1979 gadgets

[SoulManX]

http://gizmodo.com/5313690/why-you-cant-complain-about-the-price-of-todays-gadgets

 

[Nivek]

I remember one of my aunts and her husband spending over $500 for a VCR in the early 80's, and probably $90 per new official VHS tape.

Things like this make me realize how old I am in comparison to some people. Especially the snot nosed rug rats complaining about paying $30 for a Blu-ray disk.

 

[SoulManX]

I remember one of my aunts and her husband spending over $500 for a VCR in the early 80's, and probably $90 per new official VHS tape.

Things like this make me realize how old I am in comparison to some people. Especially the snot nosed rug rats complaining about paying $30 for a Blu-ray disk.

My old man brought a JVC back 1980 my first tape was Muppet movie...man o man those were the dayst:

 

[Kable24]

yep, our first vhs player was $500. Our first microwave was like $800. I still complain about spending $30 for a blu-ray, but that's because now it's my money. As a kid it was my mom's money.

 

[SoulManX]

yep, our first vhs player was $500. Our first microwave was like $800. I still complain about spending $30 for a blu-ray, but that's because now it's my money. As a kid it was my mom's money.

So true...plus my dad had the Zack Morris phone as well

 

[Majic Walrus]

So true...plus my dad had the Zack Morris phone as well

My dad had a bag phone in his work car.

 

[Kable24]

I had a bag phone in my car. I paid 50 bucks a month plus .45 cents a minute no matter who i called.

 

[knowsbleed]

I still have quite a few betamax tapes amongst my gazillion other packratted belongings. The betamax player itself was put to sleep to go serve the betamax gods a looong time ago. I used to have to open it up to replace the little rubber band dealie just to make it play.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I still have an old pong machine. It still works sometimes.

 

[thedeadite]

I still have an old pong machine. It still works sometimes.

I'm jealous....seriously.

 

[Wiseman]

I still have a Vectrex, look it up *****es

 

[ross2287]

I don't remember because I was young, but my mother tells me she used to rent a VCR to use.

 

[Shuley]

I used to have a tv with cable and a vcr in my room in the 80's. In the 6th grade I had to show the teacher how to put in a videotape into the vcr cause she was doing it wrong "Maybe it goes in this way" as she put it in upside down, I said "It's the other way around."

 

[SoulManX]

I used to have a tv with cable and a vcr in my room in the 80's. In the 6th grade I had to show the teacher how to put in a videotape into the vcr cause she was doing it wrong "Maybe it goes in this way" as she put it in upside down, I said "It's the other way around."

And yet some where they are still people who don't know how to change the clock setting on a VCR

 

[VampElvis]

I don't remember because I was young, but my mother tells me she used to rent a VCR to use.

Oh yeah. You could rent the movies and the VCR from the video store. A lot of them also had video games and you could rent the game and gaming system. This was before the rise of the big video store chains.