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Amazing: Consumer Electronics From Half a Century Ago

Sunday, April 9, 2017 15:49
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So I was helping clean up the residence of an elderly relative and came across some fascinating examples of early consumer electronics.

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It was introduced about 60 years ago (circa 1956).

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Right: Motorola transistor radio, vintage unknown. The first such radio offered to the public was the Regency TR-1, released in 1954, and cost $49.95 or roughly $450 in 2017 dollars.

I’m guessing this is a late fifties or early sixties model, but perhaps one of our expert commenters might be able to identify it more precisely.

Bottom: The Unisonic 931 was first manufactured in 1975. it offered 8 digits of precision and basic algebraic logic functions.

Left: The Zenith Space Command 1000 remote with a fancy, red Zoom function. This was the most modern of this quartet, manufactured around 1975.

It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come; nowadays, an enterprising 12 year-old can control every appliance in a home from an iPhone.

Related: BadBlue Tech News. 



Source: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2017/04/amazing-consumer-electronics-from-half.html

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  • “It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come; nowadays, an enterprising 12 year-old can control every appliance in a home from an iPhone.”

    Yeah – and the Big Joke is that it doesn’t even have to be the kid’s own home! And that is all. 0{:-o[

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