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New inventions in our lifetime........
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on June 26, 2007, 12:37:34 pm ---Except the credit card companies are taking their own little 'swipe' (fees) with each little transaction — driving prices up for consumers + hurting small businesses. :-\
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Sure enough! Which is why I still pay cash for groceries and such. ;)
loneleeb3:
A lot of what I am going to write may have been mentioned before.
These are things I can remember when they were new!
Casette Tapes (before we had 8 tracks)
VCR's (does anyone remember the Beta's?)
DVD's
CD's and CD Players. (my daughter is fascinated with albums. She thinks they are the wierdest things)
Microwaves
touchtone phones
Colored TV (we didn't have one until 1974. I know they were around longer but us hillbillys couldn't afford one)
Coffee Makers
Answering Machines
Caller ID
DVR
Digital Camera
Video Games ( I had Pong LOL)
MP3 players
Boom Boxes (before these came along in the early 80's we had transistor radio's)
Digital clocks
portable phones (before these we had streched out our phone cord to like 15 ft trying to get in the closet or outside for privacy)
Light Beer
Diet Coke (before this there was just TAB bleeeech)
Thats all I can think of now! ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
Whatever happened to transistor radios anyway? Do they still make them? :laugh:
A long time ago, I remember hearing a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Instead of, "And a partridge in a pear tree," the parody had, "And a Japanese transistor radio." ;D
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 26, 2007, 02:56:49 pm ---Whatever happened to transistor radios anyway? Do they still make them? :laugh:
A long time ago, I remember hearing a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Instead of, "And a partridge in a pear tree," the parody had, "And a Japanese transistor radio." ;D
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Transistor radios. What were those? I remember the word but it's been so long I forgot what it means. :laugh:
Is that those radios that lit up orange inside when we turned them on? And it took about 5 minutes before they started working?
I remember the TV sets doing this. They were transistor too weren't they? Or was that vacuum tubes? ???
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: David on June 29, 2007, 03:57:33 am ---Transistor radios. What were those? I remember the word but it's been so long I forgot what it means. :laugh:
Is that those radios that lit up orange inside when we turned them on? And it took about 5 minutes before they started working?
I remember the TV sets doing this. They were transistor too weren't they? Or was that vacuum tubes? ???
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I think those were the vacuum tubes your thinking of David.
The old radios from the 30's and 40's were like that.
Transistor radio's were really the first handheld types of radios. Usually black plastic with a siver screen over the one speaker it had and an antennea that was about 12 feet long! LOL
I'll see if I can find a pic to post!
Here's a link that has pictures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio
The ones shown are a bit older than the ones I remember but you get the Idea
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