Awesome Older Tech Gadgets

[Toohotruk]

Those Magic Eye tubes are cool! I've never heard of them, but I could see how they could be pretty handy way back in the "olden" days of non-digital radio tuners.

 

[StarHalo]

There's a Chinese company, VAL Shenzen, that makes high-end tube radios that still feature the Magic Eye tuner:

 

[tam17]

My old boombox, the legendary Grundig RR621 Elite:

Back in the Eighties it wasn't sleek and fancy as Sanyos were, but I just loved it. Guzzled primaries like hell... Excellent sound quality, though.

Cheers,
Tam

 

[LEDAdd1ct]

Those were the good ones! Back then, Grundig was Grundig, and not Eton.

 

[Groundhog]

One of my favorites, was the Coleco Electronic Quarterback...back in the day, if you had one of these babies, you were considered very cool!

The graphics were unreal!

I've still got mine somewhere...

I used to save every dollar bill I earned in a little recipe card box with a lock on it until I finally saved up enough for my most coveted game ever.

 

[RBR]

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[PhotonWrangler]

Wow, look at the heavy glass lens on that light. They don't make them light that any more!

 

[PapaLumen]

Wasted quite a few afternoons at a friend's house, tormenting his dog with one of these...

I'm not sure if Milton Bradley's behind it or not, but someone's putting it back in production. Wonder if I can get away with giving one as a Xmas gift to a five year old girl... :thinking:

Wicked, i had a bigtrak.


Also my first computer -http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Sinclair_ZX81.jpg


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It had 1k of memory. Thats 1000 characters!!! I got the 16k rampack for it to play 3d monster maze - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rampack.jpg/607px-Sinclair.zx.16k.rampack.jpg

3D Monster Maze -

 

[Toohotruk]

WOW! The graphics are so good on that game it's scary!


Love the old blowtorches too! :thumbsup:

 

[RBR]

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[ewmccraw]

One of my favorites, was the Coleco Electronic Quarterback...back in the day, if you had one of these babies, you were considered very cool!

The graphics were unreal!

I've still got mine somewhere...

I had on e of these! Loved that thing.

 

[RBR]

.,,,,

 

[Toohotruk]

Never seen one of those...bet it's worth something.

 

[tam17]

USSR-made pocket video game from the Eighties.

Main characters, rabbit and wolf, are from a popular Soviet era kids' animated series "Nu Pogodi".

Manufacturer info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika

Back in those times I had Nintendo's Donkey Kong II, too :naughty:

Cheers,

Tam

 

[ericjohn]

One of my favorites, was the Coleco Electronic Quarterback...back in the day, if you had one of these babies, you were considered very cool!

The graphics were unreal!

I've still got mine somewhere...

my dad had one of these in the late 80's/early 90's. batteries leaked all over it and ruined it. i bought him a replica of it in 2007.

 

[StarHalo]

Commodore is back..

 

[Obijuan Kenobe]

Electronic QB for the win.

Sent from a long time ago...in a galaxy far, far away.

 

[Sub_Umbra]

I often think about the guy who invented the first Fire Piston in some hot, steamy, prehistoric jungle.

 

[Toohotruk]

Those new Commodore computers look pretty cool! :naughty:

A bit pricey though for the models with more options.

 

[buds224]

I used to save every dollar bill I earned in a little recipe card box with a lock on it until I finally saved up enough for my most coveted game ever.

My all time favorite too! I still have mine somewhere.