Remember, kids, always store your 8 tracks UP without the case, so that all the dust and dirt goes inside the cartridge. It makes them sound ever so much better! And the tape just LOVES being in a car, exposed to the sunlight!
U know your getting aged when the Band u still listen to & r now on TOUR had There Albums on 8TRACK....TA...DA...KISS....& Now u stream m something wrong with this picture!!!???🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂
Exactly right...those things were a big deal back then! You were big time if you got a calculator for Christmas. Thing is, you really couldn't do a whole lot with them as a kid anyway
The guy using the Kodak movie camera at around the 12:05 mark did an episode of M*A*S*H from 1978. He is actor Charles Frank. He was in the episode where he “kidnapped” Klinger at gunpoint in order to try and get back to the USA. The episode was called; _”What’s Up Doc?”_
We had a neighbor put in his own satellite (One of those giant dishes) back in the early eighties and for a while he could all kinds of stations but the good times only lasted a short while until all the signals started getting scrambled and the big corporations got involved
16:32, a calculator that adjusted for inflation would be about 1,600 dollars. A calculator. Which now is an app on every smartphone. Got to love technology.
Ahhhhhh, those were the great days of the 60's! My Dad had the camera, projector and screen. But His didn't have sound. It was still great.🥰 Every once in a while he would invite everyone over to watch Birthday parties he filmed. Only bad thing, Dad was was always behind the camera so he's seldom seen! And what a big deal t was when my parents got an extension "Trim-line" phone for their bedroom! I use to talk to my friends from it while lying on their bed 🤗.📞I had a ball using Dad's typewriter. Make up fictional news headlines .. And my Dad had a real nice " *Webcor* " reel to reel tape recorder. Me and my brothers and sister had hours of fun playing with it. When I got a little older I learned the Guitar with my 2 brothers. We would write and record our own songs. So much fun! Sorry to take so much time up. And " 𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔻𝔽𝕃𝕀𝕏" , I thank you for posting this video. Its great, matter of fact, all your videos are great and I could relate to just about all of them! God Bless you! ✝❤⛪🛐
@@ChristopherUSSmith Hell no. Flying was MUCH more expensive because of the CAB. You want big seats, etc? Pay for first class. Don't have the government step in and ram high prices down everyone's throat.
The FisherPrice Tape Recorder. I got one for my 5th birthday. Before getting that recorder it was just using hand me downs from family. The tape that came with it was great too.
Back in the day, TV picture tube (CRT) size was listed as the "engineering" size, i.e., the size of the glass envelope, 25" for example. However, the Govt came down on the manufacturers and began requiring the "Viewable Area" be listed. Following the edict, 25" tubes became 23" tubes. Even the part numbers were changed; 25BP22 became 23VAFBP22.
I like the last few commercials, one a communications industry type telling us that there are only a few thousands cell phones in use today but that it will grow to millions, And then an AT&T one for their internet service. Now today we are hooked on the internet through our phones and the younger generations can't imagine a world without cell phones or internet.
The AT&T one is really interesting. The book store setting is really foreboding. And it shows a couple teenage girls chatting online when it says "Make new friends!" As if they had no idea what a cesspool the internet would become.
Seems like we spent time trying to get away from commercials because they were annoying. Now here we sit watching hours at a time of the same commercials.
11:09 "I told you not to call me here! My wife might be listening on the extension phone in the kitchen, bedroom or playroom!" 17:50 Paul Burke (RIP) of "Twelve O'Clock High" and the original "Thomas Crown Affair."
+FredFlix: Contrary to your label for 'WHo Is The Olivetti Girl' being 'late 60's, the (male) person is well-known NY Jets Q-back, Joe Namath (5:14) - something a lot of people know, including me, and I wasn't alive, nor am I a fan of the sport. This is definitely early 70's - I'm guessing '72. I had to chuckle at the naivété of people (in the - again, early 70's) to believe that there was such a thing as (7:03) 'computer-crafted' turntable, as it's described in the VO. Yes, it might've been drawn - CAD (and primitive, at that), but, not much else.
Charlotte Dashwood my parents always loved RCA. The mind sit was passed on to me sense my parents are dead. Right now I'm watching this on a 55 inch RCA TV. RCA is not what it used to be it's made in China. I had two replace the led back lights twice. The second time I modified the TV and put two computer case fans to keep the leds cooler. It's the memory of my parents that make me hold on to the brand. It's not logical but love is not logical.
i remember the CB craze of the 70s, all these with giant antennas attached to the rear bumper, curved over to the front of the car and hooked nearby the front window.
Only businesses and Professionals (like Engineers) bought them back then,also remember consumer electronics list prices are often 50% higher than what you can actually buy the product for wholesale.
it seems shocking what a simple calculator would cost, but a calculator is actually a pretty incredible tool to have. we just take it for granted, but back then it was cutting edge technology that would be hard to sell to a market used to, you know, using their brains to do math. remember that such things as airbags were patented back in the 50's, the first bar code used in a grocery store was in 1974 (in troy, ohio, about half an hour away from me, lol), the first countertop microwave oven was made for 1967, and mobile phones were available in 1973. all that's saying is some tech is ahead of the marketplace and none of these would have been cheap. :) and, it's a supply and demand thing, too. the average schmo didn't want a calculator because he didn't know how useful it would be. probably a fairly low demand versus the price. so, what a company does is charge more for it so they can actually make money. that's why some of my software upgrades for some of my business equipment is outrageously over-priced, because otherwise it wouldn't be worth it to develop.
I forgot how expensive those early calculators were. They did the simplest of calculations, only, like add, subtract, divide, and multiply. It did do square roots, too.
Oh, my goodness do I remember those days. To bad that the kids today wouldn't know about the things that we do. I remember when TVs went from black and white to color. And I remember when men walked on the moon.
Olivetti, the American dream machine... made in Italy. RCA Stereo, marketed by the Equalizer! No Wireless Wizard for colour TVs? I think it's only appropriate that adverts for colour TV would be in colour. That RCA Victor Swingline looks awesome. I wouldn't have minded one of those in the UK (though it is kind of strange seeing this advert making it rather odd that inthe 1980s, boomboxes were given the politically incorrect name of Ghetto Blasters) "Let Your fingers do the walking" Yellow Pages used that slogan in the UK too... and wait a minute... that's a GPO phone with a British label... that can't be the advert they showed in America, could it? The segments on that display look weird... also $345 for a calculator... I think you can buy them by the dozen in your local pound shop. RIP Radio Shack... also, RIP Maplin :,C Ah yes, the Tape Selector (though it would probably be called the Cartridge Selector seeing as it deals with 8 Tracks rather than cassettes, what were actually referred to as tapes back in the day) Oddity Archive demonstrated the version for LPs... I don't think he was impressed. Walkie Talkies, two things that I remember Tandy for as a kid was Walkie Talkies and the X in One electronic kits (and a third, RC everything) Maplin tried the same in recent years, but sadly they went the same way as Radio Shack. You know, I wouldn't mind a microwave with a browning element, it would make nuking pies and pasties a bit nicer. The days when an LCD display could be used as a USP. Those prices were a rip off even back then! Sign this petition to Save Free TV in the lobby of this cinema... that cable TV is competing against. Oh Dick... selling that Instamatic 110 camera, my family used to have one of those, I had to take picutres with it on schools trips in the late 1980s and early 1990s... I think it was old even then! Oh... my first console was the Philips G7000 Videopac... which was sold in the US as the Magnavox Odyssey^2. TWA had the widebodied 1011... but we (and the French) had Concorde... if only development of supersonic airliners continued after Concorde... a wide bodied Concorde.......... Oh, that Fisher Price tape recorder... that would be considered high end nowadays! Seeing someone using a celleular telephone is now more common than checking time on a watch (though I could do with a watch... something like a Sinclair Black Watch) or figuring on an electronic calculator... largely because the timepiece and calculator is now built into the mbile phone... I even think you can install programming environments directly on the phone. Why does Bank of America have a logo that reminds me of Border Television? Steve Jobs was a genius, whatever you think of him or Apple, he was a genius. I don't suppose I ever realised it until after he died... he's still a prick for overshadowing Dennis Ritchie's passing - a true pioneer who's death deserved as much coverage as Jobs.
The early part of this reminds me of doing punch cards for Fortran programming. I liked the early RCA transistor radios and the Sony walkmans they were awesome.
Thank you FredFlix!!! This video just made my weekend!!! A lot of good memories here. I think I'm just going to live in the past this weekend. LOL ... :-) Have a great weekend ok! :-) Saturday, January 22, 2022 - 2:20 PM Mountain Time - Eastern Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Tape Selector made it easy for you to find your tapes, but then after all the dust and dirt and food crumbs have fallen into the holes, it couldn't have been easy to listen to them.
more than likely because of the frame rate of the camera and hz refresh rates. Causes that flashing and flickering we have all seen on TV when computer screens are shown.
During the Atari modem commercial you added the caption "late 80s? Not sure..." He (Alan Alda) says in the commercial that he isn't even half way through the 80s yet. I remember that era, I'm guessing its 83. Thanks for the upload!
17:15 Radio Shack, 3500 stores and participating dealers. 18:48 Radio Shack, 2500 stores. Guy at corporate: "Hey, did anybody notice that we lost 1000 stores virtually overnight? Hello? Am I the only one concerned about this?" Lol
Grew up in Dallas Texas. Born in 54. Mom couldn't afford a/c. We had an attic fan. Could leave the windows open in the 50s and 60s at night. Fan would pull that cool night air in even during 100 degree days and 90 degree nights. It's funny, but I don't ever remember being unbearably hot growing up with no a/c. Finally got a friedrich window unit a/c in 71 when I was a sophomore in high school.
I just love the Remington Quiet Writer!!!!!! Pretty advanced tech-wise compared to my country in these times. Man...we never had half this shit in New Zealand in the 50's and 60's.. We didn't get colour tv until 1970.
Yeah, I remember Beta Max. I owned one. I still have it, packed away as a "keepsake". And I recorded everything, all those great movies "back when" HBO hit the airwaves. And not one person ever even mentioned "violation of copyright laws". And then everything went digital. And suddenly, poof, as if by magic, those copyright laws started to matter. Great video, Fred. I think I fell in love with that absolutely adorable "secretary" so proud of making copies that were so good, in fact, she couldn't tell the difference between the copy and the original. That's a commercial I had never seen but again, she is the most adorable thing ever!
@@michaelsalisbury1477 Yes it was. I went from (01) Beta to (02) VHS and then to (03) digital. And I kept that Beta machine. VHS? Nope. 1977's "Kentucky Fried Movie" was the first Beta title I bought. It remains packed away. I got that player back in '83. "First Knight" was the first VHS title I owned. It was "free" when I ordered my first VHS machine in '96. The title remains packed away.
Sometimes I wonder about some people. Back in the day it was always "4 out of 5 dentists recommend..." or "9 out of 10 housewives recommend..." Maybe sometimes that antisocial 5th or 10th malcontent just has to go pushing the dislike...
+Guy North just the opposite actually, all the patriotic Americans who got a sitter, drove to a stadium, stood in line with 25 thousand people at midnight to attend a trump rally for change, and trump did it again and again and again. real America voted for trump.
I'd better sign that petition at 22:50 to stop pay TV and save free TV before it's too late and we end up with Disney owning everything and charging us to watch anything.
Free TV vs Pay/Cable. The alphabets were afraid of cable. Isn't a free market great? I love it, they each had to up their game. And now it's streaming vs sat/cable.
Omg that hideous noisy AC , no remote, massive… looks like someone drove an old car through the wall. Lol. That massive ‘portable’ typewriter…. My god, We’ve come a long way people !
Talk about a bad flashback. When they showed that household torture device I got chills. It was a way for a father to keep everyone in the house and some friends quiet, bored, and uninterested at the same time. Sure once in a while a good one might happen, but if you were not involved on the trip, the narrator could really get old quick. (Almost forgot: The Slide Projector) It lives on today as a selfie of your breakfast sent to everyone.
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"Let your fingers do the walking." That got me in trouble more times than I care to mention. 😉
Remember, kids, always store your 8 tracks UP without the case, so that all the dust and dirt goes inside the cartridge. It makes them sound ever so much better! And the tape just LOVES being in a car, exposed to the sunlight!
Yeah you could always hear tracks 5, 6 ,7 ,8 when you're listening to 1 ,2, 3 and 4
Don't forget, those plastic cases melting in the heat of summer!
That's what floors were for!!!😂😂😂
U know your getting aged when the Band u still listen to & r now on TOUR had There Albums on 8TRACK....TA...DA...KISS....& Now u stream m something wrong with this picture!!!???🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂
Ahh I remember how big it was to have your own transistor radio as a kid. Those were the days.
We were cooler than cool!
This guys thumbnail says he doesn't take ads. A 40 minute video and not a single ad, what a legend.
🤣🤣
Back in the 1960's my dad had a remote control and he didn't have to get up or anything,it was the kid who was closest to the TV.🤣
The $500 microwave seems like a great value when compared with a $345 calculator
You are right but try putting a $500 microwave in your pocket. Ha Ha
Exactly right...those things were a big deal back then! You were big time if you got a calculator for Christmas. Thing is, you really couldn't do a whole lot with them as a kid anyway
Absolutely amazing the technological innovations in the last 60 yrs; can anyone imagine the next?
Agreed
Yep, human beings are kind of amazing.
The guy using the Kodak movie camera at around the 12:05 mark did an episode of M*A*S*H from 1978. He is actor Charles Frank. He was in the episode where he “kidnapped” Klinger at gunpoint in order to try and get back to the USA. The episode was called; _”What’s Up Doc?”_
I like how they called it controlling the weather in the house back then 😂
When I think back on how often I spent money at Radio Shack hard to believe they went belly up
Maybe they should have sold it at $39.99...
We had a neighbor put in his own satellite (One of those giant dishes) back in the early eighties and for a while he could all kinds of stations but the good times only lasted a short while until all the signals started getting scrambled and the big corporations got involved
16:32, a calculator that adjusted for inflation would be about 1,600 dollars.
A calculator. Which now is an app on every smartphone.
Got to love technology.
Rick K. Even calculators now can be had for less than $10 and can do more than a $345 calculator could do back then.
You can get a calculator for 99 cents that can to more.
Wow ! The convenience of an extension phone !!! What'll they think of next ? Seems like just last week they went from rotary to push button.
Not to mention having the dial light up!
We got Cable TV in 1981. OMG how awesome that was!
Love that old school tech. I was around for most of it.
Ahhhhhh, those were the great days of the 60's! My Dad had the camera, projector and screen. But His didn't have sound. It was still great.🥰
Every once in a while he would invite everyone over to watch Birthday parties he filmed. Only bad thing, Dad was was always behind the camera
so he's seldom seen! And what a big deal t was when my parents got an extension "Trim-line" phone for their bedroom! I use to talk to my friends from it
while lying on their bed 🤗.📞I had a ball using Dad's typewriter. Make up fictional news headlines .. And my Dad had a real nice " *Webcor* " reel to reel
tape recorder. Me and my brothers and sister had hours of fun playing with it. When I got a little older I learned the Guitar with my 2 brothers.
We would write and record our own songs. So much fun! Sorry to take so much time up. And " 𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔻𝔽𝕃𝕀𝕏" , I thank you for posting this video. Its great,
matter of fact, all your videos are great and I could relate to just about all of them! God Bless you! ✝❤⛪🛐
I have a word for this video presentation: Techno-Archaeology.
Sounds good.
I totally agree, and he is a national treasure
"The fight against cable TV"...hmm, guess that battle didn't go too well, did it?
40 years later and cable is being killed by streaming
19:18 LaserBeam Wristwatch: "Destined to become a legend in its own time!" I wonder how many people who bought these still use them... :?
I wonder how many of them still work? 🤨
And fell for a cheap LCD fake gold watch - LoL
Miss the old analog cell phones...they sounded so much better than the digitals do now.
I don’t think the cellular phone will catch on. There are plenty of convenient phone booths.
There is someone in Dallas taking mini phone booths and making planters out of them.
Tommy k no there aren't try to find one today!!!
Don Adam's had the first cell phone in his shoe on Get Smart.
Um do you still think the same way? Lol 😹
Holy cow. He's joking.
I love the TWA ad! A steak in coach? A sit you can actually fit in? Oh, for the old days of flying!
Today,You're lucky to get even a bag of Peanuts and a Soda!
Time to bring back the C.A.B.!
Yes but the cabin was filled with smoke since everyone smoked on planes back then.
@@mrmjb1960 Half of a soda!
@@ChristopherUSSmith Hell no. Flying was MUCH more expensive because of the CAB. You want big seats, etc? Pay for first class. Don't have the government step in and ram high prices down everyone's throat.
The FisherPrice Tape Recorder. I got one for my 5th birthday. Before getting that recorder it was just using hand me downs from family. The tape that came with it was great too.
Back in the day, TV picture tube (CRT) size was listed as the "engineering" size, i.e., the size of the glass envelope, 25" for example. However, the Govt came down on the manufacturers and began requiring the "Viewable Area" be listed. Following the edict, 25" tubes became 23" tubes. Even the part numbers were changed; 25BP22 became 23VAFBP22.
13:26 That's Dick Tufeld (The voice of the robot from Lost In Space) doing the narration for the Zenith color TV commercial.
I love this adds for old tech.
I'm not sure if Richard Nixon would've approved of the RCA tape recorder!!
rangers199487 Scandalously new!
So stylishly put together. I relived the advertising of my life. Beautiful.
Thank you, Lisabeth.
I like the last few commercials, one a communications industry type telling us that there are only a few thousands cell phones in use today but that it will grow to millions, And then an AT&T one for their internet service. Now today we are hooked on the internet through our phones and the younger generations can't imagine a world without cell phones or internet.
The AT&T one is really interesting. The book store setting is really foreboding. And it shows a couple teenage girls chatting online when it says "Make new friends!" As if they had no idea what a cesspool the internet would become.
Seems like we spent time trying to get away from commercials because they were annoying. Now here we sit watching hours at a time of the same commercials.
11:09 "I told you not to call me here! My wife might be listening on the extension phone in the kitchen, bedroom or playroom!"
17:50 Paul Burke (RIP) of "Twelve O'Clock High" and the original "Thomas Crown Affair."
Today, that would be consisted sexual Harassment in the the Olivetti Commercial
The boss is a "cougar"...but that guy didn't seem too offended!..but it would be harassment today!..
Yup... and the Sony Walkman would have to be called the “Walkperson”
That guy was Joe Namath!
The Opel car looks identical to the Chevrolet Volt! This video brings back so many memories as a child in the 1970's!
When I was a kid I was the remote.
+FredFlix: Contrary to your label for 'WHo Is The Olivetti Girl' being 'late 60's, the (male) person is well-known NY Jets Q-back, Joe Namath (5:14) - something a lot of people know, including me, and I wasn't alive, nor am I a fan of the sport. This is definitely early 70's - I'm guessing '72.
I had to chuckle at the naivété of people (in the - again, early 70's) to believe that there was such a thing as (7:03) 'computer-crafted' turntable, as it's described in the VO. Yes, it might've been drawn - CAD (and primitive, at that), but, not much else.
My Parents had the RCA Stereo. I remember it being a monster..friggin judge...but awesome!
I actually think that RCA Victor portable stereo is kinda cool.
Later Sharp made Boomboxes with Record players built in and you could actually play the records vertically.
sherri419 OMG that sounds really cool. I love retro gadgets. The cameras in this video are cool too (-:
Here's a pic of one see the door in the front center of it is for a 12" Record. www.pinterest.com/pin/165718461261804537/
Here's a pic with the door open so you can see the record. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8c/31/5a/8c315a07a503d31743f2d2a1f5f159a8.jpg
Charlotte Dashwood my parents always loved RCA. The mind sit was passed on to me sense my parents are dead. Right now I'm watching this on a 55 inch RCA TV. RCA is not what it used to be it's made in China. I had two replace the led back lights twice. The second time I modified the TV and put two computer case fans to keep the leds cooler. It's the memory of my parents that make me hold on to the brand. It's not logical but love is not logical.
i remember the CB craze of the 70s, all these with giant antennas attached to the rear bumper, curved over to the front of the car and hooked nearby the front window.
UnleashTheGreen Don't forget the twin antennas mounted on the rain gutters.
I still have one on my truck
I had mine good buddy!!
$345 for a CALCULATOR. Factoring in inflation that is the most insane thing ever
Just checked against inflation.. $345 in 1971 would be $2,092 in 2017...
Only businesses and Professionals (like Engineers) bought them back then,also remember consumer electronics list prices are often 50% higher than what you can actually buy the product for wholesale.
it seems shocking what a simple calculator would cost, but a calculator is actually a pretty incredible tool to have. we just take it for granted, but back then it was cutting edge technology that would be hard to sell to a market used to, you know, using their brains to do math.
remember that such things as airbags were patented back in the 50's, the first bar code used in a grocery store was in 1974 (in troy, ohio, about half an hour away from me, lol), the first countertop microwave oven was made for 1967, and mobile phones were available in 1973. all that's saying is some tech is ahead of the marketplace and none of these would have been cheap. :)
and, it's a supply and demand thing, too. the average schmo didn't want a calculator because he didn't know how useful it would be. probably a fairly low demand versus the price. so, what a company does is charge more for it so they can actually make money. that's why some of my software upgrades for some of my business equipment is outrageously over-priced, because otherwise it wouldn't be worth it to develop.
So true Jack.
You've made that much clearer for me. Thank you!
I'm in my 50s and some of this is hilarious. But laser discs, those were pretty cool!
I forgot how expensive those early calculators were. They did the simplest of calculations, only, like add, subtract, divide, and multiply. It did do square roots, too.
Ahhhh, typewriters and the fun of covering up mistakes!!!!! :)
He called it-- portable??
Which I did for YEARS, both in school and at work!!!
Remember when you had to rent the telephone from the actual landline company?
@moorek1967 And hang around your apartment/rented room all day waiting for the phone company to install it!
I love Fred Flix.
We got a window air conditioner back in '65. It sat there for about a month before we had an outlet to plug it in.
Those old RCA a/c's pump R12 which ran about 32o or colder you could turn a close off room into freezer real quick...
When you're living in Vegas during the summer; that thing was like God's gift to mankind....
When things were made in America.
Dern right. Sad to see how much has changed in quality.
Anything made in Japan is 100x better than made in the USA.
I love how commercials back then actually explained in detail what they were selling.
Advertisers today could learn something from watching these
Oh, my goodness do I remember those days. To bad that the kids today wouldn't know about the things that we do. I remember when TVs went from black and white to color. And I remember when men walked on the moon.
Oh My Gosh, I'm only 3/4 through and I've been through such a range of emotions, damn, how do you do this Fred?
This comment does an excellent job of encapsulating Americans, and baby boomers in particular. Emotions sparked by commercials. . . sigh.
Totally amazing video collection. The BEST
no www mentioned in these ads. One ad said 'yellow pages'. . lol Born in '64 so I remember a lot of these ads.
Olivetti, the American dream machine... made in Italy.
RCA Stereo, marketed by the Equalizer!
No Wireless Wizard for colour TVs?
I think it's only appropriate that adverts for colour TV would be in colour.
That RCA Victor Swingline looks awesome. I wouldn't have minded one of those in the UK (though it is kind of strange seeing this advert making it rather odd that inthe 1980s, boomboxes were given the politically incorrect name of Ghetto Blasters)
"Let Your fingers do the walking" Yellow Pages used that slogan in the UK too... and wait a minute... that's a GPO phone with a British label... that can't be the advert they showed in America, could it?
The segments on that display look weird... also $345 for a calculator... I think you can buy them by the dozen in your local pound shop.
RIP Radio Shack... also, RIP Maplin :,C
Ah yes, the Tape Selector (though it would probably be called the Cartridge Selector seeing as it deals with 8 Tracks rather than cassettes, what were actually referred to as tapes back in the day) Oddity Archive demonstrated the version for LPs... I don't think he was impressed.
Walkie Talkies, two things that I remember Tandy for as a kid was Walkie Talkies and the X in One electronic kits (and a third, RC everything) Maplin tried the same in recent years, but sadly they went the same way as Radio Shack.
You know, I wouldn't mind a microwave with a browning element, it would make nuking pies and pasties a bit nicer.
The days when an LCD display could be used as a USP. Those prices were a rip off even back then!
Sign this petition to Save Free TV in the lobby of this cinema... that cable TV is competing against.
Oh Dick... selling that Instamatic 110 camera, my family used to have one of those, I had to take picutres with it on schools trips in the late 1980s and early 1990s... I think it was old even then!
Oh... my first console was the Philips G7000 Videopac... which was sold in the US as the Magnavox Odyssey^2.
TWA had the widebodied 1011... but we (and the French) had Concorde... if only development of supersonic airliners continued after Concorde... a wide bodied Concorde..........
Oh, that Fisher Price tape recorder... that would be considered high end nowadays!
Seeing someone using a celleular telephone is now more common than checking time on a watch (though I could do with a watch... something like a Sinclair Black Watch) or figuring on an electronic calculator... largely because the timepiece and calculator is now built into the mbile phone... I even think you can install programming environments directly on the phone.
Why does Bank of America have a logo that reminds me of Border Television?
Steve Jobs was a genius, whatever you think of him or Apple, he was a genius. I don't suppose I ever realised it until after he died... he's still a prick for overshadowing Dennis Ritchie's passing - a true pioneer who's death deserved as much coverage as Jobs.
When I got my first " Beeper" I was the coolest kid on the block.
I love this channel! Always has such original content!
That's what I try to do. Thanks.
The early part of this reminds me of doing punch cards for Fortran programming. I liked the early RCA transistor radios and the Sony walkmans they were awesome.
11:15 the hair!!
Thank you FredFlix!!! This video just made my weekend!!! A lot of good memories here. I think I'm just going to live in the past this weekend. LOL ... :-) Have a great weekend ok! :-) Saturday, January 22, 2022 - 2:20 PM Mountain Time - Eastern Colorado Springs, Colorado
Thanks, LENOVOVO.
@@FredFlix You're welcome, Fred! :-)
The IBM Selectric typewriter was probably the IBM PC of it's day, an amazing product that changed everything.
BobEckert56 and made in America, too. Now "IBM" PCs are made by Lenovo in China.
Actually Lenovo has a big assembly plant in Whitsett, North Carolina.
Jeff DeWitt How long has this plant been there, and what do they assemble there?
I think it opened in 2013. They assemble laptops and ThinkCenters. It's also a distribution center.
Jeff DeWitt Cool. Looks like they've really built a presence in North Carolina now.
i won my first potable transistor radio by being the 9th caller! The radio was permanently set to pick up their station only. Too funny.
The Tape Selector made it easy for you to find your tapes, but then after all the dust and dirt and food crumbs have fallen into the holes, it couldn't have been easy to listen to them.
I know what you mean. I get food crumbs on my mp3 files. :-)
29:59 Notice that they don't show the actual graphics from the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man.
e11aguru Just about every ad shows "simulated" screens.
more than likely because of the frame rate of the camera and hz refresh rates. Causes that flashing and flickering we have all seen on TV when computer screens are shown.
Isn't that Joe Namath in the Olivetti typewriter ad? Sure looks like him!
Car eight tracks! and C.B. Radios! Walkmans and beepers! :) :) :)
Southern Oregon Cat Mom oh, my!
The lady boss hitting on Broadway Joe wouldn't go over well with today's PC.
the Rca color projector yet the commercial is in black and white. Good job RCA
Those slides beat the hell out of digital projectors.
"A steak in COACH"? What alternate universe was THIS? I wanna go there!
'Salisbury'; baby....
During the Atari modem commercial you added the caption "late 80s? Not sure..." He (Alan Alda) says in the commercial that he isn't even half way through the 80s yet. I remember that era, I'm guessing its 83. Thanks for the upload!
The Atari computer one with the modem was sometime between 1982-1986, which is where the XL line was most relavent.
17:15 Radio Shack, 3500 stores and participating dealers.
18:48 Radio Shack, 2500 stores. Guy at corporate: "Hey, did anybody notice that we lost 1000 stores virtually overnight? Hello? Am I the only one concerned about this?" Lol
I'd do anything to have a remote with just 3 buttons now
Welp, you passed the channel you wanted. Only 200 more clicks to get back to it...
None only 12 clicks. Channels were only 2 -13 plus UHF.
Sromon Das
I could not agree more! Sometimes I just wanna slam my remote!!
281cobra Uhf never got started in Australia. We moved straight to digital
Xezlec yeah like setting my oven timer right now on daylight savings time.
I love these old commercials."....thanks
You're welcome, Liz.
$345.00 for a handheld calculator.
Grew up in Dallas Texas. Born in 54. Mom couldn't afford a/c. We had an attic fan. Could leave the windows open in the 50s and 60s at night. Fan would pull that cool night air in even during 100 degree days and 90 degree nights. It's funny, but I don't ever remember being unbearably hot growing up with no a/c. Finally got a friedrich window unit a/c in 71 when I was a sophomore in high school.
Man I wish America still made stuff.
One more thing, how long before those kids start using those walkie-talkies like swords? Five minutes?
I got a set of walkie - talkies when I was a kid and I think it took me and my friend about five minutes to break the antennas off
I got a set of walkie - talkies when I was a kid and I had no one to talk to. My older sister took pity on me for about two minutes.....sigh
Dick Van Dyke would have been great to hawk DVDs when they first came out, seeing his initials are DVD
Greetings From The Outer Space Between My Ears!!!
Weighs only 30 ounces...aka it is just a hair shy of 2 pounds.
I just love the Remington Quiet Writer!!!!!!
Pretty advanced tech-wise compared to my country in these times.
Man...we never had half this shit in New Zealand in the 50's and 60's.. We didn't get colour tv until 1970.
Yeah, I remember Beta Max. I owned one. I still have it, packed away as a "keepsake". And I recorded everything, all those great movies "back when" HBO hit the airwaves.
And not one person ever even mentioned "violation of copyright laws".
And then everything went digital.
And suddenly, poof, as if by magic, those copyright laws started to matter.
Great video, Fred.
I think I fell in love with that absolutely adorable "secretary" so proud of making copies that were so good, in fact, she couldn't tell the difference between the copy and the original. That's a commercial I had never seen but again, she is the most adorable thing ever!
The Betamax was replaced with the VHSTape!!!!
@@michaelsalisbury1477
Yes it was. I went from (01) Beta to (02) VHS and then to (03) digital. And I kept that Beta machine. VHS? Nope.
1977's "Kentucky Fried Movie" was the first Beta title I bought. It remains packed away. I got that player back in '83.
"First Knight" was the first VHS title I owned. It was "free" when I ordered my first VHS machine in '96. The title remains packed away.
i love your channel. it takes me home again. which no longer exists.
21:19 sounds like Ray Scott in the 3M commercial.
32:07 kinda looks like Mitch and Cam's apartment on Modern Family.
Whoever put the thumb down is a true Hater this is awesome 👍
And you're awesome, Janice.
Sometimes I wonder about some people. Back in the day it was always "4 out of 5 dentists recommend..." or "9 out of 10 housewives recommend..." Maybe sometimes that antisocial 5th or 10th malcontent just has to go pushing the dislike...
janice brown he must have been a total Mormon.
They're trump voters, no common sense.
+Guy North just the opposite actually, all the patriotic Americans who got a sitter, drove to a stadium, stood in line with 25 thousand people at midnight to attend a trump rally for change, and trump did it again and again and again. real America voted for trump.
Very interesting collection to say the least.
That RCA Portable stereo was sharp!
I'd better sign that petition at 22:50 to stop pay TV and save free TV before it's too late and we end up with Disney owning everything and charging us to watch anything.
Yeah Burgers, I thought that was funny too!! LOL .... :-)
imagine if you could go back in time to 1955 and hand RCA a new smart phone....
"Heart of Cold" compressor. You AC guys out there should get a kick out of that one.
my parents had the kodak colorslide projector. i still have the slides of me as a little child. thanks again Fred. great videos.love them all !
Thanks, David.
Free TV vs Pay/Cable.
The alphabets were afraid of cable.
Isn't a free market great? I love it, they each had to up their game.
And now it's streaming vs sat/cable.
Samson Crosswood Sat and cable are grossly overpriced too.
I love RCA stereo console (except hard to move) but cheap at Goodwill stores. I'm going to pick up one dumped on the street.
Omg that hideous noisy AC , no remote, massive… looks like someone drove an old car through the wall. Lol. That massive ‘portable’ typewriter…. My god, We’ve come a long way people !
i remember some of those commercials. what a awesome look back on where we came from.
Talk about a bad flashback. When they showed that household torture device I got chills. It was a way for a father to keep everyone in the house and some friends quiet, bored, and uninterested at the same time. Sure once in a while a good one might happen, but if you were not involved on the trip, the narrator could really get old quick. (Almost forgot: The Slide Projector) It lives on today as a selfie of your breakfast sent to everyone.
Joe Namath as a sex symbol at 5:10 . At 10:32 1958 Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur pitching the Bell telephone .
I still have the red Radio Shack RC Lambo! I bought it from there with my first paper route check in the 80's lol.
anyone remember the Apollo 3 and 5 speed bicycles? love to see a commercial for them.
3 speed seemed sufficient load to start medium to cruise and high to exercise. I don't think anybody needs an 18-speed bike
The trim-line phone, in your choice of luxurious colors. Harvest Gold, Burnt Orange or Avocado Green