this, binatone was d ish then

Mayflower SSH...we used them so well then...listening to radio & playing music...and over night 'jacking' (gboru)

Then, at a time, the hostel authority thought they were a source of distraction, hence, started confiscating them.

The only ones that were spared were the types with just light & no other functionality.

Has anyone ever mistakenly pushed the wrong switch, setting off the siren at midnight before?

Blame all on powerless power holding company

the strongest solar component that has ever graced Nigerian market... now china has made everything so bad

I remember this one very well. back then my Anty dey use d take play paty obasi music

ukemeramat:
the strongest solar component that has ever graced Nigerian market... now china has made everything so bad

Ish! Hello, Sunca was made in China, some other brands in Taiwan. And yes, it had to leave the market at the time it did because of innovation. Newer power solutions that use less energy (less battery) like LEDs started to gain traction. It was only normal and expected that plasma and fluorescent tube lights will get restricted to only industrial use. Not to talk of the non-recyclable issues and that problem with infusing mercury into the soil and other life forms from fluorescent tubes in dumps

Damn!
I still have mine n I had to go test it b/c of this post. The radio n cassette still plays only if u plug it in a socket(I guess the battery is dead or something) the two flourescent light
lights are dead and I discovered I still had a cassette inside the radio(unleash the dragon by sisqo)
I miss the Good old naija

My cousin draw a picture of this rechargeable and wrote 'old school's gen' and pasted it in our room, because every evening my dad brings it out from his room and uses it alone, leaving everyone else in darkness instead of buying fuel for the generator.