This is the place to discuss the technology of the 70's, 80's and 90's. What was your first computer? Do you still play eight-tracks? Do you prefer Betamax or VHS?
Ok own up, who wanted one. These midi systems where suppose to be to notch at the time but got my hands on one in the 90`s and it wasn`t as good as it let on lol. Also need a little help trying to locate a model number for a philips midi system that came out around late 80`s from the great...
Did you have one? How big was yours? Did you carry it everywhere with you? Ours(My brothers by rights) was quite a modest one, infact in comparison with some of the beasts you saw in the local park (where i was lucky enough to live) it was quite tame. Time was in the 80's you could not go for...
I doubt there's anyone here who can honestly say they never had a game and watch. My personal fave was manhole or the double screen donkey kong :D What one's did you all have?
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Hi all, In the eighties, if you had a CB Radio, what was your handle and why? Mine was "Billericay Dickie". Named after an Ian Dury song. Never even been to Billericay, and lived in Stevenage at the time I just liked the sound of it.:D Buzz :)
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Ok how many of you remember the great days of am cb radio ? Mine started in Hull in 1982 with my very first pegasus 3 120 channel radio, an SWR meter, a power pack and an aerial stuck on the top of a biscuit tin. I was 15 years old and could not believe this world I had suddenly connected into. we...
I only got about three of 'em right! BBC NEWS | Magazine | Midweek quiz: Old computers
I remember in the early 90's we had a machine for playing films, The films were in very thin (3-4mm) square cases approx 30cm across. I always thought it was a laserdisc player but when I search for laserdiscs I see actual big discs like large CDs or DVDs and not encased in any way. This...
Remember when VCR's first became popular in homes? Probably somewhere around the late 70's/early 80s. I remember that our first video recorder - VHS - was a great big bulky thing that should really have come fitted with wheels to move it into place. Top-loader (of course) and a "remote...
Hi There, Does ANYONE remember Clan 32, we were a charity based club bying C.B equipment for disabled people and every month would hold a regular Eyeball meeting.:eek: I`m looking for any of the original committee as well as my old mate Ivor Owens (Engine Driver):D Or indeed if you...
Hi everyone. I used to have a record player in abiut 1982-83 that had disco lights in the lid! I'm sure it was made by Amstrad. The inside of the deep lid was edged with coloured christmas tree type lights and the middle had mirrors to give a funky look! I'd love to see a pic of one again. Can...
I remember my dad playing his Grundig reel to reel player to me when I was little. I always remembered the smell of the tapes too as the player used to get very hot. As it ran on valves, it broke down a lot, but the sound was very good. For his birthday, I'd love to buy him some replacement valves...
Has to be one of the best inventions ever! I love radio! Do you remember listening to your little transistor (tranny) radio when you were a kid? (in the 60`s/70`s) mine was a little plastic red one and my brother had a blue one the same. I think we got them for Christmas one year.they had a wrist...
In the 70's when I was at school in Stevenage, we had the option of doing Computer Studies. To access it the whole class had to go into the secretaries office and the teacher had to dial a certain number on the phone. Then the phone handset was placed onto a funny box thing that received...
I have just bought my first Mobile Phone and it got me thinking how much different they are to the old Landline Phones, remember those Micky Mouse phones and the ones shaped like a banana, what others can you remember?:)
In the seventies. I was lucky that my Dad worked for a company called Singer Friden who were the the technical division of the Singer sewing machine company. Anyway, one day my dad brought home three pocket calculators, one each for my two sisters and myself. At the time they were the smallest...
Beginners All-puropse Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) - who learnt this in school only for it to become obsolete with the introduction of PC's and the world wide web? Looking back now I think what a waste of time it was - schools certainly got it wrong about BASIC being useful for our careers...
Remember these ? size of a sideboard and they were just a radio and record player anyone got a picture or link ?
In Australia, colour TV began broadcasting in 1975 (yeah, way later than the rest of the planet…, even NZ had colour TV from 1973). It was such a HUGE thing, I remember all of the family gathering at my grandparents house when they bought their first colour TV sometime late in ‘76 - a large...
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