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The Snowball lights had a six-socket string set.

Six. What would they make of today's boxes with 300 lights?

Note also the different formats - C71/2. D15, D30, D27, D25. Annoying as hell, I'll bet. No wonder mini-lights won the format war in the end.

Oh, I forgot D40, the Betelguese size.