What was your first tech buy you made?

Wissou

Hey guys,

I was curious what was your first tech buy you have ever made?

Mine was in the early 2000 (yep I’m old) I remember my first buy with my own hard earned money: a 128mb Chinese knockoff mp3 player. Oooooohhhhhh yyyyyyeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh 128mb!!!!!

It had an AAA to power it on and you would wear it around the neck (the cool kids did 🤣🤣🤣🤣)

What’s your early tech buying memory?

Kastello

Wissou The first tech which I ever bought with my own money? Hmmmm…

I think it was a gtx 760 ti as upgrade for my PC!

Louis ☕️

Wissou mine was with my pocket money I saved up and it was a Nokia 8310i 😊👍🏻 loved that phone, fit in all my pockets and was compact. Lord knows how I managed to type with it lol.

arpan2308

Wissou ohh your first tech was 128mb…sounds large…mine was a floppy drive for school assignment

1.44 MB

RobIgo

Wissou I think I’m older than you…. are you ready for this. When I was 18 I got a loan and bought a pc - it was a Olivettia 286 monochrome display, two floppy 1.4mb disk drives and ran DOS 3.3. I then upgraded when I was 19 to a 486 with a hdd and Windows 3.1 (and a colour vga monitor). God I’m old… 👴

Court

Oh man haha 90s kid here

My first cool tech purchase that I had got on my own with money I saved was my super fancy CD player! haha When I say fancy I mean fancy because the top closure piece had a clear plastic part in it so you could see the CD spin while listening.

The good lo days huh. I just remember having to hold that thing perfectly flat so it didn’t skip during a song 😆

Pascal_R

I think mine was a PS2 at the end of the year 2000. I’ve paid the half of the price for it (600,- guilders instead of 1200,-) and had to get it somewhere in Amsterdam.

adbo

I think the first tech I ever bought myself was a point and shoot camera that was designed to look like a DSLR but definitely lacked DSLR abilities. This was closely followed by a PSP 3004 in red (like below) which I spent many an hour on 😄

Those were both fully funded by the chocolate and cans of pop I sold at secondary school. Yes, I was that guy and it made for a nice income at that age!

Louis ☕️

adbo Oh wow this is a throwback! I had this, in black, and absolutely loved the portability of gaming on it. Imagine if they made a bigger Nintendo Switch style version now 🤯

arpan2308 Wissou I also remember the floppy disk days, but was probably more towards the end of them moving into CDs 😆 Memories of installing Lemings on my school desktop using 2 different floppies due to the file size…fun times.

Court

adbo OH MAN, I miss my PSP, that device was so far ahead of its time haha. I also remember playing GTA on it.

I wish Sony would remake it and compete with the Switch.

Wissou

arpan2308 my first tech that I bought, was 128mb.

First tech was a desktop in 1993 (my dad worked at IBM at the time) super lucky to have a windows desktop at 5 years old in my room in 1993, Floppy disk team!!!

arpan2308

Louis ☕️ @Wissou Floppy Disk Team 👋

adbo

Louis ☕️ absolutely loved the portability of gaming on it.

Same! I took my PSP everywhere with me, even dropped it a few times and it still survived. PSP was my first time playing GTA too.

Louis ☕️ also remember the floppy disk days

Had a lot of floppy disks as a kid and I always remember a sign in a library that I visited saying “Don’t forget your floppy” 😆 Bet they have “don’t forget your USB stick” now

Wissou

RobIgo you definitely are the original gangsta!!!! 😂

RobIgo

and yes add me in the Floppy Team 😆

Surya_8055

Most of the 90s are fond of the PSP. My first device I bought from my pocket money is a PSP. It’s a great feel at that time, playing GTA Vice City. It still feels good thinking of those old days ❤️.

Wissou

Surya_8055 did you hack your PSP by anychance?

Surya_8055

Wissou Haha noooooo

Martin_M

Not sure which tech was my very first, but this one really enabled my computer possibilities big time. The programmable ‘Expert cardridge’ for (my parents) commodore 64.

The ability to stop a running programm, examine and change everything in memory and then return to the programm gave great examine en expiriment room.