eee heck hasn't this tech come a long way

[decoy]

im old nuff to remember when affordable home computers came out ie that spectrum zx thingy with the rubber keys
manic miner was prob my 1st pc game and im sure thats were rave music came from ie someone found one of the old tapes for the games and thought it sounded good
facebook ha there wasnt even the tinternet lol
phones were attached to the wall 
children weren't horrible 
and you knew yer whole street
eee them were the good old days
i didnt get my 1st mobile phone till i was in my late 20s and that was because of work (think the new value of my old mobiles is prob more than my old cars eppps)
so at one point im playing manic miner on a computer then doom on a pc and now i can play doom on my phone
tvs have come on leaps and bounds as well ,the is now a tv screen that more or less wallpaper and flexible any of you rem rear projection tv,s they were huge lol
the thing that got me thinking was this from gearbest

www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_624766.html


a decent laptop that fits in your back pocket
what other tech has sneaked up on you peps

[Get Off My Cloud]

Portable music 80's style.
Maximum 90 minutes of music on a cassette play,stop and fast forward about 40 or 50 quid for the cheapest Sony.


Now you can get cheap little MP3 players the size of a keyfob that take an SD card with days worth of music on for the price of a burger.

[toots]

Oh yeah, going down memory lane - how many of us remember the old computers without any hard drives whatsoever, the ones that used those large floppy disks






                


We've come a long way since those old days eh!!!

[Lee]

And the early gps systems

[bioxx]

Jun 1, 2017 12:19:36 GMT toots said:

Oh yeah, going down memory lane - how many of us remember the old computers without any hard drives whatsoever, the ones that used those large floppy disks






                


We've come a long way since those old days eh!!!

5.5 inch....properly floppy

[phtumshk]

I was a sony geek in the 90s.
Had all me music on the mini discs.
Instantly (lol) flipping through tracks was amazing at the time after the cassettes.


Not that Im a footy fan  but i remember watchin Euro 96 on 1 of these at work.

[jtc]

Jun 1, 2017 14:44:48 GMT phtumshk said:

I was a sony geek in the 90s.
Had all me music on the mini discs.
Instantly (lol) flipping through tracks was amazing at the time after the cassettes.


Not that Im a footy fan  but i remember watchin Euro 96 on 1 of these at work.

You were posh with them.
I remember a rasta blasta in me big head bag and before that a ferguson Walkman

[toots]

Jun 1, 2017 13:45:18 GMT bioxx said:

Jun 1, 2017 12:19:36 GMT toots said:

Oh yeah, going down memory lane - how many of us remember the old computers without any hard drives whatsoever, the ones that used those large floppy disks

                


We've come a long way since those old days eh!!!

5.5 inch....properly floppy

Actually I remember the even bigger floppy discs than the 5.5 inch ones, they were bloomin massive things, can't remember how many inches they were though

[Perpetua]

Our very first Video Recorder which we had to buy on HP as it was hundreds of pounds that we just didn't have . . . . massive great lump of a thing!

We were thrilled nonetheless.





Compared to modern equipment and the choices there are for recording/playing if you don't have a separate DVD player . . . . .

[phtumshk]

Jun 1, 2017 14:53:26 GMT jtc said:

Jun 1, 2017 14:44:48 GMT phtumshk said:

I was a sony geek in the 90s.
Had all me music on the mini discs.
Instantly (lol) flipping through tracks was amazing at the time after the cassettes.


Not that Im a footy fan  but i remember watchin Euro 96 on 1 of these at work.

You were posh with them.
I remember a rasta blasta in me big head bag and before that a ferguson Walkman

Mom always used to say I had more money than sense lol.

[Lee]

Jun 1, 2017 15:32:09 GMT Perpetua said:

Our very first Video Recorder which we had to buy on HP as it was hundreds of pounds that we just didn't have . . . . massive great lump of a thing!

We were thrilled nonetheless.





Compared to modern equipment and the choices there are for recording/playing if you don't have a separate DVD player . . . . .

Did you also have one of the first remote control TV's?

My uncle had one, along with his Betamax vcr

It was easier to shout "click" to change channel, than use the clicker remote

Same uncle had a pirate copy of the first mad max on tape

[solac77]

What a piece of kit!! What a game! Those were the days

[joeten]

toots they started out 8" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
First computer was a Comodore 64, first I used was www.google.co.uk/search?q=apple+computer+1995&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&imgil=dz2naiCmQWSwlM%253A%253BMqB95P7CweZxYM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Ftwitter.com%25252Fmarcguberti%25252Fstatus%25252F476105360080920577&source=iu&pf=m&fir=dz2naiCmQWSwlM%253A%252CMqB95P7CweZxYM%252C_&usg=___YCMSvYsajxjWtot9qirsqSAK9s%3D&biw=1360&bih=634&ved=0ahUKEwiZ1aGfmp3UAhXOFsAKHeVvCYIQyjcINQ&ei=W1MwWdm7BM6tgAbl36WQCA#imgrc=KfNR-bX-3-ATFM: or similar.

[Perpetua]

Jun 1, 2017 16:14:41 GMT Lee said:

Jun 1, 2017 15:32:09 GMT Perpetua said:

Our very first Video Recorder which we had to buy on HP as it was hundreds of pounds that we just didn't have . . . . massive great lump of a thing!

We were thrilled nonetheless.

Compared to modern equipment and the choices there are for recording/playing if you don't have a separate DVD player . . . . .

Did you also have one of the first remote control TV's?

My uncle had one, along with his Betamax vcr

It was easier to shout "click" to change channel, than use the clicker remote

Same uncle had a pirate copy of the first mad max on tape

Gosh now you're asking Lee . . . . I don't remember having a remote control for the TV for a long time, so probably not! Getting to grips with the Betamax recorder sent my family into technical meltdown, so we probably decided that was enough to cope with.

[Get Off My Cloud]

Jun 1, 2017 15:32:09 GMT Perpetua said:

Our very first Video Recorder which we had to buy on HP as it was hundreds of pounds that we just didn't have . . . . massive great lump of a thing!

We were thrilled nonetheless.





Compared to modern equipment and the choices there are for recording/playing if you don't have a separate DVD player . . . . .

Front loader how posh, we had the old top loader which ejected so hard you could launch things into orbit.