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Vintage Toys & Tech Photos

Posted by michael on from the pocket-protector dept.

savetz writes "Here's a fun site: Consumer Reports magazine's vintage photo gallery, in which you can see photos from when the magazine reviewed electric toasters in 1956, in-car record players in 1961, radio sunglasses in 1966, and other good stuff. Don't forget about the flaming Nerf ball."

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  1. Capsella by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anybody remember Capsella? That stuff was the shit! It included mechanics, gears, electronics, even if you were lucky infra-red remote control.

  2. Cool, but kinda short... by DennyK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those old blurbs are pretty interesting, but it would have been nice to have a little more info, or even the original articles, rather than just a photo and a paragraph of text. Still, browsing their archive is a cool way to waste a half hour or so... ;)

    DennyK

  3. Ah but they missed by syntap · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lawn darts and Merlin! How could they ? Actually they should have thrown in the Atari 2600 (Christmas 1977) in the 1970-1980 archive. Where would we be without the 2600?

  4. Re:Don't Buy Crap. by coryboehne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately, you can only try so long to continue to use your desktop computer...

    Actually, I have started collecting key pieces of computer history (and I know a few other /.'s are doing the same) and I really believe that most of these systems are still quite capable of doing what they were meant to do, namely business software... No you can't play quake on a TRS-80 but it does a great job of running DOS and business applications.

    The problem is that most people think computers are a dated item, the fact is, people once thought that a 1956 Convertible was worthless junk, now a rusted shell of a car will bring 10k. Keep this in mind before you dismiss their possible future value (particularly look for the ones that people consider to be particularly worthless as there will be far fewer of these available in future and they will most likely be the more valuable among the systems that are available for almost nothing today)

  5. Re:Flaming Nerf Ball? by repetty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why didn't they just condemn matches?

    This is probably good thing. They fire test kids pajamas, too, as well the ought. Probably few things made E.M. doctors sicker than trying to peel melted pajamas off of screaming children

  6. Re:A car for the price of 100 pens! by seanadams.com · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Today, of course, you can't get a new car for less than $8,000, but you can have yourself 100 Bics for, what, $2?

    I've got just one word for you: "Plastics"