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[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Early 80s, maybe 83 or 84, we got a Dick Smith VZ200 (rebadged VTech Laser 210 - Dick Smith here in Australia was kinda like Radio Shack). It had 8Kb of RAM but Dad bought the 16Kb expansion - 24Kb of RAM!

I got a book from my uncle on how to write BASIC programs, and wrote a heap of stuff. We could backup and load programs from a regular cassette tape recorder that plugged into the computer, sorta like the Commodore 64 later on.

Early 90s, guessing around 93, I got a Nokia 101 analogue phone. I even bought a car kit for it, and installed it in my Datsun 180B. It had a snake game on it, and I actually used it to make and receive phone calls.

[-] afox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 points 6 months ago

If you grew up in the Dandenong Ranges, quite possibly.

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