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x5ga:
oh man I had so many computers that I don't think I remember them all. I even built one from 'scratch' with my dad (a Z80-clone/MMN80CPU-based one, similar in design/architecture to the CoBra "home computer", running Sinclair BASIC). This was when I was 6 :P

I had a 80286,386,486SX,486DX,Cyrix 6x86MX, Pentium MMX, Pentium 2, Celeron, Pentium 3, Xeon (first generation) ... well, a lot of the stuff intel released. No AMD ones though, always hated them for some reason. Fanboyism maybe?

Mobile phones... yeah, I've had a few huge bricks back when Ericsson didn't have the 'Sony' prefix. Used it more as a home phone though, the Ericsson GH197 was literally a brick... you could throw it at someone and leave him hospitalized. And I still have a turntable I use as an amplifier... an old one made in the Democratic Republic of Germany ;D the sound is crystal-clear though, it beats the shit out of my home cinema system (except the bass - no subwoofer for the turntable lol). Oh and I still have a "brand-new" and never used 14.4k modem as big as a computer case. Looks very shiny. Made before I was born though ;D nice home decoration.

Roven:
I beat you all :)
(click to show/hide)That thing still works btw, only on my other from the stone age TV though.

craselios:
^^

got one like that :) with a black&white TV

Bob2004:

--- Quote from: Kyrdua on June 26, 2011, 05:41:07 PM ---caught up with my memory now. TURNTABLES!!

back in the 1990's we still used turntables. i believe we also had walkmans back then too. i guess my family just kept the huge table-like turntable for nostalgia's sake. my memory of it is foggy, but i believe it also had a spacious compartment for stuff which took about 3/4's of it's size.

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We still have a turntable in our house, and we actually still use it (though not so much recently). My dad built it himself from scratch, along with an amplifier and complete Hi-Fi system, as a hobby project a couple of years ago, it's pretty sweet. Even though I can listen to Black Sabbath or AC/DC on my pc any time I want, there's still nothing quite like having the original vinyls playing on a proper Hi-Fi. The sound is somehow completely different, and I haven't been able to replicate it with any modern storage media/speaker system.

Sticks:
Oldest computer I remember using was a 386 (or was it a 486) and running my mixed up mother goose and kings quest and sneaking some Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM in when dad wasn't looking through the MS DOS command line. Started life as a little geek at the tender age of 8. Or 10. I don't remember specifics, hahahaha


--- Quote from: undetz on June 26, 2011, 05:53:55 PM ---The first mobile phone bought in my family was the size of a brick and about the same weight, too. We've still got it lying around. Today there are mobile phones about the same size and weight as a sheet of paper that has been folded a few times.

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iPhone excluded? It seems to be getting heavier.  ::)

Anyone remember Neo's bananaphone?



My dad had one of these, got it before the movie came out. Boy did I feel cool posing in front of the mirror with a black trenchcoat and shades on holding one of these.

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