My baseline year is 1997 as far as what tech might be available, since that is when the nuke strikes occurred (in the 1st edition timeline at least). I'm not hard and fast about it however, since the T2K timeline is different from our own.
In T2K, the continued existence of the "Big Bad Soviet Empire" could have resulted in less cutbacks in military spending, so some items not available until a few years later may have been around by then.
Since it's been quite a while since I've even had the opportunity to run a T2K game, I haven't really needed to think much about this.
As far as most electronics, I'd have to agree with another post here, that what exists isn't so important as how much of it still works.
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