Were your parents into gadgets?

Are you kidding? I grew up on a dairy farm. We had every gadget known to man.

My Dad built a Heath kit calculator that was bigger than my laptop is today. He was very much into gadgets, but I think it is an engineer kind of mindset. Unfortunately, he never lived to see computers and smart phones and GPS etc. but I know he would have LOVED them!

My father was so into gadgets. He bought everything. We had the first vacuum hot pots.

My father was. Reel to reel projector, killer stereo component system, the first pong game (later, the first Atari game).

My mother was into cigarettes.

Nope. I think part of it was money. The other part was as far as photography ajd movies go, my mom was not very into picture taking at all. But, generally they were not gadgety people. My parents purchased their first color TV when I was 12 I think? More or less. That would be 1980. My mom still keeps her cell phone powered off unless she is making an outgoing call or she is expecting a specific call. My dad, in his old age, not so old, became more gadget oriented for his business. He buys and sells used books, so he has a scanner to look up a price before he buys a book. They never owned a CD player, except their newest car has one, which is about 5 years old.

My mom did not ‘get’ any kind of new technology. Growing up in the eighties, we still had an eight track/record player combo. I was the only kid I knew who didn’t own a walkman or a boombox. I had no way to play cassette tapes except this ‘black box’ kind of machine, like people used to record police interviews. :/

My parents detested much of modern technology. We still don’t have a microwave at home…neither have mobile phones etc. etc.

It’s a good idea to be wary of new gadgets, there is a hell of a lot of junk being pumped out of factories ending up in land fill a few months later.

My dad would continue using something until it literally broke down. It’s something to admire, but can also be very frustrating growing up as a teen and missing out on a lot of the fun of those gadgets, not being allowed the internet was the worst.

My dad wanted to be I think, but we never had enough money. He had a reel-to-reel tape deck that someone had given him, along with a collection of tapes of 60s music. He has a computer now, but he keeps phoning up me or my brother for reminders on how to open his email.

We were a very low tech family but I do remember my parents owning a Brownie camera

Oh.my.god. We just cleaned out my dad’s house EVERTYHING crazy- a complete movie making studio, photo enlargers, cutters, everything audio that they had back then, a water sterilizer plant that looks like a still from the 1920’s, and a bunch of crap that I don’t even know what it was- BOXES of computer stuff ( I didn’t know what a floppy disc was) enormous, huge old old computers god he’s crazy