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Computer - mid 80's, my dad bought an Acorn Electron to do accounts (complete with the Plus 1 and a printer).
Many fond memories of Chucky Egg, Moon Lander and some fond but frustraiting memories of trying to enter a program in basic from a book.
Mobile Phone - probably about 95 or 96, I used to give my brother in law a lift to the local comic fair as he sometimes ran a small comic stall (I think it was at Stantonbury Campus*), one of his slightly dodgy friends had one of the old BT Cellnet analogue phones that he'd had chipped so it gave him infinite credit, at the time the PAYG balance was recorded on the phone and the chip basically reset it to £20 every time he pulled the battery or something.
*I think it was called collectomania (or that's what it rebranded as), and is now "Showstars", at the time it was basically a couple of dozen dealers and about the time I stopped going they'd just started to get actors in for autograph sessions (I vaguely remember David Prowse or Kenny Baker being the single big guest).
Many fond memories of Chucky Egg, Moon Lander and some fond but frustraiting memories of trying to enter a program in basic from a book.
Mobile Phone - probably about 95 or 96, I used to give my brother in law a lift to the local comic fair as he sometimes ran a small comic stall (I think it was at Stantonbury Campus*), one of his slightly dodgy friends had one of the old BT Cellnet analogue phones that he'd had chipped so it gave him infinite credit, at the time the PAYG balance was recorded on the phone and the chip basically reset it to £20 every time he pulled the battery or something.
*I think it was called collectomania (or that's what it rebranded as), and is now "Showstars", at the time it was basically a couple of dozen dealers and about the time I stopped going they'd just started to get actors in for autograph sessions (I vaguely remember David Prowse or Kenny Baker being the single big guest).