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Originally Posted by Rochard
I guess it's just... I've never seen on TV how they used to sell TVs in the 1950s and 1960s.
I do remember our first microwave - Before you could buy them in stores, you could only buy them at "microwave shows" usually held in a convention hall at a hotel. I remember my folks standing around looking our first microwave saying "Modern technology - it can cook things without heat...."
The VCR blew their mind too.
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The first VCR my husband and I bought, and this was just mid 80s so not THAT damn long ago, but it cost us like $450 and barely and an on and off button and when it was running, it sounded like a jet airliner landing in my living room.
Microwave - that thing was insanely expensive, I think we paid like $600 or so for that!!
The first TV we had was a console TV and we had to have it delivered, there was no such thing as a flat screen or anything.
Mind you, I am 50 years old and this was just in mid 80s, so god knows what it was like in the 50s and 60s. lol