General Chat

My first PC was a
Dick Smith System 80.
Bought in 1981 for $695 !

It had 48 KB of RAM!!

(and I've still got it- & it still works)

xxx mick

My Mum and Dad brought my eldest sister her first record player......it was red and black box and you could carry it round....it nad 2 dials ...vol and bass...and then the record player ....it was for her 13th birthday....my Dad died 2 weeks before her birthday and she still has the it....think it cost £25.00 then....kings ransom.

Aww Hayley, you sent me on a trip down memory lane with Rumbelows. I bought a dansette record player from there in ummmmmmm (now that's showing my age lol) on tick - used to go and pay it off monthly.

My first pc was in November 1998 - I went out to buy a pair of boots and came home with a pc!! A tad more expensive but I can't(or maybe don't want to) remember how much.

I cant remember LB...it was 25 yrs ago....My OH used to work for Phillips and he got a music syste from the works shop latest all singing dancing thing it was cost £455.00 trade still have it but it takes up half the room...

hello RS.....I remember putting the TV on for it too warm up and the picture flicking and you would wack it with the ashtray on the top.....lol

Hayley lol, I remember Betamax! Ours was so bleddy noisy, it made a whirring noise. Our tv had to be turned on 5 mins before the programme you wanted to watch, to 'warm up'.

I first got a Bush Internet box that you plug in the TV in 2001. (Except it wouldnt let me on half the sites I wanted!) Then won a PC and printer in 2004, in a writing comp, I was soooo excited! The kids now have that PC, its in the girls bedroom but not online as I like to see what they're doing but it helps them become computer literate and helps eldest with his homework. We have a pc downstairs which mainly my husband uses (or kids if they want to go online) and I have a laptop as I spend a lot of time online, doing various things. We didnt really need this and could have done without the expense but hubby's work were offering them, on a 'buy now pay over 3 years' scheme. Back in 2001 I didnt think I'd have a laptop!

Ever had the feeling as you leave a shop with
your brand new purchase,
that they are inside ready to display the
(newest) model ? pmsl

Oooooooooo my first music system came from rumberlows it was in the sale and I used to go in and pay £10.00 aweek off it it was reduced to £90.00 and I paid £60.00 off it and talk about it all the time.....one day I came home from work and it was there in my bedroom my mum had gone in and paid the rest off.....I was overjoyed....

hi was this one in feb this yr 349 squidsxxxits my lifeline now!!!

Its a packard bell 64 vista thingy....** smiles knowlingly **



my first auto washing maching didnt have a dial ir had square cards they was the programes and you pull them out and slotted them in accordingly....what a great washer...and it came off the tip..

It will show on the systems page of your control panel Hayley

LB fair enough but I couldn't tell you what blah blah gigs yids thingys egigis it has or even the make of ours....hang on ** crawls underdesk **

Built to last these days, yeah right,,,
Brought a £600 Surround sound dvd recorder
3 years ago, yep warranty just run out
took it for repair,,,,,hey they dont make
this model any more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ray

LB....shut up you sound a right little geek.....pmsl...only joking..

And then there where the 'calculators'in the mid 1970's mine took four AAAA batteries and was the size of a paperback, you gave yourself a hernia just picking it up

lol yes colin im just a wee bairn haha

oh beta max top loaders hahaha

i bought my own first video in 1997 the day i got me first credit card thro haha paid £150 for it them swoped dad for the one he bought the week before coz his was a purple / blue lmao still got that an all in my bedroom lol

Does any one recall the (weight) never mind
the cost of the first automatic washing machines,
not so nice to have if you lived in a tower block lol

Ray

ROCK ON COLIN,,, pmsl

Ray...The first pre-recorded video I purchased was 'Cannon & Ball live in Concert" ( forgive me I was young and foolish ) and cost me £48 best part of a half a weeks wages

Pre-taped films were so expensive I seem to remeber them being around £80............I'm getting old!

My ex parents had a betamax vid is that what they was called....you could break your back if you tried to move it...