New Technology.....Once..
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Treacle
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Don M.
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- central Missouri
At the rate that technology is advancing, the latest Gee Whiz item is quite likely to be obsolete within 10 years.
Lashann
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- Ontario Canada
Personally I would like to see some of these "oldies but goodies" somewhere on display.
IMO it would be nice to be reminded of simpler times when you didn't have to spend a great deal of time (weeks/months?) trying to learn how to use the item properly because they were so much "user friendly". Back then we also didn't have to be concerned about issues such as forgetting passwords/PINs, getting hacked, identity theft etc.
IMO it would be nice to be reminded of simpler times when you didn't have to spend a great deal of time (weeks/months?) trying to learn how to use the item properly because they were so much "user friendly". Back then we also didn't have to be concerned about issues such as forgetting passwords/PINs, getting hacked, identity theft etc.
fancicoffee13
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- Texas
According to Barney and Fred, yes we have. I was just wanting a watch like Dick Tracy, and "technology like Get Smart. lolWe really have come such a long way...
jujube
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I remember my first computer, a Commodore 64. It did practically nothing but I was so proud of it.
Barbiegirl
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I remember the games from Apple and Atari circa 1978 or so. At the time it seemed like major cutting edge entertainment but by today's standards it was caveman technology!
Oh and our home stereo was a giant piece of furniture like this
I love the beautiful sound we can now get from sound bars and wireless speakers that take up almost no space.
Oh and our home stereo was a giant piece of furniture like this
I love the beautiful sound we can now get from sound bars and wireless speakers that take up almost no space.
My nephews gave us their old Commodore 64 so I could play Bubble Bobble on it.
We had a computer, but I was leery of using it, other than to play Tetris.
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
Anyone use the palm pilot? They are so handy and I never seem them around anymore.
asp3
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- Silicon Valley, CA
My sister worked at US Robotics before they became or were bought by Palm. I remember her bringing a prototype of the first Palm to a holiday gathering. My wife and I left thinking she was deluded because people would never want to use something so small that had such a strange way of entering information. Needless to say we were wrong, she did well and we missed out on buying stock when it was rather low.
fancicoffee13
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- Texas
My first one, I had to wait on the dial up! And getting mail was the thing! email.
Barbiegirl
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- Sunny South Florida
Omg the little sounds on that game! Takes me way back to my technologically-deprived youth.
Well, Gen Z would consider it deprived... we didn't even have texting! The horror.
fancicoffee13
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- Texas
Right! No texting, emails, phones to carry with you, no FB, and the list goes on!Omg the little sounds on that game! Takes me way back to my technologically-deprived youth.
HazyDavey
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Easy Cheese.. Cheese in a can!!
Nabisco 1965.
Well, it was sorta new technology back then ..
Nabisco 1965.
Well, it was sorta new technology back then ..
Barbiegirl
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- Sunny South Florida
I find myself watching movies made pre-1998 and wondering why the characters don't just pick up their cell phones and call for help. Oh and when they go to a payphone I'm amazed they can even find one, let alone one that works.
HazyDavey that spray cheese is a staple in my hurricane stash. If I'm going down in a storm, I'm going down enjoying some delicious, salty orange cheese flavored goo sprayed on crackers.
Butterfly
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I remember when we got our first fax machine at our office. It was magical!
Oris Borloff
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Anyone remember Polaroid Instant movies? I'm thinking about '76ish about 6 months before VCR's we availbable in stores.
Or L-Cassettes maybe about a year earlier.
Or L-Cassettes maybe about a year earlier.
Tommy
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- New Hampshire
Thanks, Oris! I had never heard of either of those and had to look them up. Now I know.
The latter 70s were so lively and exciting for me that I probably missed a lot of what went on.
Polaroid Instant Cameras, yes, Polaroid Instant Movies, no. Wow!
Don't remember L-Cassettes either.
As the old saying goes... "you learn something new everyday".
Lakeland living
Life is good
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- Ontario Canada
I remember the polaroid pictures https://www.dpreview.com/news/85677...eils-onestep-2-instant-camera-and-i-type-film
I do not remember the inststant movies but I did fine this https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/24/...tant-movies-polaroids-coup-as-it-battles.html
I do not remember the inststant movies but I did fine this https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/24/...tant-movies-polaroids-coup-as-it-battles.html
Oris Borloff
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My first and only encounter with Polaroid instant movies was at a mall and there was a table just at the entrance to the Sears store. The player was displayed and I think the camera was there also, but I got the year wrong so I'm not a reliable witness. I think the price tag was 599.00. A friend of mine bought the first VCR I ever saw in person in '79 and it cost him 799.00.
I just googled to find the pictures. I also found out how to properly spell Elcaset.
The Elcaset was slightly smaller than a VHS tape, the idea was for audio recording cassette that used full size tape, instead of reels. I saw one of those machines at a stereo shop Xmas of '76. An older audiophile friend of mine told me that it was first tried on the market in '62-'63. I don't recall if that was in the US or just Europe, and it didn't go over well the first time either.
I just googled to find the pictures. I also found out how to properly spell Elcaset.
The Elcaset was slightly smaller than a VHS tape, the idea was for audio recording cassette that used full size tape, instead of reels. I saw one of those machines at a stereo shop Xmas of '76. An older audiophile friend of mine told me that it was first tried on the market in '62-'63. I don't recall if that was in the US or just Europe, and it didn't go over well the first time either.
