Scubaemma

I've got one of those! It's lush

Pollyana

I remember my parents refusing to allow me to learn typing at school when I was 14. They said I would never need to use a keyboard every day of my life I WISH I had fought my corner & learnt to touchtype, its one of my few regrets from school.

Alfresco

I just talk to my PC these days and it does the typing for me.

DeadVim

I'm a techie so I find all of it interesting.

I started coding on a ZX81 and have been marvelling at how things march forward ever since. It's paid my bills so can't complain about progress.

I agree that the evolution of the Internet is huge in so many ways and, yup, we are only at the beginning.

Then again I am the kind of person who still finds it amazing that you can hop into a tube with wings to fly great distances AND be given a choice of chicken or fish.

Dreamy

Do ya remember the magazines with the 8 billion lines of code for the ZX81 that you'd input and then all it did was flash 'you're a geek' (or similar)

I loved those

Our year was the first one to be offered computing at school - it wasn't timetabled, we had to do it in our lunchtimes on giant BBC computers. Our electronics teacher taught it, he was an ubergeek.

I think that set me on my way

Pollyana

Mine can't understand my accent - I had the same problem earlier with the telstra automated phone line thingy, it only speaks Aussie not English

Beaverstate

I remember when my Aunt and Uncle got PONG! Hours of fun.....

lesleys

The first program I wrote was in Fortran IV and it ran on an IBM 360.

I have operated an old analogue computer to read 1 inch tapes.

We had the first Sinclair calculator, and then a ZX81 - with cassette recorder.

Pre-high tech I remember my parents getting a fridge, first TV (which broke down with amazing regularity), a phone (a party line), a car. First thing I bought was a transistor radio.

I have progressed from a box Brownie camera, to a Brownie 127, a 35 mm camera, a Zenith SLR, various Nikon SLRs, a 110, experimenting with the first little digital cameras then on to DSLRs.

I don't think I'm a technophobe.

Cheetah7

I learned to type when I was 14, I can touch type roughly 80-90wpm and it is a skill I am glad that i have.

I have kept my shorthand books as well so I can brush up on that and I periodically do as well as that is a useful thing to know.

DeadVim

I do remember typing in a few of those, madness when you look back on it.

We couldn't afford a BBC in our house (or school), I had to settle for an Electron at home ... It run Elite, Repton and Aviator so I was happy

Some years later I picked up a Model B at boot fair complete with disk drive, monitor and a pile of floppies. When I was travelling I left it at my Mum's, she chucked it out thinking it was rubbish

Can emulate all the old stuff now for a quick hit of nostalgia ... Right On Commander!

GarryP

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...toys.beebdroid

scottishcelts

Try being Scottish

moneypenny20

Good lord, why?

scottishcelts

moneypenny20