New Technology.....Once..

How about when the telephone list-finder, index thingamabob came out?

Here is a brand spanking new one for anyone wanting to jump on a little of that state of the art progress from back in the day! :)

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Pappy said:
I went out and bought a new transistor radio. Amazing, it fits in you pocket... :oops:
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I can still remember how excited my father was about the transistor coming into the consumer market in the 1950s. (Yes, in the form of pocket transistor radios, actually.) I was too young to appreciate it's importance at the time, but without it none of today's computers, smart phones, and microprocessor controlled thingamabobs would exist.
 
Tommy said:
I can still remember how excited my father was about the transistor coming into the consumer market in the 1950s. (Yes, in the form of pocket transistor radios, actually.) I was too young to appreciate it's importance at the time, but without it none of today's computers, smart phones, and microprocessor controlled thingamabobs would exist.
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I remember it like it was yesterday
. State Street Mill had transistor radios on sale. $3.98. This was an unheard price and I made a beeline to the store and got a red and white one. Amazing at the time to carry your radio in your pocket.
 
Transistor radios had horrible sound reproduction. Way back in my brain, under "Useless Knowledge", is in the 1950s and early 60s, that new music, "Rock & Roll" was engineered to sound richer and fuller on transistor radios and car radios- the places where teens listened to their music.. It's amazing how that little box transformed us.
 
MarciKS said:
My parents said they remembered the first color TVs. Dad was so excited to watch his favorite western in color.
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Oh my!! ... KID! :ROFLMAO:

I remember an uncle getting an early color TV in the late 1950s. (He was what marketing people call an "innovator" Had to be the first to have every new gadget.) My wife and I had only B&W until 1979 when my parents couldn't stand the fact that we didn't have a color TV and had one shipped to us.
 
What about Floppy discs? I still have some as I have my old computer with a tower. Alan Sugar owned Amstrad and floppy discs were about 5"? but then the 3 1/4" ? disc came out for most other computers and the Amstrad discs became quite expensive and redundant.
But I still have them :LOL::ROFLMAO:
 
Pappy said:
I remember when all these new gadgets came out and wondering what will they come up with next. I went out and bought a new transistor radio. Amazing, it fits in you pocket... :oops:

Of course now, all that technology is in one of these:

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Yes, I can take notes on it, visit a doctor, do my banking, take pictures, monitor my heart rate and calories, don't need a computer, watch Peacock on it and the list goes on and on!
 

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