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Fisher Price Record Player
I loved my record player! I had many story books as well as music records. -
VCR
The first VHS we owned was "Robin Hood" By Disney. We watched it over and over! -
Walkman!
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Phillips/Magnavox Video Writer
My mom was doing her masters degree in business and purchased a video writer after our typewriter was knocked off the desk and broke. It was amazig to "save" our work and fix our mistakes without correction tape. -
Apple II at Home!
I remember playing "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" and printing my school essays on the dot matrix! -
CD Player
"Out of Time" by REM was the first CD I owned! -
First Cordless Phone in our Home
How cool! I didn't have to sit at the desk in the kitchen! I could sit on the couch. -
Mac Computers - HS newspaper
We had to print the proofs, tape them together and DRIVE them to the printer. -
My first cell phone
When I got my driver's license I was given my first brick, I mean cell phone. I was only allowed to use it in an emergency! It was $40/month for 20 minutes. I kept it and a charger in my glove box. It was even cooler than my dad's car phone because I could carry it around if I wanted a work out. -
First Email
I sent my first email from my account at UW. -
Internet at home!
What! I don't have to go to the lab on campus? Amazing! We had a shared internet account in my building we had wires running from apartment to apartment! I think it might have been DSL. I'm not even sure! I paid the guy upstairs $10 a month so I had internet on my personal desktop. -
Zip Disk
My first foray into HTML. We saved our webstie on a zip disk. -
Palm Pilot
My Franklin Planner went digital! I had to carry that and a phone. Sheesh. What a burden! -
Wireless!!
The wires are gone! Good thing I married a computer engineer! -
Smartphone
My first "smart" phone. It was a palm pilot on steroids!
