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My first home computer was a Gateway, and I vividly remember going to the Gateway Country store to configure and order it.  I think I still have the complimentary mug around here somewhere...
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This one is from 1983 and I bought a used one circa 1989 for $200, the whole sale including a humongous daisy wheel printer and tape recorder and cassettes. The monitor had amber text. The goal was to be a work-at-home mom notereader-scopist, like that ever happened. *copious eye roll*
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No mobile phones the year I was born.

[identity profile] pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com
We'll start with this because, come on, this is why we know and love him:


Which then spawned kaboodles of merchandising:
star trek phaser gun
Well, kinda looks like him. Either way, Shatner probably wasn't happy to be left out.

And Mr. Nimoy's fate was sealed. Not everything he did was tied to Trek, but he would be inextricably tied to geekdom forevermore (not that that's a bad thing!)
celestron with Leonard Nimoy
Found here.


ExpandSome TV ads under the cut. )

High tech

Jul. 22nd, 2014 07:14 pm
[identity profile] cactuswren.livejournal.com
Time, April 1967:



$115 in 1967 comes to about $800 in today's dollars -- roughly the price of a 64g iPhone 5S.  Of course the smartphone comes with its own "power pack".

1962

Apr. 16th, 2014 10:11 pm
[identity profile] cactuswren.livejournal.com
Office technology, 1962!

Time, July 16 -- The IBM Selectric (with golf-ball printing technology that put IBM "ten years ahead of its time -- where it stayed, firmly rooted, for the next 20 years"):

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