What Was the First Gadget You Ever Bought?

7:00AM April 28, 2009 | Sean Fallon

We had a lot of fun reminiscing about our first albums during our Listening Test week, so I thought I would play off of it and ask: what was the first gadget you ever bought?


Keep in mind that we are talking about the first gadget you decided to buy with your own money. I’llstart off by saying that the first gadget I can recall buying myself was a Discman at a Caldor for around $US100. That was a lot of birthday money at the time, but I got many years of good use out of it.

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  • feral

    April 28, 2009 at 9:03 AM

    A Multiface 2 for my CPC 6128. (I still have it, but unfortunately not the CPC)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiface

  • Nathan

    April 28, 2009 at 9:08 AM

    My First ever gadget was a Laser pointer from DickSmith electronics. It cost me $165… it ran on 2 AAAA batteries. haven’t seen them for a while :) Still have the laser pointer thou.

  • Mae

    April 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    Omg, I have that exact same discman and I still do- I’m not sure if it works anymore though. The earphones got all dusty and icky from long years of disuse.

  • bennie

    April 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM

    Well, I didn’t buy it myself, but my Dad got me the original Game & Watch, dual screen Donkey Kong game from Japan waaaay back in the day. I think that was my first gadget… (sister got Oil Panic)

  • B

    April 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    I had several gadgets as a kid but nothing beat this!

    http://www.dustygizmos.com/images/Widgetweek/talkboy.jpg

  • lolitsraph

    April 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM

    funnily enough, that was my first discman as well… lol

  • gargravarr

    April 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM

    Not the first true gadget I owned – that was probably a hand held game – but the first I bought with my own money was a VIC-20 computer in 1982, after saving money from my paper round. It had 3.5k of free memory! I would say that there is no user-created file on my G5 iMac that small.

  • pie141

    April 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM

    I recall buying a maroon coloured Sanyo ‘walkman’. It was my companion on all car trips and excursions for years until I finally got a blue Sony Discman with the G-protection.

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