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I got my first phone in 1998. It was a nokia 8110, aka the 'banana phone'.
I got my first computer in 1989. It was a Commodore VIC-20. I still have it. 5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone.
We had a Vic 20 as well! In 1984. I was 4 years old.
Wow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That's when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you'd have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.
Ok yeah I'm old. Thanks :P
I believe so too, on a micro-controller