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Post by MartinT on Mar 7, 2019 6:30:12 GMT
I bet you loved that as a boy!
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Post by Slinger on Mar 7, 2019 11:59:21 GMT
As I said, my dad was a very keen amateur photographer. I deeply regret that he died before I could introduce him to the joys of eBay, and the veritable Alladin's cave of kit he'd be able to indulge himself in - and that I could have bought for him.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 7, 2019 12:20:45 GMT
My dad was a keen philatelist and I used to love sifting through stamps with him as a boy. As a result, I do have my own Penny Black and Penny Red in a collection I haven't touched in years. |
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 9, 2019 6:44:07 GMT
My first...glimpse of my wife was here, just behind the ground floor window on the left of The Chequer Inn in Steyning, West Sussex.  |
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 9, 2019 6:45:26 GMT
My first legal pint was drunk in there too.
(Preceded by many, many illegal ones!)
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Post by MartinT on Mar 9, 2019 8:03:32 GMT
I didn't know you'd met there, Chris. Nice place.
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 9, 2019 9:00:03 GMT
Oh yes, and come to think of it, it was also the venue of my first TAS board meeting!
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Post by MartinT on Mar 9, 2019 10:58:59 GMT
The first time I met Ruth was at The Golden Retriever near Bracknell.  |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 9, 2019 12:45:19 GMT
I met my wife here, a little while after this picture was taken though.  I was doing this...  at the time. This was the first pub I called my "local," the first pub I worked in, and the pub that saw the formation of my last band. It's an architects studio now.  It was the best little pub I've ever drunk in (and been drunk in) and was more like a community than a pub. As with most places, there were cliques, but the difference was that they were really just groups of people who drank together out of habit, and everyone was friends with everyone else. It was incredibly sad when it closed, but if it hadn't I'd never have met my wife, so... silver linings.   |
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Post by pre65 on Mar 9, 2019 12:58:20 GMT
My first camera was a box Brownie.
I later "progressed" to a folding 120 film camera, and then several 35mm rangefinder models before my first SLR, the ubiquitous Zenit.
Current SLR is a Canon EOS40d which does everything (and more) I will ever need.
First car was a red 850 Mini, quite an early one with floor mounted starter button and magic wand gear lever. Anyone remember when headlamp dip switches were on the floor next to the clutch pedal ?
Can't remember my first phone, but number 3 (current) is a clamshell Doro old gits phone. 
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 9, 2019 14:54:25 GMT
I was really into my cricket around the age of 7 & 8 and will never forget my first ever bat that was a present from my parents - a Gunn & Moore Scoremaster Special, exactly the same as this. There was a great pride of ownership at that age!  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 9, 2019 22:31:22 GMT
My first computer was a Psi Comp 80 which I built from a Powertran kit around 1980. It was based on the excellent Zilog Z80 processor and I wrote a disassembler on it, for my university thesis, without an assembler so I hand coded it including all the jumps. I must have been mad!  |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 10, 2019 0:27:42 GMT
One of these...  No thesis but I got hold of an early MIDI interface for the Spectrum and wrote a step-sequencing program for it and then hooked it up to one of these, which was my first synth/keyboard...  I also wrote a graphics suite for the Spectrum and a semi-pornographic text adventure, amongst other bits and bobs. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 10, 2019 9:35:02 GMT
LOL - I used to like playing those text-based adventure games. All these hi-res graphics have spoiled them |
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 10, 2019 11:51:35 GMT
My first penknife. Not exactly PC nowadays, but when I were a lad, giving sharp knives to eight year old kids, and everyone being fine with it, was a thing. The Swiss Army Camper  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 10, 2019 12:54:15 GMT
I had a different Swiss Army knife, similar to that one.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 10, 2019 17:53:10 GMT
Me too - it was standard kid issue back then. Genius piece of design ...
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 10, 2019 18:06:31 GMT
I still own one. It's a different model but I use it almost daily. This afternoon, I was cutting up cardboard boxes for the recycling and yesterday I was repairing something and needed a little prying lever. An essential tool.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 10:21:45 GMT
My first cycle bike was a 'Raleigh Racer'  |
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 11, 2019 14:36:12 GMT
I still own one. It's a different model but I use it almost daily. This afternoon, I was cutting up cardboard boxes for the recycling and yesterday I was repairing something and needed a little prying lever. An essential tool. I've got a green handled one supposedly for use in the field when hunting! And no, I'm not a hunter ... |
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