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Vintage Toys & Tech Photos
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."
Anybody remember Capsella? That stuff was the shit! It included mechanics, gears, electronics, even if you were lucky infra-red remote control.
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?
Unfortunately, you can only try so long to continue to use your desktop computer...
/.'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.
Actually, I have started collecting key pieces of computer history (and I know a few other
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)
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"