Fondest Memory of new Technology
My first home Pc..........................ZX Spectrum (16k), wow! the delights of spending all day typing in 10 pages of code on that rubber keyboard and press run.........Expect the visual senses to be blown away with the most amazing 'Asteriods' game, but what do you get.....................'Syntax Error'!! D'oh! So its back to plugging in your cassette deck, fiddling with the volume settings and listening to 10 minutes of screeching and crackling and Ta Da.......Manic Miner!
Genius!!
At the age of only 2 I still have a memory of looking out of my cot and seeing on the floor nexted to one of my brothers beds a record player which was maron and cream in 2 tone colour with the speaker at the front and a lid at the top. From birth I was blasted with the Beatles albums.
4 years ago I found and bought one in the same colour and gave it to my brother for his birthday ,his face really lit up, he has since restored it and still plays his Beatle albums.
JohnDuncan:Walking down Broad Street Teddington with a Wharfedale DVD-750 from Tescos, and stopping off at Blockbuster on the way back to pick up some DVDs. Plugging it in and sitting round with the in-laws to watch The Bone Collector. Feeling foolish about banging on about how we *had* to have a DVD player when everybody said the picture wasn't very good (it was rubbish, in fact). Feeling smug when replacing the in-box SCART with another quality one I had lying around, and the picture being much better, thus proving there is no cable debate to be had.
That was my first dvd player too 
mulitregion too and cost just over £100 if i remember rightly.
Calling my mum from Red Square on a borrowed mobile phone ( I was too junior to have one of my own). She would not have been much more surprised if I had called from the moon.
hammill:Calling my mum from Red Square on a borrowed mobile phone ( I was too junior to have one of my own). She would not have been much more surprised if I had called from the moon.
But at least it meant she could stop wondering why you were late home from school.
Sadly, I am old enough to remember when mobile phones were beyond the budget of normal people (and foreign holidays, cars, colours TVs, central heating, telephones....)Andrew Everard:hammill:Calling my mum from Red Square on a borrowed mobile phone ( I was too junior to have one of my own). She would not have been much more surprised if I had called from the moon.But at least it meant she could stop wondering why you were late home from school.
...bathrooms, mains electricity, glazed windows, coal, shoes...
Clearly I am not quite as old as you, Andrew. My mum did not have the first two.Andrew Everard:...bathrooms, mains electricity, glazed windows, coal, shoes...
I'm so old I didn't even have a mum. Only posh people could afford those...
Andrew Everard:I'm so old I didn't even have a mum.
You crawled from the primordial ooze?
Only posh people could afford those...
Oh right...
Presumably we will get to living in a hole ithe road and eating gravel shortly.Andrew Everard:I'm so old I didn't even have a mum. Only posh people could afford those...
hammill:Presumably we will get to living in a hole ithe road and eating gravel shortly.
If you believe everything you read in the Daily Mail, yes.
I am pleased to see such a healthy dislike of the Daily Beast on this forum (BTW I refer to the original, not the website of the same name)Andrew Everard:hammill:Presumably we will get to living in a hole ithe road and eating gravel shortly.If you believe everything you read in the Daily Mail, yes.
Fondest Memory of new Technology 
the first time i listened to a dts soundrack - i was the seriously hooked on home cinema systems, after listenening too dolby digital soundtracks for a long time.
Big Trak!