Did the same thing in many cars when CD players first came out. The tape deck adapter was very common and came with most Sony Discman portable CD players. FM transmitters were another good solution but suffered from more interference.
For sure, Still have my under the dash pioneer super tuner with a 8 track tape. It is mounted in my garage with a removable mount so it didn't get stolen out of your car.
I was watching the Blue Angel Imax special earlier this year and I noticed it’s pretty common for the ground crew (men & women) to have tats. Not really criticizing. It’s just an observation in the differences in culture today from when I was enlisted during the 90s.
For sure, Still have my under the dash pioneer super tuner with a 8 track tape. It is mounted in my garage with a removable mount so it didn't get stolen out of your car.
Heck, *I've* got one, now. Not something I ever would have considered, in the '70s.
Funny....The kid's vehicle, a 1976 Ford Lariat long bed/extended cab, had a CB base station on the front seat transmission hump. This was thought to be a great way for my parents to keep track of us as we roamed the countryside. They weren't counting on how far we roamed.
Thank God cell phones were 20 years out at that time.
Mrs. Thurston Howell the Third!
Takes a true geek to have the rocket equation tattooed on his arm.
I use to use MaxQ as an moniker back in the day.....but most won't know what that is.Takes a true geek to have the rocket equation tattooed on his arm.
Takes a true geek to have the rocket equation tattooed on his arm.
That's why it's actually tattooed in mirror image.Or a geek with a bad memory....
I use to use MaxQ as an moniker back in the day.....but most won't know what that is.
My first CD player was around $300. Early adopter.
Remember the fresh copies? Still moist, and with that mimeogaph ink smell.
My favorite catalogs were the Radio Shack and Lafayette electronics supply catalogs. I couldn't afford much out of them, but I sure was fascinated by electronics and fixed a lot of old radios and TVs. Got lots of shocks doing it. 350 volts on the vacuum tube plate caps, 20K volts on the picture tube anode. That hurts.
Yup. When I started flying lessons in 1973, an hour of dual in the (six-year-old!) 172 was $24. I was making about $3 an hour, which meant that an hour's dual was a whole day's gross pay.
The makers of Crayola crayons and Play-doh (and no doubt others as well) go to great lengths to make sure that whatever else changes, the smell of the products is unchanged.
And Edmund Scientific! Which unlike the others, is still alive and well.
Pulled a very similar Pioneer cassette deck (same knobs and tuner dial) out of my 1976 ski boat a few years back. Still worked just fine, but I was upgrading to something with a bit more power and Bluetooth/CD capability.For sure, Still have my under the dash pioneer super tuner with a 8 track tape. It is mounted in my garage with a removable mount so it didn't get stolen out of your car.
Frown upside down made me think of another “back in the day.” We used to have huge toy stores including the one I used to work at.
I don’t remember exactly what I made at my part-time jobs in high school. Probably around $2 an hour or so, I’d guess. Somewhere around here I have one of my pay statements from the Army on ‘79 or so. If I recall correctly, my take-home was $360 per month as an E3.
My first job was at Sears. People would have checks printed with their name, address, phone number and SSN on their checks to expedite paying by check. "Back in the day", identify theft was not a concern.
I was a kid at the time, but IIRC it followed the familiar pattern of "charge the early adopters extra for the shiny new feature, wait a while for the shiny new thing to become the normal thing, then charge the stragglers extra to get them off the old system", so you had to pay extra to get DTMF service, at least initially. If you already had touch tone, pulse would still work. At least in my neck of the woods. Dunno about no fancy city folk
I was a kid at the time, but IIRC it followed the familiar pattern of "charge the early adopters extra for the shiny new feature, wait a while for the shiny new thing to become the normal thing, then charge the stragglers extra to get them off the old system", so you had to pay extra to get DTMF service, at least initially. If you already had touch tone, pulse would still work. At least in my neck of the woods. Dunno about no fancy city folk
Barry Nelson?
Leisure suits in general.
25¢ per gallon at the cheapest place. (About $1.66 in 2024 money) As I remember, most places were 35¢.This was about 1974.
