Selected Pages From the 1972 Spiegel Christmas Catalog
When I was a kid, there was nothing I loved getting in the mail more than the big, fat Sears Wish Book Christmas catalog every autumn. As...
Showing posts with label Retro Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retro Technology. Show all posts
A Song's Story #7: Take On Me
Thirty years ago an iconic music video began airing on MTV and other music video stations. Oh, we didn't know back then that it was a...
Teaching An Old Tube Some New Tricks
Vintage television sets pose a conundrum for the retro lover: they are awfully cool to look at, but require some finagling with a converter ...
Technology That Rocked Our World in the '80s
In 1986 Neil Diamond proclaimed, "We're headed for the future and the future is now!" During the '80s the future was in...
Dial It Down, Already: My Long Overdue Rant About Smartphones
The smartphone is both a blessing and a bane of our modern existence. I'd be a hypocrite if I said I never used my mobile phone or di...
When Hawkeye Hawked Computers
Image via Mamecade A computer/technology pioneer and the cast of a sitcom that never showed a single PC on the set during their run…a...
Video Game Console Smackdown: Atari 2600 vs. Intellivision
Were you on Team Atari or Team Intellivision in the 80s? There were other home gaming consoles on the market at this time, but it seems th...
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