Mary Husson
Paul Carson@kriegaffe Some time back my youngest nephew asked me what iPads were like when I was his age.
I was his age in 1977.
Looking for explanations…@karsoe @kriegaffe We had a colour tv!!! 😂
Matthew Toohey
Wonderdog@tooheymatthew @Susan60 @karsoe @We had a 14 inch black and white tv until after I’d left home (1985) my parents didn’t buy a colour tv until 1988!
@Wonderdog @tooheymatthew @Susan60 Just in time for the Bicentennial! :)
My olds were relatively early colour telly adopters, pretty sure we got our first colour set in 1976. I inherited the dodgy old 14" B&W "backup" set so I could watch "that silly stuff" (dad's words) while dad watched the nightly news in colour.
Oddly enough, "that silly stuff" was on the ABC: Dr. Who, The Goodies, and Countdown.
We got our first VCR in 1983 and for me, being a huge film nerd, that was life-changing.
@karsoe @Wonderdog @tooheymatthew I don’t remember when we got our first colour Tele, but it was very early. We’d had an old B&W in a square dark wooden cabinet.
@karsoe @tooheymatthew @Susan60 I've only just seen some of The Goodies in colour for the first time!
@Wonderdog @karsoe @tooheymatthew Loved The Goodies! I think I first saw it at the Gundagai TV Hotel Motel. The TV was a portable in a cramped family room. Kept watching the Goodies when we got home to Melbourne.
StephenC@karsoe @kriegaffe I think I was using computers that took up an entire floor and required reinforced concrete floor for stability. Less computing power than … a tv?
Wilso@karsoe @kriegaffe we had a pan toilet in the backyard!
TheBicyclist@karsoe @kriegaffe show him an etch-a-sketch perhaps?
@TheBicyclist I'd laugh if he tried to pinch-zoom on it.
@karsoe if you've got a spare time doodling a simplified Google search webpage on it before you give it to him would be entertaining
Colin Fry@karsoe @kriegaffe The Tomorrow People tv show (1973-1979) had a rather iPad-looking ‘fondlespad’ brought back by people from the future (who dressed to fit in with the 1970s, obviously) 😃