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I miss the 1960's Tv, Liquor cabinet, Stereo, Record Player. 😃 I kept the family tv for years and put it in my first apartment. It quit working so we put another tv on top of it. Then years later a vcr under the 2nd tv. I later named it the tower of technology. 🤭
we had one at our house, it was kept upstairs in the living room, mom used to put on christmas records and dad had speakers wired to the rec room, dad kept his finer alcohol in it. the thing weighed a ton and mom could put about 6 hours of christmas music on the stacked record player. she could spend a few afternoons watching soap aoperas on the 4 channels we got since we lived in the country. i used to sneak out of bed at night and creep down the hall so i could watch ed sullivan or the late show without them knowing.
Cassettes may have been invented in the 60s but I don't recall them having commercial impact until the 70s. We were still playing 45s in the 60s. Everyone I knew had an 8 track in the car before cassettes.
The revelation of color TV and entertainment was a perfect marriage when programs like The Ed Sullivan Show started featuring musical acts and other things in super psychedelic colored sets!! Wonderful!
I think you overlooked the changes caused by FM Radio. It was the 60's when it was first going popular in cars, and enough stations to make it worth while having such a device. It had the problem of fading signal under bridges, and more than a few miles from the station, it was STEREO sound as opposed to AM monophonic.
I was a few weeks from my 8th birthday in 1969 and I was told to watch that event because it was history being made. I did and today I still remember that moment, thanks to my foster father.
I remember watching live video of President Kennedy being shot. Not quite understanding things yet I asked "Daddy what happened to the President?". Only time I ever saw fear on his face; he was COMSEC with the USAF and knew how near we were to nuclear war and he thought this was the start. I remember kids crippled by polio. People being killed in minor car crashes. Drunk driving being common. Few cars, very few homes. and not too many pubic buildings had A/C. Any kid could go buy cigarettes 'for their uncle'. Gas at 17.9 cents per gallon. A pack or crackers and a Coke for a quarter. Some candy was 3 for a penny. Every boy in school had a pocket knife with him but never was once pulled in anger. Totally different world....
Yup we watched a B/W Panasonic for years that sat on top of our 60s something cabinet style TV after it broke mid 70s😅…tough to watch sports on that rig.
We got stuck with a smaller black and white set for several years because one of our cousins spent the night and burned out the large console set we had - (I've heard!) Haha! There just wasn't enough in the family budget until 1976 to finally get something better!
I remember when the family across the street got a color TV --- First one in the neighborhood. It was a Curtis Mathis -- Their delivery truck wheeled a big box into the house and set it up and set up an tall outside TV antenna too. All of us kids were jealous and impressed......... Looking back the TV screen itself wasn't that large --- Maybe 20 inches? But back then that was something pretty incredible.
We had a neighbor with a very tall intenna that they could turn it from the indoors to pick up more stations further away and we kids were impressed since we only got two stations. However, as kids we only watched the daily Captain Kangaroo show and Saturday morning cartoons during school breaks. We always played outdoors. Marbles, jacks, jump rope, climbing trees, swinging off telephone poles, sliding down hills on cardboard, rolling down hills inside a truck wheel, swimming at the community pool, etc. All within hollering distance of our home, except for the pool. Kids nowadays miss out on a lot.
@@paulradice3534 We're eternal. If you're lucky you'll live to be "old" in regards to how "old" is to you which could be 30, 40, or 50yrs old, ya little whipper snapper. 😉
We had a color TV early on. Touching it would get your butt whipped severely because it cost so much. Got used to seeing the repairman come by and work on it several times a year. Only a few shows were in color but it was amazing to have that in your home , because only movie theaters had color before then.
Woah! Car cassette players were not a thing until the 1980's! 8 track stereo tape players were in 60's and 70's cars. My 77 and 79 Town Cars had 8 tracks,but my 83 Town Car and 84 Continental had cassettes.
The cassette tape was invented by Philips in 1963 but it did not have high fidelity and was used in dictation machines. By the late 60s it had achieved good enough sound to compete with the 8-Track and car cassette players were introduced in 1968. By 1979 they outsold 8 tracks and by 1984 they outsold vinyl.
Close, but not quite. Cassettes were invented in 1962 & introduced in the States in '64. 8-tracks came to the US market in '65. Tape technology improved enough that the sound quality was practically the same as 8-track, and the size of the cassette made it more desirable over the bulky 8-tracks....until the 90s when CDs hit.
How times have changed!.....And now i'm reading your comment on my cell phone......and also can watch movies in high resolution colors on the same phone screen!
I was given a cassette player that would also record and I captured the sound of a four-barrel carburetor in my dads Chevelle as we passed cars it was great.
The mind of a child. I was so supprized when our new TV came, with a larger screen. The picture was the same just larger. I had expected to see more. A teenager asked how was it living in the world before there was colour? The olden days when teverthing was sades of gray?
IBM's System/360 was revolutionary in that it offered a series of computers that shared the same instruction set. Previous computers had unique machine instructions. A company could then upgrade to a more powerful model without having to recompile the programs. It remains the basis of today's IBM mainframes, though many changes have been made over the years. Banks and other large companies still use IBM mainframes because: 1) they're fast (they push data, not graphics), and 2) so much code exists that it would be a huge investment of time and money to rewrite it.
We didn't get a colour TV until the 70s. Went to my grandparents big colour TV to watch Apollo 11 launch. They made me steak and eggs for breakfast, just like the astronauts. The moonwalk didn't matter. It was in B&W.
I remember when R.C.A. introduced the audio cassette in the late 1950's. it was double the size of the tapes that every one thinks of, and it was discontinued in the early 1960's for the reason that it did not catch on. you had to use a R.C.A. tape player to use the tape. DAVID SARNOFF of R.C.A. was always trying to corner the market, just like all the radio manufacturers that used a 455k.c. intermediate frequency in the radio had to pay royalties to R.C.A. R.C.A also pushed congress to pass a law that all T.V. broadcasters had to start broadcasting in color as of jan. 5 1968. R.C.A. owned "N.B.C."( first to broadcast in color), and they were tired of trying to sell color sets that were collecting dust in their warehouses
@@glennso47 Actually, in a way you're both right. RCA introduced their proprietary "Sound Tape Cartridge" in 1958. It was a large-format cassette that was unsuccessful and discontinued in 1964. Techmoan here on RU-vid has a video explaining the format if you are interested. Phillips' "Compact Cassette" (1963) was originally intended for non-musical purposes such as dictation. As you know, the introduction of higher-quality tape formulations, Hi-Fi decks (such as those from Pioneer, Sony and Technics) and Dolby noise reduction made high-fidelity music reproduction possible with the format.
At ~3:00 you talk about the great innovation of the cassette tape, allowing people to carry their music with them. The BIGGEST innovation was the Dolby sound system which actually enabled the cassette tapes to actually sound good. Wrapping a smaller magnetic recording tape inside a little cassette was nothing miraculous. Giving the sounds recorded LIFE was the REAL innovation!
I remember the impact at the time of colour TV, seemed marvelous then ,funny how now it doesn't bother me at all if say a black 'n' white film is shown , most colour films today have awful colour anyway ,dark dull & either yellow or blue casts to them !
Wow super expensive $350 then equals $3,500 today it's 10 times the price adjusting for inflation now. I don't know anyone who would spend $3,400 for a Color TV today.
Nice but much misinformation. The cassette tape did not become popular until the 1970s it’s predecessor, the 8 track was marketed first and was a direct competitor to the most common media, the Vinyl record. Bar codes as those used in retail and other aspects did not go into commercial use until the early to mid 1970s The computer modem shown in the video is that of the 1980s Yes there were innovations in the ‘60s but most of what this guy shows, were much later
