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Age yourself by naming a gadget today's kids wouldn't understand
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over a year ago
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Stylophone |
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over a year ago
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Common sense ? |
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over a year ago
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The relationship between a cassette tape and a pencil |
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Rotary dial landline telephone ( black bakalite) |
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That sounds modems used to make...
EeeeoooooshhhhbaDANGDANG |
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By *omino51Man
over a year ago
loughborough |
"The relationship between a
cassette tape and a pencil"
Been there a million times as a kid. |
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We had a dedicated VHS rewinder. Remember the days you'd be fined if you returned without rewinding  |
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over a year ago
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Simon says evil knivel Tonka toys |
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Weevil wobbles and girls world does head you coloured and styled. Atari packman and tank game |
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Chopper bicycle
Mechano
Atari
Yikes I feel old now  |
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Spirograph and The View Master 3D  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The relationship between a cassette tape and a pencil"
This  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Etch a Sketch |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A video tape and sellotape |
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By *edGrayCouple
over a year ago
Swindon |
Stacking no more than 5, 45's  |
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Respect for your elders and authority.
What has the world come to when as an adult you fear kids |
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"Respect for your elders and authority.
What has the world come to when as an adult you fear kids "
I know this isn't a gadget but only if |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mashing the keyboard on a zx48 spectrum playing Daley Thompson decathlon |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
An overhead projector - beats Power Point hands down  |
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over a year ago
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Log tables. Calculators existed but we weren't allowed to use them in our O and A level exams. |
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Logarithms and how to work them out |
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"An overhead projector - beats Power Point hands down "
in which case, a microfiche will blow their minds! |
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By *ershingMan
over a year ago
liverpool |
Evel Knevel. Hours of fun as a kid |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
"An overhead projector - beats Power Point hands down
in which case, a microfiche will blow their minds!"
Very true; especially when used with a hand-held microfiche reader |
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"Respect for your elders and authority.
What has the world come to when as an adult you fear kids "
Damn kids these days, with their noisy rock n roll and weird hair... Grumble grumble grumble |
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By *ebootCouple
over a year ago
Telford |
ZX Spectrum
Oh and I rocked Jet Set Willy |
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By *ebootCouple
over a year ago
Telford |
"The relationship between a cassette tape and a pencil"
Smashing the pause button between songs on a Sunday night |
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My Raleigh Grifter bike...
Phone lock, so you couldn't ring out! |
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Talkboy. If you know, you know! |
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Brickgame
Black and white TV
Video tape
Life without seat belt
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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5.25inch floppy disk |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Betamax
Atari 2600
Hoover with bags |
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Raleigh Chopper Mk1
Floppy discs |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was going back to my very younger days and was going to say “speak and spell” but a quick google search shows they still sell them , who knew  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Talkboy. If you know, you know!"
Was that the microphone/recorder thing in home alone 2? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An on off switch
Believe me, they don't |
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I work with a lad who’s 23 and he didn’t know what a cassette player was lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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8 track tape and player. |
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Cassette player, pager, dial up broadband |
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" I was going back to my very younger days and was going to say “speak and spell” but a quick google search shows they still sell them , who knew "
Thought they stopped making those years ago too. Can't remember seeing one any in shops for long long time.
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"That sounds modems used to make...
EeeeoooooshhhhbaDANGDANG"
Mmm only been of that for 10 years as in the countryside so don't know if that counts |
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"Chopper bicycle
Mechano
Atari
Yikes I feel old now "
Atari plug in cassette games pack man loved it |
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cars with dip beam switches on the floor to the left of the clutch.  |
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Replacing a record needle
4 channels
Beetamax
Outside toilet
There's loads |
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A record deck.
A cheque book.
A newspaper.
A juke box.
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"cars with dip beam switches on the floor to the left of the clutch. "
A ch0ke!
Windey Windows.. |
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Light bulbs that actually light things up |
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Twin cassette deck. Copying your mates ‘bought’ tapes.
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Tomy Turnin Turbo Dashboard
Hostess trolley
Back to the 80s |
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"Tomy Turnin Turbo Dashboard
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Was that the one that looked like the front of a Porsche 911?
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"Log tables. Calculators existed but we weren't allowed to use them in our O and A level exams."
I remember something that looked like a little exercise book that had them all in. Sines and cosines too. Can’t for the life of me remember what we used them for though - other than maths lessons. |
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"Log tables. Calculators existed but we weren't allowed to use them in our O and A level exams.
I remember something that looked like a little exercise book that had them all in. Sines and cosines too. Can’t for the life of me remember what we used them for though - other than maths lessons. "
I still have mine, yes I’m sad |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Tamogochi"
My 13 yr old has a tamagochi. All I can say is Sorry Mum.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The relationship between a cassette tape and a pencil
Smashing the pause button between songs on a Sunday night "
Trying your hardest to guess when the DJ will start talking again so you pause just before they do. Lol |
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Mini disc player, ‘portable’ CD player or a rotary dial phone |
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Not so much a gadget but Tandy (the UK version of Radio Shack) used to be great for building basic gadgets! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Commodore 64....waiting half an hr for a 'cassette game' to load!
Its alright though because you could make a 'spam/pek' sandwich while you waited |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Straight male |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sitting on a sunday night with your fingers on record and pauseto tape the songs you liked from the top 40 on a blank cassette lol |
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Having a film developed either as photos or even slides! Then getting the projector out of the loft and looking through all you old pics from weddings and holidays. |
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Going out to play in all weathers ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Pen and paper."
chalk and slate board |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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secretarial pool and typewriters and carbon paper |
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By *empusMan
over a year ago
Poole |
Having to rewind a tape from Blockbusters and take it back the next day to avoid a late fine |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Having to rewind a tape from Blockbusters and take it back the next day to avoid a late fine"
Aww i miss blockbusters |
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By *empusMan
over a year ago
Poole |
"Sitting on a sunday night with your fingers on record and pauseto tape the songs you liked from the top 40 on a blank cassette lol"
Shit, I remember spending hours doing that. DJs always talking over the start of songs : ( |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Student Grant Cheque
PS - Used to take as much as a week to drink one! |
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"secretarial pool and typewriters and carbon paper"
We still use duplicate books for purchase requisitions at work. I think somebody put in a VERY big order in twenty years ago! We have to fill it out on paper, scan it, attach it to an email and send it to purchasing! All because they are decades behind in their IT packages. |
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"Sitting on a sunday night with your fingers on record and pauseto tape the songs you liked from the top 40 on a blank cassette lol
Shit, I remember spending hours doing that. DJs always talking over the start of songs : ("
Fluff Freeman! Great DJ never crashed the start or end of a song . |
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"Sitting on a sunday night with your fingers on record and pauseto tape the songs you liked from the top 40 on a blank cassette lol
Shit, I remember spending hours doing that. DJs always talking over the start of songs : (
Fluff Freeman! Great DJ never crashed the start or end of a song ."
Not arf! |
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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago
Kettering |
A reel to reel tape recorder with a microphone attached by wire |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Late to the game and haven’t read all the previous comments . Walkman and hoverboards and a flux capacitor |
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Playing Dizzy on the Antari Ste |
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Betamax video player, rotary telephone Sony Walkman that drained the battery's if you rewound and fast warded too much |
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Lights alive, rainbow bright doll her hair grew with a push of a lever on her back |
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Slinky, etch a sketch, stretch Armstrong |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Phone boxes with A&B Buttons. Please and thank you. Having school dinners deliverd in big metal boxes that was almost cold. The dustmen coming round to collect the ashes in trucks with slide up doors that looked like big bread bins. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Action Man
Dynamo bike lights
Tax discs |
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"Talkboy. If you know, you know!
Was that the microphone/recorder thing in home alone 2? "
Yup, that’s it! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The View-Master and Tomytronic 3D |
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Not all are gadgets but
Magic slate ( the name might fool you but I reckon a fair few on here used them)
Zx spectrum here too playing hungry Horace!
Disc cameras - Polaroids have had a resurgence in recent years a month the “youngsters”
Here’s one that will age me - adding machines and dot matrix printers! Bookkeeping jobs using these - painful!
Those of you mentioning rotary phones I highly recommend you find the YouTube video “kids react to rotary phones” it’s hilarious! As are the related videos.
Anyone else can still remember landline phone numbers from 30/40+ years ago? I certainly can. Mainly my grans but also ex fiancés (not surprising considering I must have dialled his number 3/4 times a day for nearly 3 years!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not a gadget ,more a nightly ritual having to put out a parrafin lamp to the rear of a parked car with one side clear and the other painted red |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not all are gadgets but
Magic slate ( the name might fool you but I reckon a fair few on here used them)
Zx spectrum here too playing hungry Horace!
Disc cameras - Polaroids have had a resurgence in recent years a month the “youngsters”
Here’s one that will age me - adding machines and dot matrix printers! Bookkeeping jobs using these - painful!
Those of you mentioning rotary phones I highly recommend you find the YouTube video “kids react to rotary phones” it’s hilarious! As are the related videos.
Anyone else can still remember landline phone numbers from 30/40+ years ago? I certainly can. Mainly my grans but also ex fiancés (not surprising considering I must have dialled his number 3/4 times a day for nearly 3 years!) "
I still remember trying to phone into Swapshop on a saturday morning on a rotary phone but never being successful |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Soda Syphon
XX"
Ha ha get busy with the fizzy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Breaker breaker 1-4 for a copy |
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Mr frosty- the original slushy maker.
The mr |
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"Breaker breaker 1-4 for a copy"
You thinking of C.W.McCall?
"Breaker 1-9, do you have copy on me pig pen, cumon" Convoy! |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"Not a gadget ,more a nightly ritual having to put out a parrafin lamp to the rear of a parked car with one side clear and the other painted red"
We had some "parking lights". They clipped on to the top of the door window and plugged into the cigarette lighter. |
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The school handouts that smelt of mentholated spirit and were purple |
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Anything from ktel or ronco or woolies |
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Video tape. My nephews are surprised at the quality (or lack of) we used to put up with. |
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By *.T.Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
Not gadgets but rarely seen:
Hedgerow porn mags
White dog poo
And gadgets?
Tv that you were the remote control for. |
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My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa |
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa "
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd |
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"Commodore 64....waiting half an hr for a 'cassette game' to load!
Its alright though because you could make a 'spam/pek' sandwich while you waited "
I have to ask, what is a spam/pek sandwich? |
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A fax machine, a teleprinter and carbon paper.. |
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"Commodore 64....waiting half an hr for a 'cassette game' to load!
Its alright though because you could make a 'spam/pek' sandwich while you waited
I have to ask, what is a spam/pek sandwich?"
Tinned spam.. Ham... Processed as a processed thing. |
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd "
No I don't remember having to do that. This was early mid 90s, a Maestro from the previous decade |
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd
No I don't remember having to do that. This was early mid 90s, a Maestro from the previous decade "
In the days before synchromesh |
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd
No I don't remember having to do that. This was early mid 90s, a Maestro from the previous decade
In the days before synchromesh "
Was that the thing under the number plate you had to turn quickly to get the car going?
I've seen it in books |
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"ZX Spectrum
Oh and I rocked Jet Set Willy "
What a Game lol load times tho kids would have a break down , |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An Amiga 500+ |
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By *evonrobMan
over a year ago
Kingsbridge |
B & w tv with 2 channels 405 lines! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Floppy Dick..... I mean Disc |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd
No I don't remember having to do that. This was early mid 90s, a Maestro from the previous decade
In the days before synchromesh
Was that the thing under the number plate you had to turn quickly to get the car going?
I've seen it in books "
And cars that had a ch oke you had to manually adjust |
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"Floppy Dick..... I mean Disc"
Before the 3.5" there was 5.25" I think |
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd
No I don't remember having to do that. This was early mid 90s, a Maestro from the previous decade
In the days before synchromesh
Was that the thing under the number plate you had to turn quickly to get the car going?
I've seen it in books
And cars that had a ch oke you had to manually adjust"
That's the wire/cable I was on about. If you wanted a sports car you simply didn't push it back I once the car had warmed up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Goblin teasmade... |
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"Not all are gadgets but
Magic slate ( the name might fool you but I reckon a fair few on here used them)
Zx spectrum here too playing hungry Horace!
Disc cameras - Polaroids have had a resurgence in recent years a month the “youngsters”
Here’s one that will age me - adding machines and dot matrix printers! Bookkeeping jobs using these - painful!
Those of you mentioning rotary phones I highly recommend you find the YouTube video “kids react to rotary phones” it’s hilarious! As are the related videos.
Anyone else can still remember landline phone numbers from 30/40+ years ago? I certainly can. Mainly my grans but also ex fiancés (not surprising considering I must have dialled his number 3/4 times a day for nearly 3 years!)
I still remember trying to phone into Swapshop on a saturday morning on a rotary phone but never being successful "
It was 01 811 8055 (not a real number anymore)
On that, remembering people's numbers instead of putting their name into a phone.
Old Dymo machines that produced the bumpy labels.
Someone mentioned a pedal in a car that dipped the headlights. My first car had a rubber bulb on the floor for the screen wash. And it had a manual ch.... can't say that word |
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Eval Keneval toy and the thing my gran used to wring out wet washing. |
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Slide rules
Although circular slide rules are still used by pilots. |
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"Eval Keneval toy and the thing my gran used to wring out wet washing. "
Just reminded me of Derek and Clive She caught her left tit in the mangle… |
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"Goblin teasmade..."
Many joke based on that .... |
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"Thread too long for me to read through so apologies if suggested already.
My first car:
Wind down windows. A wire you pulled out to allow more fuel to the engine when cold, a radio with about 8 buttons that when you pushed a needle jumped left to right, or vice versa
Double de clutching to change from 3rd to 2nd
No I don't remember having to do that. This was early mid 90s, a Maestro from the previous decade
In the days before synchromesh
Was that the thing under the number plate you had to turn quickly to get the car going?
I've seen it in books
And cars that had a ch oke you had to manually adjust
That's the wire/cable I was on about. If you wanted a sports car you simply didn't push it back I once the car had warmed up "
"Was that the thing under the number plate you had to turn quickly to get the car going?"
Starting handle! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Major Morgan music toy "
Oh wow, I’d totally forgotten about this little gem. My cousin used to have one and I was so jealous lol |
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over a year ago
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Hungry Hippos & Weebles |
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By *trideMan
over a year ago
Plymouth |
Lighting a coal fire first thing in the morning.
Trying to find Dick Barton on Radio Luxembourg using a valve radio at 7:15 in the evening.
TV with one monochrome channel and lots of snow.
Cars with little orange arms which swung up and out of the B post to indicate turns.
Cars without heaters or radios.
Bus conductors with little tickets in clips on a wooden board.
Christmas boxes for the milkman, breadman, postman, coal men, dustmen and paperboy.
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By *.T.Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Major Morgan music toy "
There's a username ripe for the taking:
Major Morgan's mighty organ  |
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"Major Morgan music toy
There's a username ripe for the taking:
Major Morgan's mighty organ "
A Viz character? |
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"Lighting a coal fire first thing in the morning.
Trying to find Dick Barton on Radio Luxembourg using a valve radio at 7:15 in the evening.
TV with one monochrome channel and lots of snow.
Cars with little orange arms which swung up and out of the B post to indicate turns.
Cars without heaters or radios.
Bus conductors with little tickets in clips on a wooden board.
Christmas boxes for the milkman, breadman, postman, coal men, dustmen and paperboy.
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Car blankets being needed.
Checking tyres oil and water and a flask of tea before setting off for a 2 hour journey. |
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Fountain pen & cartridge ink pens..
Could be very messy  |
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Blip. Handheld game.
Spud gun's.
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A digital watch with a calculator |
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"A digital watch with a calculator "
The kids are rewatching Mr. Bean and legit asked about this |
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Conkers, Tilly lamp, primus stove and paraffin heaters |
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By *trideMan
over a year ago
Plymouth |
Getting my parents' sweet rations. |
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When I was the remote control for the TV |
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over a year ago
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Not sure about the spilling but used to absolutely sit ther stressing, and making sure my TAMOGOTCHI stayed alive haha |
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A to Z, local street maps, Google map instructions on paper |
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My first calculator was an Abacus |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
bedlington |
The leccy meter you put 50 pence in and every now and then a bloke came round and emptied it |
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"The leccy meter you put 50 pence in and every now and then a bloke came round and emptied it"
So funny I rember when they took shilling s |
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"Tracing paper"
The old school medicated toilet paper could be used as well.. |
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"Teasmaid "
I need one of those.. |
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By *DLSCouple
over a year ago
witney |
For her: Silly bandz For him: an iPod (the original one) |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
Floppy disk
A telephone box
Manual car windows
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By *B69Woman
over a year ago
Wiltshire |
Green shield stamps
Luncheon vouchers |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
Not even the rubixs cube… but that rubixs circle rings things that was the most Annoying….
Awwww my ptsd is returning!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Manual ch*ke on a car.
No central locking
A house phone lock
A key for your roller skates
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