Can you remember what your first bit of 'Tech' was?

[Kronos]

In my case it was a 6 transistor radio which I got in the late 60's if memory serves and this was fantastic. Suddenly music was potable albeit a bit crackly. But I loved it. Something like this.

Next was the Kodak 110 camera which is just a tad different to my modern DSLR with it's interchangeable lenses. Cost an arm and a leg to get the poor snaps developed but it was the overall portability and simplicity that made this so good at the time.

 

[snips86x]

Dude - pic is massive!!!

 

[jsmoke]

ZX Spectrum or walkman I think.

 

[Haggisman]

Next was the Kodak 110 camera which is just a tad different to my modern DSLR with it's interchangeable lenses. Cost an arm and a leg to get the poor snaps developed but it was the overall portability and simplicity that made this so good at the time.
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Was that the one that had a slider to change the lens between normal and... panoramic? (Might have been macro...)

If so, I had one of those, but it had a weird thing where if you changed the lens back and forth quickly, it would trigger the flash - had great fun blinding my friends with it :p (I was about 12 at the time...)

First bit of tech I can remember having?

Probably this bad boy:

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:D

 

[robfosters]

Depends on how you define 'tech'

 

[MeEsH BaKkA]

Sega megadrive 2. Was a good Christmas!

 

[neil_g]

i think a speccy 128k with tapeloader.

 

[Kronos]

The above two were presents, but I bought this myself, the Sharp RP-114 Vertical Turntable. Loved it.

 

[cheesyboy]

Turtles LCD game;

(except Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, for the UK market)

Would have been around 1990.

 

[Robzere31]

Played this to death when I was a kid.

 

[savagesam117]

This was mine. Coupled with some digger/driving game, taking resources around in machines.

 

[kthula666]

This bad boy...

Had a small hand held version with a dial for the bat at the bottom of a tiny grey and black lcd screen.

 

[Robzere31]

This bad boy...

Had a small hand held version with a dial for the bat at the bottom of a tiny grey and black lcd screen.

I had one of those as well.

 

[cheesyboy]

This bad boy...

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Got one of those in my attic, picked up at a car boot sale. Not actually tried it out though.

 

[ElliorR]

For the family it was a pong console in the mid to late 70s. For me personally it was a Sony Walkman when they first came out which that font of accurate knowledge Wikipedia says was 1979.

I remember getting our first colour tv. I also remember getting our first tv with a remote control and my friends were jealous

 

[DR_Pingu]

The original NES, think it was passed down. I loved it! I'm a 90's kid mind, I only know things which occurred in the 90's onwards.

 

[Kosmiche]

Sega Megadrive, then downhill from there.

 

[Cosimo]

A quite large portable transistor radio which had short wave and that was followed by a Philips reel to reel tape recorder. The radio cemented my life long interest in radio communications. My first proper tech 'build kit' was a hybrid one valve/transistor short wave radio.

 

[labcoattech]

Commodore 64, Some games took so long to load that they had a built in game of space invaders for you to play while you waited.

 

[cheesyboy]

Commodore 64, Some games took so long to load that they had a built in game of space invaders for you to play while you waited.

It was the Mastertronic games. Invade-a-load, it was called. I had loads of those (since they were a budget games studio, and I was poor )

Interestingly, the idea has since been patented by Namco so that they, and only they, can include a loading game. Surprised that was allowed to be patented, really.