In my time, the first transistor radios (no tubes) and transistor ignition systems; then microchips and pocket calculators that replaced slide rules and math tables (in books); microwave ovens; personal computers and the Internet; satellites and FLIR; and for women, battery powered vibrators.
TampaRed
July 22, 2017 3:28 pm
jr,the last one was the devil’s spawn-once women got the vibrator and a donor w/a turkey baster,they did not need real men such as you and i–only girlie men like the other guys on this list–
True Red but thank God for some Traditional Women that still appreciate us real men.
rhs jr
July 22, 2017 3:43 pm
Actually saw the development/transition to jet engines late 40s and 50s, rockets, TVs, A-bomb fears, and then LASERs, LEDs and flat screens, CAT Scans and MRIs, anti-gravity secrets, etc. All that was progress but what I see now is less new tech and more Big Brother Conspiracy for adaptations to enslave the common people; they call it progress but God called it The Beast.
John B.
July 22, 2017 5:01 pm
I’m nostalgic for the wonderful days of MP3 player wars.
Real men / impoverished teenagers could code 6502 assembler by hand in 8K on a VIC20. C64 had way too much RAM which you had to bank switch anyway, pia.
Been there, done that…
Miles Long
July 22, 2017 8:31 pm
I can proudly say I’ve never owned or used one of those 5 things.
I got the original cassette WM-1 the year it came out. For someone who cares about music it was pretty neat taking stereo with you anywhere you went. I have happy memories of walking through the woods listening to Beethoven’s 6th. I reckoned at the time it was as close to heaven as humanity would ever reach, having the NY Philharmonic hooked to my belt.
In retrospect, I am pretty sure I was correct.
Cassettes suck in certain respects, cut off around 10KHz, wow and flutter, crappy S/N ratio, due to the slow tape speed. I guess Sony could have come out with a reel-to-reel player backback running at 30ips plugged into the cute little earphones, but that wouldn’t have been the same somehow.
artbyjoe
July 28, 2017 11:31 am
in 1970 or 71 , i worked for a consulting company as a job shopper draftsman. they were doing the electrical layout for one of the first Japanese battery operated hand held calculators. this was at San Antonio Road at hwy 101. i was their first and only draftsman, while i was there. first day on the job, i had to assemble my drafting table from a box. pay scale was in the $4 to $5 range. next stop was at Singer-Link doing electrical schematics for an early jet fighter link trainer, possibly an F-14. been a long time.
In my time, the first transistor radios (no tubes) and transistor ignition systems; then microchips and pocket calculators that replaced slide rules and math tables (in books); microwave ovens; personal computers and the Internet; satellites and FLIR; and for women, battery powered vibrators.
jr,the last one was the devil’s spawn-once women got the vibrator and a donor w/a turkey baster,they did not need real men such as you and i–only girlie men like the other guys on this list–
True Red but thank God for some Traditional Women that still appreciate us real men.
Actually saw the development/transition to jet engines late 40s and 50s, rockets, TVs, A-bomb fears, and then LASERs, LEDs and flat screens, CAT Scans and MRIs, anti-gravity secrets, etc. All that was progress but what I see now is less new tech and more Big Brother Conspiracy for adaptations to enslave the common people; they call it progress but God called it The Beast.
I’m nostalgic for the wonderful days of MP3 player wars.
I’m nostalgic for the days when the greatest piece of technology in every home was a gun.
No mention of the Commodore 64?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_f3uIzEIxo
Real men / impoverished teenagers could code 6502 assembler by hand in 8K on a VIC20. C64 had way too much RAM which you had to bank switch anyway, pia.
Been there, done that…
I can proudly say I’ve never owned or used one of those 5 things.
I got the original cassette WM-1 the year it came out. For someone who cares about music it was pretty neat taking stereo with you anywhere you went. I have happy memories of walking through the woods listening to Beethoven’s 6th. I reckoned at the time it was as close to heaven as humanity would ever reach, having the NY Philharmonic hooked to my belt.
In retrospect, I am pretty sure I was correct.
Cassettes suck in certain respects, cut off around 10KHz, wow and flutter, crappy S/N ratio, due to the slow tape speed. I guess Sony could have come out with a reel-to-reel player backback running at 30ips plugged into the cute little earphones, but that wouldn’t have been the same somehow.
in 1970 or 71 , i worked for a consulting company as a job shopper draftsman. they were doing the electrical layout for one of the first Japanese battery operated hand held calculators. this was at San Antonio Road at hwy 101. i was their first and only draftsman, while i was there. first day on the job, i had to assemble my drafting table from a box. pay scale was in the $4 to $5 range. next stop was at Singer-Link doing electrical schematics for an early jet fighter link trainer, possibly an F-14. been a long time.