[MaadDaawg]

A short list of things I remember as being "new".. Not necessarily in correct order.

- portable stereo, about the size of a huge boombox with 2 speakers, a AM/FM radio, and a turntable ( a turntable was used to play records on (45s, 33.3s, and 78s)

- transistors. The transistor of those days were about the size of the caps on you mobo today

- 2 transistor radio, followed by teh 10 transistor radio. On the ten transistors you could actuall tune in a station.

- Jiffypop

- Teflon coated cookware

- polyester (clothing before this was all from natural sources)

- Plastic! it if was made from plastic it was sure to break as the orginal plastic was very brittle and non-flexible.

- Made in Japan meant it was cheap and would quickly stop working, boy how that changed.

- the space program and men on the moon!! I watched it live in living black and white!!

- color television - at first the colors were just overlays on the screen so nothing was the correct color all the time. later versions improved.

- cell phones - about the size of a briefcase and they didn't work very well.

- personal computers - can you say 48K (my Vic20 had 6K!!!)

- 8 track tape players

- cassette tape players

- CDs for music

- who would win? Sony with the Betamax or the VHS format?

- Barbie Dolls

- GI Joe

- Slip and Slide

- Jarts

Oh well, prolly caught up with most of ya somewhere in there

Almost forgot maybe the best one of them all - ALUMINUM!! When it first came out it was considered the first man-made precious metal. It actually sold as bullion. Aluminum only came into the mainstream of American life after a more efficient production method was discovered