FabSwingers.com forum: Technology from your childhood

By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Lots

VCR

Tube TVs

Mini disk

Laser disk

Plasma tv

Tape players

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By *a LunaWoman
49 weeks ago

South Wales

In School we had those big BBC computers? I think they were BBC computers anyway. We had one in the corner of the classroom. We then got two. Had to take it in turns to go on it.

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Betamax was the better technology but it was bigger and more expensive so ended up loosing out as is so often the way

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

That seem absolutely ancient now

I’m going for vhs recorder (Betamax) if your parents were posh

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Teletext

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Camcorders....the monstrosity of them

ever see people showing off with them when they were rare enough

!!!!

I saw a few back in the day ....showing off their very large camcorders

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By *iasubTV/TS
49 weeks ago

Ilkeston

We had computers, mobile phones (blackberrys were popular when started secondary). Those weird bee things that you could programme and they would move. Essentially what we have now just a lot worse

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By *BWLOVER1965Man
49 weeks ago

Ipswich

Zx spectrum

Commodore (school computer)

Teletext holidays been on few

No mobile phones

Or internet

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By *a LunaWoman
49 weeks ago

South Wales

I remember there was a craze for little electronic keyboard things that fitted in the palm of your hand. Everybody trying to play the theme to Eastenders or Miami Vice on them.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Dial up internet I’ll never forget the noise

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By *ookie46Woman
49 weeks ago

Deepest darkest Peru

I remember having a Vic 20 and Commodore 64 computer

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By *izzibeth9Couple
49 weeks ago

Loughborough

I remember the first kid in the playground getting a Gameboy and we all huddled around him like we'd seen fire for the first time. Absolutely brilliant.

Now I've got an emulator for that and the later ones on the same device I'm typing this on, for people potentially hundreds of miles away to read almost instantly after hitting send. Mad how far we've come in 25 years really.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Digital watch

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Fax machine

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By *obilebottomMan
49 weeks ago

All over

"Teletext "

Awsome for holidays

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

"Teletext

Awsome for holidays

And football scores

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
49 weeks ago

Basingstoke

Set top ariel on a TV that you had to get out of the chair to change the channel on the actual telly. If you were really posh you had an ariel on the roof or in the loft!

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By *illy IdolMan
49 weeks ago

Midlands

"Teletext

Awsome for holidays

And football scores"

Unless you forgot to hold and had to wait for it to go back round again

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By *tylebender03Man
49 weeks ago

Manchester

Amiga

Cassette player

CD player

Commodore 64

SNES

Game boy

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By *rAitchMan
49 weeks ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

Radiogram

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
49 weeks ago

East Sussex

Slide rule.

Dansette record player

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By *uck-RogersMan
49 weeks ago

Oakhill

I can remember having an inside toilet. And newspaper cut into squares, And threaded onto a piece of string.

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By *orny-DJMan
49 weeks ago

Leigh-on-Sea

Speak and Spell

The Sinclair range of computers, i.e. the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum

The Dragon 32

Video Cassette Recorders

The Compact disc

The first mobile phones

The Fax machine

The Apple II

Voyager Space craft

The Space Shuttle

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By *ornucopiaMan
49 weeks ago

Bexley

Clockwork motors in toys.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Music stack system

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By *eavilMan
49 weeks ago

Stalybridge

Never thought the wheel would catch on like it did. Even better than fire.

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By *lder budweiserMan
49 weeks ago

Stirlingshire

Game Boy, still got it and it still works 30+ years on

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By *ags73Man
49 weeks ago

glasgow-ish

Cassette player with a pause button.

Cannot say enough how vital that pause/record feature was with the radio back in the day.

Obviously never did any home copying of tapes or knew anyone that did

‘Home taping is killing music’ and all.

Although the meme about liking grunge and buying it on cassette, CD, downloads and vinyl and paying for ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ 4 times is so true.

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By *dventurous biMan
49 weeks ago

tesside

"Slide rule.

Dansette record player"

These!

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By *uckyNineMan
49 weeks ago

prescot

"Dial up internet I’ll never forget the noise "

lol this totally, that noise and the anticipation of porn will be forever linked in my psyche

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By *obilebottomMan
49 weeks ago

All over

Has anyone said the abacus yet?

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By *ortyairCouple
49 weeks ago

Wallasey

"Speak and Spell

The Sinclair range of computers, i.e. the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum

The Dragon 32

Video Cassette Recorders

The Compact disc

The first mobile phones

The Fax machine

The Apple II

Voyager Space craft

The Space Shuttle

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My hubby wrote games for the Spectrum, earned a fortune as a young lad,

Mrs x

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
49 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

"Music stack system"

I’ve still got a music centre, with the wireless tuner all along the front and then lift up the smoked Perspex lid to access the the 78/33/45 rpm turntable and nestled in next to it the cassette player, all with state of the art Dolby Noise Reduction.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

"Music stack system

That’s the beauty usually a double cassette player and the equaliser

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Big Trak

Simon

Astro Wars

Atari

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By *ools and the brainCouple
49 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

Blip

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By *o_yeur_eyes_onlyMan
49 weeks ago

Londontown

Sticks and dirt....

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
49 weeks ago

Norwich

Sliced bread. Revolutionary.

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By *unnesscoupleMan
49 weeks ago

Inverness

Punch cards for computer programming!*!*

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
49 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

We used to listen to the radio for entertainment in the early 70s. Radio plays and serials were our staple. Then in 1976 the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched SABC TV. I was 9.

I also remember a friend getting an Atari game console in about 1979.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Colour television

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

ZX Spectrum. Fax. Polaroid. Ceefax. Long distance calling cards.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Pager

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

Electric windows in a car

Air conditioning in a car

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By *layfullsam OP Man
49 weeks ago

Solihull

What ever technology got rid of the ch.ke on a car

Apparently the word isn’t allowed

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By *ddie1966Man
49 weeks ago

Paper Town Central, Essex.

Casino Calculator with blue Led 14 segment digits. Use of them was banned in schools.

2 years later the ZX80 came out.

Then a red led digital watch and finally the BBC Acorn computer with the 6502 processor...

Oh, the annoying noise of a game loading from a cassette recorder... For half an hour!!!!

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By *ornucopiaMan
49 weeks ago

Bexley

"We used to listen to the radio for entertainment in the early 70s. Radio plays and serials were our staple. Then in 1976 the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched SABC TV. I was 9.

I also remember a friend getting an Atari game console in about 1979. "

I was interested to read this post.

In the 1950/60s I can remember listening to South African radio on short waves. During the afternoons the reception was best and there were always really good plays to be heard. I was told that radio was immensely popular there because there was no television.

Your message confirms this as well as bringing back memories. The signal was as strong as a UK station, particularly during sunspot maxima, which favoured the trans-equatorial daylight path.

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By *arkus1812Man
49 weeks ago

Finedon ,

Colour Television, circa mid 1950s.

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Paperboy on the commodore 64

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By *gent CoulsonMan
49 weeks ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

Talking action man with eagle eyes, gripping hands and realistic hair

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By *dam_TinaCouple
49 weeks ago

Hampshire

The wheel

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Aerodynamic board rubbers propelled at your head at great speed in class by angry teachers

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
49 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

"We used to listen to the radio for entertainment in the early 70s. Radio plays and serials were our staple. Then in 1976 the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched SABC TV. I was 9.

I also remember a friend getting an Atari game console in about 1979.

I was interested to read this post.

Your message confirms this as well as bringing back memories. The signal was as strong as a UK station, particularly during sunspot maxima, which favoured the trans-equatorial daylight path."

Oh this is so interesting.

We had a thriving radio play and serial industry. A lot was made in Johannesburg, but the Durban studios (my home town) were prolific too. Radio RSA was our equivalent of the BBC World Service, or Voice of America. Unfortunately it went into decline with the advent of TV. Some of the formative entertainment of my childood was radio - Squad Cars (police show based on SAP Flying Squad case files), Jet Jungle (home-grown superhero to rival anything from Marvel), The Time Machine (sci-fi), The Old Curiosity Shop (Twilight Zone style paranormal), The Bloodhounds (Goon Show type comedy). I have very fond memories of it all.

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By *elix SightedMan
49 weeks ago

Cloud 8

Calculator watch

Calculator ruler

Simon says

Donkey kong

Street fighter

Walkmans

Midi hifi

Electric carving knife

Tv remote attached by a wire

And a bunch of stuff already mentioned

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By *usurrusCouple
49 weeks ago

North West.

Had a futuristic electronic mastermind game. Red LCD. The stuff of dreams!

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