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! :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: :D

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! :eek:


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! :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! :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. :broke:

 

[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.