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By *iasubTV/TS 43 weeks ago
Ilkeston |
We had computers, mobile phones (blackberrys were popular when started secondary). Those weird bee things that you could programme and they would move. Essentially what we have now just a lot worse  |
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I remember the first kid in the playground getting a Gameboy and we all huddled around him like we'd seen fire for the first time. Absolutely brilliant.
Now I've got an emulator for that and the later ones on the same device I'm typing this on, for people potentially hundreds of miles away to read almost instantly after hitting send. Mad how far we've come in 25 years really. |
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By *orny-DJMan 43 weeks ago
Leigh-on-Sea |
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The Sinclair range of computers, i.e. the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum
The Dragon 32
Video Cassette Recorders
The Compact disc
The first mobile phones
The Fax machine
The Apple II
Voyager Space craft
The Space Shuttle
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Cassette player with a pause button.
Cannot say enough how vital that pause/record feature was with the radio back in the day.
Obviously never did any home copying of tapes or knew anyone that did 
‘Home taping is killing music’ and all.
Although the meme about liking grunge and buying it on cassette, CD, downloads and vinyl and paying for ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ 4 times is so true.
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"Speak and Spell
The Sinclair range of computers, i.e. the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum
The Dragon 32
Video Cassette Recorders
The Compact disc
The first mobile phones
The Fax machine
The Apple II
Voyager Space craft
The Space Shuttle
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My hubby wrote games for the Spectrum, earned a fortune as a young lad,
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"Music stack system"
I’ve still got a music centre, with the wireless tuner all along the front and then lift up the smoked Perspex lid to access the the 78/33/45 rpm turntable and nestled in next to it the cassette player, all with state of the art Dolby Noise Reduction.  |
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"Music stack system
I’ve still got a music centre, with the wireless tuner all along the front and then lift up the smoked Perspex lid to access the the 78/33/45 rpm turntable and nestled in next to it the cassette player, all with state of the art Dolby Noise Reduction. "
That’s the beauty usually a double cassette player and the equaliser |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 43 weeks ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
We used to listen to the radio for entertainment in the early 70s. Radio plays and serials were our staple. Then in 1976 the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched SABC TV. I was 9.
I also remember a friend getting an Atari game console in about 1979. |
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Casino Calculator with blue Led 14 segment digits. Use of them was banned in schools.
2 years later the ZX80 came out.
Then a red led digital watch and finally the BBC Acorn computer with the 6502 processor...
Oh, the annoying noise of a game loading from a cassette recorder... For half an hour!!!! |
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"We used to listen to the radio for entertainment in the early 70s. Radio plays and serials were our staple. Then in 1976 the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched SABC TV. I was 9.
I also remember a friend getting an Atari game console in about 1979. "
I was interested to read this post.
In the 1950/60s I can remember listening to South African radio on short waves. During the afternoons the reception was best and there were always really good plays to be heard. I was told that radio was immensely popular there because there was no television.
Your message confirms this as well as bringing back memories. The signal was as strong as a UK station, particularly during sunspot maxima, which favoured the trans-equatorial daylight path. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 43 weeks ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
"We used to listen to the radio for entertainment in the early 70s. Radio plays and serials were our staple. Then in 1976 the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched SABC TV. I was 9.
I also remember a friend getting an Atari game console in about 1979.
I was interested to read this post.
In the 1950/60s I can remember listening to South African radio on short waves. During the afternoons the reception was best and there were always really good plays to be heard. I was told that radio was immensely popular there because there was no television.
Your message confirms this as well as bringing back memories. The signal was as strong as a UK station, particularly during sunspot maxima, which favoured the trans-equatorial daylight path."
Oh this is so interesting.
We had a thriving radio play and serial industry. A lot was made in Johannesburg, but the Durban studios (my home town) were prolific too. Radio RSA was our equivalent of the BBC World Service, or Voice of America. Unfortunately it went into decline with the advent of TV. Some of the formative entertainment of my childood was radio - Squad Cars (police show based on SAP Flying Squad case files), Jet Jungle (home-grown superhero to rival anything from Marvel), The Time Machine (sci-fi), The Old Curiosity Shop (Twilight Zone style paranormal), The Bloodhounds (Goon Show type comedy). I have very fond memories of it all.
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