Time for this week's Friday Afternoon Question, where we ask you to amuse, entertain and inform us all with your answers.
With the turn of the new year fading from our memories, my mind was cast back to the dim and distant past, and the origins of geekdom. Well, my geekdom, anyway. So, in the spirit of living history, here's this week's question:
What's your first tech memory?
Mine, I think, was taking apart a Fisher Price record player - you know, the sort where you play tinny notes using a plastic disk covered in bumps - because I wanted to know where the noise was coming from. That led to a series of de-constructions of gizmos (or destructions, more accurately) including, most tragically, a prized Megatron transformer on Christmas morning. In my enthusiasm to take the toy apart, I managed to snap it in half, leading to much kiddy angst.
Yes, I know, Fisher Price isn't hi-tech - but it's a clear memory of the first time I mucked about with something in this way... a pattern which progressed to computers and suchlike in my tweenage years.
So, get reminiscing: the winner will receive an as-yet-unspecified prize from my technological goody bag.
