You were still better off than me. I didn't transition to broadband till a year after you and my dial-up modem was 56k but the UK's domestic phone lines were not efficient enough to cope with them (you required an ISDN to gain the full benefit) and so the maximum that you could achieve was 33k.
I had the Nokia 6100 and I believe it's still functional. I'll have to check!
Remember it all too well!
I'm getting to be a relic myself
As a little hint (and totally off-topic)...
It's your thread, you're allowed to go off-topic.
My first computer also had an impact upon my life and elements of my career - from which my parents and family members here in the UK and abroad have benefited from immensely. Like many Brits in their 40s and above, I'm a product of the UK's 1980s home computer revolution. A friend had a Tandy (RadioShack) CoCo2 which I got to practice BASIC on and a couple of years later I received a C64.
In my possesion for a tad over 40 years, an hope to be able to leave it in working condition to one of my kids when I get too old to realize what the thing is
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The TI-99/4A. I remember this very well and I recall playing TI Invaders on one during a trip to the Harrods department store. As a child, there was a US documentary about computer programming that I watched one afternoon on British TV and unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it because I'd love to rewatch as an adult but I vividly remember a scene with a Dallas schoolboy who was using the TI-99/4A to program animated graphics that were particularly impressive for his age.
If you can indulge me in a further off-topic deviation, what are those expansion cards for - to provide the option to load software from SDs?
