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What was your first handheld device?
- Thread starter lvt
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Right. Hence the whole transistor radio that I said I had
All that could do is music and news.
Ads count as music...
Uhm, Uhm. Uhm; My first one was AM only.
Am I to old to post anymore?
Less than 51 years and i need a new device...
Ads count as music...
Uhm, Uhm. Uhm; My first one was AM only.
Am I to old to post anymore?
Less than 51 years and i need a new device...
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I had a little AM only radio, I taped it to the handlebars on my modern stingray bike. I was soooo cool. I found this on the big internet, it's my exact bike:
That's a mighty big gear lever.
Similar style to the Chopper, which was all the rage over here in the '70s.
I'm pretty sure that's a Chopper.
Made contact with rhat shifter Way to many times.
Made contact with rhat shifter Way to many times.
The safety factor was not strong back then
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The safety factor was not strong back then
Actually safety for Raleigh was a factor back then...
Because this is a Chopper Mk1
...which was rather quickly replaced by the Chopper Mk2
The rear stays were re-designed and the back wheel was effectively moved back a few inches. Basically to make it harder to wheelie and possibly flip over. Because apparently too many kids were getting hurt with the Mk1. In fact I believe some Mk1s were actually recalled. Also the gear shifter is less substantial on the Mk2.
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lvt
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I used to have that too, but it's real, huge ones.
OT; I had the mk1 in black and chrome.
My first communication hand held device
Keep in mind that I grew up extremely poor. I won the Dunelt 3 speed English racer from a local TV show contest. The bike would out run any bike in town on pavement. The only problem was, there wasn't much pavement around. Those narrow tires were just terrible on sand and gravel roads. All the same, I was extremely proud to have the bike. It was the only geared bike around.
Keep in mind that I grew up extremely poor. I won the Dunelt 3 speed English racer from a local TV show contest. The bike would out run any bike in town on pavement. The only problem was, there wasn't much pavement around. Those narrow tires were just terrible on sand and gravel roads. All the same, I was extremely proud to have the bike. It was the only geared bike around.
That bike is actually a Raleigh Sports, and looks very similar to the BSA I had. Dunelt been one of many English bike makers that Raleigh of Nottingham bought up during the 50s and 60s, that they continued to sell under their various now house brands, like Dunelt, BSA, Hercules, Sun, Elswick, Robin Hood and Apollo.
Been an export to US one, I suspect it was actually made in Shannon, Ireland. Which Raleigh did because the Irish govt gave special tax concessions to companies setting up in Ireland in the 60s and 70s.
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Rico ANDROID
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When the tiniest-phone-the-coolest was a semi fad i had this AT&T smaller than a credit card Motorola divice. Exact same color too. Screen had display of text in dots (like the old dot-matrix printers?) and ringtones were "polyphonic" (who remember those ringtone formats)
KBU2
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That's one beautiful piece of machinery.
OT: I'd like to apologise to the OP for making this a mixed thread but bikes and hand held devices just go together. A transistor radio and a flashlight meant you had a mobile entertainment system back in the day.
BOT: Nokia had my heart in the early 2000's.
This one first followed by it's mini brother I used as a modem to connect my PPC to the intertubes.
BOT: Nokia had my heart in the early 2000's.
This one first followed by it's mini brother I used as a modem to connect my PPC to the intertubes.