Originally Posted by Richard Brown

The JVC Video camera? BTW, tlb, was the image captured from a TV? The lines across the image are why I ask.

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That and the Apple computer circa 1984 which is why I posted here. Yes, TV.

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http://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/05/...pop-up-museum/

Atlanta Computer Festival to Feature Apple Pop-Up Museum


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This is my Commodore 64 with my substitute for a 1702 monitor

My 1988 NEC "Console" TV with a STB hooked up to it via an rf modulator

I never manage to keep old technology as I break it or lose it or something happens to it lol..

But there are some nice flashback pictures here

Originally Posted by tlbaker

And phone numbers were MURRYHILL7- 1234; assuming Murryhill was referring to the manhattan neighborhood, I guess (saw this on a commercial lol). We didn't need an area code in NY as all of manhattan, Bronx had the same area code 212. Not sure about Brooklyn and Queens they were 718, I think. All of Long Island was 516.

My old phone number was Elgin 969787. My grandmother's number was Empire 30185. Shortened to EL-96987 and EM-30185. I cant remember my cell number, fancy that.

I remember the line sharing. You would pick up the receiver and you could listen to others on the line. You had to wait until they were done with their call.

My family's (parents') first phone number in the DC area was OLympic 7-8885. There were neither area codes nor zip codes in the late '40s. I think you needed the assistance of an operator for long distance calls. Whatever, I wasn't allowed to make any.

I have no idea why I remember this now, over 60 years later...when I can't recall whether or not I presently have a phone.

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Originally Posted by scifan57

An old Motorola cell phone from the early 1980’s. The original owner paid over $2500.00 for it! The battery took 8 hours to charge and gave you 30 minutes of talk time.

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Wow ! My first career job at Motorola, designing automated test programs for some of the sub boards in there. I got laid off, downturn, then ten years later it finally was approved by FCC and they started selling them in the 80's.

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Captured this this morning of my old TVs

A Commodore 64 a day keeps the Apple II away!

I nearly bought a book in Oxfam today. It was published on 1958 by Burke of London. It was written by a Canadian who was working for the Daily Telegraph - if my memory serves me right.

He wrote about new technologies in simple terms with photos and drawings. Examples were: -

1, Nuclear powered aircraft, and ships.
2. Rocketry.
3. Wind turbines to generate electricity. An example looked like an aircraft engine nacelle with aeroplane's propellor.
4. Huge frame computers used to make airframe design calculations

Now, should I go back to purchase this book?

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