Give the Gift of Technology

Let's take a quick look back at a few Christmas commercials from 1982. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was trying to get back home, but he stayed around here long enough for us earthlings to make an Atari video game of the little fellow. Available for just $33.97.

For the audiophile, you couldn't beat a 4-pack of TDK cassette tapes for $6.96. Burning a CD? Not yet, unless you had a time machine.

Want to give the perfect gift to a budding computer programmer? Couldn't do better than the Commodore Vic 20. They could learn the BASIC programming language.

But, if you're wanting to give a gift of a cellular phone, you'd have to wait until 1989. That's when the brick came out by Centel.  Radio Shack had their version, too, for a mere $799.

 

Just think.  We've progressed over this 30 year span to using our thumbs for communication.

'til next time... Adios.