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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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we had a chat about this today..
now that there s apparently a HD ready Mobile Phone in early stages of production, it just proves that kids these days have all the best technology and gadgets.
what was the height of technology you had when you were young, or the gadget that was all the rage?
Gordie - Personal Tape player that when you pressed a button it flipped onto the other side of the tape and played..no need for long rewinds.
Pamela - laserpens to piss off the school teachers and tamagotchies lol |
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"bip...........bip.............bip................bip..............bip
Atari games machine tennis!
or 5 minutes of screeching while loading your tape for your zx spectrum to play manic miner"
you what?? lol
i had a mobile towards the end of primary school  not that it was that exciting cos none of my friends had them lol, it was only ever my mum who phoned me on it 
ohh i loved my sega megadrive tho!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"bip...........bip.............bip................bip..............bip
Atari games machine tennis!
or 5 minutes of screeching while loading your tape for your zx spectrum to play manic miner"
zx spectrum was class ... you sat for hours putting in the programme hit enter and you had a mistake on line ?? and had to go all the way back lol
commodore 64 was cool and the old skeletrix (spelling bad sorry)
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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spectrum was ace, i mind having a kung fu game that when you beat the opponent, normally the wee guy in red, his trousers would fall down lol
kids nowadays would slap thier parentsfor buying them it
gordie  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The Spectrum ZX80 and ZX81 were the height of technology when I was a teen.....and when Commodore bought out the 64 we all thought we had died and gone to heaven!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My parents wanted to be different, knowing there were more games available for the c64 and amiga etc, i got an Oric computer. Problem was, no software was available for it, was dire.
Anyway, did you know that back then when the c64 had 64k of RAM in it that they estimated that 1mb of ram would cost £1,000,000 to produce? Most pcs now have 3gb of ram which is 3072mb!
Steve |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My parents wanted to be different, knowing there were more games available for the c64 and amiga etc, i got an Oric computer. Problem was, no software was available for it, was dire.
Anyway, did you know that back then when the c64 had 64k of RAM in it that they estimated that 1mb of ram would cost £1,000,000 to produce? Most pcs now have 3gb of ram which is 3072mb!
Steve"
Sounds like your head's nearly got as much useless info in it as mine has...lololol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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And...while I am thinking about all the rubbish I carry round in my head....Bill Gates once famoulsly said that 640k ought to be enough for anybody.....what foresight the man had back then lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Spectrum ZX80 and ZX81 were the height of technology when I was a teen.....and when Commodore bought out the 64 we all thought we had died and gone to heaven!!!!"
Had a zx81 load program (6 days lol)then wait in anticipation only to get syntax error on the bloody screen xx  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And...while I am thinking about all the rubbish I carry round in my head....Bill Gates once famoulsly said that 640k ought to be enough for anybody.....what foresight the man had back then lol"
More foresite than the guy who said the world would need about five computers in total thou ah lol x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And...while I am thinking about all the rubbish I carry round in my head....Bill Gates once famoulsly said that 640k ought to be enough for anybody.....what foresight the man had back then lol
More foresite than the guy who said the world would need about five computers in total thou ah lol x"
PMSL....was Thomas Watson....Chairman of IBM....dunno how long he remained chairman after that tho.. |
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By *oonboyMan
over a year ago
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whilst at high school (in the days of blackboards and chalk!) we used a bbc model 'B' computer in order to learning the most important art of programming.... these machines were state of the art with 32k of memory...yes you heard me 32k!!!...i think toasters have more power now, and whilst i come to think of it, it was massive (about the size of a small suitcase) LOL....ahhhh the days ....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"whilst at high school (in the days of blackboards and chalk!) we used a bbc model 'B' computer in order to learning the most important art of programming.... these machines were state of the art with 32k of memory...yes you heard me 32k!!!...i think toasters have more power now, and whilst i come to think of it, it was massive (about the size of a small suitcase) LOL....ahhhh the days .... "
PMSL!!....we had the Beeb PC's in our school too...about a half dozen of them....took a computer sciences O level and was never allowed near one of them |
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By *oonboyMan
over a year ago
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aye i took an 'a' level in programming and all i managed to do was make my name show all over the screen....education wasted me thinks...come to think of it ...i work in the IT arena LOLOL....well work is such a strong word...... |
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By *adcowWoman
over a year ago
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combination stereo that played tapes, records AND had a radio too ....oh and a coloured portable tv that had wavy lines round edge....and a chopper bicycle(it had gears and not solid rubber tyres!!!!)
should have kept the chopper they worth a lot of money now |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"aye i took an 'a' level in programming and all i managed to do was make my name show all over the screen....education wasted me thinks...come to think of it ...i work in the IT arena LOLOL....well work is such a strong word...... "
my career officer at school advised me to become a punch-card operator, what's that I hear you say? ... fore runners to computers these were data processors developed by the company known as IBM and programmed with punch-cards  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"aye i took an 'a' level in programming and all i managed to do was make my name show all over the screen....education wasted me thinks...come to think of it ...i work in the IT arena LOLOL....well work is such a strong word......
my career officer at school advised me to become a punch-card operator, what's that I hear you say? ... fore runners to computers these were data processors developed by the company known as IBM and programmed with punch-cards "
My Careers Officer just advised me to go get a life and to stop bothering him |
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By (user no longer on site)
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lol @ laines clackers! I remember them
My dad got it wrong and got a betamax recorder!!!!
~Remember getting a calculator that you used with a pencil - no batteries - kinda like an abacus - ffs Im old!! |
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By *oonboyMan
over a year ago
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"aye i took an 'a' level in programming and all i managed to do was make my name show all over the screen....education wasted me thinks...come to think of it ...i work in the IT arena LOLOL....well work is such a strong word......
my career officer at school advised me to become a punch-card operator, what's that I hear you say? ... fore runners to computers these were data processors developed by the company known as IBM and programmed with punch-cards
My Careers Officer just advised me to go get a life and to stop bothering him"
LOL.....i actually loaded the punched cards into a reader for a whole week as my work experience....wot a mug.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"lol @ laines clackers! I remember them
My dad got it wrong and got a betamax recorder!!!!
~Remember getting a calculator that you used with a pencil - no batteries - kinda like an abacus - ffs Im old!!"
we got a vh200 recorded on both sides of the tape, good idea at the time but had inbuilt obsolescence! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"lol @ laines clackers! I remember them
My dad got it wrong and got a betamax recorder!!!!
~Remember getting a calculator that you used with a pencil - no batteries - kinda like an abacus - ffs Im old!!"
remember our first video recorder....was the size of a small chest of drwers..lolol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"aye i took an 'a' level in programming and all i managed to do was make my name show all over the screen....education wasted me thinks...come to think of it ...i work in the IT arena LOLOL....well work is such a strong word......
my career officer at school advised me to become a punch-card operator, what's that I hear you say? ... fore runners to computers these were data processors developed by the company known as IBM and programmed with punch-cards
My Careers Officer just advised me to go get a life and to stop bothering him
LOL.....i actually loaded the punched cards into a reader for a whole week as my work experience....wot a mug...."
 mfao! |
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By *oonboyMan
over a year ago
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was emptying the loft one day of old 12" singles etc....remember them? lol
when my laddie (who was about 7 at the time) said ...OMG DAD....they are the biggest CD's i have ever seen.....kids today huh....they dunno they born...i used to love the sound of static on me record player that cud play 10 singles one after another...PMSL |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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girls world
think i had more make up on me than the dolls head then i took a pair of scissors to her hair thinking i was a class hairdresser lol
was in my mums loft not long ago and found gramaphone records my kids asked me what they were lol x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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As i child i remember getting a scalectrix set and that was amazing and with extra track it was laid out on the living room floor,but as soon as you pressed the control to make your car go faster it always came of the track,but many happy a hour was spent playing with it.
I remember getting a Commodore 64 and at that stage i had learned how to do a short program that made the whole screen fill with my name(that was what i had typed out) i thought it was amazing and i was some kind of computer whizz kid lol but i was straight into games and i think my fave was track and field or something like that it was called-all the events etc.
Kids these days have got it made and take it all for granted,i feel sorry for the parents who have to shell out for new technology all the time as the latest must have gadget hit the streets.
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By (user no longer on site)
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i remember my brothers vectrex you had different changable screens for different games 
and my most prized posession was my stylophone. i loved it till the wire snapped
mrs h xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i remember my brothers vectrex you had different changable screens for different games
and my most prized posession was my stylophone. i loved it till the wire snapped
mrs h xxx"
Mrs hedo you can still get stylophones... I bought some last christmas and gave them out as presents...... you want the website I bought it from pm me.......oh they also sell space hoppers! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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was saying to Gordie today that i was going to buy my bro a PSP for his bday and wondered if they are any good, he said he loved his to bits but i wasnt aware he had one.
the cheesey git said he has had a 'pretty sexy pamela' for years lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"space hoppers!"
OMG I always wanted one of them but never got one!!
Years ago for christmas I got a "jump jumper" cant remember if that was what they were really called, but they were a hard rubber ball with a plastic ring around it that you stood on and jumped.
This wouldnt have been so bad but I was 12 and it had teenage mutant ninja turtles on it ffs I hated them I think my mother got a deal from the local market 
Shona
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