Lots of worthy entries in this week's Friday Afternoon Question, where I asked about your earliest memories of tech.
Honourable mentions go to Fred2, who attempted a little bit of BASIC to let us know where things started for him, and to WasBascule - who captured the essence of early videogames by saying "Tennis (two white bars hitting a white square around the screen) Squash (one white bar hitting a white square around the screen) Football (four white bars etc etc)".
But I think the overall winner had to be EvilClanger, who managed to take everybody on a tour of childhood: from TV to radio and beyond, with cameo appearances from Hitchikers', a ZX81 and even the Two Ronnnies.
We did all have personal tech: cassette recorders for busting copyright every sunday evening taping the Top 20 off the radio on to C120s from WHS, 3-speed record players, and best of all, the transistor radio. Signals from all round the planet, well, almost, on 3 bands, and if you were very lucky, SW too. With all the whistles, hums, and clicks. Under the bedclothes with your tranny late into the night...9pm, 10pm. Pirate stations, and strange foreign chattering. Pushing the envelope of home entertainment. CB came later, from America.
It did all go a little Ron Manager there for a while, but for sheer effort a 1GB Samsung YP-U2 music player (reviewed here) will be winging its way to you.
